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Marian

Ploiesti, Romania | Member Since 2006

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  • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
    • By Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated By Christopher Hitchens
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.

    ben capozzi says: "...Though Hitchens Is!"
    "Brilliant logic and atheist umanism"
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    Would you listen to God Is Not Great again? Why?

    I would listen it again for the great reasoning of Cristopher Hitchens and for the deep emotions carried by his narration.
    The book dismantles the so called humanism of the religion showing that the Gods of various religions are not good and not just and, happily they do not exist.
    Hitchens shows that our morality does not come from religion, but it precedes religions, that are man made creations.


    What was one of the most memorable moments of God Is Not Great?

    I like that parts where he dismantles the goodness of the religions exposing them as cruel and imoral.


    Which character – as performed by Christopher Hitchens – was your favorite?

    Hitch is reading his own creation and he compensates the voice of a narrator with the emotion and conviction carried by his voice.


    If you could give God Is Not Great a new subtitle, what would it be?

    God is not great, but Hitch was!


    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The God Delusion

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (3596)
    Performance
    (1052)
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    Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

    Rick Just says: "Dangerous Religion"
    "A call for reason!"
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    Would you listen to The God Delusion again? Why?

    Yes, I might do it in the future, because of the valuable information contained and the style: it is easy to follow, intriguing, mind-opening.


    What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

    The book is very well organized: it flows from the beginning to the end and keeps you comitted to listen and learn more.


    Which scene was your favorite?

    The proof that our moral system is not derrived from religion.


    If you could give The God Delusion a new subtitle, what would it be?

    Why we don't need God to understand the World!


    Any additional comments?

    Highly recommended.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Gary Taubes
    • Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
    Overall
    (1250)
    Performance
    (641)
    Story
    (640)

    Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change—in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes’s crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

    Igor says: "Are you looking for an attachement for the book?"
    "Life saving book"
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    Where does Why We Get Fat rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

    If you are fat challanged, as Americans say, this book could be life saving. Most of nutritionists treat people like machines: daily consumption-energy spent=what you earn or lose. This is simply wrong, because people are not machines and energy balance is not the reason why we get fat. This book offers a better explanation, a scientific one and offers a viable alternative to get leaner and stay lean. The reader will fully understand why we get fat and what to do about this.
    Additionally, the audiobook is well written and well read.


    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
    • By Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated By Kevin Pariseau
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (300)
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    (106)
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    Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.

    A User says: "Fascinating book about early human development..."
    "Very interesting and intriguing"
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    This is a book that suggests a very interesting hypothesis that never occurred to me: that cooking made the apes human! This is a strong insight into the descent of man on Earth. The whole saga is revealed with "detective" skills by the author and this makes the lecture interesting to follow.
    Some of the findings are also useful for the modern man trying to fight obesity and other are important from the anthropological perspective to the modern life issues as man-female relationship and place in society.
    A very good book!

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Daniel H. Pink
    • Narrated By Daniel H. Pink
    Overall
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    (380)
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    Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

    Frank says: "On the precipice of genius (not quite)..."
    "Interesting, engaging"
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    It's a new World, one that you cannot and should not approach with the mindset of the 20th Century.
    New time, new thinking. This is the ideea of the book and is briliantly expressed by the authors. It is an enterteining story that openminded folks will enjoy.

    1 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • Boys Adrift: Factors Driving the Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
    • By Leonard Sax
    • Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (617)
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    (275)
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    Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago. Fully one-third of men ages 22 to 34 are still living at home with their parents, about a 100 percent increase in the past 20 years. Boys nationwide are increasingly dropping out of school; fewer are going to college. Family physician and research psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax presents practical solutions.

    Kirt says: "Startling, well-researched view..."
    "A frieghtening call for action"
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    I wish I have read it when my son was 5. Now he is 13 and some of the evils depicted in the book have already affected him. Anyway, it is a must read if you are a parent, especially a parent of a boy.

    6 of 6 people found this review helpful
  • The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 6 mins)
    • By Kenneth W. Gronbach
    • Narrated By Max Bloomquist
    Overall
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    For years, marketers have held on to unwavering beliefs that have dictated how they market to their consumers. But the hard truth is that the changes we see in marketing and business are based on one undeniable factor - the size of the generations we are selling to. As each generation ages, what they buy and how much they buy will change.

    Marian says: "An eye opening book"
    "An eye opening book"
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    When I listened this book I tought: how could I have been so stupid to lose of sight the demografics in the past? Gronbach speaks about the influence of generations in marketing in a way that is easy to understand, entertaining and challenging. When you finish his book, you are already a better marketer!

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • Outliers: The Story of Success

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (7546)
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    (2275)
    Story
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    In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

    S Prabhu says: "Excellent book; well adapted for the audio format"
    "Breath-taking"
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    Gladwell did it again! Outliers is captivating, intriguing and you cannot let it aside until you finish it!
    As it was the case with his previous books, it made me change my behaviour.
    You must listen this great book!

    6 of 7 people found this review helpful
  • The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies...and How to Break Them

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
    • By Jagdish N. Sheth
    • Narrated By Stow Lovejoy
    Overall
    (31)
    Performance
    (6)
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    (7)

    Why do so many good companies go bad? In The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies...And How to Avoid Them, the authors examine the companies that were once thought-of as great (A & P, Sears, Xerox, Kodak, GM, Corning, Atari, Wang) and analyze how they ended up self-destructing. This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim to.

    Warren says: "excellent with practical advice"
    "Useful and humbling experience"
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    The author shows the steep and short road that separates success from failure and how easy is to let success poison one company's future. It happens every day. It is a humbling experience because it shows how vanity has destroyed great companies and is a good lesson to learn. It also helps the investor to see behind the numbers and investigate if the company hides "bad habits" that could ultimately lead to destruction.
    Good management book!

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs)
    • By Fred Reichheld
    • Narrated By Fred Reichheld
    Overall
    (95)
    Performance
    (18)
    Story
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    In this revolutionary management audiobook, Fred Reichheld reduces all business success into one question. "Would you recommend this business to a friend?" According to Reichheld, this measure of customer satisfaction should be at the heart of all strategic decisions made by every company. He presents compelling case studies to show how customer satisfaction is more important than any business criterion besides profits.

    Marian says: "An awakening message"
    "An awakening message"
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    This is an excellent book: it really reminds you that customers are ruling and many companies are forgeting this at their own expense.
    The book provides and easy to apply methodology to realy focus your business to the customers, in fact, not in declarations. It gets upgraded from 4 to 5 stars for the practical methodology described by the author.
    I recommend the book to anybody who wants to excel in business.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful

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