Felix Cavazos
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Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scientifically explain why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle.
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Good book - just not a good one for Audible
- By Mark on 02-01-20
- Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Good information that misses the mark
Reviewed: 11-27-21
Good narration. Bad book for audio due to the graphic attachments and the many times it refers to "one study showed.." without stating the source.
The concept of dividing people into 3 (almost 4) categories is interesting but sadly the scope falls into reductionism simplifying relationships through a black and white scope.
Very apologetic about feeling proud about one's insecurities and potentially harmful to people with low self-esteem.
It bluffs too much about being the culmination of more than 20 years of research by so many scientists that they're not even able to be thankful textually to all of them but shamefully applies the concepts to simplistic arguments on couples too many times. By the time you finish the book you'll be tired from hearing of fictional couples.
Very snake-oil-like it resembles astrology blogs pretending to be the solution to all problems with a bonus pretentious review of the movie 500 days with Summer at the end.
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- By: Stephen Hawking, Professor Kip Thorne - foreword
- Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon - foreword, Lucy Hawking - afterword
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the best-selling author of A Brief History of Time and arguably the most famous scientist of our age, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a profound, accessible and timely reflection on the biggest questions in science. Professor Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist, an influential author and thinker and a great popular communicator.
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interesting but not deep enough
- By Felipe Gordillo Corvalán on 12-07-18
Wonderful
Reviewed: 03-10-21
Perfect pick as my first Hawking's book.
Great performance and very understandable for a young adult.
I don't have a long attention span so at times I had to rewing a minute to grasp the concept but I enjoyed 100% all of the book.
By the end I was marveled at Stephen Hawking's wonderful empathy and capacity.
Hawking's name is a household term and even though I knew of him, his absence never hit me until now. I couldn't but shed a few tears after having known what a great human being we lost 3 years ago.
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
- By Douglas on 02-06-14
- Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
The author bit more than he could chew.
Reviewed: 03-08-21
The whole zero/non-zero dynamics seem like an unnecessary filter through pass topics that the author talks about too casually.
I recommend reading/listening the last 2 chapters if you're not sure about this one.
The first half of the book contains an entertaining history lesson of the complexity of human logic but the second part of the book you cringe from time to time when the author pats himself on the back when subtly mocks religion or forces an analogy to stress a point.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
Perfect if this is your cup of tea
Reviewed: 12-30-20
I loved the topic so I enjoyed the listen. But it's long and you may feel like in class.
There's a few mention of dates that may confuse some listeners but overall the book is easy to understand and enjoyable.
The writer gives each topic its own time so if you don't like the botanical stuff then you may be more interested on the language part at the end fir example.
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