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As chaos erupts, alerts screech on our cell phones and torrents of conflicting-yet-urgent messages gush from media outlets. What is the magnitude of the crisis? What is its cause? And what should people do to protect themselves?
The Velocity of Information offers understanding to manage chaos and our complex reactions to crisis situations influenced by bias and propaganda. Recognizing indicators to judge the severity of an incident, understanding human predispositions, and joining a member check network to gauge real-time observations from people in your network provides direction to respond to the reality of a situation with impartiality, thus improving outcomes.
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a time capsule; a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle - when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Who better to examine this unhinged period in all of its twists and turns than news addict Dave Pell, a.k.a. the internet’s managing editor?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t stop listening!!
- De Rofar4 en 11-16-21
De: Dave Pell
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Resilience
- Why Things Bounce Back
- De: Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Totally Misleading Title
- De Doug en 07-18-12
De: Andrew Zolli, y otros
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Dirty Work
- Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
- De: Eyal Press
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for Conservatives
- De Nice guy en 11-05-21
De: Eyal Press
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Disasterology
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
- De: Samantha Montano
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing, our world is increasingly vulnerable. Most people see disasters as freak, natural events that are unpredictable and unpreventable. But that simply isn’t the case - disasters are avoidable, but when they do strike, there are strategic ways to manage the fallout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Wayne Stedham en 10-11-23
De: Samantha Montano
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Twitter and Tear Gas
- The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
- De: Zeynep Tufekci
- Narrado por: Carly Robins
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today's social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests - how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Insightful but frustrating
- De James en 03-11-18
De: Zeynep Tufekci
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Life Inside the Bubble
- Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All
- De: Dan Bongino
- Narrado por: Mark F. Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 927
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 827
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 824
He swore to take a bullet for the President and left it all behind to take a bullet for the American people. Why would a successful, twelve-year Secret Service agent resign his position in the prime of his career to run for political office against all the odds? New York Times bestseller, Life Inside the Bubble is an intimate look at life inside the presidential "bubble," a haze of staffers, consultants, cronies, acolytes, bureaucrats and lobbyists that creates the "alternate reality" in which monumental policy decisions are made.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tales from a whining baby!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-20
De: Dan Bongino
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Until Proven Safe
- The History and Future of Quarantine
- De: Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh
- Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent writing, timely and informative
- De MSE en 07-24-21
De: Nicola Twilley, y otros
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Willful Blindness
- Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 269
Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see - not because they're secret or invisible, but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives, and within governments and organizations, and asks: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?
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4 out of 5 stars
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How Not to Be the Blind Leading the Blind
- De Cynthia en 06-29-13
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Team of Teams
- New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- De: General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, y otros
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,491
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,473
The retired four-star general and and best-selling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model. Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly superior resources, manpower, and training of the US Military, Al Qaeda had an advantage because of its structure as a loose network of small, independent cells. To defeat such an agile enemy, JSOC had to change its focus from efficiency to adaptability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book, very informative.
- De J.J. Gardona en 08-24-15
De: General Stanley McChrystal, y otros
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The Smart Swarm
- De: Peter Miller
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts - the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative audiobook, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller shows how swarm species, such as ants, bees, and fish, can teach us to tackle some of the most complex conundrums in business, politics, and technology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FLOCK TO THIS BOOK!
- De serine en 04-25-16
De: Peter Miller
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Wanting
- The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
- De: Luke Burgis
- Narrado por: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 800
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 674
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 671
Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the most important books you'll ever read
- De chris boutte en 06-14-21
De: Luke Burgis
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Warnings
- Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
- De: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization. In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many more. Like the mythological Cassandra, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right?
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4 out of 5 stars
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On prediction, catastrophe and mitigation
- De S. Yates en 02-28-18
De: Richard A. Clarke, y otros
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Failures of Imagination
- The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland - and How to Thwart Them
- De: Michael McCaul
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Congressman and Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Michael McCaul, has spent years in Washington watching the administration turn a blind eye to the most pressing possible threats to the country. Now, in Failures of Imagination, McCaul turns away from the over-sensationalized, unrealistic fears circulated through the media in order to expose the most legitimate and looming national security threats, which have long been swept under the rug by the administration.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spot on.
- De Prince Parker en 02-27-16
De: Michael McCaul
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The Power of Bad
- How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
- De: John Tierney, Roy F. Baumeister
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, how schools fail students, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another outstanding social psychology book!
- De Wayne en 01-06-20
De: John Tierney, y otros
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The Science of Fear
- Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger
- De: Daniel Gardner
- Narrado por: Scott Peterson
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,014
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 672
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 676
From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly - believing they were avoiding risk - road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rational assessment of the world we live in
- De K Head en 08-29-09
De: Daniel Gardner
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Presidential Takedown
- How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH, and the WHO Conspired to Overthrow President Trump
- De: Dr. Paul Elias Alexander, Kent Heckenlively
- Narrado por: Bob Johnson
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
In January 2020, Donald Trump was on the fast track to an easy re-election. While his first two years had been stymied by House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the Democrats, his third year had been one of remarkable success. The United States had low unemployment and was making strides across the globe. The president's rallies were well-attended, and he was being projected to win four hundred electoral votes and about forty-five states. Then came COVID-19.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen!!
- De Christina Borkowski en 01-10-23
De: Dr. Paul Elias Alexander, y otros