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Title: Summary: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Author: Summary Station

Narrator: Brian Ackley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-16

Publisher: Summary Station

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.

In The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs seamlessly weaves the socioeconomic and racial realities of the residents of Newark, New Jersey while highlighting the story of a mother and son, Jackie and Robert Peace. Hobbs' research and intimate writing style provides the listener with an in-depth view of what Jackie endured to give her son a chance at a better life. It also effectively demonstrates how someone like Robert Peace, who is given every chance at a better life, can still make the choices that ultimately leads to his demise. For those who have been blessed, or lucky, to live above poverty, it can be difficult to understand just how difficult it can be to be truly poor. The struggles are not limited strictly to a lack of funds but also to location, education, and family demands, among other things. To provide a greater opportunity for her son, Jackie Peace did her best to overcome each of these limitations. While working, she sought higher education so as to further her career prospects. To pay for private school, she had to work long hours at multiple jobs and in turn was given less time to spend with her son.

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Title: Sociology

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: IntroBooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most interesting topics of discussion, sociology, has been the subject of attention for a really long time. You are lucky to have landed here if you have been wondering about all the details of this topic. I assure you that you are not going to regret buying this book and your knowledge will be equally good as a professional once you are done listening to it. We have explained the following things in this book:

We are sure that you want to gain the maximum possible knowledge in the minimum possible time. Buying this book is going to be the best decision of your life and you will be really proud of it. Good luck to you for this book and let's hope it brings the best to you!

Members Reviews:

Tepid, bias, dull, etcetera

This book was mildly informative. While simplistic and lacking impartiality. I would not recommend for anybody other than a child.

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Title: Deaf in a City of Music

Author: Poppy O'Guin Steele

Narrator: Jennifer Dorr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: Goldminds Publishing LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

What happens to someone who can't hear the music in a City of Music? A city where deaf means something is broken and needs to be fixed? Where the home of the great Johnny Cash has never heard of Beethoven's Nightmare? The deaf children in the City of Music are screaming to be heard. The moral behind the Joe Paterno case has not yet been learned from that grim tale. This is not a gripe session, but an awakening to the abuse and neglect of thousands of deaf American children. Americans who shop in our stores, sit in our classrooms, die in our hospitals, and waste away in our prisons. This is a call to arms. This is a story of too many deaf children in America.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Very informative.

Just finished this book and I am terribly moved by the true stories

Just finished this book and I am terribly moved by the true stories, told at times with humor, at times with frustration and despair, and throughout was unflinchingly candid. It's not always a pretty story but is one that needs to be told. I feel this should be required reading by police forces, court systems, schools, and other public-serving organizations, and would encourage church leaders and the friends, family, and neighbors of the Deaf to read it, as well.

Sorry that a subject like this must be written but hats off to Poppy ...

Sorry that a subject like this must be written but hats off to Poppy for taking the time and the risk in writing this story. Pray more read it and learn!

This book tells story that at times force you to ...

This book tells story that at times force you to put the book down and walk away. The same stories cause a uneasiness in your spirit as you read the words of real people who we have all likely encountered. This book is insightful, challenging, humorous, and heartbreaking. I believe every person who works with the public should be required to read these true stories of our deaf neighbors.

Wonderful book. Needs to be read by all

Wonderful book. Needs to be read by all! Brings a new perspective to a world that most of us are unaware of!

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Title: A Macat Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis

Author: Cheryl Hudson

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

A winner of the 1992 Bancroft Prize, Nature's Metropolis broke new ground in the burgeoning field of environmental history, while also adding weight to both urban and Western history. Before its publication in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each following separate lines of development and maturity. Using Chicago and its surrounding areas as a model, Cronon's book looks to disprove this idea. It shows how the city-country story really exists as a unified narrative. That is, the city was built on the fruits of its natural surroundings, and those surroundings succeed or fail only in relation to the city.

Cronon built his ideas largely on Frederick Jackson Turner's 19th century "frontier thesis," which stressed the effect that taming the wilderness had on the American character. Cronon updates this to argue that capitalist market forces played the major role in changing urban and rural areas together.

While some have criticized Cronon for his apparent disdain for human influence in the city-country story, Nature's Metropolis is still an influential book and is particularly lauded by the historical community.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent

Author: Macat.com

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In his 1997 work Theology of Discontent, American Iranian Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 would not have happened had it not been for the influential ideas of eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the four decades before it occurred.

Dabashi surveys these thinkers' contributions to the development of Iran's system of Islamic beliefs. He says this ideology was shaped both according to Iranians' perception of themselves and according to their perception of the West. A fierce desire to resist control and reject any possible imposition of Western imperialism led to the country's revolutionary spirit against a West-friendly monarchy.

One of Dabashi's arguments - that thinkers who may often oppose each other's views will still come together to ensure their mutual survival - has proved useful outside the context of the Iranian Revolution. It has provided a way of understanding Muslim-Western relations that have seemingly stalled in the post-9/11 world. This has given Theology of Discontent a certain timelessness and has confirmed it as an important work.

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Title: The Way of the Runner

Author: Adharanand Finn

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

A journey into Japan's fabled running culture from the award-winning author of Running with the Kenyans.

Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, a place where a 135-mile relay race is the country's biggest annual sporting event. Thousands of professional runners compete for corporate teams in some of the most competitive races in the world. Marathon monks run a thousand marathons in a thousand days to reach spiritual enlightenment.

Adharanand Finn spent six months immersed in this unique running culture to discover what it might teach us about the sport and about Japan. As an amateur runner about to turn 40, he also hoped to find out whether the Japanese approach to training might help him run faster. What he learned - about competition, teamwork, form, chasing personal bests and himself - will fascinate anyone keen to explore why we run and how we might do it better.

Members Reviews:

loved it!!!!!

if you love running you will love this book. full of tips on improving techniques

Enjoyable

Nicely read, and interesting content.

Though really a tad facile in the end.

Worth a listen though.

Excellent.

Brilliant listen, very enjoyable. Fascinating insight into Japanese running which was little known to me. Also highly recommended Running With Kenyans.

Another cracker from Aharanand Finn! Great read!

A great read and another really interesting insight into a new world of running. Check it out fo' sure!

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Title: Summary: Alec Ross' The Industries of the Future

Author: Ant Hive Media

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-16

Publisher: Ant Hive Media

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

This is a summary of Alec Ross' The Industries of the Future

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as senior advisor for innovation to the secretary of state, he traveled to 41 countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From start-up hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.

In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what changes are coming in the next 10 years, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics, cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money and markets. In each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world's rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots? And what can today's parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?

Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live. Incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from tech moguls to defense experts, The Industries of the Future takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plainspoken language. This is an essential book for understanding how the world works - now and tomorrow - and a must-listen for businesspeople in every sector, from every country.

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Title: Don't Talk to the Cops

Subtitle: Straight Talk from a Former Prosecutor

Author: Douglas MacClain

Narrator: Douglas MacClain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-16

Publisher: Douglas MacClain

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

What you say and do at the point that you are arrested can have a dramatic impact upon the outcome of your case and possibly the rest of your life. It is important to get it right. The most important part is learning to keep your mouth shut and don't talk to the cops.

Members Reviews:

Very good information on policing matters.

This Audio Book is a great study guide when dealing with the police on all levels.

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Title: Rochesternomics

Subtitle: Why, Statistically Speaking, You Should Live in Rochester, NY

Author: Amol Shrikhande

Narrator: Josh Brogadir

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Amol Shrikhande

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

If only a large metropolitan area could offer all of the following: a reasonably healthy economy, exceptional public education and high educational attainment, elite music and art, innumerable leisure activities, remarkably affordable housing, strikingly short commute times, some of the safest weather conditions in the country, near universal health care, solid public transportation, a culture of ingenuity, and an overall tradition of acceptance. Believe it or not, such an area exists. The only catch is that popular perception actually makes the area seem undesirable. Rochesternomics provides data-driven insight to overcome popular perception and illustrate why Rochester, New York, is this hidden gem.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Amol Shrikhande was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and raised outside New Haven, Connecticut. He has spent large chunks of time in Boston, Massachusetts; St. Louis, Missouri; and New York City. In 2010, for no apparent reason, he convinced himself and his wife to move to a place where they knew absolutely nobody: Rochester, New York. In between trying to raise two children, he and his wife are both practicing physicians.

Members Reviews:

Very interesting and easy to read

Very interesting and easy to read, I have always loved living in Rochester but now I have the facts to back that up. Great book!

Smart idea -- other cities/metro areas would benefit from replicating this book

Excellent, concise book anyone interested in Rochester area economy should read.

Five Stars

The doctor has really captured ROCHESTER, NY.

Five Stars

Clear, concise, and spot on.

Five Stars

Arrived promptly and as advertised!

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Title: Naked

Subtitle: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina

Author: Julie Freed

Narrator: Julie Freed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-16

Publisher: Delta Freed

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Everything moved to the winds' rhythm.

In one week, a house and marriage violently disintegrate. Alone raising an infant in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Julie is surrounded by the rubble of her life - stripped bare by love and loss. Suddenly a single mother, Freed's prose captures the love and adoration for her daughter, the indomitable spirit of her New England family and her father's unwavering devotion. Touching ties survive even the most powerful surge Mother Nature delivers. This debut memoir candidly reveals intimate details of one woman's shattered dreams as well as humanity's resilience and sweet goodness. Unflinchingly honest, Naked is a remarkable true story of hope, family, and love in a southern coastal Mississippi town.

Members Reviews:

could taste the salted air

Great writing but sad story with a victorious ending. related to this story and the emotional toll loss by nature or nurture brings. I could taste the salted air and deep feeling of loss throughout. pure sucess in getting an emotional response from me..

well-written story from the heart

I loved it. Very honest and real. Thank you for giving me hope. your friend

Great listen and my very first audio book!

Would you consider the audio edition of Naked to be better than the print version?

I enjoyed listening to this book and just recently won a copy from the author, Julie Freed! This was the first book I've listened too and enjoyed it a lot. I get quite sleepy sometimes reading a print version and with this I just sat back and listened.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Besides the protagonist of course, I liked Jim. Jim was there when Julie needed him most. Her family was too, but I like getting to know other characters involved in what was experienced.

What does Julie Freed bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Her own voice, it was so inspiring to know she recorded this herself! She really sat down to tell me her story!

If you could give Naked a new subtitle, what would it be?

Stripped

Leveled (disasters like hurricanes and divorces have a way of leveling the playing field.)

I think NAKED was appropriate

Any additional comments?

Great "listen", try it! Now I'm going to stick with it because I like the flavor of audio when I get lazy and just want to listen. Time for a new book, I have a free one! Thanks for writing NAKED Julie ~