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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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heroic
- By Anonymous User on 06-02-23
- Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
All I can say is we need revolt
Reviewed: 07-19-24
It’s a good book and dispelled many repeated myth about global warming and the links toward the tobacco industrys cold warriors
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The Gift of Dyslexia
- Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn
- By: Ronald D. Davis, Eldon Braun
- Narrated by: Ronald D. Davis, Dr. Joan Smith, K. C. Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 196
This program explains the concepts of Davis Dyslexia Correction® for people who would rather listen than read. At the age of 38, Ronald D. Davis made a discovery about a perception that enabled him to read a book cover to cover - for the first time. The methods he developed have helped thousands of children and adults around the world to overcome reading, writing, study, and attention problems.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Book - Bad Recording
- By Kellie on 02-27-08
- The Gift of Dyslexia
- Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn
- By: Ronald D. Davis, Eldon Braun
- Narrated by: Ronald D. Davis, Dr. Joan Smith, K. C. Jones
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Reviewed: 10-17-23
While I still found the book somewhat intriguing and insightful especially early on, but much of the information I’m from stuff that I as a dyslexic don’t think is any longer in the diagnostic
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The Big Three in Economics
- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 655
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 490
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Story4 out of 5 stars 490
The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cut and paste
- By Jan on 05-25-07
- The Big Three in Economics
- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Interesting but very biased
Reviewed: 06-14-23
I don’t wanna say I didn’t get much out of this book but the author seems to fixate on the “success” of Adam Smith and his classical school. And really only brings up Kanye’s or Marx (especially) to discuss how their brought classical economics out of the limelight. He also seems to hyperfocus on Marx’s more problematic views while brushing aside Smith’s or Kanye’s. However it still was an informative if not biased work.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,258
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,769
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9,743
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, Words
- By Donovan P Malley on 06-30-19
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Just beautiful
Reviewed: 06-13-23
Just beautiful just beautiful just beautiful just beautiful just beautiful just beautiful and of course just beautiful oh how wonderful.
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced". What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Much Needed despite poor performance
- By J. Kahn on 08-21-19
- Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
This book is fantastic
Reviewed: 12-22-22
I am someone whose obsessed with anthropology and I found this book to be very insightful. Boas, Mead, Hurston, and hell even the reference to “two crows” is something that I’ve always saw in other books introducing the topic to me but now I feel I have a much stronger idea of their contributions to this field.
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 193
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance, and yes, even better sex.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Typical socialist manipulation
- By Ryan S. on 02-26-19
- Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
Very Good
Reviewed: 11-05-22
I was recommended this book by a YouTuber thought the book seemed interesting as someone who is a socialist the title seemed interesting if not a little funny. As someone who also studies anthropology I found it equally compelling. Needless to say I thought the book was amazing has a very strong argue from a materialist and cultural perspective that exemplifies the failures of a capitalist economy to achieve gender equity. Definitely would recommend it to anyone who is interested in a more comprehensive understanding of the connection between capitalist-patriarchy.
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