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Bestsellers
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- De George en 11-02-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Brave New Words
- How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- De: Salman Khan
- Narrado por: Salman Khan
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....
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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed.
- De Jake Dahn en 05-25-24
De: Salman Khan
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- De: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrado por: Daniel Maté
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- De Stacey en 08-16-19
De: Gabor Maté MD
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Reconstruction
- America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 30 h y 44 m
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The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years....
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Outdated edition!!
- De Bruce en 11-02-17
De: Eric Foner
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- De George en 11-02-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Brave New Words
- How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- De: Salman Khan
- Narrado por: Salman Khan
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....
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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed.
- De Jake Dahn en 05-25-24
De: Salman Khan
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- De: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrado por: Daniel Maté
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- De Stacey en 08-16-19
De: Gabor Maté MD
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Reconstruction
- America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 30 h y 44 m
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The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years....
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Outdated edition!!
- De Bruce en 11-02-17
De: Eric Foner
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- De: Edmund Morris
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 26 h y 36 m
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....
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Very, very good, but very, very long.
- De Mike From Mesa en 03-29-13
De: Edmund Morris
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In Shock
- My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
- De: Dr. Rana Awdish
- Narrado por: Dr. Rana Awdish, Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient....
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Read this book!
- De CT en 11-08-17
De: Dr. Rana Awdish
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Fed Up
- An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
- De: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Narrado por: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....
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straight forward brilliant
- De casey en 02-20-17
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....
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Riveting!
- De Tad Davis en 01-11-10
De: Atul Gawande
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Doing Harm
- De: Maya Dusenbery
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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In this shocking, hard-hitting exposé in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com reveals how inadequate, treatment threatens women’s lives....
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One of the most important books ever written
- De Dresden en 03-18-18
De: Maya Dusenbery
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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The Knowledge Gap
- The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
- De: Natalie Wexler
- Narrado por: Natalie Wexler
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system....
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Thoughts on The Knowledge Gap
- De cchamberalain en 02-28-20
De: Natalie Wexler
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- De: Heather McGhee
- Narrado por: Heather McGhee
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....
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Good book but Recording tech is poor. Glitches
- De Jeannepup en 02-25-21
De: Heather McGhee
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Battle for the American Mind
- Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
- De: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Narrado por: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....
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Academically sound
- De Rick Townsend en 07-21-22
De: Pete Hegseth, y otros
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
- De: Carter Goodwin Woodson
- Narrado por: Anthony Stewart
- Duración: 3 h y 52 m
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An unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others....
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A Classic and Unexpected Delight
- De Theo Horesh en 02-28-13
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The Fifth Risk
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 6 h
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What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....
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Awkward and Disappointing
- De Amit M en 10-04-18
De: Michael Lewis
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Great Again
- How to Fix Our Crippled America
- De: Donald J. Trump
- Narrado por: Jeremy Lowell, Donald J. Trump - introduction
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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This book is my blueprint for how to make America great again. It's not hard. We just need someone with the courage to say what needs to be said. We won't find that in Washington, DC....
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Must read/listen for everyone!!!!!!
- De Mark en 07-15-16
De: Donald J. Trump
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- De Madeleine en 05-22-14
De: Thomas Piketty, y otros
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The Dragons and the Snakes
- How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
- De: David Kilcullen
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict....
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Horrible narrator
- De Paul en 12-21-23
De: David Kilcullen
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Who Gets in and Why
- A Year Inside College Admissions
- De: Jeffrey J. Selingo
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office - one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search....
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A must-read for anyone applying to college
- De Nom de Guerre en 10-21-20
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Sacred Liberty
- America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
- De: Steven Waldman
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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Just as Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time....
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Great insights
- De Charles Cumiskey en 05-23-19
De: Steven Waldman
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Diary of a Psychosis
- How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania
- De: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Narrado por: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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You remember the story: some locations did better than others on Covid because some locations followed the rules, and others foolishly ignored them. Covid spread was your fault, you science hater....
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Undeniably Mind-boggling
- De Matthew Miller en 01-29-24
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The Kill Chain
- Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- De: Christian Brose
- Narrado por: Christian Brose
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might....
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important message but repetitive
- De Tomas Singliar en 06-06-20
De: Christian Brose
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Minority Rule
- The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It
- De: Ari Berman
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority.
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SO much great information!
- De CharlieSeymourJr en 05-01-24
De: Ari Berman
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The Upswing
- How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
- De: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times....
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For Progressives only. Won't make sense otherwise
- De Dennis G. en 12-19-20
De: Robert D. Putnam, y otros
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond