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Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in myriad different ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher rate of interest when a pretty woman's face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on immigration find the most despised aliens were ones from a group that did not exist? What made four of the Air Force's best pilots fly their planes, in formation, straight into the ground?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A tour de force
- De Ivan en 07-05-11
De: Michael Kaplan, y otros
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The Consolations of Philosophy
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 491
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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Ida M. Tarbell
- The Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won!
- De: Emily Arnold McCully
- Narrado por: Emily Arnold McCully
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De AKA1 en 03-16-19
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American Sketches
- Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 180
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Really Sketches
- De DAVID en 11-04-11
De: Walter Isaacson
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Practicing History
- Selected Essays
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Barbara Tuchman fan faced with reality
- De J. Whittle en 09-27-18
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The Secret Knowledge
- On the Dismantling of American Culture
- De: David Mamet
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 267
For the past 30 years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, his characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mamet's Rubicon
- De Kirk en 08-13-11
De: David Mamet
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 644
John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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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
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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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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 916
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- De: Gary Cox
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a capitalista biography of Sartre
- De Anonymous User en 01-24-20
De: Gary Cox
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Religion for Atheists
- A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 260
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing, Erroneous, Implausible
- De Douglas C. Bates en 11-02-12
De: Alain de Botton
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People
- Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than 10 years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely audiobook, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Obsessed with bad politics
- De Erik en 09-07-20
De: Michael Booth
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Shadows of a Princess
- De: Patrick Jephson
- Narrado por: Patrick Jephson
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
Reissued for the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, this sensational best seller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period. In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by many as a lifeline for the outdated Windsor line. But Diana didn't follow the script. Instead she brought a revolution. Patrick Jephson was Diana's closest aide and adviser during her years of greatest public fame and deepest personal crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest and balanced Diana account
- De Karla Huntsman en 06-09-18
De: Patrick Jephson
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How Democracy Ends
- De: David Runciman
- Narrado por: David Runciman
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get? In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated 20th-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable....
De: David Runciman
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Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
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Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean? One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence. Now he presents the gathered wisdom of those ten years in a wide-ranging and innovative compendium of emotional intelligence that forms an introduction to The School of Life.
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The school of life needs to be in schools.
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False Advertising!
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The Course of Love
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We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as "happily ever after". The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence.
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Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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- Bett Bollhoefer
- 05-16-15
Quit the news
This stoical view of the news is refreshing to be as I quit the news one year ago. The author gives a philosophical argument of why the news falls short whenever it could actually help us. He not only gives specifics as to each type of news' failings he also gives us what the news could be to answer our deep needs as a society and individuals.
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- James
- 08-06-18
Great Advice
Highly recommended for anyone who grapples with how to consume the news. Very relevant in today's political landscape.
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- Ahmad Al-Shagra
- 02-21-23
An informative and contemplative journey
This book helps become aware of how we consume and produce information that reflects the world around us. The author’s unmistakable eloquence guides through contemplation and appreciation of how complex our perception is of the world.
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- Laura Hartness
- 05-01-14
The News and a Treatise on Life
What did you love best about The News?
De Botton presents truths and insights not only about the news which greatly affects our modern culture, but he examines aspects of society as a whole that I found enjoyable and thought-provoking.
What other book might you compare The News to and why?
I don't know that I've ever read a book quite like "The News", to be honest.
What about Nicholas Bell’s performance did you like?
He has a lovely English accent that is pleasant, but not distracting from the content. The attention is drawn to De Botton's words, not Bell's performance of them.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
At times it did make me laugh out loud, recognizing the amusing truth behind many of De Botton's thoughts. But more often than not, it had me pondering issues of life in ways I never have before. I found myself jotting down notes on numerous occasions.
Any additional comments?
This copy of "The News" was provided for review purposes only.
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- laura
- 01-03-17
These were new and worthy ideas.
I enjoyed this book primarily because of the introduction of what I found to be new ideas. I also found Bell's narration soothing, mainly due I believe due to the fact that he has a steady meter in his reading and a calm tone to his voice. I will certainly be listening to this time and time again. I will also be purchasing more of De Bottoms audio books.
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- Ben Andrew Duffy
- 09-08-20
Very thought provoking
Classic de Botton, full of great advice and interesting references to art and literature. Could have enjoyed a few more chapters
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- Ray
- 02-21-14
Not newsworthy
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
There are some interesting concepts, but they are poorly integrated into the text. I was hoping for much more.
Would you ever listen to anything by Alain de Botton again?
No
Would you be willing to try another one of Nicholas Bell’s performances?
No
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The News?
The book isn't laid out in scenes.
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- R. Smith
- 02-10-20
Misleading title.
Mostly about how the author thinks news should be presented. Does not give any valuable insights for a reader and watcher of news.
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