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Mina's Matchbox
- A Novel
- De: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder - translator
- Narrado por: Nanako Mizushima
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable
- De unco en 09-03-24
- Mina's Matchbox
- A Novel
- De: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder - translator
- Narrado por: Nanako Mizushima
Enchanting story
Revisado: 11-03-24
At first I wasn’t sure I would enjoy this novel, but soon I was under its spell. The family and the world conjured by Ogawa seem both magical and true. Who would like it? I can’t imagine who would not.
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Helgoland
- Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
- De: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 501
One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 23-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The cat is not sleeping
- De Anonymous en 05-30-21
- Helgoland
- Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
- De: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
The Quantum Revolution "for poets"
Revisado: 01-13-24
Remember those college courses in math and science for non-majors (“poets”)? Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution is an exposition of the quantum revolution for someone more grounded in humanities than in the sciences or mathematics (the only way in which I qualify as a “poet”). I found Helgoland both challenging and entrancing.
While Rovelli gestures toward quantum theory’s significance outside the world of theoretical physics, he acknowledges and, in this layperson’s opinion, seems to take pains to avoid what has been called ‘Quantum BS”. He explains quantum theory as a mind-bendingly intriguing alternative view of reality to that provided by classic physics and several thousand years of cultural tradition. Nothing more, nothing less. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle had always seemed to me profound but basic. Now I begin to understand its radical consequences in terms of science and knowledge in general. And I finally understand the fuss about Schrödinger’s cat! The narrator is also superb.
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Power French Accelerated/8 One-Hour Audio Lessons/Complete Written Listening Guide/Tapescript
- De: Mark Frobose
- Narrado por: Mark Frobose
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Want to learn to speak authentic French quickly and easily and have fun in the process? Designed to teach you to speak French while on the go, Power French Accelerated is a refreshingly intense, upbeat and positive 8 hour audio language program whose 144 study units establish a challenging pace and friendly tone that are designed to keep you constantly motivated and learning to speak and understand real spoken French at optimal speed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly Effective! Breaks All Conventions
- De Catherine en 06-14-16
Volume 1 is excellent for practicing French
Revisado: 04-30-19
Power French Accelerated (the first volume) has been extremely helpful for preparing for a trip to Paris. One of the best things about this book is the method of providing "building blocks" to enable beginners to put together their own sentences. I've listened (and repeated) several sections numerous times and am in the process of going through the book again. The pronunciation of the French is very clear. Unfortunately, I didn't find Power French 2, same author, anywhere near as helpful because 1) it repeated quite a few sections of the first book, which I return to anyway, and 2) much of the new material is French slang. I don't need to know how to say "He is P.O'd", etc. I returned Power French 2 before I had a chance to review it, so here you go.
I'm not sure how well this book would work for someone without a little background in French (I took one semester in college many, many years ago), but it has been excellent for me.
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