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- De General en 09-23-16
De: Anja Manuel
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From Silk to Silicon
- The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
- De: Jeffrey E. Garten
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it, and how their achievements continue to shape our world today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Journey
- De Michael en 06-06-16
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Capitalism in America
- A History
- De: Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 823
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 821
From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Explains a lot
- De Scott en 02-18-19
De: Alan Greenspan, y otros
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- De: Walter Scheidel
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 246
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Content is not suitable for an Audiobook
- De Varun en 02-10-18
De: Walter Scheidel
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The Victory of Reason
- How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and non-secular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely incredible history book!
- De Daniel en 01-02-20
De: Rodney Stark
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 530
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 441
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Superb must read for everyone
- De Joy en 04-16-19
De: Walter Rodney, y otros
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- De: William Easterly
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch - a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Repetitive
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-19
De: William Easterly
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Forgotten Continent
- The Battle for Latin America’s Soul
- De: Michael Reid
- Narrado por: Gary Dikeos
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world’s largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily transforming its political and economic landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Reporting / Disorganized Content
- De Steven Schuster en 02-11-12
De: Michael Reid
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The Company
- A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist. One of history's greatest catalysts, the joint-stock company has dramatically changed the way human beings live, work, and conduct business. With companies now affecting the world on a global scale, it is more pressing than ever before to understand this driving force.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unique history with a unique perspective
- De D. Littman en 10-31-05
De: John Micklethwait, y otros
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- De: Daniel Tudor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book
- De Antoine en 12-14-18
De: Daniel Tudor
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The Age of Acquiescence
- The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
- De: Steve Fraser
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Brad en 05-03-15
De: Steve Fraser
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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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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The History of Money
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 546
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 394
From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives--economic, political, and personal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting annecdotes, but very biased reporting
- De Dean en 10-13-11
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Future Is Asian
- Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
- De: Parag Khanna
- Narrado por: Nezar Alderazi
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 103
In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized. The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multicivilizational order spanning Saudi Arabia to Japan, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia - linking five billion people through trade, finance, infrastructure, and diplomatic networks that together represent 40 percent of global GDP.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bigoted, jingoistic, ethnocentric
- De SEAN en 03-08-19
De: Parag Khanna
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
- De: Sandra Benjamin
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 16 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to the island through the centuries. These have included several who became Sicily's rulers, along with Jews, Ligurians, and Albanians. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy and the modern era have all held sway, and left lasting influences on the island's culture and architecture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly compelling!
- De P. Strayer en 08-25-12
De: Sandra Benjamin