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Myths and Legends
- A Guide to Their Origins and Meanings
- De: Philip Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Hugh Kermode
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin of death in Maori mythology? With vivid retellings of famous legends, Myths and Legends makes it easier than ever before to understand the stories that are central to every culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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data dump
- De Amazon Customer en 12-10-21
- Myths and Legends
- A Guide to Their Origins and Meanings
- De: Philip Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Hugh Kermode
Continuous list of deities but no real story.
Revisado: 07-07-22
This book covers a lot of pantheon and myths naming all of the primary God's, Goddesses, heroes, heroines, etc. BUT it is more of a list read out rather than a more detailed discussion of the varying origins, similarities and history of the people who worshiped these deities.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,199
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,019
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,025
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Badly Abridged
- De Carol L. en 09-19-06
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Published Thesis - Interesting but repetitive
Revisado: 09-03-12
What did you like best about Guns, Germs, and Steel? What did you like least?
This book is really Dr. Diamond's doctoral thesis and is read as such. It is an interesting topic but very repetitive in the material that is covered. The topic period is a little earlier than my usual reading covering prehistoric and neolithic era civilization achievements or milestones. For example, Dr. Diamond constantly refers back to the domestication of crops and animals and does a good job of highlighting why some geographic regions developed faster/slower than others (e.g. East/West vs. North/South migration) whereas he spends less time moving beyond prehistory and into more tangible historical periods. In addition there is only a small section of the book that really details the Guns and Germs section of the thesis, both topically as well as historically, and I found that to be the more interesting as it really combines all of the theoretical aspects of Dr. Diamonds thesis arguments.
Would you be willing to try another book from Jared Diamond? Why or why not?
I would be willing to read another book by Jared Diamond as I found the material to be interesting it's just the facts and the way the "storyline" are presented that needs to be improved.
Did Grover Gardner do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
The reader, Grover Gardner, did a good job reading this rather dry material. After all he was just reading a thesis.
Could you see Guns, Germs, and Steel being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
No.
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