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Migrations and Cultures
- A World View
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance14
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Story13
Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period of time. Migrations and Cultures shows the persistence of cultural traits in particular racial and ethnic groups.
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Great points told beautifully despite the structure
- By mernst on 13-04-24
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Migrations and Cultures
- A World View
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-06-10
- Language: English
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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Story43
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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interesting book, horrible narration.
- By Joe Lonsdale on 14-06-20
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-09-12
- Language: English
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance84
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Story83
In this devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more. This is an empirical study in which “politically correct” theory is repeatedly confronted with facts, and the sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites.
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the most important book you'll ever read
- By ithinkthecatisill on 09-08-16
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-08-10
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance48
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Story47
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” writes Du Bois, in one of the most prophetic works in all of American literature. First published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. Du Bois’ writing draws on his early experiences, from teaching in the hills of Tennessee, to the death of his infant son, to his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.
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Beautiful, harrowing, vital
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-20
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-10-10
- Language: English
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If the Oceans Were Ink
- An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- By: Carla Power
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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Story31
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship - between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh - had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names.
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Good overview
- By Mohammed Sulaiman Wilkinson on 23-04-16
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If the Oceans Were Ink
- An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-02-16
- Language: English
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hugh Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall773
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Performance667
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Story657
This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as historic interpreters of American life.
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Really interesting
- By Adam Buckler on 23-07-16
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- Narrated by: Hugh Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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Divided Soul
- The Life of Marvin Gaye
- By: David Ritz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Overall63
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Performance52
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Story52
In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.
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More Than a Motown Legend. Great Read!
- By Debs on 27-03-25
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Divided Soul
- The Life of Marvin Gaye
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-08-08
- Language: English
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Knowledge and Decisions
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance83
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Story83
This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed. Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making—a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency but our very freedom.
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Amazing amazing amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 25-03-19
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Knowledge and Decisions
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-10-12
- Language: English
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- By: Roy Porter
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance41
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Story41
In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Sprawling - in a good way
- By Jim on 29-05-13
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-05-09
- Language: English
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The Third Wave
- By: Alvin Toffler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of 21st-century democracy.
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Brilliantly ties societal & economic change
- By JohnHL on 01-01-24
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The Third Wave
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- By: Parker J. Palmer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance50
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Story49
Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do. "Let your life speak" is a time-honored Quaker admonition to live one's life as witness to the deepest truths one knows. But as Parker Palmer explains, those words can also mean "listen to your life, and let it tell you what your truth is."
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too heavy
- By Sina Behbahani on 18-12-25
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance101
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Story99
Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.
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Brilliant
- By EL on 13-10-16
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Up from Slavery
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-06-01
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- By: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance104
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Story105
Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and of the mighty power of God to accomplish the impossible.
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Incredible. The wonderful power of the Holy Spirit
- By EM on 14-04-18
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-11-08
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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Story48
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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Grateful.
- By Elspeth on 05-09-19
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall263
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Performance225
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Story222
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.
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Perfect Measured Analysis
- By English Teacher on 21-08-21
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Intellectuals and Race
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-05-13
- Language: English
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance69
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Story69
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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Once seen, can it be unseen?
- By Amazon Customer on 16-01-19
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Seeing Like a State
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall307
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Performance247
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Story246
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments", A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.
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An account of grief written from the heart.
- By H on 27-11-17
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A Grief Observed
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-01-06
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Society
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall281
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Performance237
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Story233
This is a study of how intellectuals as a class affect modern societies by shaping the climate of opinion in which official policies develop, on issues ranging from economics to law to war and peace. You will hear a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large.
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Another excellent book by Thomas Sowell.
- By Aaron Ison on 01-12-21
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Intellectuals and Society
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-01-10
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Dr. Dylan Evans on 01-10-23
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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Race and Culture
- A World View
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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Story35
Thomas Sowell is one of America’s leading voices on matters of race and ethnicity. In his book, Inside American Education, he surveyed the ills of American education from the primary grades to graduate school with “an impressive range of knowledge and acuity of observation”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, in his book Race and Culture, he asks the question: “What is it that allows certain groups to get ahead?” and the answer will undoubtedly create debates for years to come.
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Excellent
- By Good Grain on 25-10-19
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Race and Culture
- A World View
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-10-10
- Language: English
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