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omg -- this book is sooo good -- get it and liste

Revisado: 01-13-22

This listen is probably the nicest thing you will ever do for yourself with 3 hours. Parker is very wise and understanding, very expressive, and knows how to get things done. Brooks is a very good reader. Don't miss listening to this book.

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Mr. Trebek helps with our friend

Revisado: 11-14-20

Our good friend Camille died this week, and we feel the hole that's there in the fabric of the universe. The book consoled us, and the philosophy he puts in his book guides us as we someday will go thru that doorway to the next world. Thank you, Mr. Trebek.

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Greta is a Lighthouse for Ships of State

Revisado: 01-12-20

There was a Presidential election in the USA in 2000 when Al Gore was defeated. The winner of that election was George W. Bush after the Supreme Court voted for Bush in a horrible example of elections misguiding nations. Gore later explained his reasons for running in The Future -- Six Drivers of Global Change. Future was published in March of 2013, and is too long for most American leaders to read. Later, in March of 2016, Gore published Earth in the Balance, which was a much shorter book. I recommend that people read Greta Thunberg's book, and then also read Al Gore's books and Rachel Maddow's book Blowout. Greta Thunberg's speeches are good, but don't express the other facets of the issue, so readers should get some other interesting books as companion works.

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Honor Women with All We Have

Revisado: 01-06-20

This is a great book to read to see the wisdom and needs of women. The first part describes women in poor nations who suffer so much at the hand of their husbands. The last part describes the life of love and work of the richest couple in the world. Reading this book might be good reading for young men and women before and after marriage. I got the companion book, The Mother and Child Project, and had new understanding of the women I thought I understood, but really didn't understand at all.

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Rachel Maddow Does a Fine Documentary

Revisado: 01-05-20

The book is well documented, accurate, and well written, precise. I am not sure Ms. Maddow means well for our country, because she gives no prescriptions for the problems she exposes. It is depressing to see so many leaders in industry and government who don't seem to have the character to make profits without hurting people. The leaders she describes seem to hurt other people at every turn. It might be good in a documentary book like this one, to present both sides of the oil and natural gas industry, so the readers can add understanding and mercy to their judgments of the leaders. It seems like the book could go into more detail about the part of the Dodd-Franck bill that required oil and gas companies to reveal what they are doing to acquire liquid fuels for our vehicles and power plants. The authors of that bill were hoping that USA companies would show more character if they weren't invisible to the world's public. When the company lobbyists removed the transparency requirement, companies said they couldn't compete equally with other nations' companies which didn't ever have a transparency requirement. Just pause a while and think about that. People are doing things in secret that hurt other people and defending themselves by saying everybody is doing it. What kind of character is that ? There is a sentence in Proverbs that warns people not to join up with thieves to get rich. The leaders in this book should study Proverbs carefully. We live in a country where the people rule themselves, where the people decide the values and behavior we will follow based on information and understanding they get from the media, the free press. Without the truth, how are the people of our country or any country, going to rule ? This is why Ms. Maddow was saying that the oil and natural gas companies were also hurting democracies around the world, ours and others'. That's as much as my little mind could gather from Ms. Maddow's book. I do hope that the Author is safe from harm. Clearly the leaders involved are bad people to others who get in their way. Our religious leader, Jesus, taught that He would be rejected by the elders of his little nation. I hope Rachel Maddow doesn't have to be hurt in order to deliver this documentary to the world. I served in America's military service for three years, and I met some of the wisest NCO's and officers we had, but I never saw one who was as brave as Rachel Maddow. I am now listening to the book by Greta Thunberg, No One is Too Small to Make a Difference. It s so sad to see civilization coming to an end, estimated to be around 2030, when the temperature of our Planet changes to irreversible warming. The Americans and Russians who put Trump and Putin in power will never face accountability for the end of civilization. Some of the things they do are good, but some of the things they do are a disgrace.

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Henry Kissinger Guides the Way in World Order

Revisado: 01-01-20

I write this review in respect for Kissinger's knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. I am humble now, and fear I will not accurately describe this book, which is fairly long. The narrator Nicholas Hormann, does a good job. The book was published in 2014, so it's often current for our situation today, 2020. Kissinger says we need to decide what to avoid. In my opinion, which most certainly could be in error, our world has a problem of unfair national borders, which seem to be causing great poverty for many nations, and great wealth for a few lucky nations. Similarly gerrymandering has made unfair state borders. Russia, China, and India have huge areas and populations, but their leaders don't seem concerned about the opinions of the people they rule. They say they are concerned with the rights to life of their people, yet they easily choose to rule with executions of those people trying to express their opinions. Their leaders seem to have no humility at all, and think their values should be spread to all the world. They don't like a peace put in place by a balance of power. Today, North Korea's leader, Kim Jung Un, has said he has a new strategic weapon, and is making many nuclear weapons and distributing them to other nations. He said that the USA is acting like the crime bosses. Kissinger says we need to decide what we would like to achieve. A free market economy is one thing, I believe, all nations like, and we can all cooperate in achieving. There also seems to be agreement on the rights of life. like food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, freedom of press, speech, and elections. We seem to agree that all people want justice, mercy, and humility from leaders. All want leaders who are sober and not prejudiced when judging issues. Kissinger writes of weapon proliferation and the dangers of all nations having weapons able to destroy civilization. He talks about cyber warfare and how the hackers, human or computer, can hurt many people very quickly and never be punished or held responsible for what they do. These are perplexing problems, but the background problem Kissinger writes of is the refusal of some nations to respect other nations in accordance with the Westphalian treaty. Kissinger says in trying to end religious warfare, that treaty called on all nations to respect and not violate each other's sovereignty. A balance of power followed the treaty for a century of peace. I wish I could understand all of Kissinger's thinking, but of course I am not Kissinger. I recommend reading this book to all leaders, and I hope they will use what they learn from it to help the world achieve common goals and avoid common pitfalls for a long time to come.

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The stories of gutsy women is quite sad, really.

Revisado: 10-22-19

The authors start off reading too fast, and not being expressive, but this improves with practice narrating. The book is worth getting and listening to. The gutsy woman in each story is presented by the cloud player as a chapter title on audible. The plight of women, blacks, native Americans, and STEM graduates is quite sad. You will enjoy so many gutsy women being described in the book. There is a similar book about women AND men, all kinds, by David Brooks, called the Second Mountain, that is also a good book to listen to. The authors don't mention the main wall handicapping so many women, the funny system of elections we have where the money of one or two rich white men control the media, who wins elections, and what laws are passed. A vote is worth nothing if some one person can anonymously donate millions of dollars to get his wishes carried out. Get and listen to both of these books for models of people who did something good with their lives.

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One-sided account of Russia

Revisado: 04-05-19

This book was recommended by a very rich couple in the USA. It doesn't go into American history, like what Prof. Noam Chomsky of MIT Linguistics Department might relate. It goes into the bad things in Russia's history, and it is clear that the author Amor Towles carries a chip on his shoulder. It's sad that the rich in America are so hateful of Russia, and any other country that threatens their wealth. In the US, as in Russia, people have killed to get their way with public opinion. Both nations have all kinds of weapons designed and made with which to destroy each other and the world. I myself do not think that mankind and womankind have lived for millions of years of history to see the world end this way. I do not think that the rich in America have enough common sense to be so very rich. Too bad.

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Nice story. Very good.

Revisado: 12-08-18

The author, Kate Stewart, has written a novel about a ma, who, when his wife delivers a baby who isn't his, fathers the child and, when he finds out about the baby's inheritance, divorces his wife and entertains the child quite well. I was disappointed by the author's view of a child. It seems to me that a man, married to a woman, should gladly take care of her children and her, because a true father is simply there, to take care of them. Ian was so unhappy when he found out that the child wasn't his genetically that he divorced his wife. What a huge mistake Ian made in divorcing Tara. It was heartbreaking to see what a cad Ian was, and the whole romance novel swirls around Ian in a way that seems to praise him.

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Remarkably important physics and chemistry conceps

Revisado: 10-23-18

What to say about this? I chose to write a review for this selection because it is so interestingly written and narrated and the concepts it explains so clearly are so very important to physics and chemistry. When I studied physics and chemistry in college, the professors lectured to large halls of hundreds of students, but this book feels like Professor Ball is conversing with just the listener and explaining everything. The purpose isn't to pass a test, but to revel in the beauty of nature and materials, and to understand the modern world around us. It is beautiful and well worth buying and listening to.

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