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Publisher's Summary
In this book, I share how I have applied teachings from my graduate school courses to my everyday life, particularly as they relate to gender relations. Society often expects women to do much of the household work in the domestic sphere, and yet that work is unrecognized, uncompensated, and underappreciated. This book offers a short analysis of the problem, and offers a more scholarly perspective of a pervasive issue.
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- Kate Ling
- 02-26-21
Excellent content and expertly performed
The material was timely and very informative. The narrator also did a very good job. 5/5, would recommend
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- Chlobo
- 02-26-21
Fantastic and interesting
I thought this was an interesting and great audiobook. It’s not very long but it’s great and concise. I enjoyed the exploration of ideas and openly talking about bad thoughts and how the author changed his views. Great and interesting book.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-26-21
Humbling and inspiring
The narrator did a really good job.
The author's story is inspiring. I really enjoyed how vulnerable the author is in admitting his own past mistakes and what he's done to correct them.
This book has also made me reevaluate my own understanding of the work women do. In fact, I went to say "thank you" to my wife after listening to it, and explained why. She was really happy. Thank you!
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- Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before
- By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls "Generation Me" - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Dr. Twenge reveals how profoundly different today's young adults are - and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I mostly agree
- By David Hill on 05-25-20
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Skip College
- Launch Your Career Without Debt, Distractions, or a Degree
- By: Connor Boyack, John Taylor Gatto, Brittany Hunter, and others
- Narrated by: Tiana Hanson
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. Attending college is more of a tradition - a cultural rite of passage - than a necessary step toward a successful career, thus not justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there is a path to success outside of the institutions of so-called higher learning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting perspective, wrong narrator
- By Bree Baretta on 12-13-21
By: Connor Boyack, and others
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We're Not Broken
- Changing the Autism Conversation
- By: Eric Garcia
- Narrated by: Eric Garcia
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story5 out of 5 stars 162
With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it’s like to be autistic across America. Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media’s coverage of it; the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. His own life as an autistic person didn’t look anything like that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read book about autism
- By Jean Burke-Spraker on 08-17-21
By: Eric Garcia
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Unfinished Business
- Women Men Work Family
- By: Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Narrated by: Karen White, Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 188
In her refreshing and forthright voice, Anne-Marie Slaughter returns with her vision for what true equality between men and women really means and how we can get there. She uncovers the missing piece of the puzzle, presenting a new focus that can reunite the women's movement and provide a common banner under which both men and women can advance and thrive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audible chapters are not book chapters
- By Devon Wesch on 02-15-19
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- By: Rachel Sherman
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 74
From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rich People's Problems
- By David Larson on 10-06-17
By: Rachel Sherman
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- By: Anu Partanen
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 834
Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 06-20-17
By: Anu Partanen
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Lower Ed
- The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
- By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years - during the so-called Wall Street era of for - profit colleges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now that's a dissertation
- By Mira Krishnan on 09-20-19
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The Price You Pay for College
- An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
- By: Ron Lieber
- Narrated by: Ron Lieber
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuse his hugely popular personal finance column, Ron Lieber offers a much-needed roadmap to help families navigate this difficult and often confusing journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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College, one of the biggest financial decisions of life for many
- By D L Blanchard on 04-12-21
By: Ron Lieber
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The Privileged Poor
- How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
- By: Anthony Abraham Jack
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive. The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors - and their coffers - to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LIVED IT!
- By Jeremy on 10-05-19
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The Education of Millionaires
- It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late
- By: Michael Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 284
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
The Myth: If you get into a good college, study hard, and graduate with excellent grades, you will be pretty much set for a successful career. The Reality: The biggest thing you won't learn in college is how to succeed professionally. Some of the smartest, most successful people in the country didn't finish college. None of them learned their most critical skills in an institution of higher education. And like them, most of what you'll need to learn to be successful you'll have to learn on your own, outside of school.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I can't get past the introduction
- By DaveO on 01-30-13
By: Michael Ellsberg
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Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
- The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
- By: Jennifer Morton
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.
By: Jennifer Morton
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Your Turn
- How to Be an Adult
- By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the book that was advertised
- By M. Rogers on 04-13-21
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An Inconvenient Minority
- The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence
- By: Kenny Xu
- Narrated by: Nathan Guo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals—written in the name of diversity—excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not only Asian
- By Amazon Customer on 03-04-23
By: Kenny Xu
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The Curse of the High IQ
- By: Aaron Clarey
- Narrated by: Jason Brooks
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 636
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 552
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 554
Society, by statistical necessity, needs to focus on the majority. It needs to be built and designed for "the average". Society, by moral necessity, also needs to focus on the disadvantaged and disabled, helping those who cannot help themselves. But while the majority of society's resources, attention, and infrastructure is dedicated to average or below-average people, little-to-none of it is dedicated to the abnormally intelligent.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Few solutions. Many complaints
- By Shane Welty on 05-21-19
By: Aaron Clarey