A. T. Zuniga
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The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations
- De: Andrew C. Fix, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Andrew C. Fix
- Duración: 24 h y 17 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 843
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 738
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 729
Between 1348 and 1715, western Europe was fraught with turmoil, beset by the Black Plague, numerous and bitter religious wars, and frequent political revolutions and upheavals. Yet the Europe that emerged from this was vastly different from the Europe that entered it. By the start of the 18th century, Europe had been revitalized and reborn in a radical break with the past that would have untold ramifications for human civilization.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Many mistakes!
- De FireFairy en 05-11-15
Patchy
Revisado: 04-15-24
Half the lectures constitute a great course about the Reformation, the other half are shallow attempts at far too many topics in too little time.
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Fi
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lifting the fog
- De Nina J. en 04-20-24
- Fi
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
Sweet, deep, perfect
Revisado: 04-15-24
I have been half in love with Alexandra Fuller since the first book of hers I read. This one is different, of course, because of its subject matter. She again opens up completely and frankly, again entertains and instructs, but this time goes far deeper, on a delicate episode of her life that resonates of course to many readers, whether we may have gone through something similar, or we simply aspire to some small portion of her intelligence and sensibility. Thank you, Bo.
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Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- De: Brian Groom
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 2
This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the North—waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the North have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre
- De A. T. Zuniga en 07-19-22
- Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- De: Brian Groom
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
Mediocre
Revisado: 07-19-22
I was thoroughly disappointed. The book is really poor on anything before the XVI century. It is also in some portions more a history of England with isolated mentions to the North every once in a while, rather than a volume about the North. It also misses on giving causes for issues, focusing ok inventorying events and unconnected data.
The book absolutely lacks structure, reading more like a sequence of (sometimes interesting) isolated facts and anecdotes, rather than a book. There is no logic to the way the chapters are organized, and none again within chapters, were often one feels that the paragraphs have been scrambled at random. The point in Chapter 28 where the author jumps from the Manchester United plane crash in 1958, to dance halls in the 1920s, to Churchill getting elected, in consecutive sentences, illustrates this quite amusingly.
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The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18,152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 16,256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,192
Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I can't listen to it.
- De Kindle Customer en 10-26-20
- The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
Better than Netflix
Revisado: 03-05-21
There are a few differences in text (and underlying plot and character struggles) between the novel and the Netflix script. The book is much better, not surprisingly
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