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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Doug Ordunio
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- De Doug en 08-25-11
De: Jared Diamond
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Cities
- The First 6,000 Years
- De: Monica L. Smith
- Narrado por: Monica L. Smith
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A sweeping history of cities through the millennia - from Mesopotamia to Manhattan - and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance....
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Written for a child
- De virginia en 07-22-21
De: Monica L. Smith
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- De Sherry en 06-19-17
De: Tim Marshall
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How to Disappear
- Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
- De: Akiko Busch
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's How to Disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world....
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Not a Guide on How to Disappear
- De Cat Wilson en 10-04-23
De: Akiko Busch
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- De: J.B. MacKinnon
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
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Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....
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One of the best books I’ve ever read.
- De Katie G. en 06-11-23
De: J.B. MacKinnon
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Teaching Critical Thinking
- Practical Wisdom
- De: Bell Hooks
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
De: Bell Hooks
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Doug Ordunio
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- De Doug en 08-25-11
De: Jared Diamond
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Cities
- The First 6,000 Years
- De: Monica L. Smith
- Narrado por: Monica L. Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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A sweeping history of cities through the millennia - from Mesopotamia to Manhattan - and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance....
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Written for a child
- De virginia en 07-22-21
De: Monica L. Smith
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- De Sherry en 06-19-17
De: Tim Marshall
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How to Disappear
- Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
- De: Akiko Busch
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's How to Disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world....
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Not a Guide on How to Disappear
- De Cat Wilson en 10-04-23
De: Akiko Busch
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- De: J.B. MacKinnon
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....
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One of the best books I’ve ever read.
- De Katie G. en 06-11-23
De: J.B. MacKinnon
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Teaching Critical Thinking
- Practical Wisdom
- De: Bell Hooks
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
De: Bell Hooks
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Tim Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....
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De: Tim Marshall
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The Gift of Violence
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- De: Matt Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Narrado por: Matt Thornton, Salome Thornton, Peter Boghossian
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In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us....
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Fundamental
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De: Matt Thornton, y otros
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The Future of Geography
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- De: Tim Marshall
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- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an essential book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.
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And Outstanding View of the World and Tomorrow
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De: Tim Marshall
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On the Move
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A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
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Want to understand our “new future”? Read this book
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Finish What We Started
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- De: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrado por: Will Damron
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- De: Colin Ellard
- Narrado por: John Fleming
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space....
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Best Book on Urbanism Ever Written
- De Bellepop en 01-06-19
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven
- De: Josh Ruxin
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
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One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven....
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Listened to this while staying at Heaven!
- De megw212 en 06-22-23
De: Josh Ruxin
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The End of Nature
- De: Bill McKibben
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth....
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Excellent.
- De Thomas en 01-29-23
De: Bill McKibben
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds....
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij
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Adriatic
- A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....
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Good Observations and Hidden Gems
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De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Homewaters
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- De: David B. Williams
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, David Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around Puget Sound.
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- De: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- De aaron en 08-02-20
De: Lewis Dartnell
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Nomad Century
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- De: Gaia Vince
- Narrado por: Gaia Vince
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Nomad Century is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live....
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Too many Horrible Things
- De Trebla en 09-01-22
De: Gaia Vince
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Evil's Origin
- De: Christian Laursen
- Narrado por: Christian Laursen
- Duración: 12 h
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This book ventures into the darkest parts of the world, searching for the truth of evil. From psychologists and clinical professors, neurologists to anthropologists, authors, explorers, journalists, and stories of survivors and victims, the dots are connected one by one....
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Vibrant Matter
- A Political Ecology of Things
- De: Jane Bennett
- Narrado por: Kathleen Godwin
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events....
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Super interesting, thoughtful, thorough
- De Brendabeast en 09-26-23
De: Jane Bennett
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Who Are We Now?
- De: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Narrado por: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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From leading AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas comes an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and culture have intertwined to create a dynamic “us” that can neither be called natural nor artificial.
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Not my typical read, but I loved this book
- De Douglas R Geston en 06-28-24
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The Alchemy of Meth
- A Decomposition
- De: Jason Pine
- Narrado por: Jason Pine
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness....
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Highly recommended and unexpectedly enlightening.
- De Francisco lara en 09-18-22
De: Jason Pine
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A Language Older Than Words
- De: Derrick Jensen
- Narrado por: Oni Woods Ojukwu
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth....
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A Cleansing
- De Nikolay Galtsev en 06-15-20
De: Derrick Jensen
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- De: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- De Anonymous User en 02-24-21
De: Vandana Shiva, y otros
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- De: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
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Well crafted and approachable
- De Adrian LeCesne en 06-02-24
De: Marcia Bjornerud
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Permiso para matar
- De: Paris Martínez, Daniel Moreno, Jacobo Dayán
- Narrado por: Valeria Estrada, Bobby Sánchez
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Cuando el asesino es el Estado: un libro durísimo, pero necesario, que recoge los desgarradores testimonios de las víctimas civiles de la violencia ejercida...
De: Paris Martínez, y otros
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American Oz
- An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking from California to New York, Alaska to Mexico
- De: Michael Sean Comerford
- Narrado por: Michael Sean Comerford
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or street festival the same way again....
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Fun Listen
- De Tim Blackburn en 05-26-22
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future....
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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Invitation to Sociology
- A Humanistic Perspective
- De: Peter L. Berger
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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This lucid and lively book, punctuated with witty, incisive examples, is addressed both to the layman who wants to know what sociology is all about and to students and sociologists who are concerned about the larger implications and dimensions of their discipline....
De: Peter L. Berger
Nuevos lanzamientos
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Rooting Out Violence
- De: Joycee Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.
De: Joycee Kennedy
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Der Selbstbetrug
- Wenn Migrationspolitik die Realität ignoriert
- De: Alexander Marquier, Volker Resing
- Narrado por: Marco Bode
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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Die Auseinandersetzung um Migration und Integration, um Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik ist angesichts des neuen Zuwanderungshochs wieder in vollem Gange. Gleichzeitig aber gibt es keine europäische Asylpolitik, sind die Außengrenzen der EU löchrig, geht die Bundesregierung von überzogenen Zahlen für die qualifizierte Einwanderung aus, werden die Alarmrufe der Städte und Kommunen kleingeredet, wächst das Unbehagen von immer größeren Teilen der Bevölkerung.
De: Alexander Marquier, y otros
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The Death of Nature
- Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
- De: Carolyn Merchant
- Narrado por: Juliet Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.
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Very awkward narration
- De Pat en 12-02-20
De: Carolyn Merchant
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Primate Change
- De: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Narrado por: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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If you think you are you, think again. Primate Change is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition.
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Daddy
- A Son's Reckoning with Personal and Collective Trauma in America
- De: Tim Lewis
- Narrado por: Tim Lewis
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer. While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research as a clinical psychologist, it turns out it is also the story of America and American men.
De: Tim Lewis
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Tides
- The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
- De: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation.
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1/3 Science and Spirit- 2/3 meaningless details
- De Buddy en 06-06-18
De: Jonathan White, y otros
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Rooting Out Violence
- De: Joycee Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.
De: Joycee Kennedy
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Der Selbstbetrug
- Wenn Migrationspolitik die Realität ignoriert
- De: Alexander Marquier, Volker Resing
- Narrado por: Marco Bode
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Die Auseinandersetzung um Migration und Integration, um Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik ist angesichts des neuen Zuwanderungshochs wieder in vollem Gange. Gleichzeitig aber gibt es keine europäische Asylpolitik, sind die Außengrenzen der EU löchrig, geht die Bundesregierung von überzogenen Zahlen für die qualifizierte Einwanderung aus, werden die Alarmrufe der Städte und Kommunen kleingeredet, wächst das Unbehagen von immer größeren Teilen der Bevölkerung.
De: Alexander Marquier, y otros
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The Death of Nature
- Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
- De: Carolyn Merchant
- Narrado por: Juliet Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.
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Very awkward narration
- De Pat en 12-02-20
De: Carolyn Merchant
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Primate Change
- De: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Narrado por: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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If you think you are you, think again. Primate Change is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition.
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Daddy
- A Son's Reckoning with Personal and Collective Trauma in America
- De: Tim Lewis
- Narrado por: Tim Lewis
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer. While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research as a clinical psychologist, it turns out it is also the story of America and American men.
De: Tim Lewis
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Tides
- The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
- De: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation.
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1/3 Science and Spirit- 2/3 meaningless details
- De Buddy en 06-06-18
De: Jonathan White, y otros
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Zeit der Zäune - Orte der Flucht
- De: Katja Riemann
- Narrado por: Katja Riemann
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Zeit der Zäune erzählt von Orten der Flucht, zu denen Katja Riemann allein und ohne ein Team an ihrer Seite reiste. Wo sind diese Orte und wie leben Menschen im Interim? Sie geht der Frage nach, ob Menschen in offiziellen Camps, inoffiziellen Dschungeln, im Warten und der Ungewissheit erfinderisch sind und gestaltend. Und begegnete erstaunlichen Personen und Situationen. Sie begleitete vor Ort die Projekte von Filmschaffenden, Theaterleuten, Traumatologinnen, Ärzten, Köchen und vielen anderen und schreibt einfühlsam mit dem Blick für Details über deren Ideen und Herausforderungen.
De: Katja Riemann
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Misguided Missouri and Its Lack of Mental Health Care
- De: Marylou Webb
- Narrado por: Mary Lou Murray
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Misguided Missouri explores Missouri's lack of mental healthcare. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too!
De: Marylou Webb
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Small Island
- 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain
- De: Philip Parker
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
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It wasn't long-ago that Britons could have been as at home in Varanasi as they could have been in Wolverhampton—why?—because the shape and location of Britain's land-mass has not always been the same, and with large parts of Britain scattered across the globe, British borders and its identity has always been on the move. But, by knowing more about the twelve pivotal moments that occurred over a 2,000-year period, we can not only gain a full sense of our British history, but we can also understand where we are heading.
De: Philip Parker
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No Place to Go
- How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
- De: Lezlie Lowe
- Narrado por: Amanda Wood
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Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: The world of public bathrooms is problem - and politics-free. No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place to Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place to Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways - momentous and mockable - public bathrooms just don’t work.
De: Lezlie Lowe
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Bloodbath Nation
- De: Paul Auster
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America’s use and abuse of guns, through the colonial prehistory of the Republic, armed conflict against the native population, the forced enslavement of millions, and the mass shootings that dominate the current news cycle. He examines the embattled gun-control and anti-gun-control camps, frames gun violence as a public health issue, and investigates the details of one horrific incident including the perpetrator’s unchecked purchase of the gun he used and the suffering of a bystander-turned-hero.
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Thank you Paul Auster
- De Mark en 07-09-24
De: Paul Auster
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- De: Ruth Defries
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.
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Excellent history.
- De Dave Dragon en 07-26-23
De: Ruth Defries
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Vibrant Matter
- A Political Ecology of Things
- De: Jane Bennett
- Narrado por: Kathleen Godwin
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics
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- De Brendabeast en 09-26-23
De: Jane Bennett
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Tim Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future.
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The power of geography
- De MYG en 06-18-22
De: Tim Marshall
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A Language Older Than Words
- De: Derrick Jensen
- Narrado por: Oni Woods Ojukwu
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.
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A Cleansing
- De Nikolay Galtsev en 06-15-20
De: Derrick Jensen
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- De: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the southeast United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea.
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- De aaron en 08-02-20
De: Lewis Dartnell
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The Gift of Violence
- Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
- De: Matt Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Narrado por: Matt Thornton, Salome Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us. At once demonized and glamorized, but almost always deeply misunderstood.
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Fundamental
- De Adrián en 10-07-23
De: Matt Thornton, y otros
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Borders (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two....
De: Alexander C. Diener, y otros
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- De: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, a growing movement of grassroots activists began plotting around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Donald Trump had failed to keep himself in power. Inspired by Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, this nationwide groundswell quickly moved beyond rhetoric and into action. Election deniers began capturing local party committees, elevating like-minded insurgents, and developing a new way forward.
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Mass Mental Illness
- De philip en 04-24-24
De: Isaac Arnsdorf
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Far and Away
- Reporting from the Brink of Change
- De: Andrew Solomon
- Narrado por: Andrew Solomon
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Chronicling Andrew Solomon's stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union; his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar steeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom; and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change.
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Poor choice of narrator
- De victoria en 06-19-16
De: Andrew Solomon
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The Human Swarm
- How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- De: Mark W. Moffett
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. Surpassing Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, The Human Swarm reveals how mankind created sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity - and what it will take to sustain them.
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Worthless
- De Richard en 11-24-19
De: Mark W. Moffett
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Inside Qatar
- Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation
- De: John McManus
- Narrado por: Frazer Blaxland
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity.
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The excellent prose
- De Dorothy en 08-18-24
De: John McManus
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- De: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.
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Want to understand our “new future”? Read this book
- De Nancy LaPlaca en 08-02-24
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Communities and Crime
- An Enduring American Challenge (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
- De: Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, Ben Feldmeyer
- Narrado por: Scot Wilcox
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Social scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy.
De: Pamela Wilcox, y otros
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Journey Without End
- Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
- De: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran
- Narrado por: Zac Aleman
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.
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A contemporary ethnography for your classes
- De M. M. en 06-01-23
De: Andrew Nelson, y otros
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Rarezas Geográficas
- De: Olivier Marchon
- Narrado por: Gustavo Dardes
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Son al menos cinco clases de territorios extraños que trata Olivier Marchon en este peculiar libro sobre la geografía humana: los enclavados, los simbólicos, los que se encuentran en disputa, los especiales y los utópicos. Así podemos encontrar a Kowloon Walled City, una ciudad en la que de pronto, en medio de un conflicto ente China y Gran Bretaña, nada es técnicamente ilegal. Sí, nada.
De: Olivier Marchon
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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- De: Arturo Escobar
- Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….
De: Arturo Escobar
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The End of Nature
- De: Bill McKibben
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever.
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Excellent.
- De Thomas en 01-29-23
De: Bill McKibben
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Unruly Places
- Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
- De: Alastair Bonnett
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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At a time when Google Maps can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination. Bonnett's remarkable tour includes moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating islands.
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Fascinating look at places you never thought of
- De Jody R. Nathan en 05-21-15
De: Alastair Bonnett
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Settling the Boom
- The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil
- De: Mary E. Thomas - editor, Bruce Braun - editor
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.
De: Mary E. Thomas - editor, y otros