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Title: Education and History

Author: C. S. Lewis

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on ethical issues and the nature of literature and storytelling. Within this audiobook is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.

This volume includes:

1. Learning in War-Time

2. Bulverism, or The Foundation of Twentieth-Century Thought

3. The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club

4. My First School

5. Democratic Education

6. Blimpophobia

7. Private Bates

8. Meditation in a Toolshed

9. On the Transmission of Christianity

10. Modern Man and His Categories of Thought

11. Historicism

12. The Empty Universe

13. Interim Report

14. Is History Bunk?

15. Before We Can Communicate

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Fantastic! Articulate and preceptive. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Title: Sacred Tears

Subtitle: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature

Author: Fred Kaplan

Narrator: Allen O'Reilly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

An absorbing study of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian life and literature

What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed scholar and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds were planted by the British moral philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians gained from them a theory of human nature, a belief in the innateness of benevolent moral instincts; sentiment, in turn, emerged as a set of shared moral feelings in opposition to both scientific realism and the more ego-driven energies of Romanticism. Sacred Tears investigates the profound ways in which seminal writers Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Thomas Carlyle were influenced by the philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith, and by novelists of the same period. Exploring sentiment in its original context - one often forgotten or overlooked - Kaplans study is a stimulating fusion of intellectual history and literary criticism, and holds no small importance for questions of art and morality as they exist today.

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Title: Obscene Thoughts

Subtitle: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love, and Dating

Author: Dave Pounder

Narrator: Dave Pounder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-13

Publisher: Dave Pounder Productions LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Obscene Thoughts: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love and Dating examines progressive, intellectual and academic constructs regarding mate selection, sexual behavior and the reasons why people cheat. Obscene Thoughts investigates and deconstructs core socioeconomic and biological values and the sexual behaviors of men and women, in a fresh, distinct manner.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating book, listen to it and read it!

Dave Pounder, the author, narrates the book himself and does so beautifully almost as if I were sitting down listening to him talk about various aspects of human dating behavior. The author is not only a great storyteller but also a good speaker with a pleasant voice and tone that captivates you.Pounder did a much better job than the first narrator whose delivery I found exaggerated and annoying.

Pounder gives us insight into the psychology of dating using thoughtful analogies. While Pounder's conclusions may not be aligned with what we want to believe, I have observed real life evidence to support Pounder's assertions.

The content is thoroughly engaging and provocative. Each chapter left me thinking, sometimes laughing and on occasion disagreeing with some of the author's comments.

This is dinner topic fun! Read it and discuss it with friends!

Uniformed fact-free badly-read

This book is so bad I returned it after giving an hour of my life.

The narrator has a voice that should be reading the news, not a book.

The author has a large vocabulary with which he re-hashes every sexist prejudice you can think of: for example, one reason a man has no interest in sex is because he may have a small deformed penis.

Women want babies as much as men want sex according to this moron.

Utter rubbish. Read Jesse Bering's Perv instead.

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Title: Prostitution in the Digital Age

Subtitle: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street

Author: R. Barri Flowers

Narrator: Michelle Ruben

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-13

Publisher: R. Barri Flowers

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex From the Suite to the Street explores the sex trade in modern times.

For those without direct experience with the seamy, real-life world of prostitution, it can be easy to accept the glamorized depictions of the sex-for-sale industry as it is often portrayed in fiction and Hollywood or sensationalized in the media. In reality, the business of sexual exploitation such as prostitution, sex trafficking, pornography, and sex tourism is far from attractive and, in many instances, can be dangerous, if not deadly.

It can also be highly erotic and esoteric, bringing together individuals caught in the world of paid sex, where anything goes and everyone gets what they want, and then some.

This latest book from award-winning, literary criminologist and bestselling author R. Barri Flowers updates the subject of prostitution for the 21st century, explaining why the commercial sex trade industry continues to flourish and exploring its proliferation in the digital world of the Internet, cell phones, and text messaging. The grim ramifications of prostitution-such as victimization, substance abuse, HIV, arrest, or even death - are addressed.

Careful attention has also been paid to the various individuals involved: those who are prostituted (female and male), high class call girls, streetwalkers, customers, pimps, traffickers, and other key players in the sex trade. For those with an interest in the broad range of sexuality and exploitation that constitutes the world of prostitution, this audiobook will keep you riveted from start to finish!

Members Reviews:

Don't waste your time

What disappointed you about Prostitution in the Digital Age?

This was a very amateurish effort. The book is poorly researched, poorly written and poorly edited. The author seems to know nothing about researching a non-fiction work, and little writing ability. The author appears to have no special knowledge about the subject and her main "cited" reference source is Wikipedia. The same statements and "facts" are repeated numbers times.

Would you ever listen to anything by R. Barri Flowers again?

Not too likely.

How could the performance have been better?

The performance was okay.

Redundant!!

this is the most repetitive book Ive read in a long time. Its obvious the author was trying to hit the page minimums for her publisher. I would have liked to have specific details of the industry or stories to back up statistics.

disappointing

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Title: Democracy and Social Ethics

Author: Jane Addams

Narrator: Rose Itzcovitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In 1889, Jane Addams co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first settlement house in the United States. All of the initial funding came from the $50,000 estate she inherited after her father died. Jane was the first occupant of the house, which would later be the residence of about 25 women. At its height, Hull House was visited each week by around 2000 people. Its facilities included a night school for adults, kindergarten classes, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a coffeehouse, a gymnasium, a girls club, bathhouse, a book bindery, a music school, a drama group, a library, and labor-related divisions.

Her adult night school was a forerunner of the continuing education classes offered by many universities today. In addition to making available services and cultural opportunities for the largely immigrant population of the neighborhood, Hull House afforded an opportunity for young social workers to acquire training. Eventually, the Hull House became a 13-building settlement, which included a playground and a summer camp.

In this book, Jane Addams reflects on labor, discrimination, welfare, education, and the role of democracy and government in relation to improving the lives of society's less fortunate.

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Title: More Essential Than Ever

Subtitle: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Stephen J. Schulhofer

Narrator: Ken Maxon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the 18th century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers and effects" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat may be our own weakening resolve to preserve our privacy.

In this potent new volume in Oxford's Inalienable Rights series, legal expert Stephen J. Schulhofer argues that the Fourth Amendment remains, as the title says, more essential than ever. From data-mining to airport body scans, drug testing and aggressive police patrolling on the streets, privacy is under assault as never before - and we're simply getting used to it. But the trend is threatening the pillars of democracy itself, Schulhofer maintains. "Government surveillance may not worry the average citizen who reads best-selling books, practices a widely accepted religion, and adheres to middle-of-the-road political views," he writes. But surveillance weighs on minorities, dissenters, and unorthodox thinkers, "chilling their freedom to read what they choose, to say what they think, and to associate with others who are like-minded." All of us are affected, he adds. "When unrestricted search and surveillance powers chill speech and religion, inhibit gossip, and dampen creativity, they undermine politics and impoverish social life for everyone." Schulhofer offers a rich account of the history and nuances of Fourth Amendment protections, as he examines such issues as street stops, racial profiling, electronic surveillance, data aggregation, and the demands of national security. The Fourth Amendment, he reminds us, explicitly authorizes invasions of privacy - but it requires justification and accountability, requirements that reconcile public safety with liberty.

Combining a detailed knowledge of specific cases with a deep grasp of Constitutional law, More Essential than Ever offers a sophisticated and thoughtful perspective on this important debate.

Members Reviews:

The title says it all

This book just scratches the surface of a topic that very few of us know enough about. Our rights and how what we used to have to protect us from unfair persecution becomes lesser and lesser all the time.

Logical Fallacy

Asserts that police discretion and relaxed or missing judicial oversight results in abuse and mistrust. The author did not address, let alone convince, that even the most stringent judicial review of police discretionary searches would have resulted in a different outcome. Would communities respond more favorably if all police searched / seizures were judicially approved? Or would those communities merely turn their allegations of racism toward judiciary? Hasn't this happened in FISA court already as high percentage of applications are judicially approved ?

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Title: Overcoming the Odds

Subtitle: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women

Author: Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene, Geoffrey L. Greif

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP).

Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many live in single-parent households - either as the single-parent mother or as the daughter. Many face severe economic hurdles. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional levels academically. Based on interviews with many of these successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded - what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. They also discuss the challenges of moving into African American womanhood, from maintaining self-esteem to making the right choices about their professional and personal lives. Most important, the book offers specific and inspiring examples of the practices, attitudes, and parenting strategies that have enabled these women to persevere and triumph.

For parents, educators, policy makers, and indeed all those concerned about the education of young African American women, Overcoming the Odds is an invaluable guidebook on creating the conditions that lead to academic - and lifelong - success.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Every parent must read this.

Good reading

Bought the book as part of the references for my dissertation work. It raises some very good issues with regard to what I am researching.

Reporting a Sucess Story

The previous commentator confuses reporting a success story with self promotion. In addition, she suggests that other students are treated as an after thought. Yet the aggregate data suggests otherwise, as the general average SAT, graduation rate, acceptance rate to premier graduate schools, etc. by "all" students has risen dramatically at UMBC in the past ten years.

Dr. Hrabowski hardly needs to do any career saving moves. To the contrary, the Baltimore community is doing everything it can to keep the voracious head hunters at bay as many other universities have been trying to lure him away.

I also know Dr, Hrabowski personally and have witnessed him interact with inner city kids and truly inspire them to greater heights. Never have I heard him suggest that others are not able. On the other hand, he is a realist and certainly is aware that life's circumstances have prepared some to be more successful than others.

IMHO, Ms. Grayson's book review is at heart an ad hominine attack on one of the leading educators in the nation. She obviously does have an axe to grind.

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Title: World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

Author: John Hunter

Narrator: John Hunter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In John Hunters classroom, students fearlessly tackle global problems and discover surprising solutions by playing his groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids - from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well funded and underresourced - take on the roles of politicians, tribal leaders, diplomats, bankers, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve dozens of complex, seemingly intractable real-world challenges, from nuclear proliferation to tribal warfare, financial collapse to climate change.

In World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, Hunter shares the wisdom hes gleaned from over 30 years teaching the World Peace Game. Here he reveals the principles of successful collaboration that people of any age can apply anywhere. His students show us how to break through confusion, bounce back from failure, put our knowledge to use, and fulfill our potential. Hunter offers not only a forward-thinking report from the front lines of American education, but also a generous blueprint for a world that bends toward cooperation rather than conflict. In this deeply hopeful audiobook, a visionary educator shows us what the future can be.

Members Reviews:

Insightful

it was very powerful to see inside Mr. Hunter's mind and experience his students through his eyes. As a teacher, I came in hoping for a "how to" guide, but found this more valuable. He conveys the types of experiences he is creating, giving me an end point to aim for. I would recommend it to any teacher trying to design meaningful new experiences for students.

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Title: Picking Up

Subtitle: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Author: Robin Nagle

Narrator: Mary Kane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Americas largest city generates garbage in torrents - 11,000 tons a day on average. But New Yorkers dont give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away.

But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he - or she - so unknown?

In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York Citys Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Seeking to understand every aspect of the Departments mission, Nagle accompanied crews on their routes, questioned supervisors and commissioners, and listened to story after story about blizzards, hazardous wastes, and the insults of everyday New Yorkers. But the more time she spent with the DSNY, the more Nagle realized that observing wasnt quite enough - so she joined the force herself. Driving the hulking trucks, she obtained an insiders perspective on the complex kinships, arcane rules, and obscure lingo unique to the realm of sanitation workers.

Nagle chronicles New York Citys 400-year struggle with trash, and traces the citys waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as its ever been.

Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us. In the process, she changes the way we understand cities - and ourselves within them.

Members Reviews:

tougher than it looks

Never occurred to me so clearly how much the sanitation department does, 365 days a year. From taking away the garbage, to keeping the streets clean, to plowing the snow. We should applaud these folks everyday for performing an essential service that most of us wouldn't go near. Lots of great stories and tidbits about what it is like to collect the garbage, clean the streets and make the snow disappear. Similar in arc to Kitchen Confidential, but without the sex.

I couldn't get through this one

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

It's not the book that I couldn't take - it was the narration

What do you think your next listen will be?

Something similar, just not with this narrator

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Her voice was not my taste and her cadence was very distracting for me. I couldn't even hear the story, all I could hear was her talking.

What character would you cut from Picking Up?

The narrator

Any additional comments?

Disappointing. I've heard/read similar books about the inside scoop on hotels and restaurants. I really looked forward to enjoying this as much. Unfortunately, I've tried every month or so to listen PAST her voice...I just can't. I give up!

Seemed interesting

What did you like best about Picking Up? What did you like least?

It seemed like an interesting topic as I knew nothing about how sanitation operates. However, it turned out to be a snoozer.

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Title: Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning

Author: Paul E. Peterson

Narrator: Tim Lundeen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities - initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government.

Peterson's tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education.

Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded.

The book is published by Harvard University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"This new book by Peterson stands out among the many excellent titles published each year on education history and reform. Education professionals, politicians, and anyone else interested in education will benefit from reading this book." (Library Journal)

"The best books show you a new way of thinking about a familiar issue. Paul Peterson's Saving Schools offers a new way of thinking about education reform by recounting the histories of reformers...I encourage you to read it." (Daniel Willingham, Washington Post blog)

"Peterson is always a delight to read...I enjoyed the entire book." (Jay Mathews, Washington Post online)

Members Reviews:

... book is out dated but the edx mooc is excellent!

the book is out dated but the edx mooc is excellent!

Four Stars

Illuminating history of public education and influences that shape its many transformations over the years.

Five Stars

Excellent history of reform that is fair to liberals and conservatives.

US schooling history and future

The historical background of educational efforts in this country was new to me. This book has prompted me to read further

Going From 'The Leader' to Third-World Status

America's education system was the envy of the world in the late 1950s. Our graduation rate was higher than any other major industrial country, 72% of teens in the relevant age group went to high school (90% by the mid-sixties).

A mathematics professor at Johns Hopkins gave his 2006 students the same Calculus I test he had given in 1989. The two classes had similar SAT scores. In 2006 he gave 69% of students an A or B, compared to 50% in 1989. Upon checking to see what the grades in 2006 would have been if he'd been as tough as he had in 1989, he discovered that in 2006 only 27% would have received an A or B. International studies confirm that even the highest-performing students are learning less than their peers did in earlier years.