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Title: Trapped in the Game

Subtitle: A Video Game Addiction

Author: Patrik Wincent

Narrator: Sean Michael Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-17

Publisher: Goinspire

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The Swedish Games Industry is a strong and growing force in our society. As children spend more and more time in front of their computer screens, we must accept that moderation is the key to everything, including time spent on computer games.

Based on research, studies, and opinions from doctors and psychologists, as well as the author's own clinical experience, this book explains clearly what computer game addiction is, how much data gambling is too much, and what impact gambling has on the body and brain.

How much time should a parent allow their children to play computer games? How does a parent enforce this limit? Trapped in the game, is a practical guide for parents and caregivers who want tips, advice and practical tools to help combat computer games addiction in their child and how to deal with this problem in their own homes.

In the book the children are called Charlie, Cory, and Simon, but it could just well have been my own son's name. I recognize the situations, expressions and emotions. I see my reflection and it sinks in that the vile words he screams at me are not personal, he's just lost and angry, sad and sick. He is a teenager with a video game addiction.

The book approaches me as a parent and shows what my teenage son goes through when he plays and what happens to him when he does not get to play. It gives me an understanding and raises my level of tolerance that I did not have before.

The author Patrick Wincent is an authorized therapist and specialist in computer game addiction. He lectures in digital abuse and he is a father of a teenager. Patrick has also founded "Dataspelsakuten" and "Internetakuten".

Members Reviews:

Guide to know real fact about trapping in viedo game

How viedo games influence the children. Advantages and dis-advantages are here very clear

This book is long overdue...

The release of this book is long overdue. Video games have been a large part of my childhood growing up and continue to be but I never know where the line between a healthy hobby and an addiction is.

The content of this book is highly relevant to parents and anyone who plays games because the stakes are high. Itâs not easy to get back up (although this book shows itâs very possible) once the damage is done. The author weaves plenty of his own personal stories in between the many bits of advice he presented in the book, a good read!

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Title: Monsters of the Ivy League

Author: Steve Radlauer, Ellis Weiner

Narrator: David L. Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

First stop: Harvard or Yale or Princeton or...

Next stop: Wall Street riches...house on the Vineyard...vineyard with a house...a Nobel Prize...

Not so fast.

Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League - universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher education - have graduated countless political leaders, corporate titans, and global power brokers. But did you know these schools have also produced murderers, warmongers, traitors, plagiarists, slave traders, pederasts, and every other variety of moral reprobate?

Whether you're a high school student grinding away in the hope of gaining admission to one of these institutions, a parent propelling a child toward Ivy glory, a current Ivy League undergraduate wondering "what the hell is this place?" - or even an Ivy League alum, professor, administrator, or dropout - this book was written specifically for you. As a warning. Because there are certain things - monstrous things - that go unmentioned in the catalog, campus tour, or employment package.

And if your Ivy League application was rejected, here's compelling and consoling evidence of how lucky you are.

Members Reviews:

Your Worst Fears Confirmed, with Jokes

In 1996, a former 'National Lampoon' editor named Sean Kelly, along with Rosemary Rogers, wrote a long-awaited reference work etitled "Who in Hell? A Guide to the Whole Damned Bunch". (As a librarian, I can attest that it's been invaluable in helping me answer queries as to the post-earthly whereabouts of, e.g., Peter Lawford). "Monsters of the Ivy League," by Steve Radlauer and Ellis Weiner (also a former NatLamp editor) includes detailed, informative, and funny chapters on several deceased folks who made it into that earlier book, and many, many still-living personages destined to be included in any future updates. For example, William F. Buckley was, alas, still breathing in 1996, but now, at last, he receives the scourging he so richly deserved upon his death. And he was a mere writer! What of actual policy-makers, cabinet officials (Henry Kissinger comes to mind), Supreme Court Justices (Antonin Scalia), and scores of racists, right-wing nut jobs, creationists, bullies, narcissists and others who have used their privileged educations as stepping-stones up the ivy-lined trellises to careers devoted to "comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted" (a quote from the chapter on Ann Coulter, and a reversal of what a satirist ought to be doing)? Well, they're all here: from the founders of the very universities from which some of these scoundrels oozed into public life, to the brain-damaged blowhard whose pissing contests with assorted maniacs may yet result in World War III. For anyone who assumes this is just a de rigueuer assault on conservatives, there are chapters devoted to Bill Clinton, Ralph Nader, Al Gore, and other figures more commonly associated with the Left. Aside from the cathartic value of reading scathing denunciations of men and women I already despise, I also learned a great deal from "Monsters": I knew William F. Buckley was a despicable, racist snob, but it's truly shocking to read his savage assessments of African-Americans and defense of the Jim Crow South. The writers are to be applauded for fearlessly treading into the abyss of U.S. history and reporting what they found with clear-headed wit and intelligence.

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Title: Behaving Badly

Subtitle: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business

Author: Eden Collinsworth

Narrator: Joy Nash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business, cheating, lying, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow this hasn't quite led to a complete free-for-all - people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why.

In her intrepid quest, she squares off with a prime minister, the editor of London's Financial Times, a Holocaust survivor, a pop star, and a former commander of the US Air Force to grapple with the impracticality of applying morals to foreign policy; precisely when morality gets lost in the making of money; what happens to morality without free will; whether "immoral" women are just those having a better time; why celebrities have become the new moral standard bearers; and if testosterone is morality's enemy or its hero.

Critic Reviews:

"Written with brio and great charm.... This is an implausibly entertaining romp through the ethical questions of our time, a kind of romantic engagement with morals that is never moralistic." (Andrew Solomon, author of

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity)

"A wide-ranging, breezy journey through a series of ethical minefields...Collinsworth is always a genial guide through the moral thicket, and her companions underscore the provocative spirit of her quest." (

Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex ...

Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business by Eden Collinsworth is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in mid-March.

Despite our free-wheeling, often liberal attitudes about the world around us, the etiquette within the spheres of work and business is very hard-lined with strict rules for what is right and wrong. Along with the topics mentioned in the title, the book covers financial 'cheating,' online moral elasticity, drone surveillance and warfare, surrogate parenting, and seeing celebrities as moral mentors. Collinsworth fills this book with honest narrative, personal stories and examples, interviews, tell-alls; all while keeping a steady and diverse international and multi-religious outlook.

Felt that pretentious writing was valued more than cohesive theory

I really was pulled into the book at first, but slowly, the book began to fall apart. The writer comes across as pretentious and ironically enough - morally superior - by making judgements herself based on those she researched. By already having made her mind up (even if subconsciously), I honestly couldnât figure out the purpose of the book.

Oakland, NOT Southern California!

When you have a blaring error, Chapter One, Page One, Sorry, it's going back to the library. I was actually enthused to see this book but when Ms. Collinsworth attributed Gertrude Stein's quote of "there's no there, there" as a reference to Southern California when anyone who READS knows that she was referring to Oakland CA, why read on? Check yourself, Ms.

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Title: Guide to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink

Author: Eureka

Narrator: Susan Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-17

Publisher: Eureka

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This is a companion to the book and not the original book.

Preview:

In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly leads to better outcomes in many cases...

Inside this companion:

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Title: Now We Are 40

Author: Tiffanie Darke

Narrator: Tiffanie Darke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers - but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool?

Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland immortalised in his novel of the same name. The wry, knowing navel-gazers obsessed with cool and being cool who today are sandwiched between the boomers of the 60s and the millennials.

Gen X'ers came of age against a backdrop of Britpop and the Spice Girls, Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Madchester and the Stone Roses, acid house and rave, super clubs, Ministry and Cream. They holidayed in Ibiza high on hooch and E and never ever believed there'd be a comedown.

So whatever happened to them?

We turned 40. And as Tiffanie Darke points out in this witty exploration of the generation who defied generalisation, we're not handling it all that well....

Where once we wore floaty skirts and Doc Martins, now we're sporting Scandi fashion and 'interesting' trainers. We still party in Ibiza but now bodyboard in Cornwall. Where once mixtapes were the ultimate mating call, now we take selfies and swap Spotify playlists - all the while conspicuously wearing large Dr Beats headphones and casually leaving old packets of Kingsize Rizla lying round our open plan kitchens.

More to the point, Gen X are now in charge. In government, in business and the creative industries. The most anti-establishment of generations has now become the establishment. But as tech overtakes the arts as society's great shaping force, Tiffanie ponders - does cool and its pursuit still matter? If Gen X had it sorted, gave us Barack Obama and downward facing dogs, why is stress the new flu? Why are we working not for love anymore - or cool - but to avoid negative equity and depleting pension pots?

In Now We Are 40, Tiffanie interviews some of the most iconic Gen X'ers such as Pearl Lowe, Richard Reed and Blur's bassist Alex James to look at how Gen X live their life in between being young and old, and how it feels to want to burn down the establishment only to realise that now you are the establishment.

Members Reviews:

Must Read

Loved it. Nostalgic for those of us in Gen X, informative and entertaining for those not... Great insight into the changes in society and the effect. Total must read to know how far we have come and a great insight into how we would lime our future. Very Cool

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Title: The Smart Prepper

Subtitle: Avoiding Beginner Mistakes

Author: Robert Paine

Narrator: John Cormier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-17

Publisher: Our Pack Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

We all need to prep. Nobody knows what the future will bring. But, regardless of where you find yourself when disaster strikes, you can still be prepared!

The Smart Prepper will guide you and your family through the important steps and considerations that you need to begin prepping, no matter what environment you find yourself in.

If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any emergency situation.

In this book you will learn how to:

Survivors are a unique group of people. Some people call us survivalists, doomsday preppers, or patriots. You may not consider yourself any of those things. Whatever you may want to call yourself, if you're listening to this, you are on the first step to helping your family survive, no matter what.

Members Reviews:

A Practical and Approachable Book, Even For Those Not into Prepping

Down-to-earth, approachable advice for non-preppers or those just starting out.

Most people live in a location that has some tendency toward some kind of natural disaster, whether it's earthquakes, harsh winters, hurricanes, or tornadoes, etc., and this book gives great tips for being prepared.

The author also discusses how to get along with your community and family members when they aren't on board with any kind of prepping or when they have different ideologies than you.

And for those into prepper fiction, the book offers a generous sample of one of the author's novels at the end.

Great advice

Save yourself some trouble and read this book before you start prepping. Great extra introduction to April 3rd. Good read.

Five Stars

Great information concise and easy to read

Very basic.

This book might be fine for someone just starting out to prep, but it is not for one who has been prepping for a while.

A preppers must-have

Best book out there for the beginning prepper. Laid out part by part, lists, etc., so perfectly organized. Every prepper needs this book in their library.

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Title: Moranifesto

Author: Caitlin Moran

Narrator: Joanna Neary

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.

When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favorite pieces for her new book, she realized that they all shared a common theme - the same old problems and the same old asshats. Then she thought of the word Moranifesto, and she knew what she had to do....

Introducing every piece and weaving her writing together into a brilliant, seamless narrative - just as she did in Moranthology - Caitlin combines the best of her recent columns with lots of new writing unique to this book as she offers a characteristically fun and witty look at the news, celebrity culture, and society. Featuring strong and important pieces on poverty, the media, and class, Moranifesto also focuses on how socially engaged we've become as a society.

And, of course, Caitlin is never afraid to address the big issues, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and duffel coats. Who else but Caitlin Moran - a true modern Renaissance woman - could deal with topics as pressing and diverse as the beauty of musicals, affordable housing, Daft Punk, and why the Internet is like a drunken toddler?

Covering everything from Hillary Clinton to UTIs, Caitlin's manifesto is an engaging and mischievous rallying call for our times.

Members Reviews:

Important stuff wrapped in a deliciously funny shell

Funny but also serious and timely. Seems like it was written just before the 2016 US election and its arguments about the threats to women being seen and treated as fully-realized human beings now take on even more importance. By helping us see (and maybe question) so many absurdities of how life works for women and just "regular" folks... it makes us ask "yeah, why ARE things like that!?!" I think that laughter is one great way to get past the yelling at one another to find common ground and expose us to the essential truths in a more palatable way. Moran is skilled at doing this.

Great indoctrination for old fans and new

It took me an age to finish this, but actually I really enjoyed Caitlin's latest musings on life and love, if not the universe. I should qualify that since I don't read her newspaper columns, this was all new material for me, and so Moranisfesto had a freshness and originality that would be lacking if you have read most of these pieces previously. I'm a huge fan of Caitlin's generally - her humour and politics and the wicked blend thereof - and would personally nominate her for prime minister if I were British. This is an excellent indoctrination in Moran-ism. The only aspect of the book I can't say I appreciated is her commentary on television - of no interest or relevance to someone not acquainted with pretty much anything on TV and British TV in particular. Still, if you're in my boat, skip those bits and savour the rest with your shoes kicked off and a lovely glass of chardonnay.

You will love this one!

This series of essays from The Times is absolutely excellent. There are a few that, though humorous, I didn't find that interesting but the rest-wow! Not only is Ms. Moran an excellent writer who knows how to keep it light, she has excellent insight and perspective.

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Title: In a Queer Voice

Subtitle: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood

Author: Michael Sadowski

Narrator: Jack McKown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Adolescence is a difficult time, but it can be particularly stressful for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying youth. In order to avoid harassment and rejection, many LGBTQ teens hide their identities from their families, peers, and even themselves.

Educator Michael Sadowski deftly brings the voices of LGBTQ youth out into the open in his poignant and important book, In a Queer Voice. Drawing on two waves of interviews conducted six years apart, Sadowski chronicles how queer youth, who were often "silenced" in school and elsewhere, now can approach adulthood with a strong, queer voice.

In a Queer Voice continues the critical conversation about LGBTQ youth issues - from bullying and suicide to other risks involving drug and alcohol abuse - by focusing on the factors that help young people develop positive, self-affirming identities. Using the participants' heartfelt, impassioned voices, we hear what schools, families, and communities can do to help LGBTQ youth become resilient, confident adults.

The book is published by Temple University Press.

Members Reviews:

A call to action for schools and other institutions dealing with young people

A survey of challenges for young LGBTQ people and resources available to them, based on a series of interviews. The book focuses on three critical areas where support or condemnation makes a big difference to adolescents: their families, their schools, and community groups (including religious institutions and gay rights organizations). I came to the book for the stories, and found them engaging but repetitious. The book is more useful, in my opinion, for the insights it gives to teachers and others dealing with youth.

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Title: The Real Truth Behind the Media

Subtitle: Revealing the Best-Kept Secrets Behind the Media and Journalism

Author: Jason Knapper

Narrator: Judy Rounda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-16

Publisher: RED-SHIFT

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Revealing the secrets behind the most dominant influences in modern day life.

Welcome to The Real Truth Behind the Media, the second revelation of its kind in which secrets are revealed, truth is told, and the lies are identified.

The world is crumbling before our very eyes. Divisions between humans run common in every part of life. Are our brains conditioned to do this?

In this book, we look into the dirty tricks and physiological triggers used by the media to embed subconscious beliefs and opinions in our brains. We look how biased journalism is a booming industry with so many opportunities to radicalize and support certain beliefs and agendas without the public realizing it.

What we reveal in this book:

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Mediocre writing & content

One Star

Deceivieng

Nothing but the whole truth...

America can't handle the truth

* meh*

There really isn't any new or revealing information in this short tract - even the casually curious reader would, likely, be familiar with most of it.

Just an aside. Perhaps it's in the process of Amazon eBook publishing, but poor grammar is weirdly pervasive in so many. It's really an obnoxious distraction.

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Title: Ghostly Encounters

Subtitle: The Hauntings of Everyday Life

Author: Dennis Waskul, Michele Waskul

Narrator: James Killavey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

"In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling.... I am startled but not afraid.... Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me."

Dennis Waskul wrote these lines - about his firsthand experience with the supernatural - in the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 Midwestern Americans, the Waskuls' book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The authors explore how uncanny happenings become ghosts and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the nested consequences of ghostly experiences.

Through these stories, Ghostly Encounters seeks to understand the persistence of uncanny experiences and beliefs in ghosts in an age of reason, science, education, and technology - as well as how those beliefs and experiences both reflect and serve important social and cultural functions.

The book is published by Temple University Press.

Members Reviews:

Don't waste your money on this book

Would you try another book from Dennis Waskul and Michele Waskul and/or James Killavey?

When I first started listening to this audio book, I thought the problem with this book was going be the voice and the boring performance style. Since I myself am also doing research on ghosts and haunting, I forced myself to listen to the entire thing. But now, after having wasted some money and a lot of time on this book, I regret both of those, and my advice for you is not to do what I did. I have not learned hardly anything new or useful on ghosts or haunting, though I have heard a lot about the author and learned much about his fascination with himself.