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By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, a deeply felt book about our anxious present tense - and coming to grips with the future.
We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How do we live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what is anybody doing about it?
Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is possessed by these questions. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favoured retreat of billionaires banking on civilisation's collapse. And he bears witness to those places the future has already visited - real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he offers a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination.
Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present moment. With insight, humanity and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?
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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- De Steve King en 07-12-20
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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The Mind Parasites
- The Supernatural, Metaphysical Cult Thriller
- De: Colin Wilson
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
Wilson has blended H. P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow
- De Esmeralda en 09-26-18
De: Colin Wilson
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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In the Land of Good Living
- A Journey to the Heart of Florida
- De: Kent Russell
- Narrado por: Kent Russell
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate".
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wanna be writer and other fools
- De E en 08-11-20
De: Kent Russell
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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Childhood's End
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer, Robert J. Sawyer - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,262
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Food for Thought
- De Kindle Customer en 11-17-08
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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Earning the Rockies
- How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent book that found a great narrator!
- De BotakTree en 03-09-17
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Ishmael
- An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
- De: Daniel Quinn
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,994
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,275
One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged PLEASE!
- De Eric en 01-12-08
De: Daniel Quinn
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The Odd Woman and the City
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another Gornick masterpiece
- De Lo en 01-14-23
De: Vivian Gornick
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Terraform
- Building a Better World
- De: Propaganda
- Narrado por: Propaganda
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
In this deep, challenging, and thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming - creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one - he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite audio book!
- De RobsRecs en 06-20-21
De: Propaganda
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A Bend in the River
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 574
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 386
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- De Lawrence en 01-15-05
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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Wanting
- The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
- De: Luke Burgis
- Narrado por: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 832
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 699
Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the most important books you'll ever read
- De chris boutte en 06-14-21
De: Luke Burgis
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Notes from an Apocalypse
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- sophie
- 01-06-21
this book only serves the author
I feel anyone who gravitates towards this book is already acutely aware of the state of the planet and the mega rich building bunkers etc. I, like the author, have anxieties of how the future looks for my newborn child but I felt this book serves little purpose other than to offer the author some relief. Through voicing his anxieties to the point of exhaustion he can then exhale at the realization that no one knows what will happen, we cannot control the future through worry and to enjoy today. it's well written but perhaps should have stayed a personal therapeutic essay as it is extremely depressing and offers no new information, perspective or direction
by Nick Roberts NOT Sophie Annan
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