
Unnatural Selection
Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
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Mara Hvistendahl
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Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in 10 years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time these children reach adulthood, their generation will have 24 million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval.
Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.
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An Epic Book by Award-Winning Author
- De morton en 10-31-11
De: Patrick French
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This Noble Land
- My Vision For America
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Arthur Addison
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation - racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system - as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our "outstanding success". First published shortly before Michener's death, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era, infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime.
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A startling realization
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-15
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Disintegration
- The Splintering of Black America
- De: Eugene Robinson
- Narrado por: Alan Bomar Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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Written for Popular Consumption
- De Catherine S. Read en 06-03-11
De: Eugene Robinson
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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All the Single Ladies
- Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
- De: Rebecca Traister
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton, Rebecca Traister - introduction
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation.
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Excellent book, destroyed by narration
- De Theresa Holleran en 03-06-16
De: Rebecca Traister
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The End of Men
- And the Rise of Women
- De: Hanna Rosin
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Men have been the dominant sex since - well, the dawn of mankind. And yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely gaining on men; they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure. Already "the end of men" - the phrase Rosin coined - has entered the lexicon as indelibly as Simone de Beauvoir’s "second sex", Betty Friedan’s "feminine mystique", Susan Faludi’s "backlash", and Naomi Wolf’s "beauty myth" have.
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Great book, don't care for the reader's style
- De Darren en 12-05-12
De: Hanna Rosin
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- De: Daniel Tudor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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Amazing book
- De Antoine en 12-14-18
De: Daniel Tudor
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Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- De: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time - the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: How do we live and die? - and the visionary mastermind behind it.
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Fabulously insightful read!
- De Dr. Jack E. Fincham en 10-08-15
De: Jeremy N. Smith
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- De: Tom Gjelten
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
De: Tom Gjelten
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A Strange Stirring
- 'The Feminine Mystique' and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Diane Cardea
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
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Good histroy and well written
- De Hannah Lasher en 06-18-16
De: Stephanie Coontz
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Excellent Daughters
- The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
- De: Katherine Zoepf
- Narrado por: Katherine Zoepf
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals.
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Best book on Middle East written this decade
- De Zuzana B en 07-02-17
De: Katherine Zoepf
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Angry White Men
- American Masculinity at the End of an Era
- De: Michael Kimmel
- Narrado por: Aaron Williamson
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced the winner, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he didn't live in "a traditional America anymore". He was joined by others who bellowed their grief on the talk radio airwaves, the traditional redoubt of angry white men. Why were they so angry?
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Interesting book; Wrong reader
- De Carolina A. Miranda en 05-02-18
De: Michael Kimmel
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No Escape
- The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
- De: Nury Turkel
- Narrado por: Stewart Lang
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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Powerfully Provocative
- De Amazon Customer en 06-01-22
De: Nury Turkel
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- David Graham
- 01-17-20
my next toastmasters speech!
this has really opened my eyes to a different perspective on abortion and I'll use it as my next Toastmasters speech topic
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- Seth P Dow
- 07-30-15
Interesting idea but...
Overall a great insight into the complex topic of gender imbalance. Some parts of the book end up feeling like long lists of the same phenomenon, asia has a problem, Vietnam
Has a problem, India has a problem... The books ends well in a summary of the issues that are a result of gender selection.
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