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  • Slippery Beast

    A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

    "It's part natural history, part true crime, and buckets of slippery, slimy fun. You won't be able to put it down."—The Nature Conservancy"Revelatory—and sometimes shocking... Slippery Beast brings exhaustive research and interviews to bear on a subject of surprising richness."— Wall Street JournalEllen Ruppel Shell's Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature—the eel ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Job

    Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change

    Critically acclaimed journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost--political, economic, social, and personal--of America's mounting anxiety over jobs, and what we can do to regain control over our working lives.Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our wages. Most of us rank so far below the top earners in the country that the "winners" might as well inhabit ... Leer más

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  • Cheap

    The High Cost of Discount Culture

    A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force ... Leer más

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    Slippery Beast

    A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

    Narrado por Coleen Marlo ...

    Completo

    7 hora 37 minutos

    What is it about eels? Depending on who you ask, they are a pest, a fascination, a threat, a pot of gold. Eels emerged some 200 million years ago, weathered mass extinctions and continental shifts, and were once among the world's most abundant freshwater fish. But since the 1970s, their numbers have plummeted. Because eels—as unagi—are another thing: delicious.In Slippery Beast, journalist Ellen ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    The Job

    Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change

    Narrado por Chris Sorensen ...

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    13 hora 21 minutos

    In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose and meaning working in a convenience store chain, to an unemployed autoworker retraining in "advanced manufacturing," Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being—and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and ... Leer más

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    Cheap

    The High Cost of Discount Culture

    Narrado por Lorna Raver ...

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    11 hora 33 minutos

    From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt—and almost everywhere in between—America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time—the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability ... Leer más

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    Overdressed

    The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

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    Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to fast fashion chains like H&M now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are producing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and they've turned clothing into a disposable good. After all, we have little reason to keep ... Leer más

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    Deluxe

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    Luxury was once was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty.It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits.Award-winning journalist ... Leer más

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    Cold Warriors

    Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

    de Duncan White ...
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    24 hora 48 minutos

    A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could ... Leer más

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  • Overdressed

    The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

    “Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.”—Katha PollittCheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenney now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own ... Leer más

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    12 Rules for Life

    An Antidote to Chaos

    Narrado por Jordan B. Peterson ...

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    **OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat are the most valuable things that everyone should know?**Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of ... Leer más

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  • The End of Fashion

    How Marketing Changed the Clothing Game Forever

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    A Wall Street Journal reporter's account of the radical transformation of the fashion industry, "filled with insider details" ( Library Journal).The time when fashion was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by the elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing ... Leer más

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