Mad at the World
A Life of John Steinbeck
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William Souder
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The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California's limitless bounty and appalled by the country's refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice - paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy.
A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse.
Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.
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Tortilla Flat
- De: John Steinbeck
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Book
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Winter of Our Discontent
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- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,458
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Book
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Tortilla Flat
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,458
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,148
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Book
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East of Eden
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- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 18,761
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5 out of 5 stars
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Of Mice and Men
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- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,634
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,050
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KETCHUP
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The Wayward Bus
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5 out of 5 stars
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Steinbeck always touches the heart, makes you feel
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than 50 of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good Steinbeck journalism.....no kidding!
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stay poor
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Once There Was a War
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5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest war story(ies) ever told
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To a God Unknown
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Steinbeck; Terrible and Beautiful
- De Michael en 04-28-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Corrections
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- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
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3 out of 5 stars
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"Grandly Entertaining"? Really?
- De Georgia Burns en 10-08-13
De: Jonathan Franzen
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In Dubious Battle
- De: John Steinbeck
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- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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This 1936 novel—set in the California apple country—portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best story - ever ! Awesome narrator !!!!!!!!!
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De: John Steinbeck
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The Pastures of Heaven
- De: John Steinbeck
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- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way.
De: Kris Ferraro
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Unapologetically Ambitious
- Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
- De: Shellye Archambeau, Ben Horowitz - foreword
- Narrado por: Shellye Archambeau, Dan Triandiflou
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for fans of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must for Every Ambitious Professional
- De Jasper W. Kuria en 12-30-20
De: Shellye Archambeau, y otros
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The Experience Mindset
- Changing the Way You Think About Growth
- De: Tiffani Bova, Tom Peters - foreword
- Narrado por: Tiffani Bova, Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In the war for customer acquisition, businesses invest millions of dollars to improve customer experience. They deliver packages faster, churn out new products, and endlessly revamp their UI, often putting greater strain on employees for diminishing returns. According to Tiffani Bova, this siloed focus on customer experience – without considering the impact on your staff—actually hinders growth in the long run. The most successful companies adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything needed w/case stories w/o unnecessary fluff
- De Annie Roslawski en 06-21-23
De: Tiffani Bova, y otros
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Home Will Never Be the Same Again
- A Guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce
- De: Carol R. Hughes, Bruce R. Fredenburg
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Overlooked in the issues that affect couples divorcing later in in life are the adult children of divorcing parents. Their voices open this book, and they are the voices of men and women, 18 to 50 years old. Some of them are single; some are married. All of them are in different stages of shock, fear, and sudden, dramatic change. In Home Will Never Be the Same: A Guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce, Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenburg share their deep understanding gained during the innumerable hours they have spent with these women and men in their clinical practices.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book would have benefited from a thorough edit from a skilled non-fiction editor
- De Verified Purchaser en 09-22-24
De: Carol R. Hughes, y otros
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This Will Make You Smarter
- New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
- De: John Brockman
- Narrado por: John Allen Nelson, Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 180
What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!
- De B en 04-23-13
De: John Brockman
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Total Focus
- Making Better Decisions Under Pressure
- De: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain, Brandon Webb
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 674
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 598
Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing heart-pounding stress. After returning to civilian life, he started his first business venture - and failed miserably. He realized that his big mistake was neglecting to apply what he already knew about focus under pressure. By drawing on the lessons of his SEAL training and early business struggles, Webb went on to build a second business, a media network called Hurricane.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Biography/ sales pitch.
- De Dennis en 01-10-18
De: Brandon Webb, y otros
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Generation Anxiety
- A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World
- De: Lauren Cook
- Narrado por: Lauren Cook
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Millennials and Gen Z-ers are considered two of the most anxious generations in history, and with many intense generation-specific stressors facing them in recent years, it’s easy to see why people are being diagnosed with anxiety at alarming rates. Dr. Lauren Cook, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in treating Millennials and Gen Z clients, and a Millennial who also lives with anxiety, understands the many nuanced reasons why these two groups are struggling in different ways than their predecessors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Liz en 04-18-25
De: Lauren Cook
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My Age of Anxiety
- Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
- De: Scott Stossel
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 318
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical, and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists, such as Charles Darwin, William James, and Sigmund Freud, as they began to explore its sources and causes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for anxiety suffers
- De Ryan en 03-04-14
De: Scott Stossel
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The Art of Talking with Children
- The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids
- De: Rebecca Rolland
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives listeners evidence-based tools and techniques to communicate more effectively with children in ways that let them foster relationships with less conflict and more joy and kindness.
De: Rebecca Rolland
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Weird in a World That's Not
- A Career Guide for Misfits, F--kups, and Failures
- De: Jennifer Romolini
- Narrado por: Em Eldridge
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward 27-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media, and became a boss - an editor in chief, an editorial director, and a vice president - all within little more than a decade. Her book, Weird in a World That's Not, asserts that being outside the norm and achieving real, high-level success are not mutually exclusive, even if the perception of the business world often seems otherwise, even if it seems like only office-politicking extroverts are set up for reward.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Women's Career Guide
- De Spence en 02-03-18
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To a God Unknown
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 484
Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Steinbeck; Terrible and Beautiful
- De Michael en 04-28-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Ernest Hemingway
- A Biography
- De: Mary V. Dearborn
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 29 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 211
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 209
A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A burning pile of post modern feminist shite
- De Kindle Customer en 09-11-18
De: Mary V. Dearborn
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The Hidden Habits of Genius
- Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
- De: Craig Wright
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 318
What is genius? The word evokes iconic figures like Einstein, Beethoven, Picasso, and Steve Jobs, whose cultural contributions have irreversibly shaped society. Yet Beethoven could not multiply. Picasso couldn’t pass a fourth grade math test. And Jobs left high school with a 2.65 GPA. The Hidden Habits of Genius explores the meaning of this contested term, and the unexpected motivations of those we have dubbed "genius" throughout history, from Charles Darwin and Marie Curie to Leonardo Da Vinci and Andy Warhol to Toni Morrison and Elon Musk.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Click-bait title, minimal substance inside
- De James S. en 11-27-20
De: Craig Wright
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A Russian Journal
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Interesting
- De Jean en 12-04-14
De: John Steinbeck
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The Winter of Our Discontent
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,458
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,148
The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers - a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis. A Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American". Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Memorable characters, great narration, POOR AUDIO
- De Sam D. en 05-18-16
De: John Steinbeck
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You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- De: Zaina Arafat
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, we trace her progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distractingly bad
- De K. Tannous en 09-11-20
De: Zaina Arafat
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A comprehensive and in depth look at Steinbeck.
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Steinbeck prepares for the American Enlightment
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impressed
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The narrator is not great. He's also not terrible. He sounds like a bored high school astronomy teacher. The subject is interesting enough that you walk away learning something good and true, but you certainly weren't inspired by the lecturer. It never ceases to amaze me, with all the truly great narrators on Audible - and there are plenty - why an author would agree to go with one that's just ok. I just don't get it, and perhaps i never will.
Well Researched, Good for Die Hard Steinbeck Fans
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Narrator mis-cast…
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