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Monsters
- A Reckoning
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- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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"This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination...grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible...."
"I was born as part of a monstrous structure-the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I am the daughter of an empire that declared itself the natural order of the world."
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Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. It includes “Goodbye to All This” (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect reading
- De Paul en 04-02-20
De: Andrea Dworkin, y otros
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The Art of Inventing Hope
- Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
- De: Howard Reich
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida - and spoke often on the phone - to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune evolved into a friendship and partnership.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a view into post holocaust survivors recovery
- De Lance Strosser en 02-17-21
De: Howard Reich
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- De: Alicia Elliott
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent, visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas experienced by her so many Native people. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and White communities - a divide reflected in her own family - and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important and powerful, but narrator ruined it
- De barbara en 01-19-24
De: Alicia Elliott
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Breathe
- A Letter to My Sons
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 94
Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African-American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful peek into the heart & soul of a mother
- De Treesey en 10-08-19
De: Imani Perry
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Disfigured
- On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
- De: Amanda Leduc
- Narrado por: Amanda Barker
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed bag
- De Kim Padan en 01-18-22
De: Amanda Leduc
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The Myth of the American Dream
- Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power
- De: D.L. Mayfield
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sooooo good. Powerful
- De D. Frazier en 08-19-21
De: D.L. Mayfield
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Isak Dinesen
- The Life of a Storyteller
- De: Judith Thurman
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life - her travels, affairs, and friendships - remains the greatest story of all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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over-written
- De Jacqui Good en 10-19-18
De: Judith Thurman
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,308
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful Essayist
- De Andre en 09-30-16
De: James Baldwin
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The Second Mountain
- How People Move from the Prison of Self to the Joy of Commitment
- De: David Brooks
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,743
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,481
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,474
Author David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pursue meaning, reject hyper-individualism
- De Adam Shields en 05-07-19
De: David Brooks
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For Your Own Good
- Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
- De: Alice Miller
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term effects of abusive child-rearing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading for everyone
- De Timothy en 05-15-18
De: Alice Miller
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We Have Overcome
- An Immigrant's Letter to the American People
- De: Jason D. Hill
- Narrado por: Jared Wright
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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The dominant narrative, repeated in the media and from the angry mouths of politicians and activists, is the exact opposite of the reality. They paint a portrait of an America rife with racial and ethnic division, where minorities are mired in a poverty worse than slavery, and white people stand at the top of an unfairly stacked pyramid of privilege. Jason D. Hill corrects the narrative in this powerfully eloquent book. Dr. Hill came to America at the age of twenty from Jamaica and, rather than being faced with intractable racial bigotry, Hill found a land of bountiful opportunity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A message of hope for all Americans
- De No Regrets en 06-25-20
De: Jason D. Hill
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Antigone Rising
- The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
- De: Helen Morales
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé.
De: Helen Morales
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Forgotten Language
- An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
- De: Erich Fromm
- Narrado por: Kevin Young
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
In this study, Fromm argues that man needs to analyze his unconscious thoughts, his dreams, and his conscious fantasies, as they reflect a universal and symbolic representation of himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fromm at full steam
- De Paul en 02-15-16
De: Erich Fromm