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Bestsellers
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Brave New Words
- How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- De: Salman Khan
- Narrado por: Salman Khan
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....
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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed.
- De Jake Dahn en 05-25-24
De: Salman Khan
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Diary of a Psychosis
- How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania
- De: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Narrado por: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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You remember the story: some locations did better than others on Covid because some locations followed the rules, and others foolishly ignored them. Covid spread was your fault, you science hater....
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Undeniably Mind-boggling
- De Matthew Miller en 01-29-24
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- De George en 11-02-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- De: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrado por: Daniel Maté
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- De Stacey en 08-16-19
De: Gabor Maté MD
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Brave New Words
- How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- De: Salman Khan
- Narrado por: Salman Khan
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....
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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed.
- De Jake Dahn en 05-25-24
De: Salman Khan
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Diary of a Psychosis
- How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania
- De: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Narrado por: Thomas E Woods Jr
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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You remember the story: some locations did better than others on Covid because some locations followed the rules, and others foolishly ignored them. Covid spread was your fault, you science hater....
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Undeniably Mind-boggling
- De Matthew Miller en 01-29-24
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- De George en 11-02-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- De: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrado por: Daniel Maté
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- De Stacey en 08-16-19
De: Gabor Maté MD
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....
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Riveting!
- De Tad Davis en 01-11-10
De: Atul Gawande
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Cheaper, Faster, Better
- How We’ll Win the Climate War
- De: Tom Steyer
- Narrado por: Tom Steyer
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer gives us a unique and unvarnished perspective on how we can all fight climate change—joyfully, knowledgeably, and even profitably—at a time of unparalleled consequence and opportunity.
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Hope at last!
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 06-02-24
De: Tom Steyer
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Battle for the American Mind
- Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
- De: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Narrado por: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....
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Academically sound
- De Rick Townsend en 07-21-22
De: Pete Hegseth, y otros
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
- De: Carter Goodwin Woodson
- Narrado por: Anthony Stewart
- Duración: 3 h y 52 m
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An unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others....
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A Classic and Unexpected Delight
- De Theo Horesh en 02-28-13
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Learning by Doing
- A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (An Actionable Guide to Implementing the PLC Process and Effective Teaching Methods)
- De: Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, y otros
- Narrado por: Douglas James
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC)....
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Lots of Information
- De Melissa G. en 08-18-23
De: Richard DuFour, y otros
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Minority Rule
- The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It
- De: Ari Berman
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority.
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SO much great information!
- De CharlieSeymourJr en 05-01-24
De: Ari Berman
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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The Kill Chain
- Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- De: Christian Brose
- Narrado por: Christian Brose
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might....
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important message but repetitive
- De Tomas Singliar en 06-06-20
De: Christian Brose
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The Knowledge Gap
- The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
- De: Natalie Wexler
- Narrado por: Natalie Wexler
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system....
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Thoughts on The Knowledge Gap
- De cchamberalain en 02-28-20
De: Natalie Wexler
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- De: Edmund Morris
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 26 h y 36 m
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....
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Very, very good, but very, very long.
- De Mike From Mesa en 03-29-13
De: Edmund Morris
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- De: Heather McGhee
- Narrado por: Heather McGhee
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....
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Good book but Recording tech is poor. Glitches
- De Jeannepup en 02-25-21
De: Heather McGhee
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The Truth About Immigration
- Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
- De: Zeke Hernandez
- Narrado por: André Santana, Zeke Hernandez
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Wharton School professor Zeke Hernandez provides an accessible, apolitical, and evidence-based look at the effects of immigration on our local communities and our nation.
De: Zeke Hernandez
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- De: Andy Greenberg
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- De ndru1 en 11-12-19
De: Andy Greenberg
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They Came for the Schools
- One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
- De: Mike Hixenbaugh
- Narrado por: Mike Hixenbaugh
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.
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Informative,..scary as hell…a wake up call for ALL Americans
- De debra en 05-19-24
De: Mike Hixenbaugh
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It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
- De: Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols
- Narrado por: Senator Bernie Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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It’s OK to be angry about capitalism....
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A true and unbiased understanding of politics today
- De Sassy monster en 02-21-23
De: Senator Bernie Sanders, y otros
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Who Gets in and Why
- A Year Inside College Admissions
- De: Jeffrey J. Selingo
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office - one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search....
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A must-read for anyone applying to college
- De Nom de Guerre en 10-21-20
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Work, Retire, Repeat
- The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
- De: Teresa Ghilarducci, E. J. Dionne Jr.
- Narrado por: Katherine Fenton
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all.
De: Teresa Ghilarducci, y otros
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Discrimination and Disparities
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- De Charles en 01-14-19
De: Thomas Sowell
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Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- De: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....
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Current times demand you get this into your head.
- De Comatoso en 08-12-15
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- De: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrado por: Cathy O'Neil
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....
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More are US social problems that WMD
- De Laurent Bourgault-Roy en 01-08-17
De: Cathy O'Neil
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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The Peculiar Patriot
- De: Liza Jessie Peterson
- Narrado por: Liza Jessie Peterson
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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Betsy LaQuanda Ross is a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot”, who makes regular visits to penitentiaries in order to boost the morale of her loved ones. When she is not sharing neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy illuminates our country’s cruel and unjust criminal justice system and its impact not only on the 2.3 million people behind bars, but also their family and friends.
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I laughed and I cried and laughed till I cried
- De AJ en 09-26-20