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Title: VangoNotes for Sociology, 6th Canadian Edition

Author: John J. Macionis, Linda M. Gerber

Narrator: Brett Barry, Amy LeBlanc

Format: Original Recording

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-07

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Sociology, 6/CE and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are -- whatever you're doing -- you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook:

©2009 Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: VangoNotes for Cultural Anthropology, 3/e, US Edition

Author: Barbara Miller

Narrator: Brett Barry, Alyson Silverman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-06

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Cultural Anthropology, 3/e, US Edition and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are -- whatever you're doing -- you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook:

Cultural Anthropology, 3/e, US Edition

© 2006; by Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: The Prosecutors

Author: Gary Delsohn

Narrator: Gary Delsohn

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-03

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Depicting American justice at its best and worst, The Prosecutors lifts the lid off today's legal system with details that are more shocking and graphic than any television show or best-selling novel. Allowed unprecedented access to spend a year inside an urban prosecutor's office, Gary Delsohn provides a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at how America's increasingly overburdened judicial system really functions. Seen through the eyes of the main characters in this true-life drama, John O'Mara, a tough, jaded homicide chief and Jan Scully, an accomplished, former sex crimes prosecutor who is now D.A., The Prosecutors shows us these dedicated public servants at work. The cases they encounter within the year are as shocking as they are indelible.

©2003 Gary Delsohn; (P) 2003 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"The overall lesson of the book is that justice is, in the end, usually done." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Good listen overall but...

The book follows one major trial and two unrelated events in the course of a year in Sacramento DA's office, with personalities and insights woven into the developments.

The book is fast paced and engaging overall, although at times the author essentially reades the trial transcript and the reading can become dull. The book is particularly a good read for someone interested in becoming a prosecutor or at the very beginning of a legal career. I also recommend this book for working out - the pace is fast and the stories are engaging to keep you going on the eliptical machine.

My one complaint is the book does not offer very much about the politics of the DA's office. (maybe special contractual agreements?) At the core, the book is about lawyers and trial work, not the machinations of the office.

The reading is pleasant enough. The language is crude at times but that is a part and parcel of trial lingo. Overall, it is a good listen for a curious mind.

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Title: Questioning the Millennium

Subtitle: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

What is our concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? When does the new millennium begin? Why must our calendars be so complex, anyway? Best selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to exploring these questions, which cover one of today's most pressing subjects. Gould developed an interest in the approaching millennium at age 8, in 1950, when Life magazine marked the century's midpoint. Now, the evolutionary scientist holds the mirror up to all of our millennial passions in this wide-ranging discussion that reveals our foibles, absurdities, and uniqueness - in other words, our humanity.

Copyright ©1997 by Stephen Jay Gould; Copyright (P)1997 by Dove Audio, Inc.

Members Reviews:

The Millennium or Quetioning Stephen Jay Gould

I found SJG's little book quite interesting in that he chases rabbits through fields of astronomy, calendrics, history, American Indian lore, mathematics, theology, and other areas including savants.

He fails to include Julian days as a means or reckoning the passage of time in a very orderly fashion. Always entertaining but never conclusive on the subject, since he properly makes a distinction between The Millennium of Apocalypse and the millennium of the calendar, he leaves conclusions to the reader. He points out that the media did get it right, according to one school of thought, in the 1900-1901 century transition and the nineteenth century passed to the twentieth Dec. 31, 1900/Jan. 1, 1901. The mid point, however, was signaled by LIFE magazine publishing its mid century issue in January 1950 rather than 1951.

What we are really concerned with is the consistent ordinary, everyday reckoning of time, days, and years in an orderly and rational manner. It doesn'take a PhD in calculus or differential equations to deduce that the twentieth century is 20th hundred years, that two millennia is two thousand years and until the 2,000 years have been completed at the END of year 2,000 the twenty- first century and the thirdmillennium have not arrived. As they say about opera...it isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Buy a copy if you are a fan or borrow a copy if you like science fiction mixed with lots of unusual facts. You will find the finale a bit poignant, but don't cheat, resist the urge to peek.

One of the most thoughtful books...

One of the most thoughtful books I have read. It is not easy, breezy reading. You will have to read several sentences a couple of times to understand Gould's points. But it is very thought provoking and change my entire notion of time.

Interesting look at human nature using millenial fever.

Of great interest to anyone who's into history, psychology or the science of reasoning. Gould brings to light some truths about human nature by looking at the history of the millenium, calendar keeping, and our interesting fixation on the calendar numbers that we (not the universe) invented to keep time of the history of our species. Without giving too much away, I found the epilogue very moving.

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Title: Fun Raising and Training Your American Quarter Horse

Author: Vince Stead

Narrator: Elizabeth Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-13

Publisher: http://www.vincestead.com

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

You can have a lot of fun learning about taking care of your Quarter Horse, making sure they are well taken care of, have a nice clean place to live, and much more.

Members Reviews:

Horrible Reader

I listened to this book but I was glad it was short because the reader mispronounced basic words like "foal" and she clearly didn't effort any pronounciations. The producer of the production allowed the reader to cough and mispronounce without any editing. Horrible production

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Title: The Art of Choosing

Author: Sheena Iyengar

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-10

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?

Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose?

Her award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound. In our world of shifting political and cultural forces, technological revolution, and interconnected commerce, our decisions have far-reaching consequences. Use this book as your companion and guide for the many challenges ahead.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic, a must read for anyone

If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5, I would. Regardless of your interest in behavioural economics I think anybody would find this book absolutely fascinating. Perhaps it is because the author is blind, I can't be sure, but this is a truly unique way of writing which adapts perfectly to the audio format.

On top of being a great read, this is great science. There are a lot of experts in this field but the author is the person who made the groundbreaking discovery around the Paradox of choice which is now influencing policymakers and thinkers around the world.

not for me

this is a book by a university researcher, based on social experiment. I found it more confusing than interesting, it doesn't help you to choose, it looks at choice on a scientific and neurological level.

i think I would have preferred a philosophical and psychological approach, so I didn't enjoy the book.

an I didn't like the author style of writing, I found it a little bit silly, a little bit too "women magazine" style, the angles and points of views she used didn't resonate with me.

Thank you Sheena Iyengar for this great book

I enjoyed every bit of this incredible little book, which is an eye opener for sure. For someone who is visually impaired, you Sheena Iyengar can see better than many of us!!! So much in our life is determined by the choices we make, and yet if you did not grow up in the West, your perspective and perception of choice could be very different. Sheena went to an extraordinary length to research the subject and travel the world to be able to understand and explain the cultural differences and attitudes to choice and individualism/ collectivism. I am someone who was born in Communist times, grew up in times of Change and moved to a Western country and there indeed was a time when I was completely lost and could not easily grasp the modern western/ capitalist way of life and thinking, I was disturbed by the underlying sense of unfairness and the feeling that I was surrounded by egotism. It wasn't until after years of blending that I realized that I am the one who has to take full grip of my choices, all choices and only then I experienced contentment, joy and freedom which seemed hard to reach before. In this day of multicultural society, living in a globalized city feels great and precious as experience, now I don't only identify myself as a EU citizen, but a 'child of the World'.

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Title: Driving the Future

Subtitle: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars

Author: Margo T. Oge

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.

As the director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, engineer Margo Oge was the chief architect behind the Obama administration's landmark 2012 deal with automakers in the US market to double the fuel efficiency of their fleets to 54.5 mpg and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2025. This was America's first formal climate action using regulation to reduce emissions through innovation in car design. Tom Friedman praised the new rules as the "Big Deal" that redeemed the administration's previous inaction.

In Driving the Future Oge portrays a future where clean, intelligent vehicles with lighter frames and alternative power trains will produce zero emissions and run at 100+ mpg. With electronic architectures more like that of airplanes, cars will be smarter and safer, will park themselves, and will network with other vehicles on the road to drive themselves.

Offering an insider account of the partnership between Federal agencies, California, environmental groups, and car manufacturers that led to the historic deal, she discusses the science of climate change, the politics of addressing it, and the lessons learned for policymakers. She also takes the listener through the convergence of macro trends that will drive this innovation over the next 40 years and be every bit as transformative as those wrought by Karl Benz and Henry Ford.

Members Reviews:

Important Information Told Poorly

Margo Oge talks too much about herself. She's not the story. She rambles on about the history of climate change telling the same things twice on occasion. She keeps describing herself as caring about global warming but she did very little during the Bush administration. Now she works for VW and defends its indefensible actions. Unfortunately, this is probably the best book for learning about vehicular climate change. Otherwise it's not worth reading. The reader ends too many sentences with question marks. She could be a lot better.

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Title: We the Eaters

Subtitle: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World

Author: Ellen Gustafson

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

How we can transform the global food system by changing what's on our dinner plates.

From your burger to your soda, Gustafson unpacks how even the hyper-local can cause worldwide ripples. For instance: American agricultural policy promoting corn and soybeans in beef farming means we feed more to cows than to hungry people. This is compounded by the environmental cost of factory livestock farming, rising obesity rates, and the false economics of unhealthily high meat consumption. The answer? Eat a hamburger; just make it a smaller, sustainably raised, grass-fed one.

Gustafson - a young entrepreneur, foreign policy expert, and food policy advocate - delivers a wake-up call that will inspire even the most passive listener to take action. We can love our food and our country while being better stewards of our system and our health. We the Eaters is nothing short of a manifesto: If we change dinner, we can change the world.

Members Reviews:

Imagine sitting down to dinner with a great story teller powered by a sharp policy brain...

If you want a high energy, brainy, and story-rich dive into global food policy, buy Ellen Gustafson's book. The genius of the authors book is how Gustasfson weaves together the impossibly strange and interesting story about how a classic American meal comes together. In the process, Ellen gives us one central insight: the best way to control a complex global food system is by reimagining this important daily meal, everyday.

It actually reminded me of a passage from Adam Smith's classic Wealth of Nations, where he describes the economic and history forces that converge upon his woolen coat: "How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!"

Now imagine a really great story teller conveying the forces that bring together your classic burger & apple pie meal. Along the way, she brings together sharp policy insights, interesting and relevant facts and credible sources to make the enjoyable experience a mentally nutritious one. More importantly, the author makes readers more conscious about how their small choices have a big impact on both America and "remote corners of the world."

In my work as a international development practitioner and policy scholar at Columbia University, I am surrounded by talented thinkers and fresh ideas about fixing our broken food system. But I've yet to encounter a food policy expert who has the knack of distilling a complex world of policy and data into something as simple and relevant as dinner.

Excellent data presented in a completely clear way

I have taught Nutrition for years as an RN and thought I knew quite a bit about the food industry and problems with it, both health-related issues and animal welfare issues. But this book is dog-eared and highlighted throughout! Fabulous book. Excellent data presented in a completely clear way. The international stories were shocking and sobering.

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Title: Devouring Cultures

Subtitle: Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey

Author: Cammie M. Sublette, Jennifer Martin

Narrator: Robin Roach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.

These scholars look for answers to intriguing questions: What does our choice of dining house say about our social class? Can restaurants teach us about a culture? How does food operate in Downton Abbey? How does food consumption in zombie apocalypse films and apocalyptic literature relate to contemporary food-chain crises and food nostalgia? What aspects of racial conflict, assimilation, and empowerment may be represented in restaurant culture and food choice?

Restaurants, from their historical development to their modern role as surrogate kitchen, are studied as markers of gender, race, and social class, and also as forums for the exhibition of tensions or spaces where culture is learned through the language of food. Food, as it is portrayed in literature, movies, and television, is illuminated as a platform for cultural assimilation, a way for the oppressed to find agency, or even a marker for the end of a civilization.

The essays in Devouring Cultures show how our choices about what we eat, where we eat, and with whom we eat are linked to identity and meaning and how the seemingly simple act of consumption has implications that extend far beyond sustenance.

The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press.

Members Reviews:

Book is a waste of money

Book is a waste of money. The authors have no grip on reality;

. Disappointing. Can't believe the publishers found this worthy to publish.

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Title: Driving the Future

Subtitle: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars

Author: Margo T. Oge

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.

As the director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, engineer Margo Oge was the chief architect behind the Obama administration's landmark 2012 deal with automakers in the US market to double the fuel efficiency of their fleets to 54.5 mpg and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2025. This was America's first formal climate action using regulation to reduce emissions through innovation in car design. Tom Friedman praised the new rules as the "Big Deal" that redeemed the administration's previous inaction.

In Driving the Future Oge portrays a future where clean, intelligent vehicles with lighter frames and alternative power trains will produce zero emissions and run at 100+ mpg. With electronic architectures more like that of airplanes, cars will be smarter and safer, will park themselves, and will network with other vehicles on the road to drive themselves.

Offering an insider account of the partnership between Federal agencies, California, environmental groups, and car manufacturers that led to the historic deal, she discusses the science of climate change, the politics of addressing it, and the lessons learned for policymakers. She also takes the listener through the convergence of macro trends that will drive this innovation over the next 40 years and be every bit as transformative as those wrought by Karl Benz and Henry Ford.

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