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Gabriel

Medford, MA, United States | Member Since 2010

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  • 166 titles in library
  • 20 purchased in 2013
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  • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature | [Matt Ridley]
    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 56 mins)
    • By Matt Ridley
    • Narrated By Simon Prebble
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (189)
    Performance
    (139)
    Story
    (133)

    Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators.

    Scott says: "Great book!"
    "good info except some blind western assumptions"
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    Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

    I learned quite a bit of information from the Red Queen but some of the baseline assumptions are quite stereotypical of a western view point and lacks any discussion of the various types of relationships beyond traditional pair bonding (marriage) and polygamy (as defined by one man and several women).


    8 of 14 people found this review helpful
  • Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors | [Nicholas Wade]
    Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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    Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
    • By Nicholas Wade
    • Narrated By Alan Sklar
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (516)
    Performance
    (157)
    Story
    (154)

    Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.

    Albert says: "Amazing information"
    "Interesting but many biased assumptions"
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    Tons of factual evidence makes for a very fascinating read however I am struck over and over again by the blatant biased and unsubstantiated conclusions and or comments that accompany good facts and theories. Try Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality for a perspective that does not frame paleo times in conventional/modern terms.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Eating Animals | [Jonathan Safran Foer]
    Eating Animals
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    Eating Animals

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Narrated By Jonathan Todd Ross
    Overall
    (354)
    Performance
    (196)
    Story
    (197)

    Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood - facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf - his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong.

    Suzn F says: "Important Read!"
    "Great book with some nutritional misinformation"
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    This book provides an incredibly enlightening moral analysis of eating meat and really does do a good non-biased job at it.

    Unfortunately, some of the nutritional assumptions are just plain wrong.

    What you get out of it: eat meat from local/sustainable/moral sources, not factory farms.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | [Gary Taubes]
    Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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    Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Gary Taubes
    • Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
    Overall
    (1273)
    Performance
    (665)
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    (664)

    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?"
    "after reading this book"
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    all I want to do is buy 10+ copies to give it out to all my friends/relatives because it shatters the preconceived notions of what causes weight gain and thus what not to eat to be healthy

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful

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