
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
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Andrew Selee
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There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures.
Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has made it a more educated, prosperous, and innovative nation than most Americans realize. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy.
From the Mexican entrepreneur in Missouri who saved the US nail industry, to the city leaders who were visionary enough to build a bridge over the border fence so the people of San Diego and Tijuana could share a single international airport, to the connections between innovators in Mexico's emerging tech hub in Guadalajara and those in Silicon Valley, Mexicans and Americans together have been creating productive connections that now blur the boundaries that once separated us from each other.
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- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- De: Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again - this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership.
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Paul Kagame is a dictator, not a savior.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-21
De: Patricia Crisafulli, y otros
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Startup Rising
- The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
- De: Christopher M. Schroeder
- Narrado por: Christopher M. Schroeder
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and bombings, while Syria descends into civil war. But in the midst of it all, a quieter revolution has begun to emerge, one that might ultimately do more to change the face of the region: Entrepreneurship.
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Inspiring stories
- De Raafat Zaini en 02-13-15
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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We have met the enemy and it is us.... Pogo
- De Soudant en 09-16-11
De: Thomas L. Friedman, y otros
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Start-Up Nation
- The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
- De: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?
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Interesting and worth the time
- De Nili en 12-10-09
De: Dan Senor, y otros
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The Dragon's Gift
- The Real Story of China in Africa
- De: Deborah Brautigam
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. But China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy.
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The Book Is Too Much To Digest
- De DING MING YING 丁明英 en 05-15-20
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The World Is Flat
- Further Updated and Expanded
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?
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If you like cliches...
- De Jonathan Shultz en 09-08-07
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Plutocrats
- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- De: Chrystia Freeland
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, but within the wealthiest 1 percent of our nation-as the merely wealthy are left behind by the rapidly expanding fortunes of the new global super-rich. Forget the 1 percent; Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at break-neck speed.
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Good Storytelling but ... analysis is "eh'
- De Susan en 11-04-12
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Alibaba
- The House That Jack Ma Built
- De: Duncan Clark
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector.
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Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"
- De Tristan en 09-02-16
De: Duncan Clark
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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The Prosperity Paradox
- How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
- De: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times best-seller How Will You Measure Your Life, and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change.
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Simplistic, lack of insights
- De D. Cameron en 05-24-21
De: Clayton M. Christensen, y otros
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Red Carpet
- Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
- De: Erich Schwartzel
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry.
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Why modern cinema is a comic experience.
- De Pasternak en 03-11-22
De: Erich Schwartzel
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From Silk to Silicon
- The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
- De: Jeffrey E. Garten
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it, and how their achievements continue to shape our world today.
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Fantastic Journey
- De Michael en 06-06-16
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The Third Industrial Revolution
- How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
- De: Jeremy Rifkin
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Author Jeremy Rifkin presents an insider's account of the next great economic era: the Third Industrial Revolution, when a new ethic of sustainability will revolutionize the world we live in.
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Lamenting "The Third Industrial Revolution"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Jeremy Rifkin
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- Lee
- 04-02-19
must read
loads of informations, very enjoyable with positive view of mexico, most other books reveal the negative sides of mexico
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- Diligent shopper in California
- 05-16-19
Timely book
I enjoyed the book’s ideas, arguments and themes.
I am bilingual in English and Spanish, but sometimes I could not understand what narrator was stating. Unfortunately, the narrator, who is an outstanding speaker in English, could not pronounce Spanish words and phrases, so many times I could not understand what he was referring to. Bad pronunciation of frequent terms in Spanish was most distracting and at times confusing. I actually do not think this is the narrator’s fault at all, instead the supervisor on this recording should have helped correct miss pronunciations.
It is a great ironic that a book about Mexico and the United States has an audio version that sounds very gringo in the pronunciation of Spanish words. I think it is contrary to the themes of the book to have this flaw.
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- D Smith
- 04-15-19
Very interesting view into an evolving Mexico
Well written and narrated. Some interesting facts that seem to be overlooked by the press and politicos in the US, but also quite a bit of wishful thinking.
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- Tom Schultz
- 09-16-18
Great content, annoying performance
Great survey of the relationship between the two countries, but performance had a bizarre, jumpy cadence, and pronunciation of Spanish words was annoyingly gringo at best and completely incomprehensible at worst.
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- Haydon Hill
- 08-04-19
A mandatory read, now more than ever
Fascinating and fair examination of the complicated but blossoming relationship between the U.S. and Mexico.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-20
Terrible Reading Performance
I found the content of this book to be quite in-depth and well detailed. However, the reading was terrible, including mispronunciation of common Spanish words like the city Merida. The reader also read every sentence as if it was an earth-shattering piece of information that was spoken to convince the listener of the veracity of the fact. The result, sadly, was that the reading made the text sound a little pollyannish. I almost gave up on it due to the reader, but kept listening as the information till itself was interesting and just what I was looking for. I’d recommend the author consider doing the readings himself in the future, instead of having someone else do them.
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- Ricky guy
- 12-29-20
Fun and knowledgeable read
This book was one of the most enjoyable books I’ve heard on audible it’s full of factual information from economics, politics and culture.. as a Mexican American it makes me feel proud of my roots... By now knowing this information it gives me a good idea when it comes to business since Hispanics are a growing population in the states.. I’ll use it to my advantage thanks.. also the author has such an opened mind and has lived rich culture life..
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