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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine.
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Great writer finds a great topic
- By Judy Corstjens on 24-12-16
- The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
the relationship between two emotionally stunted bright psychologists
Reviewed: 06-03-24
Liked that it focused a lot on real world applications of their work and human fallacy. and that it didn't spare painting them with the human brush.
not sure what the book meant to be.
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the 2010s was undoubtedly the era of mass protest. Over four years, Vincent Bevins travelled the world to interview 100s of people who took part, asking activists how the failure to leverage these movements into lasting change often allowed the far right to hijack power, and why protestors instead saw their countries change in all the wrong ways.
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Good analysis of why socio-political movements fail
- By Sean Burke on 11-09-24
- If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
the protest era which heralded some change in global politics
Reviewed: 08-02-24
although a lot of effort has gone into it. the story jumped across 7 different places and it was sometimes hard to follow or to feel engaged.
does shed light on global politics and how mass protests seem to have become a norm almost.
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- By: Gabor Maté
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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Dr Gabor Maté is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings - based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness - are reframing how we view all human development. In this award-winning modern classic, Gabor Maté takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents it not as a discrete phenomenon confined to a weak-willed few but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society.
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Hung on every word
- By Mrs. I Fox on 08-07-19
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- By: Gabor Maté
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
touches the soul
Reviewed: 26-12-22
brilliant book.
which is a collection of heart rending stories of human suffering and more
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The Truth About Muhammad
- Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
- By: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam � perhaps the first such portrait in half a century � unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.
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WIll there be
- By Zaid on 13-01-09
- The Truth About Muhammad
- Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
- By: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: James Adams
Quite an Honest Account
Reviewed: 19-02-22
Felt that this was extensively researched and linked with past and present and the raining issues from blindly following ideology which incites violence.
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