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Essays on Excess
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Chloe Cannon
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Emily Mester
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What if we explored our relationship to consumption with the same depth and feeling we use to tell stories of great loves and losses?
Americans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restaurant. In American Bulk, Emily Mester intertwines cultural critique and personal history to explore how the things we buy, eat, amass, and discard become an intimate part of our lives. With humor and sharp intellect, she reflects on the joys and anxieties of family Costco trips, how a seasonal stint at Ulta Beauty taught her the insidious art of the sale, and what it means to get Mall Sad. In a nuanced examination of diet culture and fatness, Mester recounts her teenage summer at fat camp and the unexpected liberation she finds there. Finally, she ventures to Storm Lake, Iowa, to reckon with her grandmother's abandoned hoard, excavating the dysfunction that lies at the heart of her family's obsession with stuff. American Bulk introduces listeners to a striking new literary talent from the American heartland, one who dares to ask us to regard consumption not with guilt but with grace and empathy.
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A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie? Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lessons from around the world
- De John en 02-08-25
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Waste Wars
- The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
- De: Alexander Clapp
- Narrado por: Greg Lockett
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writer of awful reality
- De Tracie B. en 04-15-25
De: Alexander Clapp
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Girl on Girl
- How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
- De: Sophie Gilbert
- Narrado por: Sophie Gilbert
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress. Sophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the energy of third-wave and “riot grrrl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Millennial women needed this book.
- De Nina Sreshta en 06-08-25
De: Sophie Gilbert
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- De: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 942
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 781
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 775
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the listener, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the true heir w.g. sebald
- De Thomas en 12-23-21
De: Benjamin Labatut, y otros
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Cabin
- Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
- De: Patrick Hutchison
- Narrado por: Patrick Hutchison
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a rundown, off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years of renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of construction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable read. no see, some F-bombs Great experience
- De Richelle's Music en 04-23-25
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