Mostrando resultados por "whatever happened to the metric system" en Todas las categorías
-
-
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
- How America Kept Its Feet
- De: John Bemelmans Marciano
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 16 ounces in a pound, 100 pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch.
-
-
Deceptive Title - Not really about the US
- De Kah en 04-08-22
-
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
- How America Kept Its Feet
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-09-15
- Idioma: Inglés
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Por favor prueba de nuevo más tardeError al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Por favor prueba de nuevo más tardeError al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Por favor prueba de nuevo más tardeError al añadir a tu biblioteca
Por favor intenta de nuevoError al seguir el podcast
Intenta nuevamenteError al dejar de seguir el podcast
Intenta nuevamentePrecio regular: US$19.95 o 1 crédito
Sale price: US$19.95 o 1 crédito
-
Related to your search
-
Birchers
- How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
- De: Matthew Dallek
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life.
-
-
Do not recommend
- De Michael F. en 05-21-23
De: Matthew Dallek
-
How to Day Trade for a Living
- A Beginner's Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology
- De: Andrew Aziz
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Very few careers can offer you the freedom, flexibility, and income that day trading does. As a day trader, you can live and work anywhere in the world. You can decide when to work and when not to work. You only answer to yourself. That is the life of the successful day trader. Many people aspire to it, but very few succeed. In the audiobook, I describe the fundamentals of day trading, explain how day trading is different from other styles of trading and investment, and elaborate on important trading strategies that many traders use every day.
-
-
Its a sales pitch
- De Xavier Foley en 02-08-18
De: Andrew Aziz
-
The Imposters
- De: Tom Rachman
- Narrado por: Fenella Fudge
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade, Dora spins stories to ward off her end.
De: Tom Rachman
-
This Bird Has Flown
- A Novel
- De: Susanna Hoffs
- Narrado por: Susanna Hoffs, Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired.
-
-
love her but please get another narrator
- De Holly Viola en 04-12-23
De: Susanna Hoffs
-
Birchers
- How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
- De: Matthew Dallek
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life.
-
-
Do not recommend
- De Michael F. en 05-21-23
De: Matthew Dallek
-
How to Day Trade for a Living
- A Beginner's Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology
- De: Andrew Aziz
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Very few careers can offer you the freedom, flexibility, and income that day trading does. As a day trader, you can live and work anywhere in the world. You can decide when to work and when not to work. You only answer to yourself. That is the life of the successful day trader. Many people aspire to it, but very few succeed. In the audiobook, I describe the fundamentals of day trading, explain how day trading is different from other styles of trading and investment, and elaborate on important trading strategies that many traders use every day.
-
-
Its a sales pitch
- De Xavier Foley en 02-08-18
De: Andrew Aziz
-
The Imposters
- De: Tom Rachman
- Narrado por: Fenella Fudge
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade, Dora spins stories to ward off her end.
De: Tom Rachman
-
This Bird Has Flown
- A Novel
- De: Susanna Hoffs
- Narrado por: Susanna Hoffs, Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired.
-
-
love her but please get another narrator
- De Holly Viola en 04-12-23
De: Susanna Hoffs
-
Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Naomi Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.
-
-
Elite Psychobabble
- De A Reviewer en 09-30-23
De: Naomi Klein
-
100 Places to See After You Die
- A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
- De: Ken Jennings
- Narrado por: Ken Jennings
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? How does one dress like a local in the heavenly palace of Hinduism’s Lord Vishnu, or avoid the flesh-eating river serpents in the Klingon afterlife? What hidden treasures can be found off the beaten path in Hades, Valhalla, or NBC’s The Good Place? Find answers to all those questions and more about the world(s) to come in this eternally entertaining book from Ken Jennings.
-
-
Ken’s podcast Omnibus is much better
- De Tom Craven en 07-11-23
De: Ken Jennings
-
Putin's Playbook
- Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
- De: Rebekah Koffler
- Narrado por: Joyce Sternton
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multifaceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a superpower and to defeat America in the process.
-
-
Pure Right Wing Propaganda. Right out of Putins Playbook
- De Michael Christensen en 02-04-22
De: Rebekah Koffler
-
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court
- De: John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Guaranteed to give the listener a deeper understanding of America’s most powerful judicial body, John Yoo, professor of law at UC Berkeley, and Robert Delahunty, professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, detail in sprightly, slightly irreverent manner how the black-robed judges who make up the U.S. Supreme Court have swung like a pendulum from saviors of the Republic to super-legislators who usurp the roll of Congress and dictate law from the bench, back to defenders of the Constitution again—or at least for the moment.
De: John Yoo, y otros
-
We
- De: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.
-
-
Great novel, We are all in debt to.
- De Stephen en 03-17-22
De: Yevgeny Zamyatin
-
Talk to Me
- De: John Kenney
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
-
-
Complex and Fascinating
- De D en 07-12-23
De: John Kenney
-
North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
-
-
An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
De: Daniel Mason
-
Easy Money
- Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
- De: Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman - contributor
- Narrado por: Ben McKenzie
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash.
-
-
Informative and entertaining dive into crypto land
- De Uncle Fester en 07-21-23
De: Ben McKenzie, y otros
-
American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.
-
-
An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
De: Kai Bird, y otros
-
1620
- A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
- De: Peter W. Wood
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance.
-
-
I'm Sympathetic, but wanting balance, not found.
- De Anonymous User en 11-21-20
De: Peter W. Wood
-
Untenable
- The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
- De: Jack Cashill
- Narrado por: Jack Cashill
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Long accused of racism and “white flight”, the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story.
-
-
Finally someone with the courage to wait out loud and in writing.
- De R. Johnston en 10-16-23
De: Jack Cashill
-
Mr. Texas
- A Novel
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Steven Weber, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone’s headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbor’s farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm where his heroic actions make the evening news.
-
-
I really wanted to like it
- De Enzo G. en 09-28-23
De: Lawrence Wright
-
Pineapple Street
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- De: Jenny Jackson
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
-
-
I lost brain cells.
- De Angela en 03-17-23
De: Jenny Jackson
-
Jerusalem
- De: Alan Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 60 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening.
-
-
Neither Engaging nor Satisfying
- De Asha Ember en 12-20-16
De: Alan Moore
-
Witness to a Prosecution
- The Myth of Michael Milken
- De: Richard Sandler
- Narrado por: Richard Sandler
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In 1986, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and its High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, a department Michael created and was head of. Michael was the most successful and innovative financier of his time. Drexel, an upstart investment bank was also the most successful securities firm on Wall Street, thanks to Michael.
-
-
Glad to see the record set straight.
- De Opinionman en 02-06-24
De: Richard Sandler
-
Nixon's White House Wars
- The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency.
-
-
Interesting
- De Jean en 06-15-17