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Title: A Macat Analysis of Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development

Author: Riley Quinn

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Mahbub ul Haq died in 1998, three years after the publication of his important work, Reflections on Human Development. The book appeared at the end of Haq's impressive career in international development and described his revolutionary contribution to the discipline. In it, Haq argues that the goal of any society should be to improve the lives of its citizens, therefore economic development should support that aim. Economists should use indicators such as life expectancy and education levels to assess a country's overall level of "human" development. Life expectancy can indicate whether a country's citizens have access to resources that support good health, such as shelter and nourishing food. Education levels show what opportunities citizens have to learn skills that can help them flourish. Ultimately, this is so they can live lives they value. While aspects of Haq's methodology have been criticized, the ideas behind his work are widely admired. Thanks to Haq, prioritizing overall human development, rather than pure economic productivity, is now seen as an agreed necessity within the field.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Author: Rodolfo Maggio

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In his 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also subtitled How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive), author and multifaceted US scholar Jared M. Diamond clearly identifies five major factors that he says determine the success or failure of all human societies in all periods of history.

Having first asked why societies collapse, Diamond explores various examples of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia, who colonized Greenland in the early 10th century, to the 18th-century inhabitants of Easter Island. As a counterpoint, he shows how inhabitants of Highland New Guinea over the past 7,000 years, and Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries, managed to overcome potentially terminal challenges to their survival. Investigating these successes and failures allows Diamond to pinpoint the five key factors.

Collapse alienated many academics, especially those who objected to Diamond's emphasis on "geographic determinism", or the impact of local environments on the way societies develop. Many of them dismissed this view as outdated and racist. But Diamond's depth of knowledge, and the way he uses it so engagingly, have won Collapse a huge worldwide readership.

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Title: The Story Is True

Subtitle: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

Author: Bruce Jackson

Narrator: Travis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In The Story Is True, author, filmmaker, and photographer Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. He examines, as no one before has, how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives, by describing and explaining how stories are made and used. The perspectives shared in this engaging book come from the tellers, writers, filmmakers, listeners, and watchers who create and consume stories.

Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories, such as conversations the author had with poet Steven Spender, to public stories, such as what happened when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Jackson also investigates how "words can kill," showing how diction can be an administrator of death, as in Nazi extermination camps. And finally, he considers the way lies come to resemble truth, showing how the stories we tell, whether true or not, resemble truth to the teller.

Ultimately, The Story Is True is about the place of stories - fiction or real - and the impact they have on the lives of each one of us.

The book is published by Temple University Press.

Members Reviews:

Ecellent writing delivers the true story.

This book is too excellent to not have rave reviews on Amazon. Though it is written by a University of Buffalo professor, the writing is conversational, down-to-earth, and utterly engaging. The stories--about 9/11, O.J. Simpson, as well as the stories we tell daily--are examined in sweet depth.

The pursuit of elusive truth is fascinating enough; the writing itself will carry you on the journey of the story, as it should be. Enjoy.

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Title: Almighty

Author: Dan Zak

Narrator: Michael Quinlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-12-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of elderly peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Fort Knox of Uranium", Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world, a bastion of warhead parts that harbored hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium - enough to power thousands of nuclear bombs.

The activists - a house painter, a Vietnam war veteran, and an 82-year-old Catholic nun - penetrated the complex's exterior with alarming ease; their strongest tools were two pairs of bolt cutters and three hammers. Once inside, the pacifists hung freshly spray-painted protest banners and streaked the complex's white walls with six baby bottles' worth of human blood. Then they waited to be arrested.

With the symbolic break-in, the Plowshares activists had hoped to draw attention to a costly military-industrial complex that stockpiled deadly nukes and drones. But they also triggered a political, legal, and moral firestorm when they defeated a multimillion-dollar security system. What if they had been terrorists with a deadly motive? Why does the United States continue to possess such large amounts of nuclear weaponry in the first place? And above all, are we safe?

In Almighty, Washington Post reporter Dan Zak explores these questions by reexamining the 70-year history of America's nuclear weapons programs and its attendant madness. At a time when we are rightly concerned about proliferation in such nations as North Korea and Iran, the United States' massive arsenal is plagued by its own questions of security. This truly life-or-death issue is unraveled in Zak's eye-opening and terrifying account. From the influential biophysicist who first educated the public on atomic energy to the prophet who predicted the emergence of the Oak Ridge facilities to the jury who convicted the Plowshares activists under the Sabotage Act, Zak's Almighty reshapes the accepted narratives surrounding America's atomic weapons.

Powerful, illuminating, and ambitious, Almighty makes the case that, more so than any other global peril, our greatest modern-day threat of nuclear disaster begins at home.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

good to remember this side of nuclear weapons, especially with the craziness going on now

This was a really moving piece of non-fiction that wrestles ...

This was a really moving piece of non-fiction that wrestles with the difficult questions of our nuclear past and future as well as the price of taking a stand. The writing is exceptional.

I wish we would all listen to MIKE WALLI before ...

I wish we would all listen to MIKE WALLI before we blow up our little world or starve ourselfs to death paying for weponds of our crazy wars.

Nuclear Bombs

Excellent book on the atomic weapon program, Y12 plant in Oak Ridge, etc.

Five Stars

Extremely well researched.

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Title: The Philosophy of Childing

Subtitle: Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason Through the Wisdom of Our Youngest

Author: Christopher Phillips PhD

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks arete - all-around excellence - when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.

Childhood is our primary launching pad, a time of life when learning is more intense than at any other, when we gain the critical knowledge and skills that can help ensure that we remain adaptable. This book weaves together the thinking of philosophers from across the ages who make the unsettling assertion that with the passage of time we are apt to shrink mentally, emotionally, and cognitively. If we follow what has become an all-too-common course, we denature our original nature - which brims with curiosity, empathy, reason, wonder, and a will to experiment and understand - and we regress, our sense of who we are will become fuzzier and everyone in our orbit will pay a price.

Mounting evidence shows that we begin our lives with a moral, intellectual, and creative bang, and in this groundbreaking, heavily researched and highly engaging volume, Christopher Phillips makes the provocative case that childhood isn't merely a state of becoming, while adulthood is one of being, as if we've "arrived" and reached the summit. His life-changing proposition is that if we embrace the defining qualities of youth, we're not destined to become frail, dispirited, or unhinged, we'll grow in a way defined by wonder, curiosity, imaginativeness, playfulness, and compassion - in essence, unlimited potential.

Members Reviews:

Quite Good

What made the experience of listening to The Philosophy of Childing the most enjoyable?

Excellent content, thoughtful, well researched. Wonderful anecdotal detail.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

It seems he is merely reading something he has little investment in. His inflections are monotonous. I'm having trouble finishing.

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Title: The Hounds of Heaven

Subtitle: Living and Hunting with an Ancient Breed

Author: Stephen J. Bodio

Narrator: Raymond Scully

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Tracing the History of the Oldest Breed of Dog

In 1992, two Russian moviemakers left a cryptic note for New Mexican writer Stephen Bodio at his local bar. It led him to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, where he saw a film about the ancient breed of Central Asian sight hounds known as tazis. He would end up chasing these leads to Kazakhstan, where these beautiful dogs may have existed 6,000 years ago. He found evidence in ancient rock paintings that these hounds, ancestors of such modern breeds as salukis and Afghans, were and still are used to hunt with birds of prey and horses in the Bronze Age, all along the old Silk Road.

He brought back several pups to his home in New Mexico, bred them, and placed them with friends, some of whom wanted to use them to increase the genetic diversity of the saluki. Soviets tried to wipe out the breed, valued by tribal people as a symbol of their independence. But the greatest threat to them today might be the show-dog breeder's closed stud books, though modern attacks on hunting with hounds might destroy their "work".

The Hounds of Heaven is a celebration of the Asian sight hound in all its names and glorious variety, a lament for disappearing ways, and an adventure. Its characters include scientists, hunters, and memorable dogs; Lashyn, the jealous girlfriend who destroyed the bonsai; Ataika, the Kazakh princess who rules the world, who taught herself to hunt with hawk, falcon, and gun entirely without commands; Kyran, who came speaking only Russian. Bodio blends science, history, and art to tell a tale that has not reached an end yet. As he says, "The hounds are still running."

Members Reviews:

guns or falcons they are among the best. Miss his reviews in Gray's Sorting Journal as ...

I cannot compete with others in eloquence. Buy Steve Bodio's books. Dogs, guns or falcons they are among the best.

Miss his reviews in Gray's Sorting Journal as well as in the Living Bird.

the high point is when the author describes what was a typical hunt with his graceful and wonderful dogs. The writing is wonderf

This relatively short book covers a lot of ground and is very ,very interesting. Anybody interested in falcons, dogs, coursing, new mexico should run out and get a copy. For me, the high point is when the author describes what was a typical hunt with his graceful and wonderful dogs. The writing is wonderful. The photos add to the book greatly. There is a fine poem at the front by Tim Murphy.( The publisher has misprinted his surname,) There should be another edition of this fine book , hopefully with thatcorrected.

Dog lovers can learn a great deal from this book.

I learned so much from this author; not just about the title subject, but also the world & our unfathomable interconnections. He concludes with a compelling treatise on purebred breeding.

I Almost Want One

I very much enjoyed this book on sight hounds. I thought Bodio's writing style was good and I very much enjoyed reading about his travels searching for these particular dogs and their breeders & handlers. I quite agree with him on his critique of the attitudes of a large number of purebred breeders of horses and dogs.

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Title: Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Donna Postel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared - if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity - could the novel survive?

In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history.

For decades Ozick herself has been one of our great critics, as these essays so clearly display. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-20th century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups: Fanatics, Monsters, Figures, and others. Uncompromising and brimming with insight, these essays are essential listening for anyone facing the future of literature in the digital age.

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Title: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell | Summary & Analysis

Author: Chace Adams

Narrator: Daniel Hawking

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-16

Publisher: Chace Adams

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is a narrative investigation on how peak performers, leaders, elite, or the best of the best are prepared for high performance and achievement compared to the ordinary people in our society. This book will dwell deeper on factors such as family, culture, and environment, among other factors that shape the lives of the extraordinary individuals who achieve greater accomplishments beyond the understanding of the average person. Outliers is a magnum opus that will elevate our understanding of success.

The 10,000-hour rule is a process that describes how it takes time to develop and nurture an individual to become an expert or great at something. Bill Joy is one the brilliant minds in the world of computer technology who was lucky to have the opportunity to sharpen and hone his programming skills at the University of Michigan. In 1971, the University of Michigan was the only university and place in the world equipped with computers. At that time, computers were enormous mainframes which occupied a whole room, as it was during the early years and stages of computers. In addition, the University of Michigan was the only university in the world that offered advanced computer science programs. The program saw over a thousand students passing through the white room, and this included Billy Joy, a young, talented teenager from Detroit.

After graduating from North Farmington High School, Bill Joy enrolled in the University of Michigan to attend the Computer Center, and in 1975 enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley. Bill Joy immersed himself deeper into the world of computer programming, including collaborating with a small team of programmers, and he took on the duty of rewriting UNIX. After graduating from the University of Berkeley, he co-founded Sun Microsystems; a company that played a critical part in the revolution of the computer. In certain circles, he is considered the Edison of the Internet.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Author: Anna Seiferle-Valencia

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

American sociologist and priest Jay MacLeod's 1987 work Ain't No Makin' It is groundbreaking for the novel way it combines field research with theory. The book follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the greater Boston area. In it, MacLeod shows how poor people who aspire to live the American dream face many more obstacles than their middle-class counterparts.

In a challenge to conventional ideas about race, MacLeod looks at the mostly white Hallway Hangers, who are delinquents and high-school dropouts, and the mostly black Brothers, who don't use drugs and stay in school. Yet in a damning indictment of the American class system, even the Brothers are mostly unable to secure good jobs by the time they reach middle age. We see this as MacLeod returns to write updates on the men twice over a 25-year period for a second and third edition of the book. Ain't No Makin' It remains a core sociology text today.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture

Author: Anna Seiferle-Valencia

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Born in 1858, Franz Boas permanently changed the standards and practices of anthropology. A German-born secular Jew, he became known for his distinctive approach to the discipline - non-hierarchical, open to diverse inputs, and unbiased.

Throughout his career, Boas used his scholarship to effect social change. His work convinced his colleagues to abandon the theories that had decided one race (Caucasian) and one culture (Western European) were more fully developed and worthier than others. In Boas' wake, anthropologists everywhere have been challenged to conduct their research and present their findings ethically. Boas spoke out against eugenics - the science of improving a population by controlled breeding - long before leaders in Nazi Germany embraced it. He was also a keen supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Boas' 1940 work Race, Language and Culture brings together a half-century's worth of his groundbreaking scholarship in one volume. Some 75 years after its initial publication, it remains a key text in the field of anthropology.