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Boom
- Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
- De: Michael Shnayerson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers - the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival. Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first-ever definitive history of their activities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Clifford I. Davis en 07-04-19
- Boom
- Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
- De: Michael Shnayerson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
a study of monopoly
Revisado: 10-22-20
a story of oligopoly in contemporary art and the damaging effects it has on culture. makes you really think about how horrific monopolies like Amazon are and how Jeff Bezos has made so much money in a pandemic
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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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General5 out of 5 stars 563
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 468
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
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
An important read on inequality
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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The Half Has Never Been Told
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- De: Edward E. Baptist
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,051
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,042
In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our chief form of innovation was slavery. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from their slaves, giving the country a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, a key raw material of the Industrial Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Must Be Read
- De William en 09-29-15
- The Half Has Never Been Told
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- De: Edward E. Baptist
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
Inequality in the USA
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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The Conquest of Bread
- De: Pyotr Kropotkin
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 330
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
In The Conquest of Bread, first published in 1892, Kropotkin set out his ideas on how his heightened idealism could work. It was all the more extraordinary because he was born into an aristocratic land-owning family - with some 1,200 male serfs - though from his student years his liberal views and his fixation on the need for social change saw him take a revolutionary path. This led rapidly to decades of exile. It is a passionate, even a fierce polemic for dramatic social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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“All is for All”
- De Gabriel en 01-02-19
- The Conquest of Bread
- De: Pyotr Kropotkin
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
Control to the workers!
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- De: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past 30 years.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is robotic
- De dugmartssch en 05-22-20
- Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- De: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
Speaking of class...
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
- Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- De: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly beautiful!
- De L.A. en 12-27-19
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
- Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- De: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
A Great Book
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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Fear Itself
- The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
- De: Ira Katznelson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 22 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, "a towering figure in the study of American and European history" (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History in Context of Political Science Analysis
- De zsuzsanna en 08-27-15
- Fear Itself
- The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
- De: Ira Katznelson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
A Great Book on Inequality
Revisado: 10-16-20
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- De: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Book
- De David B. en 10-16-20
- The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- De: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
A Great Book
Revisado: 10-16-20
This book really made me think about inequality today, and in particular, how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Race for Profit
- De Hewti en 12-03-20
- Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
A Great Book
Revisado: 10-16-20
This book really made me think of how private interests continue to perpetuate inequality in American society. For example, I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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Assata
- De: Assata Shakur, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Sirena Riley
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,908
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,539
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,539
In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list. Assata Shakur's trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations and police brutality in the USA. While Assata's detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knowledge is power
- De Ashleigh Terry en 08-20-17
- Assata
- De: Assata Shakur, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Sirena Riley
Sirena Riley's reading is excellent
Revisado: 09-21-20
amazing performance by Sirena Riley. I definitely recommend this audio book. listened to it on a bike tour
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