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  • It's Better Than It Looks

    Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

    Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more.Yet this narrative misses something important: by ... Leer más

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  • The Progress Paradox

    How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

    In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it is the subject of this book.Between contemporary ... Leer más

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  • Sonic Boom

    Globalization at Mach Speed

    What can a spell-checker tell you about economic trends? Why is the world’s supply of ideas about to double? What did America get right in the nineteenth century that it’s getting wrong in the twenty-first? If Karl Marx were alive today, would he be hosting a show on Fox News?These are just a few of the provocative questions asked by Sonic Boom, a (mainly) optimistic look at the near future. Sonic ... Leer más

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  • The Blue Age

    How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It

    The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world’s waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age.For decades, the Navy has stood sentinel over crucial waterways, ensuring safe passage of goods from nearly all nations. The result is the longest phase of peace on the waters since the Phoenicians, with rising living standards, more (total) ... Leer más

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  • The Game's Not Over

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    Is there anything more universally American than NFL football?Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national networks, subsidized by public funds and popular from Mount Rainier to Miami Beach. The 2015 Super Bowl, a thriller between the Patriots and Seahawks, was the most-watched program in the history of television, with more than a third of the country ... Leer más

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  • The King of Sports

    Why Football Must Be Reformed

    Gridiron football is the king of sports – it's the biggest game in the strongest and richest country in the world. In The King of Sports, Easterbrook tells the full story of how football became so deeply ingrained in American culture. Both good and bad, he examines its impact on American society.The King of Sports explores these and many other topics:* The real harm done by concussions (it's not ... Leer más

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  • Warum die Welt einfach nicht untergeht

    Sieben Endzeitszenarien und wie wir sie abwenden können

    Traducido por Karsten Petersen ...
    Die Zukunft scheint düster zu sein: Der Klimawandel bedroht das Leben auf der Erde, der soziale Zusammenhalt bröckelt, und unsere Demokratien sind in Gefahr. Alles kein Grund zum Verzweifeln, sagt Gregg Easterbrook, denn es steht besser um die Welt, als wir denken! Die Menschheit findet immer wieder kreative Antworten auf drängende Probleme der Zeit, und die meisten ökologischen, sozialen und ... Leer más

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  • The Here and Now

    A Novel

    Carter Morris is a high-priced corporate lawyer, negotiating the class-action suit of a lifetime which will result in a massive settlement. As he ponders his sellout, he relives significant moments of his youth, literally. From air raid drills to his arrest for protesting, his memories pull him out of present time and back into the past.Carter tracks down his childhood best friend, the college ... Leer más

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  • The Leading Indicators

    A Novel

    Tom Perrotta meets David Brooks in The Leading Indicators--a powerful modern parable about one American family's fall from grace during the recessionMargo and Tom Helot have the perfect life. He works in finance; she's an enterprising stay-at-home mom. They inhabit a fully redecorated home complete with expensive his-and-hers cars in the drive and situated in the peaceful, leafy suburb of a major ... Leer más

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    The Blue Age

    How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It

    Narrado por Joseph Bearor ...

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    9 hora 55 minutos

    The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world’s waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age.For decades, the Navy has stood sentinel over crucial waterways, ensuring safe passage of goods from nearly all nations. The result is the longest phase of peace on the waters since the Phoenicians, with rising living standards, more (total) ... Leer más

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    It's Better Than It Looks

    Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

    Narrado por Oliver Wyman ...

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    14 hora 18 minutos

    Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more.Yet this narrative misses something important: by ... Leer más

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    The Progress Paradox

    How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

    Narrado por Jonathan Marosz ...

    Completo

    11 hora 17 minutos

    In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it is the subject of this book.Between contemporary ... Leer más

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