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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.

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Title: The Marketplace of Attention

Subtitle: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age

Author: James G. Webster

Narrator: Tim Andreas Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: Digital media offer an always accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the audiences they need in an era of infinite choice?

In The Marketplace of Attention, James Webster explains how audiences take shape in the digital age. Webster describes the factors that create audiences, including the preferences and habits of media users, the role of social networks, the resources and strategies of media providers, and the growing impact of media measures - from ratings to user recommendations. He incorporates these factors into one comprehensive framework: the marketplace of attention. In doing so, he shows that the marketplace works in ways that belie our greatest hopes and fears about digital media. Some observers claim that digital media empower a new participatory culture; others fear that digital media encourage users to retreat to isolated enclaves.

Webster shows that public attention is at once diverse and concentrated - that users move across a variety of outlets, producing high levels of audience overlap. So although audiences are fragmented in ways that would astonish midcentury broadcasting executives, Webster argues that this doesn't signal polarization. He questions whether our preferences are immune from media influence, and he describes how our encounters with media might change our tastes. In the digital era's marketplace of attention, Webster claims, we typically encounter ideas that cut across our predispositions. In the process, we will remake the marketplace of ideas and reshape the 21st-century public sphere.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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