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Bestsellers
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state....
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Best Read in Print Format
- By Alfredo Ramirez on 11-22-14
By: Glenn Greenwald
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....
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More are US social problems that WMD
- By Laurent Bourgault-Roy on 01-08-17
By: Cathy O'Neil
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state....
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Best Read in Print Format
- By Alfredo Ramirez on 11-22-14
By: Glenn Greenwald
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....
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More are US social problems that WMD
- By Laurent Bourgault-Roy on 01-08-17
By: Cathy O'Neil
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring....
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You sort of knew it already…
- By Leigh Munsil on 05-08-24
By: Byron Tau
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Your Face Belongs to Us
- A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
- By: Kashmir Hill
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face....
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Eye opening
- By Jared rimer on 05-16-24
By: Kashmir Hill
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Sedition Hunters
- How January 6th Broke the Justice System
- By: Ryan J. Reilly
- Narrated by: Ryan J. Reilly
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Ryan Reilly gets to know would-be revolutionaries, obsessive online sleuths, and FBI agents, and shines a light on a justice system that's straining to maintain order in our polarized country....
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Lost Opportunity
- By JenMarie66 on 10-21-23
By: Ryan J. Reilly
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The Recruiter
- Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
- By: Douglas London
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy craft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve....
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What a whiner
- By Apple Engineer on 02-26-22
By: Douglas London
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late....
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We can make Ai work for us by starting to claim our own data!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-20-24
By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., and others
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Artificial Intelligence Versus God
- The Final Battle for Humanity
- By: Perry Stone
- Narrated by: Matthew Foley
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as artificial intelligence, experts warn that the technology comes with great benefits, but also with great warnings....
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AI vs. God
- By Pauline on 05-03-24
By: Perry Stone
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Spyfail
- Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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James Bamford unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them....
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As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent
- By ChuckBeattyxHOEYologist75to03 on 03-11-23
By: James Bamford
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
- By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Narrated by: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage....
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EXCEPTIONAL
- By David S. on 07-16-23
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Invisible Rulers
- The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
- By: Renee DiResta
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, Invisible Rulers reveals how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.
By: Renee DiResta
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Policing the Womb
- Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
- By: Michele Goodwin
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies....
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AI Narrator
- By B.Sanabia on 11-16-23
By: Michele Goodwin
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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.
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We Have Been Harmonized
- Life in China's Surveillance State
- By: Kai Strittmatter
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance - and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security....
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Wonderful, but Cannot See Past Their Own Bias
- By StPierre85 on 07-15-21
By: Kai Strittmatter
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Vigilancia permanente
- By: Edward Snowden, Esther Cruz Santaella
- Narrated by: Marc Gómez
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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En Vigilancia permanente, Snowden desgrana por primera vez por qué lo hizo, cómo ayudó a construir un sistema de vigilancia masivo y la crisis de conciencia que le llevó a destaparlo todo y poner en jaque al sistema....
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Muy interesante y ameno
- By Vicente Emilio Enguidanos on 01-31-21
By: Edward Snowden, and others
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Dark Mirror
- Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
- By: Barton Gellman
- Narrated by: Barton Gellman
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified files revealing the extent of the American government’s access to our every communication....
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Amazing blindspot
- By Dreux on 06-07-20
By: Barton Gellman
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Customer Data and Privacy
- The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)
- By: Harvard Business Review
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove, Janet Metzger
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the tangled interdependencies and complexities and develop strategies that allow your company to be good stewards, collecting, using, and storing customer data responsibly....
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Practical
- By NKATHA on 04-08-21
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Reset
- Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
- By: Ronald J. Deibert
- Narrated by: Ronald J. Deibert
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment and humanity....
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Not so great
- By Derek Morr on 03-26-22
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- By: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data....
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Excellent
- By DeeRod on 05-26-23
By: Josh Chin, and others
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Surveillance Valley
- The Secret Military History of the Internet
- By: Yasha Levine
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project....
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Profound look at the internet and surveillance
- By stuartjash on 04-06-18
By: Yasha Levine
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The Hank Show
- How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
- By: McKenzie Funk
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, McKenzie Funk
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Critically acclaimed author and journalist McKenzie Funk tells the bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of....
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fascinating
- By Joseph Moore on 02-12-24
By: McKenzie Funk
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The Hidden History of Big Brother in America
- How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History, Book 7
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how the government and corporate America misuse our personal data and shows how we can reclaim our privacy....
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Good info.
- By J D L on 09-07-22
By: Thom Hartmann
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....
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Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
By: Thomas Abt
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
- Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
- By: Bruce Schneier
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything is a computer. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality....
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Title is the best part of the book
- By Ener Systems on 06-16-19
By: Bruce Schneier
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The Voyeur's Motel
- By: Gay Talese
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado....
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Strangely captivating
- By Mike Lewis on 07-14-16
By: Gay Talese
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The World After Capital
- By: Albert Wenger
- Narrated by: Albert Wenger
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Technological progress has fundamentally altered how humanity lives. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the Agrarian Age, it was land. Following the Industrial Revolution, capital became scarce....
By: Albert Wenger