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- 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
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De: Patrick French
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Notes on a Foreign Country
- An American Abroad in a Post-American World
- De: Suzy Hansen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul.
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A MUST-READ for all Truth-Seeking American wh
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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
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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!
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
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- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
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The Future Is History
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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The author is an international treasure
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China Road
- A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
- De: Rob Gifford
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's 20 years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes listeners on this journey, he also takes them through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.
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An Outstanding Book on China
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See You Again in Pyongyang
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From terrifying missile tests, its unmissable Olympic cheering squad, and the war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong Un - not to mention stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations - news from North Korea has dominated global headlines. But what is life there actually like? In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city.
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Save me from the hippie millennials with a PhD
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Thrive
- Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
- De: Dan Buettner
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In the first book to identify demographically proven happiness hotspots worldwide, researcher and explorer Dan Buettner documents the happiest people on earth and reveals how we can create our own happy zones. Detailing extraordinary new discoveries and meticulous research on four continents, Buettner observes happiness in unlikely places and gleans surprising insight into what generates contentment and what it means to thrive.
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Around the world with circular reasoning
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Disintegration
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The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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Written for Popular Consumption
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De: Eugene Robinson
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Ask a North Korean
- Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
- De: Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov - foreword
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom." This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.
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Brilliant Narration on the unknown perspective
- De New Jaa Yeong en 09-01-18
De: Daniel Tudor, y otros
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Oracle Bones
- A Journey Through Time in China
- De: Peter Hessler
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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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The International Bank of Bob
- Connecting Our World One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
- De: Bob Harris
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Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better.
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Wonderfully entertaining and accessible book
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
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Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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Amazing book
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De: Daniel Tudor
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The Little Book of Hygge
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Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is hygge. Loosely translated, hygge - pronounced hoo-ga - is a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. "Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience," Wiking explains. "It is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe."
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
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The Finnish Way
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Forget hygge - it's time to blow out the candles and get out into the world! Journalist Katja Pantzar did just that, taking the huge leap to move to the remote Nordic country of Finland. What she discovered there transformed her body, mind, and spirit. In this engaging and practical guide, she shows listeners how to embrace the "keep it simple and sensible" daily practices that make Finns one of the happiest populations in the world, year after year. The Finns have a word for that, and this empowering book shows us how to achieve it.
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- 06-20-17
The +/- of the Scandinavians
The author of this book is an Englishman married to a Dane living in Denmark. He writes about all the Scandinavian countries and the idiosyncrasies of each. It made me laugh out loud and appreciate Scandinavians even more - warts and all.
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- 02-16-21
Interesting but Meandering
I am glad I listened to this, as I am interested in Scandinavia and there was some interesting information. However, it took me a bit longer to get through it than I hoped. It was a little bit of a struggle. Sometimes his jokes landed, sometimes they didn't. Kind of a meh read overall.
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- deipnosophist
- 04-03-16
A witty British take on the Nordic set
Where does The Almost Nearly Perfect People rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is one of the better audio books I've completed. Ralph Lister's performance is excellent and captures the pithy evaluations of Booth's book.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Lister is best when he's giving voice to Booth's own skepticism in the form of the back and forth in the interviews with various Nordic anthropologists and scholars.
Which character – as performed by Ralph Lister – was your favorite?
I'm just going to say "see above" in this one. Ugh. Great job Audible.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Question everything: Neither Iceland nor Finland can really be considered Scandinavian, but they are considered Nordic.
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- T. Campbell
- 06-19-19
surprisingly entertaining
A enjoyable mix of facts, insights, and anecdotes about the Nordic countries. I usually stick to fiction for my audiobook selections, but I'm glad I picked this one up
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- Bobbi
- 06-28-17
okay
If you've never been to Scandinavia or are new to studying the region it has some good culture information, you just have to get through the author being on his political soap box especially in the later chapters.
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- Matthew
- 08-08-17
good book
I loved listening to the cultural exposition but am not too keen on his self described grumpy attitude towards the countries and people he writes about. however I believe that he tempers these comments fairly well with humor.
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- JBC
- 12-09-16
Great overview
Great overview of the recent cultural and political history of the 5 Nordic countries. Mr. Booth spends roughly 1/5th of the book on each country and weaves together an intriguing narrative. This was the perfect preparation for an upcoming trip to Sweden and Denmark.
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- Lila Levy
- 03-30-24
It’s Long but Worth it
I suspect that many readers of this tome don’t get all the way through. There are more than a few spots harder to swallow than others - Booth does give voice to a lot of intolerable characters and small-minded thinkers (as noted in other reviews by people who might not have paid attention the whole way through). If you make it to the section on Sweden, truth is you still have to work your way thirstily through the politics and ideologies to get to the point. That said, this is a rounding assessment of the facts and detailed - and thoroughly entertaining - analysis of opinions that makes this book very worth the effort. Booth works at humility and balance even when he indulges in his own and non-Scandinavian viewpoints. Best though are well-portioned tasty nuggets of humor throughout the journey. The epilogue makes it all okay again and I am recommending The Almost Nearly Perfect People to all my friends (because I can’t stop talking about it).
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- David
- 08-29-15
Delightful Treck Through The North!
I recommend this work as good primer on all things "Nordic". Good humored, well observed and analyzed there is plenty enough to interest just about every curiosity. Some of the later chapters are even a bit intellectual; though perhaps the author might plead inebriation in mitigation.
Further, I do not find the author prejudiced, simply at times irreverent. For instance, he is oddly insistent against all constitutional monarchies. As a Yank I rather enjoy the authors own "House of Windsor" royal family and do not begrudge the various Scandinavian crowned heads.
In summary: A book well done and well read.
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- Colin
- 01-18-21
Fun listen. Well written and well read.
Great listen if you want to learn more about the Scandinavian countries and their quirks. Funny and interesting.
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