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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
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- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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Oracle Bones
- A Journey Through Time in China
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today, the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.
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Great Book, except for the narration.
- De Daniel en 11-09-10
De: Peter Hessler
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This Land Is Our Land
- An Immigrant's Manifesto
- De: Suketu Mehta
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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A timely argument for why the US and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention and a literary polemic of the highest order.
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Greatly informative. wonderful narrated
- De ADEDZWA Dooyum Sartor en 06-29-19
De: Suketu Mehta
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- De: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrado por: David Owen Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- De James Gamble en 03-06-21
De: Eric Nusbaum
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Overground Railroad
- The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
- De: Candacy Taylor
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists.
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- De purpleprose en 10-16-22
De: Candacy Taylor
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- De: Evan Osnos
- Narrado por: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- De Neuron en 11-06-15
De: Evan Osnos
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When We Were Arabs
- A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
- De: Massoud Hayoun
- Narrado por: Massoud Hayoun
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.
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painful to read.
- De Eli Cukierman en 03-13-20
De: Massoud Hayoun
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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Performance
- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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Anti religious/anti catholic hit piece
- De Daniel Calvert en 05-04-21
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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India
- A Portrait
- De: Patrick French
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities.
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An Epic Book by Award-Winning Author
- De morton en 10-31-11
De: Patrick French
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On the Plain of Snakes
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joseph Balderrama
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.
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A pedantic, poorly narrated, 20 hour lecture
- De Birdshot en 11-16-19
De: Paul Theroux
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The Ground Breaking
- An American City and Its Search for Justice
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Over the course of less than 24 hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa’s infamous “Black Wall Street” was wiped off the map - and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than 50 years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre.
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excellent
- De BoxerBran en 09-29-22
De: Scott Ellsworth
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- De: Clint Smith
- Narrado por: Clint Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
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Sincerely grateful read
- De Kelvin Dixon en 06-08-21
De: Clint Smith
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- Kay P.
- 07-31-21
Interesting, but…
I almost couldn’t finish listening to this book because the reading was so annoying. She sounds like a computer reading.
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- Rachael R.
- 01-12-23
Excellent read
Wow! I learned so much! So fascinating to think about how something many of us take for granted —our address— was created, effects our lives, plus add in race, politics, marketing, etc.
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- Elizabeth Chun
- 04-24-20
Excellent nonfiction
Well written, interesting, and thought provoking. The Address Book is a combination of a look at the history of addresses and current research related to the same.
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- Laura B.
- 05-24-21
Who would have known street addressing would be interesting!!
I found this book to be very interesting, informative and enlightening. I had read some of the reviews before I started listening and yes the author does go off track a few times.
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- GioSailor
- 05-05-21
Address Book
Interesting, and in parts intriguing and well researched, but overall too uneven. Some chapters seemed simplistic, and less satisfying. Narration is good.
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- Liz
- 09-18-23
interesting book - narration not great
Book with fairly interesting content, but somehow felt patchy. Narration didn't help as the narrator slightyl mumbled which really showed up playing faster than 1 (i usually listen at 2.35, but due to the mumbling I could only lisstenn at 1.9, so the book felt a lot loooonger than it should.
Worst part of the book was a particularly glowing and fawning section on Bobby Sands. While his death did have huge repercussions that lead many years later to peace there was almost no mention of his many murders of civilian people. In fact lots of positive info on terrorists. most odd for a book about street addresses. Particularly when equally keen on confederate names being removed in the US due to their human rights abuses. so a very mixed bag overall. Felt like the authors blindspots were enormous.
I really didnt expect to be so unpleasantly confronted about murder in a book about addresses. Normally the unexpected is good, but pro terrorists? no
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- Dorothy Bedford
- 08-24-22
An Unexpected Perspective
I expected that this book would dissect the address (zip code) linkage with inequalities of various types in America. What Deidre Mask delivered was so much more: a globe-trotting reportage of perspectives on defining how humans see public spaces in various ways. Well worth the time invested
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- Nicole
- 04-29-22
Great research with a great narrative
I learned so much and across several different disciplines all with the common link of addresses. As a local history and genealogy librarian at a public library this touched on several topics that are close to me, like addresses on vital records, street name changes, homelessness, etc. I enjoyed this book and will definitely be sharing it with others!
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- Frequent Buyer
- 04-10-23
Interesting topic
I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book but it was definitely interesting. A few things I knew about but learned some new details with every chapter.
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- Mara L.
- 06-26-20
Fascinating and Thought Provoking
‘The Address Book’ was fascinating and thought provoking. Addresses are something most of us give little thought to but contain so much in them. They often reflect our societal values and connect us to governments, services, and even jobs. Mask uses excellent examples to support her points about identity, race, wealth, and power in this well-organized text. Mask writes in a way that is very accessible, entertaining, eye-opening, and often thought-provoking. Some parts had me laughing so hard, like the chapter that included possibly offensive British street names; and then had me considering the persisting legacy of the Confederacy in the United States following the Civil War or how best we can prevent catastrophic diseases from spreading by using addresses. This book covers so many different topics all over the world.
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