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Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals, and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China, and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 percent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 percent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.
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Frightening, Fascinating, Fatiguing
- De Scott en 07-29-18
De: Tom Burgis
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Vanishing Frontiers
- The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
- De: Andrew Selee
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy.
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A mandatory read, now more than ever
- De Haydon Hill en 08-04-19
De: Andrew Selee
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Americana
- A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
- De: Bhu Srinivasan
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Bhu Srinivasan
- Duración: 21 h y 18 m
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From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking, to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the 21st century.
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Excellent history!
- De L. Maranto en 10-14-17
De: Bhu Srinivasan
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In the Dragon's Shadow
- Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
- De: Sebastian Strangio
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia.
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Great book
- De Alex Noble en 12-13-20
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In Putin's Footsteps
- Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
- De: Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on Earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all 11 time zones.
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Not much meat on the bone
- De A. M. en 03-11-19
De: Nina Khrushcheva, y otros
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Socialism Sucks
- Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
- De: Robert Lawson, Benjamin Powell
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.
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I learned more than I anticipated in a 4 + hr book
- De J D Rossi en 08-06-19
De: Robert Lawson, y otros
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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting, French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth.
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He knows Both Africa and China
- De Malick Tchakpedeou en 12-01-16
De: Howard W. French
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The Dragon's Gift
- The Real Story of China in Africa
- De: Deborah Brautigam
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. But China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy.
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The Book Is Too Much To Digest
- De DING MING YING 丁明英 en 05-15-20
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- De: Rachel Maddow
- Narrado por: Rachel Maddow
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon.
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chilling...
- De Kindle Customer en 10-12-19
De: Rachel Maddow
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- De: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.
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A Valuable Book on China
- De Michael Moore en 09-04-15
De: Henry M. Paulson
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Start-Up Nation
- The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
- De: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?
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Interesting and worth the time
- De Nili en 12-10-09
De: Dan Senor, y otros