Infantilised
How Our Culture Killed Adulthood
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John Sackville
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Keith J. Hayward
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Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsible child in constant need of instruction and protection?
Noticing society's creeping descent into infantilisation is one thing, however understanding the roots and causes of the phenomenon is not quite so easy. But in this topical and vitally important new work, cultural theorist and academic, Dr Keith Hayward, exposes the deep social, psychological and political dangers of a world characterised by denuded adult autonomy.
But importantly Infantilised is no one-dimensional, unsympathetic critique. Brimming with anecdotes and examples that span everything from the normalisation of infantilism on reality TV to the rise of a new class of political 'infantocrat', this comprehensive book also offers an insightful and at times humorous account of infantilism's seductive appeal, and details some suggestions for avoiding some of the pitfalls associated with our increasingly infantilised world.©2024 K.J. Hayward (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK
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In this engaging, accessible account, Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman explore the methods spies actually used in the period, including disguises, invisible inks, and even poisons. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, they show how understanding the tricks and tools of espionage allows us to reimagine well-known stories such as the Babington and Gunpowder plots.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs accompanying PDF
- De Amazon Customer en 09-26-24
De: Pete Langman, y otros
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How Economics Explains the World
- A Short History of Humanity
- De: Andrew Leigh
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
This small book indeed tells a big story. It is the story of capitalism–of how our market system developed. It is the story of the discipline of economics, and some of the key figures who formed it. And it is the story of how economic forces have shaped world history. Why didn’t Africa colonize Europe instead of the other way around? What happened when countries erected trade and immigration barriers in the 1930s? Why did the Allies win World War II? You’ll find answers to these questions and more in How Economics Explains the World.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Rehashed ideas better explained in other books
- De Louislocke en 10-27-24
De: Andrew Leigh
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Why War?
- De: Richard Overy
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled Why War?, it conveyed Freud's conclusion that the "death drive" made any deliverance impossible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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War is Peace
- De Anonymous User en 01-23-25
De: Richard Overy
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The Invention of Good and Evil
- A World History of Morality
- De: Hanno Sauer
- Narrado por: Callum Coates
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history of humanity, covering five million years of our universal moral values, comes at a crucial moment of crisis for those values, and helps to explain how they arose—and why we need them. Modern societies are in crisis: a shared universal morality seems to be a thing of the past. Hanno Sauer explains why this appearance is deceptive: in fact, there are universal values that all people share.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Was good until author got political
- De c0stab en 03-01-25
De: Hanno Sauer
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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast, we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Altered my perception of History
- De IowaGreyhound en 06-25-24
De: Ian Mortimer
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Origin Story
- The Trials of Charles Darwin
- De: Howard Markel
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians.
De: Howard Markel
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All That Glitters
- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
- De: Orlando Whitfield
- Narrado por: Orlando Whitfield
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- De Anonymous User en 09-01-24
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Troubled
- A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
- De: Rob Henderson
- Narrado por: Rob Henderson
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 392
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 366
Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a terrifying threat to progressive world view b.s.
- De Anonymous User en 04-04-24
De: Rob Henderson
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Smoke and Ashes
- Opium's Hidden Histories
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Ranjit Madgavkar
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Research, Terrible Reading
- De Paula de la Cruz en 03-09-24
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Revolusi
- Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: David Van Reybrouck
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid Historical Survey
- De DavidPrestonokwu en 06-05-24
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Reading Genesis
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't finish it
- De Customer en 04-17-24
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Tits Up
- What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts
- De: Sarah Thornton
- Narrado por: Sarah Thornton
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Riotous and galvanizing, Tits Up excavates the diverse truths of mammary glands from the strip club to the operating room, from the nation’s oldest human milk bank to the fit rooms of bra designers. Thornton draws insights from plastic surgeons, lactation consultants, body-positive witches, lingerie models, and “free the nipple” activists to explore the status of breasts as emblems of femininity. She examines how women’s chests have become a billion-dollar business, as well as a stage for debates about race, class, gender, and desire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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diverse perspectives
- De Will en 05-18-24
De: Sarah Thornton
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The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- De: Thomas R. Cech
- Narrado por: Joshua Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA's spectacular powers, to Cech's own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De Auinash Kalsotra en 09-16-24
De: Thomas R. Cech
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The Horse
- A Galloping History of Humanity
- De: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 19 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Timothy C. Winegard’s The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe; when one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the future of humanity was instantly rewritten, placing the reins of destiny firmly in human hands. Since that pivotal day, the horse has carried the history of civilizations on its powerful back.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Virtue signaling on 4 legs
- De K N en 08-25-24
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- De: David Chaffetz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing breath of scope
- De neale aslett en 02-12-25
De: David Chaffetz
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The Whole Story
- Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
- De: John Mackey
- Narrado por: Adam Barr, John Mackey
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 60
Whole Foods Market's cofounder and CEO for forty-four years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its remarkable impact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story about Whole Foods!(up there with Shoe Dog for best business book!)
- De Sachin Dalal en 04-02-25
De: John Mackey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Infantilised
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Lee O. Stokowski
- 09-21-24
A well reasoned and soundly documented thesis
This book (and its concomitant audiobook) is exceptionally well argued. Containing only one pronunciation error in the entirety of the 12 hour audiobook, the narrator brings forth the author’s points in a very well paced and systematic fashion. This book is well worth your time if you find yourself looking around and wondering why everything seems so incredibly childish. It is.
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