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Amazon Unbound
- Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
- De: Brad Stone
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 751
Almost 10 years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his best seller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book and content. Awful narration
- De Asutosh Tripathy en 05-14-21
- Amazon Unbound
- Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
- De: Brad Stone
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
An historical, must read about a giant success. Bexos may not be a wholesome likable guy but what foresight and guts!
Revisado: 05-27-21
Hats off to the people who learned to work with him. Mow, will Amazon thrive without him?
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,779
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,778
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- De Betsy Powel en 12-19-11
- 1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Great new perspective for the history buff
Revisado: 11-13-11
Love it. 'Read' it twice. Wonderful new slant on how the world got here.
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- De: David Brooks
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,728
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- De Pamela Harvey en 03-13-11
- The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- De: David Brooks
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
Love David on TV ...but ...
Revisado: 11-13-11
Interesting, but very "wonky." I kept wishing for an outline to figure out just what Mr. Brooks was up to here.
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iWoz
- How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
- De: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,672
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2,538
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,566
Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards, and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen?
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3 out of 5 stars
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iWOZ...apparently the best at everything!
- De Karen en 06-12-07
- iWoz
- How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
- De: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
Glad I 'Read' It
Revisado: 11-13-11
I am glad I read it, but man! This was one of the most self-involved tales I have been exposed to in some time.
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In My Time
- A Personal and Political Memoir
- De: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Dick Cheney
- Duración: 20 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 698
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 599
In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power. In My Time is truly the last word about an incredible political era, by a man who lived it and helped define it - with courage and without compromise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De reader en 09-05-11
- In My Time
- A Personal and Political Memoir
- De: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Dick Cheney
Patriots of Every Stripe
Revisado: 11-13-11
It's a good thing we can embrace patriots of every stripe in this country. Mr. Cheney story reveals a man of considerable talent and long service to his country. That he is sure he is a patriot I have no doubt. But he is a patriot of a stripe I am sure we need fewer of not more.
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The Devil All the Time
- De: Donald Ray Pollock
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,941
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,733
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Comedy Blockbuster in Hades
- De Mel en 06-22-13
- The Devil All the Time
- De: Donald Ray Pollock
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
Gritty. Takes you to a place you've not been.
Revisado: 11-13-11
An exposition of depravity, just short of so strange that you can still relate. Involving to the end. Captures a bottom fisher part of the society we wish were not there.
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The Pirates of Somalia
- Inside Their Hidden World
- De: Jay Bahadur
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there is a 45-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bosaso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkayo. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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from fisherman to felons
- De Andy en 07-31-11
- The Pirates of Somalia
- Inside Their Hidden World
- De: Jay Bahadur
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
A Report, Not a Story, But Landlocked
Revisado: 11-13-11
Not so much about piracy on the high seas as pirates hanging around on land. Lacks context or much in the way piratic action.
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The Birth of Britain
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 975
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 972
The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Birth of Britain
- De Terryl Pettengill en 02-11-07
- The Birth of Britain
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
Birth of Britain
Revisado: 02-11-07
Winston Churchill's seminal work crackles right along through centuries of British depravity and triumphs, just enough detail and on you go (although one might wish to hear a bit more of the condition of the non-noble common man). Churchill spices his research with a generous serving of opinion in a way that only one who has "been there" can do. While it was launched decades ago it remains a very contemporary history.
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