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The Smart Wife
- Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
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A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms - what they are, why they’re such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they’re headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google's search algorithm is now a more closely guarded commercial secret than the recipe for Coca-Cola.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not about algorithms. Not an original book.
- De Landon Rordam en 12-02-14
De: Luke Dormehl
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The New Breed
- What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots
- De: Kate Darling
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, and that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The book is interesting, and makes good points, but Kate darling forgot about slavery in history
- De jeremy en 10-24-21
De: Kate Darling
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Future Shock
- De: Alvin Toffler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships - all of them temporary. It illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Accurate
- De Peter Gracia en 03-31-19
De: Alvin Toffler
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- De: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 314
Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- De Joshua Daniel-Wariya en 06-06-19
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What Love Is
- And What It Could Be
- De: Carrie Jenkins
- Narrado por: Carrie Jenkins
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Philosophy Is and What It Could Be
- De Amazon Customer en 03-09-17
De: Carrie Jenkins
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We Were Feminists Once
- From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
- De: Andi Zeisler
- Narrado por: Joell A. Jacob
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Today, feminism is no longer a dirty word, and women purporting to stand up for women's equality now include high-powered names like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Emma Watson. Hip underwear lines sell granny pants with "feminist" emblazoned on the back. In every bookstore, there are scores of seductive feminist how-to business guides telling women how to achieve "it all".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book despite shoddy narration
- De Seth H. Wilson en 05-19-16
De: Andi Zeisler
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Not Gay
- Sex Between Straight White Men
- De: Jane Ward
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 111
Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extreme Feminism and Liberalism
- De David McDougall en 01-17-18
De: Jane Ward
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- De: Evgeny Morozov
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The about face shift in view I've been looking for
- De McKane en 03-18-15
De: Evgeny Morozov
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Forget "Having It All"
- How America Messed Up Motherhood - and How to Fix It
- De: Amy Westervelt
- Narrado por: Amy Westervelt
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In Forget "Having It All", Westervelt traces the roots of our modern expectations of mothers and motherhood back to extremist ideas held by the first Puritans who attempted to colonize America and examines how those ideals shifted - or didn't - through every generation since.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Thorough and Well-Researched Book on The "Mom Predicament"
- De Merle B en 04-10-19
De: Amy Westervelt
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
- A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
- De: Douglas T. Kenrick
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science a picture emerges. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses these two fields to create a coherent story of human nature. In his analysis, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors—one-night stands, prejudice, conspicuous consumption, even art and religious devotion—are quite explicable and (when desired) avoidable.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rather dated and self-aggrandizing
- De Laurie Frick en 07-21-11
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Who’s Your City?
- How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
- De: Richard Florida
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who's Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Mimi Routh en 08-08-10
De: Richard Florida
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- De: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-05-21
De: Rob Reich, y otros
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- De: Moira Weigel
- Narrado por: Kyra Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 244
Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do. This isn't a guide to "getting the guy". There are no ridiculous "rules" to follow. Instead Weigel helps us understand how looking for love shapes who we are and hopefully leads us closer to the happy ending that dating promises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Meant To Be Useful, But Quite Fun
- De Gillian en 02-14-17
De: Moira Weigel
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Anthro-Vision
- A New Way to See in Business and Life
- De: Gillian Tett
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Woke Joke-My First Returned Book
- De Bob Flob en 06-16-21
De: Gillian Tett
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Program or Be Programmed
- Ten Commands for a Digital Age
- De: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrado por: Douglas Rushkoff
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 134
In 10 chapters, composed of 10 "commands", Rushkoff provides cyber enthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate the digital new universe. In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping listeners to recognize programming as the new literacy of the digital age - and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, but with some crazy ranting
- De Bjarne en 02-05-15
De: Douglas Rushkoff
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The Way We Never Were
- American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. The 1950s do not present a workable model of how to conduct our personal lives today, Coontz argues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic report on the dangers of nostalgia
- De Richard Stine en 06-29-21
De: Stephanie Coontz