Alessandro Pagliai

Fantastic book on Narcissism

Revisado: 11-03-22

i found the text to be fantastic, high resolution, very intricate, i recommend this book as an MA, AMFT in CA, graduated summa cum laude.

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Good overview- tip toes around communist china

Revisado: 02-14-21

Good overciew, but the author 100% tip toes about communist china... dont expect any details.. 50million +dead, cultural revolution atrocities, slave labor conditions,. This is a good base tho, theres other texts that can cover the communist/current era..
seems like a shill. reality is he could have said something about communist china.. kind of just stating communist party talking points. its really against the ethic of historians. other than that its okay, generally could have more details. make it a 40 hour audiobook... why not.
did a little google search, found this concerning data, "Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies. "- wiki

if you dont know, the Confucius institute is a communist export propaganda group trying to spread communism to the west, primarily through universities.... He gets paid for this, meaning hes directly benefiting from slave labor in china just for starters...
doing more research, this guys is a mega communist propagandist working to infiltrate us universities with communism-brutal totalitarian ideology. most of this audiobook is fine- just the end-communist china section is sugar coated as if hes trying to avoid going to a gulag....l

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One of the great books

Revisado: 10-01-20

truly one of the great books, concise and dense well delivered, exceptional oration... This is one of the most critically important eras of history/courses on history to understanding this critical "joint" of western civilization and world history. additionally, I think it is imperative for understanding the emergence of late modern government system and ideologies. Especially in these turbulent times, studying the genesis that current ideologies stem from is essential to evaluating their validity and track record. This book provides an incredible synthesis of the historical evolution that like the early middle ages before it, ties in one great era to the next. to understand the ancient world and the middle ages, the early middle ages is essential. to understand the renaissance/age of monarchs early modern period, to the middle/late modern period, this text does a phenomenal job. This text provides exceptional overview for further specialized study. blown away! This text is especially important today in day, late modern period, for understanding the chaos the world seems to be uncontrollably delving into. The historical category of left vs right, when most people don't even realize the united states is completely a liberal political ideology, with the conservatives actually being right leaning liberals, and the liberals being more accurately categorized as progressive liberals. Socialism indeed is on the left side of the spectrum, further left than liberalism as a whole, and now occupying the "left" of the pollical sphere along with the progressive liberals. Literacy as to the history and differences between ideologies, their track records and features are of the most interesting subjects. Additionally, with Socialism taking control over the pollical left of the united states, mass censorship, racial tensions and critical race theory...its interesting how much of a role racism plays in socialism, identarian politics so featured in Nazism and communism. Marxism's fervent growing along with over 110days of rioting as of 10/1/2020, it seems insurgency or revolution is on the horizon. the question of what to do about a brand of socialism that seems to draw strongly between Marxism and Nazism and china exhibits the militarily aggressive and expansionist posturing so characteristic of the socialist nationalist Nazi. again, in summary, This book provides an incredible synthesis of the historical evolution that like the early middle ages before it, ties in one great era to the next. to understand the ancient world and the middle ages, the early middle ages is essential. to understand the renaissance/age of monarchs early modern period, to the middle/late modern period, this text does a phenomenal job. This text provides exceptional overview for further specialized study. blown away!

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Good, unique, and missing some detail for a historyphile

Revisado: 09-14-20

Good, unique, and missing some detail for a historyphile.
I wish she had gone into detail around certain chapters, if one listens to all the texts (on renaissance in this instance) there is a very nice well rounded picture. Nothing is perfect.

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Good work, doesnt rly include early middleages

Revisado: 09-04-20

Good work, doesnt rly include early middleages
Most of france and spain were roman populations the franks and visigoths absorbed into, archeologically, genetically. I found a little potential bias there, but still valid as a potential perspective. None the less i found narrative inconsistencies.

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Good account, with problems 4.5

Revisado: 07-14-20

good account, although there are some problems from someone who loves and studies a lot of history. The geopolitical world of europe and its contributions to interactions in the americas is not a forte of the author, its not necessarily the focus of this text, i was fortunate of having listened to another great courses text on the renaissance, reformation, and rise of nations that went into extreme detail on the subject, i would recommend that course be supplemented with this book for optimal experience, the book is pretty much word for word as typed. Additionally, although the author does highlight specific and important differences between latin america and english america, towards the end of the book, perhaps becomes a little sloppy keeping those differences clear. I also distinctly wish there was more differentiation between different regions of latin america in the authors sweeping generalizations around degree of spanish vs spanish indian black cultural genetic mixing, which differ greatly upon the region. although the author does indeed clarify this in one single sentence. The author clearly presents his favorite or closest to his heart region being brazil, however, many times when he speaks generally, it sounds like he is referring specifically to brazil. The problem with this is of course, brazil is more heavily mixed generally than other major places of latin america. i also take issue to the author speaking of latin america as superficially European, although there are places/regions that are mildly european, latin america is extremely European, especially in all of its major hubs, its not superficially anything, its squarely european, AND its also has other influences, and populations that are mixed with other influences. I felt the end of the book tried glossing over/buttering up the European impact to fit the moralistic questions that are more bold in current times, that ironically grew out of this time period by the people engaging in the actives/subject of this time period, culminating in the enlightenment. thats like trying to burn the books of a great author because such author wrote about problems in those very same books! xD. All in all a good book, 4.5, only slight issues,

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Superb

Revisado: 06-13-20

an exceptional work of research. as a researcher I was very impressed with this course, as a lover of history, I was deeply enriched.

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extraordinary

Revisado: 06-10-20

Top tier top tier top tier top tier top tier top tier this book is incredible highly recommended for reality

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Reprint of existing material

Revisado: 11-28-18

About 3/4 of this work is simply copied from other works of his. Ive listened to this work twice before this book cane out. There are narrations on youtube, they are from another book already released. The only stories not covered are of duncan and egg, and the prequel to that, the mystery knight. All available on youtube.
Wish new work came out, but im very appreciative of jrr martin, grateful for his art. Just know what ur buying, this is more to support him, and share your appreciation.

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O.M.G. what an incredible experience.

Revisado: 10-29-18

One of the best Lectures or collection of information ever. this guy is incredible, his knowledge and critical thinking are top tier, along with his oratory ability, his communication style is phenomenal.. so majestic and tragic.

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