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Technopoly
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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- By D. Cassidy on 04-30-15
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.
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Incredible
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The Disappearance of Childhood
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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This modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today, and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a recent invention. But now the division between child and adult is eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into entertainment and pitches news and advertising at the intellectual level of 10-year-olds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful and perceptive
- By Jane Ord on 11-28-15
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
- A Very Practical Guide
- By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation - whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. Boghossian and Lindsay teach the subtle art of instilling doubts and opening minds. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists.
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Good Read
- By megan on 09-20-19
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The Founding Myth
- Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story5 out of 5 stars 217
Do "In God We Trust", the Declaration of Independence, and other historical "evidence" prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about religion's role in America's founding.
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Just 2 Issues
- By VIPER G on 09-01-19
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 290
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant work, excellently narrated
- By Richard B. on 04-30-19
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Error in recording
- By D. Cassidy on 04-30-15
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 790
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 773
In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Lonnie on 11-27-07
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The Disappearance of Childhood
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
This modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today, and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a recent invention. But now the division between child and adult is eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into entertainment and pitches news and advertising at the intellectual level of 10-year-olds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful and perceptive
- By Jane Ord on 11-28-15
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
- A Very Practical Guide
- By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation - whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. Boghossian and Lindsay teach the subtle art of instilling doubts and opening minds. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Read
- By megan on 09-20-19
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The Founding Myth
- Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story5 out of 5 stars 217
Do "In God We Trust", the Declaration of Independence, and other historical "evidence" prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about religion's role in America's founding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just 2 Issues
- By VIPER G on 09-01-19
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 290
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Story4 out of 5 stars 292
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant work, excellently narrated
- By Richard B. on 04-30-19
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The Madness of Crowds
- Gender, Race and Identity
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,968
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,811
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,784
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the 21st century’s most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and ‘intersectionality’. We are living through a postmodern era in which the grand narratives of religion and political ideology have collapsed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Urgent Read for Our Over-woke Times
- By Justin J. Norman on 09-26-19
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The Concept of Anxiety
- A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
- By: Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (translator)
- Narrated by: David Rapkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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This first new translation of Kierkegaard's masterwork in a generation brings an essential work of modern philosophy to vivid life. While the majority of Kierkegaard's work leading up to The Concept of Anxiety dealt with the intersection of faith and knowledge, here the renowned Danish philosopher turns to the perennial question of sin and guilt. First published in 1844, this concise treatise identified - long before Freud - anxiety as a deep-seated human state, one that embodies the endless struggle with our own spiritual identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about nothing
- By Gary on 03-20-17
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The Strange Death of Europe
- Immigration, Identity, Islam
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Robert Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,989
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing dystopian preview of tidal wave
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- By: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War 1 in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.
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Keynes in the car...
- By Mira Krishnan on 06-13-19
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Brotopia
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- By: Emily Chang
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- Unabridged
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For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasy land of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot tubs and network at sex parties. In this powerful exposé, Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground (Don't Be Evil! Connect the World!)--and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Critical Read
- By Cheryl B. McDonald on 05-17-18
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos - translator, Donaldo Macedo - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing. This 50th anniversary edition includes an updated introduction by Donaldo Macedo, a new afterword by Ira Shor, and many inspirational interviews.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not easy listening
- By Berel Dov Lerner on 02-20-19
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Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose - and, if at all possible, cure - the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a pretty good intro to Frankfurt School
- By Jaded Buddha on 05-28-13
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Understanding Complexity
- By: Scott E. Page, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott E. Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Recent years have seen the introduction of concepts from the new and exciting field of complexity science that have captivated the attention of economists, sociologists, engineers, businesspeople, and many others. These include tipping points, the wisdom of crowds, six degrees of separation (or Kevin Bacon), and emergence. Complexity science can shed light on why businesses or economies succeed and fail, how epidemics spread and can be stopped, and what causes ecological systems to rebalance themselves after a disaster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dancing Landscapes 💃🕺
- By Cade Campbell on 09-24-19
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Writing Creative Nonfiction
- By: Tilar J J. Mazzeo, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Tilar J J. Mazzeo
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fiction! Nonfiction! You Name It!
- By Gillian on 05-05-15
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Liquid Rules
- The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know that without water we couldn't survive, and that sometimes a cup of coffee or a glass of wine feels just as vital. But do we really understand how much we rely on liquids, or the destructive power they hold? Set over the course of a flight from London to San Francisco, Liquid Rules offers listeners a fascinating tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book!
- By Wayne on 08-04-19
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In his important new audiobook, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms behind before it’s too late. Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us towards richer and fuller way of living and connecting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the most important books in recent history
- By Zack Orr on 06-26-18
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Reclaiming Conversation
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- By: Sherry Turkle
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So good, I had to stop listening.
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Publisher's Summary
In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve Powers tell you how to become a discerning viewer. They make clear the difference between entertainment fodder and genuine news, pointing to the symbiotic relationship between TV news and advertising. They explain why TV news has become a "cash cow" and stress that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.
Critic Reviews
"Jeff Riggenbach's reading is ideal: very clear, comfortably paced, and objective in tone. This reviewer urges this book on every adult in America." (AudioFile)
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- Seth H. Wilson
- Venice, CA USA
- 02-27-15
Fair warning for TV watchers
Despite its age, this book is still a good guide to navigating the problems inherent in TV news. The ideas herein also apply to other media, especially digital content
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- ACustomer
- 07-08-09
Brilliant and Relevant
This book is brilliant, relevant and timeless. It is well thought, well told, well read and well worth your time and money. I do not normally post but I think this book is important enough to warrant a recommendation.
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- Brooke
- 11-11-18
A Prophetic warning
in this book, Postman and Powers explain the tactics used by news anchors, reporters, producers, and network bosses to keep the public entertained. They explain the changes that have taken place since anchors began to replace reporters as those who dominate screentime. Their most alarming prediction is that we would begin falling into tribes based specifically on politics, and this was written in the early 1990s. Thankfully, they also offer quite a few helpful solutions. This is a book that I rate 5 stars all around but I am blind and can't figure out how. #Media #1990sAmerica #Creepy #Prophetic #whitty #TagsGiving #SweepStakes
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Eric
- Anchorage, AK, United States
- 06-26-07
Beware Outdated Material
The book is ten years old although the audio format was released recently. Since this is a book on contemporary journalistic trends and corporate influences on the news, its age renders it obsolete.
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