GEOFFREY LOWE
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What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- By: Elan Journo
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
What is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? What does justice demand of us in this conflict? This audiobook clarifies an intimidatingly complex issue - and upends conventional views about America’s stake in it. In this audiobook, Elan Journo explains the essential nature of the conflict and what has fueled it for so long. What justice demands, he shows, is that we evaluate both adversaries - and America's approach to the conflict - according to a universal moral ideal: individual liberty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real education
- By GEOFFREY LOWE on 13-12-2023
A real education
Reviewed: 13-12-2023
This is a story everyone should know before they form an opinion on the subject. It’s not the only story, but it is a vital one!
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No Plan B
- Jack Reacher, Book 27
- By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Story4 out of 5 stars 575
Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus—clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened—a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away. Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that this was no random act of violence. It is part of something much bigger.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing
- By Vicki Thomas on 30-10-2022
- No Plan B
- Jack Reacher, Book 27
- By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Too much Andrew, not enough Lee
Reviewed: 12-11-2022
Jeff Harding is brilliant as always, by the story had weak elements and the writing style isn’t quite as good - doesn’t flow as well as it did in previous books.
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Echo Burning
- Jack Reacher 5
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 827
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 756
Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.J ack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a very good Reacher
- By Raypercy on 22-03-2019
- Echo Burning
- Jack Reacher 5
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
More twists than a roller coaster!
Reviewed: 26-07-2022
Classic Reacher and a really great story to boot.
Jeff Harding at his best too!
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The War on the West
- How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 771
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 683
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Story5 out of 5 stars 680
In The War on the West, international best-selling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is a history of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it? It’s become, he explains, perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An inspiring defence of Western Civilisation
- By Daryl on 26-07-2022
- The War on the West
- How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
The Perfect Response
Reviewed: 23-06-2022
The World needs more love, less hate. In this response to the war on the West, Douglas Murray, sometimes dripping with absolutely appropriate sarcasm, lays out an alternative to the divisiveness of the anti-West narrative. This is a story for those who’s default position is to love or at least accept all people. It should, therefore, be a story for all of us!
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,140
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 965
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Story5 out of 5 stars 961
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good listen, once I found the PDF
- By Darren on 12-12-2018
- Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
Totally uplifting!
Reviewed: 10-06-2018
Wow. Who would’ve thought a book about facts could evoke such a feeling of joy and optimism - possiblism even. I’ll be recommending this one widely - a great compliment to Stephen Pinker’s Better Angels and Michael Shermer’s Moral Arc for anyone who isn’t sure just how lucky we are!
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Science in the Soul
- Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to society; and for the importance of the scientific way of thinking – particularly in today’s ‘post-truth’ world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than the Soul of just Science
- By GEOFFREY LOWE on 04-03-2018
- Science in the Soul
- Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
More than the Soul of just Science
Reviewed: 04-03-2018
Richard Dawkins most definitely embodies the soul of science, but I’d go further and suggest he fully embodies the soul of humanity, of being human. What a wonderful mind - this book reads like a greatest hits of that mind.
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After On
- A Novel of Silicon Valley
- By: Rob Reid
- Narrated by: Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Felicia Day, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers - and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely intolerably overdone
- By Brendan Andrews on 26-01-2019
- After On
- A Novel of Silicon Valley
- By: Rob Reid
- Narrated by: Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Felicia Day, Patrick Rothfuss, John Hodgman, Tom Merritt, Jesse Cox, Leo Laporte
Fabulous read by Rob Reid
Reviewed: 25-02-2018
This is a thoroughly well written and thought provoking book. I recommend it for anyone with even a vague interest in AI, technology, humanity or life. Can’t wait for the TV show!
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Under the Dome
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Raul Esparza
- Length: 34 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 747
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 691
In Stephen King's mesmerizing new masterpiece - his biggest, most riveting novel since The Stand - a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome. Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he's ever conjured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a book!!!
- By Juanita Caban on 07-03-2015
- Under the Dome
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Raul Esparza
So well written and read...
Reviewed: 20-12-2016
I don't know what the equivalent of a page turner is in an audio book, but whatever it is, this has it! And if all the audio books I've listened to, this has to be the best performance by a narrator. So many characters and yet Raul managed to make each unique enough so each could be identified by their voice. Loved it!
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,486
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,858
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8,811
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens? In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-provoking
- By Ant Le Breton on 30-08-2017
- Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Great new take on an old story!
Reviewed: 07-11-2016
There really are a lot of great insights in this story of us - ways of combining things I already knew to generate ideas I didn't. The only quibble I had was a claim that science has nothing to say about what ought to be - morals or ethics. It's inconceivable to me that the scientific process that has generated so much understanding till now has no way of contributing to our understanding of the Moral Landscape (thanks Sam Harris).
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Elon Musk
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,850
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,156
South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey, Jr.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An underwhelming narrative of a really cool guy
- By Michael on 17-06-2016
- Elon Musk
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Inspiring
Reviewed: 21-10-2016
I found myself seeking total clarity and alignment to much more distant and lofty goals while listening to Elon's life according to Ashlee. Before this book, I would have been happy buying any electric car. Now only a Tesla will do because the reason for Tesla is something worth supporting.
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