Social Science Theory
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- Auteur(s): Chinua Achebe
- Narrateur(s): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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Captivating book
- Écrit par Brice le 2020-01-10
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- Narrateur(s): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2012-10-11
- Langue: Anglais
- From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long-awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war....
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Escape from Freedom
- Auteur(s): Erich Fromm
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Haden Salerno
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
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lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.
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Escape from Freedom
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Haden Salerno
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2013-12-18
- Langue: Anglais
- lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom....
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- Auteur(s): Michael Harriot
- Narrateur(s): Michael Harriot
- Durée: 15 h et 42 min
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America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.
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Funny and serious
- Écrit par UK Monk le 2024-06-02
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- Narrateur(s): Michael Harriot
- Durée: 15 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2023-09-19
- Langue: Anglais
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....
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The Sum of Small Things
- A Theory of the Aspirational Class
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- Narrateur(s): Rachel Dulude
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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The leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class" and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class deepens the ever-wider class divide.
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Really terrible narrator
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-01-20
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The Sum of Small Things
- A Theory of the Aspirational Class
- Narrateur(s): Rachel Dulude
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-24
- Langue: Anglais
- The leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class"....
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Weird Earth
- Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
- Auteur(s): Donald R. Prothero
- Narrateur(s): Neil Hellegers
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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In Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet, Donald R. Prothero demystifies these conspiracies and offers answers to some of humanity's most outlandish questions. Applying his extensive scientific knowledge, Prothero corrects misinformation that con artists and quacks use to hoodwink others about geology - hollow earth, expanding earth, and bizarre earthquakes-and mystical and paranormal happenings - healing crystals, alien landings, and the gates of hell.
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Weird Earth
- Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
- Narrateur(s): Neil Hellegers
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-01
- Langue: Anglais
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Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to science and critical thinking, these ideas fall flat....
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A Higher Loyalty
- Truth, Lies, and Leadership
- Auteur(s): James Comey
- Narrateur(s): James Comey
- Durée: 9 h et 13 min
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In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of powe, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
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Hear it from the man himself
- Écrit par Caledonia43 le 2018-04-18
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A Higher Loyalty
- Truth, Lies, and Leadership
- Narrateur(s): James Comey
- Durée: 9 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2018-04-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions....
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Talk Radio’s America
- How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States
- Auteur(s): Brian Rosenwald
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
- Durée: 12 h et 10 min
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Radio hosts form a deep bond with their audience, which gives them enormous political power. Unlike elected representatives, however, they must entertain their audience or watch their ratings fall. Talk radio boosted the Republican agenda in the 1990s, but two decades later, escalation in the battle for the airwaves pushed hosts toward ever more conservative, outrageous, and hyperbolic content. Donald Trump borrowed conservative radio hosts' playbook and gave Republican base voters the kind of pugnacious candidate they had been demanding for decades.
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Talk Radio’s America
- How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
- Durée: 12 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2019-11-26
- Langue: Anglais
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The cocreator of the Washington Post's Made by History blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump....
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Adults in the Room
- My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
- Auteur(s): Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 20 h et 14 min
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What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth.
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Absolutely brilliant! A must read for all students of political economy
- Écrit par Amish Chadha le 2019-09-13
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Adults in the Room
- My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 20 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Auteur(s): Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, Autres
- Narrateur(s): James Anderson Foster
- Durée: 37 h
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception.
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Narrateur(s): James Anderson Foster
- Durée: 37 h
- Date de publication: 2018-01-16
- Langue: Anglais
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles and documents examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about US involvement in the Vietnam War....
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The Future Is Degrowth
- A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
- Auteur(s): Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan
- Narrateur(s): Ulf Bjorklund
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
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Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it.
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The Future Is Degrowth
- A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
- Narrateur(s): Ulf Bjorklund
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2023-04-25
- Langue: Anglais
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Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work....
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The War for Kindness
- Building Empathy in a Fractured World
- Auteur(s): Jamil Zaki
- Narrateur(s): Jamil Zaki
- Durée: 7 h et 13 min
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Empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even 30 years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States was suffering from an “empathy deficit.” Since then, things seem to have only gotten worse. In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait - something we’re born with or not - but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort.
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The War for Kindness
- Building Empathy in a Fractured World
- Narrateur(s): Jamil Zaki
- Durée: 7 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2019-06-04
- Langue: Anglais
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In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait - something we’re born with or not - but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort....
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Social Physics
- How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons from a New Science
- Auteur(s): Alex Pentland
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 6 h et 13 min
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From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence.
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Social Physics
- How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons from a New Science
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 6 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2014-01-30
- Langue: Anglais
- From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence....
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The Democracy Project
- A History, a Crisis, a Movement
- Auteur(s): David Graeber
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
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Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution - from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling disengaged, voiceless, and disenfranchised, really be called democratic? And if the tools of our democracy are not working to solve the rising crises we face, how can we - average citizens - make change happen? David Graeber, one of the most influential scholars and activists of his generation, takes listeners on a journey through the idea of democracy.
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Enlightening and to the point
- Écrit par R le 2023-04-08
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The Democracy Project
- A History, a Crisis, a Movement
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2013-04-09
- Langue: Anglais
- A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world - democracy - as seen through the lens of the most transformative political movements of our time....
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Just Responsibility
- A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice
- Auteur(s): Brooke A. Ackerly
- Narrateur(s): Susan Hanfield
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
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It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? Just Responsibility integrates ways of taking political responsibility into a rich theory of political community, accountability, and leadership in which taking responsibility for injustice itself transforms the fabric of political life.
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Just Responsibility
- A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice
- Narrateur(s): Susan Hanfield
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-31
- Langue: Anglais
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It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning....
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- Auteur(s): Christopher Clark
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Clark
- Durée: 33 h et 26 min
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As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past. Revolutionary Spring is a new understanding of 1848 that offers chilling parallels to our present moment.
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Clark
- Durée: 33 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2023-06-13
- Langue: Anglais
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....
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Why Liberalism Failed
- Auteur(s): Patrick J. Deneen
- Narrateur(s): Brian Holsopple
- Durée: 6 h et 43 min
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Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions.
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The manifesto of a lunatic
- Écrit par jenn le 2018-10-16
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Why Liberalism Failed
- Narrateur(s): Brian Holsopple
- Durée: 6 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2018-05-22
- Langue: Anglais
- Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains....
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 14 h et 12 min
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s, as well as the arms-reduction campaign that followed, and Reagan's famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev. Rhodes' detailed exploration of events of this time constitutes a prehistory of the neoconservatives. The story is new, compelling, and continually surprising - a revelatory re-creation of a hugely important era of our recent history.
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Richard Rhodes does it again!
- Écrit par HittsMcGee le 2019-04-18
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Série: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Durée: 14 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2007-09-26
- Langue: Anglais
- In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....
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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- Auteur(s): Garry Kasparov
- Narrateur(s): George Backman
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
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The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.
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Great Look at Putin's Rise and Hold on Power
- Écrit par Chris le 2019-10-31
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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- Narrateur(s): George Backman
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2015-10-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Lest we be drawn into another prolonged conflict, Kasparov now urges a forceful stand - diplomatic and economic - against Putin....
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Theodore Rex
- Auteur(s): Edmund Morris
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Marosz
- Durée: 25 h et 47 min
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Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism.
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Not as good as "The Rise"
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-11-14
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Theodore Rex
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Marosz
- Série: Theodore Roosevelt, Livre 2
- Durée: 25 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2003-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....
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This Idea Must Die
- Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
- Auteur(s): John Brockman
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci, Susan Ericksen
- Durée: 16 h et 25 min
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Each year,John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.
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This Idea Must Die
- Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci, Susan Ericksen
- Durée: 16 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2015-02-17
- Langue: Anglais
- In This Idea Must Die, Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior; Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence....
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