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- The Degrowth Manifesto
- Narrado por: Troy Glasgow, Kohei Saito
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Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs, and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning?
In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society; in fact, the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution.
Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for the following:
the end of mass production and mass consumption.
decarbonization through shorter working hours.
the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits.
By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,485
How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent course
- De Doug B. en 05-23-19
De: Michael E. Wysession, y otros
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- De: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ron B. Davis
- Duración: 30 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 406
Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Professor, Hard to Follow.
- De Jen en 05-14-19
De: Ron B. Davis, y otros
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids…And Other Small Events That Changed History
- De: Phil Mason
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,187
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,054
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,050
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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3 out of 5 stars
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They just throw the facts too fast
- De Concerned_llama en 12-11-20
De: Phil Mason
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- De: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,204
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All About What We Know About the Universe - ALL
- De J.B. en 02-17-17
De: Michael A. Strauss, y otros
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Brain Energy
- A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
- De: Christopher M. Palmer MD
- Narrado por: Christopher M. Palmer MD
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 998
We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes mental illness? And why are mental health problems so hard to treat? Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer outlines a revolutionary new understanding that for the first time unites our existing knowledge about mental illness within a single framework: mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain. Brain Energy will transform the field of mental health, and the lives of countless people around the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Arguing brain health theory to medical profession
- De Maya H Saric en 03-10-23
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Reentry
- SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 162
From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Appreciated the engineering details
- De Will en 10-19-24
De: Eric Berger
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- De: Marty Cagan
- Narrado por: Marty Cagan
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,675
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,152
How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- De Srikanth Ramanujam en 11-15-18
De: Marty Cagan
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,369
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,028
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,020
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not one boring moment!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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Cosmic Queries
- StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
- De: James Trefil, Lindsey N. Walker - editor, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 892
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 753
In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take on the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia - How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone? - and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
- De Daniel Earl en 03-15-21
De: James Trefil, y otros
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,455
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,907
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts well then becomes non-Audible
- De Michael en 09-07-13
De: Charles Wheelan
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The Future Is Degrowth
- A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
- De: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan
- Narrado por: Ulf Bjorklund
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it.
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Less Is More
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paradigm shift
- De HN en 09-18-24
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- De: Andreas Malm
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The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Neat summation
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-23
De: Andreas Malm
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth
- Searching for an American Utopia
- De: Adrian Shirk
- Narrado por: Adrian Shirk
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, Heaven Is a Place on Earth is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments—from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement—through the lens of one woman’s quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a book that was never written
- De Jen en 03-03-24
De: Adrian Shirk
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Having and Being Had
- De: Eula Biss
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- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts”, Eula Biss writes, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges - in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences - she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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self-indulgent, snarky, entitled rant
- De diane en 12-15-20
De: Eula Biss
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Radical Suburbs
- Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
- De: Amanda Kolson Hurley
- Narrado por: Kristin Price
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General3 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 3
America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these....
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The Future Is Degrowth
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it.
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Less Is More
- How Degrowth Will Save the World
- De: Jason Hickel
- Narrado por: Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 112
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paradigm shift
- De HN en 09-18-24
De: Jason Hickel
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- De: Andreas Malm
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- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 67
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Neat summation
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-23
De: Andreas Malm
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth
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- De: Adrian Shirk
- Narrado por: Adrian Shirk
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 3
Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, Heaven Is a Place on Earth is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments—from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement—through the lens of one woman’s quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a book that was never written
- De Jen en 03-03-24
De: Adrian Shirk
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Having and Being Had
- De: Eula Biss
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts”, Eula Biss writes, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges - in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences - she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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self-indulgent, snarky, entitled rant
- De diane en 12-15-20
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Radical Suburbs
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- De: Amanda Kolson Hurley
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America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these....
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- De: Kyle Chayka
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. The algorithm is present in the familiar neon signs and exposed brick of Internet cafes, be it in Nairobi or Portland, and the skeletal, modern furniture of Airbnbs in cities big and small. Over the last decade, this network of mathematically determined decisions has taken over, almost unnoticed—informing the songs we listen to, the friends with whom we stay in touch—as we’ve grown increasingly accustomed to our insipid new normal.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This should be a short blog post, not a book
- De Amazon Customer en 02-22-24
De: Kyle Chayka
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Fire Weather
- A True Story from a Hotter World
- De: John Vaillant
- Narrado por: Alan Carlson
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fire and Brimstone
- De Barbara J Williams en 01-06-24
De: John Vaillant
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Oak Flat
- A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
- De: Lauren Redniss
- Narrado por: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the Southeastern Arizona desert, 15 miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- De Amazon Customer en 11-23-21
De: Lauren Redniss
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The Weight of Nature
- How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
- De: Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Clayton Page Aldern
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 9
The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects on our very brains constitute a public-health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on seven years of research, this book by the award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern, synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of global warming and brain health. A masterpiece of literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us today, from the inside out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Uniquely deep story and theme.
- De MWK en 07-28-24
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- De: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrado por: David Wallace-Wells
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,574
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,249
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,236
An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- De Ricky en 03-17-19
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Half-Earth Socialism
- A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics
- De: Troy Vettesse, Drew Pendergrass
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the global North can’t continue unabated, and we must give up the idea that humans can fully control the Earth through technological “fixes” that only wreak further havoc. Rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life for the entire planet.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Implausible and disingenuous
- De Jeffrey D en 11-22-22
De: Troy Vettesse, y otros
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Fossil Capital
- The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
- De: Andreas Malm
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy - but rather superior control of subordinate labor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detailed and well narrated
- De Nic en 07-28-21
De: Andreas Malm
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Sickening
- How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
- De: John Abramson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great info, but I’m confused…
- De Iread en 04-04-22
De: John Abramson
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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
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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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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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The Climate Book
- The Facts and the Solutions
- De: Greta Thunberg
- Narrado por: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Around the world, geophysicists and mathematicians, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, psychologists, and philosophers have been using their expertise to develop a deep understanding of the crises we face. Greta Thunberg has created The Climate Book in partnership with more than one hundred of these experts in order to equip us all with this knowledge. Alongside them, Thunberg shares her own stories of learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world. This is one of our biggest problems, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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When you realize you can’t win the capitalism vs communism debate 😂
- De Shawn en 06-28-23
De: Greta Thunberg
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Raw Dog
- The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
- De: Jamie Loftus
- Narrado por: Jamie Loftus
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, they’re low culture, they’re sports food, they’re kids' food, they’re hangover food, and they’re deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can’t avoid the great American hot dog. Raw Dog is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not really about hot dogs
- De Amazon Customer en 06-25-23
De: Jamie Loftus
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- Xavier Miranda
- 09-14-24
Manifesto indeed.
Highly recommend this book. It conveys a solid analysis of current circumstances, yet embraces our passion and conviction to bring about much needed reform.
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- Gaya
- 06-04-24
Must read
Kohei Saito is brilliant. Thoroughly researched, well written, and full of truly new insights.
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- Maylyn B.
- 03-21-24
lots to think about
I enjoyed this book, but I wish he would have put forth more solutions and focused on projects that have had success. Overall, it was an interesting perspective on Eco-socialism
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