Language City
The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages.
Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N'ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city's original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan ("the place where we get bows"), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists.
A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America's doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York's colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of "killer languages" like English and Spanish.
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Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it? It’s stuffed full of traditions and rituals that most of us have been observing all our lives without having the slightest idea of where they come from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Entertaining
- De Laura Carrington en 11-23-22
De: Bill Bryson
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The Parole Room
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ben Austen
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 353
Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s 20th parole hearing—after 19 rejections.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening story & a must read
- De Patsy en 10-07-24
De: Ben Austen
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The Mastery of Self
- A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
- De: Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
- Narrado por: Charlie Varon
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,448
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,691
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,671
The ancient Toltecs believed that life, as we perceive it, is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and these come together to form the dream of the planet, or the world in which we live. Problems arise when our perception of the dream becomes clouded with negativity, drama, and judgment (of ourselves and others), because it's in these moments of suffering that we have forgotten that we are the architects of our own reality and we have the power to change our dream if we choose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen.. .then listen again
- De Casiano en 12-22-16
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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green
- De: Ben Austen, Harrison David Rivers
- Narrado por: Ben Austen, Patina Miller, Harry Lennix, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 149
In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gripping and Necessary Work
- De booklover en 11-24-24
De: Ben Austen, y otros
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Ho Tactics
- How to MindF**k a Man into Spending, Spoiling, and Sponsoring
- De: G. L. Lambert
- Narrado por: Patrick Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,065
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,709
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693
I have discovered a group of women who refuse to be exploited, are immune to manipulation, and who never settle in the name of love. These ladies know what they want and take what they want by beating men at their own game. Utilizing the secrets exposed in this book, these women gain power, money, and status. Men call them gold diggers, women call them hos, but they call themselves winners. This is the book that society doesn't want you to listen to….
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5 out of 5 stars
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I spent $24,000 in 4 months
- De B.M. en 10-06-18
De: G. L. Lambert
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12,486
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,106
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11,047
Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it's Nearly perfect
- De Kerry en 09-16-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)
- Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power
- De: Brené Brown
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,916
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,032
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,975
Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm sure its great if you are a mother ....
- De Leslie A Hill en 08-09-11
De: Brené Brown
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Mythology: Mega Collection
- Classic Stories from the Greek, Celtic, Norse, Japanese, Hindu, Chinese, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Mythology
- De: Scott Lewis
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser, Oliver Hunt
- Duración: 31 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 620
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 620
Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting set of introductions.
- De Kevin Potter en 05-30-19
De: Scott Lewis
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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room
- De: Patrick Grim, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Patrick Grim
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This should NOT be an audio book
- De Brooks Emerson en 03-21-20
De: Patrick Grim, y otros
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My Big TOE: Awakening
- Book One of a Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
- De: Thomas Campbell
- Narrado por: Thomas Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 416
My Big TOE: Awakening, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a Trip (but to where?)
- De Michael en 11-26-13
De: Thomas Campbell
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Private Revolutions
- Four Women Face China's New Social Order
- De: Yuan Yang
- Narrado por: Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers—women born during China’s turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability. This transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy.
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Chop Fry Watch Learn
- Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
- De: Michelle T. King
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu's story and in her food, a portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class female home cooks navigated the postwar transformations taking place across the world.
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Do Something
- Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
- De: Guy Trebay
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
Born in the Bronx, Guy Trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on Long Island’s North Shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with Hawaiian Surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ But behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartache and heartbreak and the will to survive.
- De Polly B. en 07-05-24
De: Guy Trebay
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All the Worst Humans
- How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
- De: Phil Elwood
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that’s made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he’s been up to for the past twenty years—and it isn’t pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer’s row of questionable clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar. In All the Worst Humans, Elwood unveils how the PR business works, and how the truth gets made, spun, and sold to the public—not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, what a story!
- De DHaston en 07-05-24
De: Phil Elwood
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Praiseworthy
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Jacqui Katona
- Duración: 36 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, powerful book full of poetry
- De Guy en 11-11-24
De: Alexis Wright
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The Hidden Globe
- How Wealth Hacks the World
- De: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Narrado por: Patrick Harrison
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity.
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Private Revolutions
- Four Women Face China's New Social Order
- De: Yuan Yang
- Narrado por: Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers—women born during China’s turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability. This transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy.
De: Yuan Yang
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Chop Fry Watch Learn
- Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
- De: Michelle T. King
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu's story and in her food, a portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class female home cooks navigated the postwar transformations taking place across the world.
De: Michelle T. King
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Do Something
- Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
- De: Guy Trebay
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
Born in the Bronx, Guy Trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on Long Island’s North Shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with Hawaiian Surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ But behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartache and heartbreak and the will to survive.
- De Polly B. en 07-05-24
De: Guy Trebay
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All the Worst Humans
- How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
- De: Phil Elwood
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that’s made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he’s been up to for the past twenty years—and it isn’t pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer’s row of questionable clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar. In All the Worst Humans, Elwood unveils how the PR business works, and how the truth gets made, spun, and sold to the public—not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, what a story!
- De DHaston en 07-05-24
De: Phil Elwood
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Praiseworthy
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Jacqui Katona
- Duración: 36 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, powerful book full of poetry
- De Guy en 11-11-24
De: Alexis Wright
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The Hidden Globe
- How Wealth Hacks the World
- De: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Narrado por: Patrick Harrison
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity.
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The New York Game
- Baseball and the Rise of a New City
- De: Kevin Baker
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments—Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sure.. Baseball… but so much more!
- De RAY MONTECALVO en 08-25-24
De: Kevin Baker
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No One Gets to Fall Apart
- A Memoir
- De: Sarah LaBrie
- Narrado por: Sarah LaBrie
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really heart felt writing ✨
- De Giovanna Quinto en 11-30-24
De: Sarah LaBrie
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- De: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: Jonathan Blitzer
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Health and Safety
- A Breakdown
- De: Emily Witt
- Narrado por: Emily Witt
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a sad book!
- De Eric en 10-27-24
De: Emily Witt
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The Bluestockings
- A History of the First Women's Movement
- De: Susannah Gibson
- Narrado por: Fenella Fudge
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: Coming together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, they fought for women to be educated and to have a public role in society. In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating book almost ruined by the reader
- De braingirl en 08-13-24
De: Susannah Gibson
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The Return of Great Powers
- Russia, China, and the Next World War
- De: Jim Sciutto
- Narrado por: Jim Sciutto
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Douglas Peifer en 03-14-24
De: Jim Sciutto
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The Achilles Trap
- Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 17 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a news-breaking investigation into one of the costliest geopolitical conflicts of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From the Saddam’s Point of View.
- De philip en 03-08-24
De: Steve Coll
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London
- The Biography
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 32 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the listener through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Joann en 01-04-21
De: Peter Ackroyd
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A Wilder Shore
- The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
- De: Camille Peri
- Narrado por: Jeanette Illidge
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fairly interesting
- De Luke en 10-25-24
De: Camille Peri
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Gifts of the Crow
- How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
- De: John Marzluff, Tony Angell
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 213
New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he teams up with artist and fellow naturalist Tony Angell to offer an in-depth look at these incredible creatures - in a book that is brimming with surprises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You Will Never Look At A Crow The Same Way Again
- De Diane en 06-30-12
De: John Marzluff, y otros
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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- De: József Debreczeni, Paul Olchváry - translator, Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Laurence Dobiesz
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the “lucky” ones, he was sent to the “right,” which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the “Cold Crematorium”—the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much more about the Holocaust
- De Jerseygirl en 02-03-24
De: József Debreczeni, y otros
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Soldiers and Kings
- Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
- De: Jason De León
- Narrado por: Jason De León
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.
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Gritty and raw
- De Amazon Customer en 06-02-24
De: Jason De León
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- Anna
- 05-21-24
fantastic narration + bonus audio clips
This is an incredible piece of research and storytelling. The author does a fantastic job with the narration and also includes original audioclips of many of the endangered languages he describes.
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- DeAndre & Shari
- 06-02-24
the narration and rich content
Absolutely fantastic! A must-read for anyone (linguist, student, community member, etc.) interested in language documentation and conservation.
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- annei
- 06-02-24
Fascinating Read
Wonderful insights into the importance of language, socially and culturally. Fascinating explanation of how languages play a critical role in creating the rich fabric of New York.
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