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We The People... Are Bad At This

by Robert Bates ...

We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of ... Read more

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We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of
... Read more
Why We Can't Stop Caring.

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything.

by Robert Bates ...

Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

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Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship,
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Why We Can't Stop Caring

Greater Intent, #1

by Robert Bates ...

Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

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Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship,
... Read more
K2, The Savage Mountain

The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

by Charles Houston, Robert Bates ...

When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of ... Read more

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When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of
... Read more
Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Edited by Robert Bates Graber ...

Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s ... Read more

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Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s
... Read more
K2, The Savage Mountain

The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

by Charles Houston, Robert Bates ...

When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of ... Read more

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When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of
... Read more
Black Ink

(Season Changes)

by Robert Bates III Lebaron ...

Black Ink first: this story is about a guy that finds a pen that he thinks will give him a better way of writing. The main character is James Honeycombhis writers name is Alec Pennyway. Its a thrill and takes you down different avenues. The second story Wilshire Boulevard: this story is about a that has a thing for two women. They dump him at the same time since the two years relationship he had ... Read more

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Black Ink first: this story is about a guy that finds a pen that he thinks will give him a better way of writing. The main character is James Honeycombhis writers name is Alec Pennyway. Its a thrill and takes you down different avenues. The second story Wilshire Boulevard: this story is about a that has a thing for two women. They dump him at the same time since the two years relationship he had
... Read more
Plunging to Leviathan?

Exploring the World's Political Future

by Robert Bates Graber ...

"With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a ... Read more

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"With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a
... Read more
Audiobook

An Audio Bundle: Epic & Rough Water

by Greg Child, Stephen Venables, Art Davidson, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, Charles Houston, Maurice Herzog, Robert Bates; Sebastian Junger, Patrick O’Brian, Herman Wouk, Lawrence Beesley0, Steven Callahan1, David Lewis2, FA Worsley3, Samuel Leech4 ...

Narrated by Eric Conger5, Graeme Malcolm6, Graeme Malcolm7, Alan Sklar8, Rick Adamson; George Guidall9, Simon Prebble0, Rick Adamson1 ...

Series series An Audio Bundle
Unabridged

11 hours 10 min

· Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner · ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner · AFIM Indie Award Winner · Independent Publisher Magazine’s ‘IPPY Award’ Finalist. Epic--a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; ... Read more

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· Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner · ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner · AFIM Indie Award Winner · Independent Publisher Magazine’s ‘IPPY Award’ Finalist. Epic--a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen;
... Read more
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We The People... Are Bad At This

A Declaration For Better Judgment About Politics, Promises, And Progress

by Robert Bates ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Asher E ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You care about something real: safer communities, better schools, economic opportunity, freedom, fairness, a future that feels less fragile. Someone offers a plan. The promise sounds convincing. You give it your support.Then the results arrive—and somehow the original promise becomes harder to find.In We the People… Are Bad at This, Robert Bates ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You care about something real: safer communities, better schools, economic opportunity, freedom, fairness, a future that feels less fragile. Someone offers a plan. The promise sounds convincing. You give it your support.Then the results arrive—and somehow the original promise becomes harder to find.In We the People… Are Bad at This, Robert Bates
... Read more
Audiobook

Why We Can't Stop Caring

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything

by Robert Bates ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Eric E, Digital Voice River E, Digital Voice Bob E ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Greater Intent
Unabridged

5 hours 33 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate
... Read more

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Social and Cultural Anthropology

A Very Short Introduction

by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

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If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to
... Read more

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