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Syria and the Assad Family: The History Behind Bashar al-Assad's Rise to Power and the Civil War
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Phillip J Mather
- Duración: 1 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
The events of the Arab Spring have come to be overshadowed by the civil war in the Arabic-speaking nation of Syria, which has been ruled throughout the 21st century by Bashar al-Assad. Though he had not planned on ruling Syria, several events conspired to make Bashar the successor of his father, Hafez. Though the West frequently looked for signs that Bashar might be a reformer, due in part to his formerly popular Western wife, Assad remained part of a critical alliance with Iran and the sub-state groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor book
- De Basel en 01-15-23
Great Book
Revisado: 10-01-16
Very interesting introduction to the war in Syria and the al-Assad family. This book tells you about the Assads as well as modern Syrian history in a fascinating way. The worst thing about the book is that it is way too short, I would have enjoyed listening to this topic for ten hours to gain a deeper understanding and not just the basic facts, though find it hard to find any more extensive book on this topic.
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- De: Svante Pääbo
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 781
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 692
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 696
A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent science tale
- De Neuron en 01-19-15
- Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- De: Svante Pääbo
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
Insight into the science world
Revisado: 08-28-16
In this book you get to follow Svante Pääbo and his team of scientist in their efforts to map the Neanderthal genome. It is a combined biography of Svante and the development, methods and findings of contemporary genetics. The majority of the really fascinating discoveries of today's genetics, anthropology and related fields come by the end of the book after you have had the opportunity to get more insight into the fields.
I would strongly recommend a basic knowledge of biology or at least catching up with foundation facts such as the cell, mitochondria, DNA, amino acids, proteins and RNA before starting to listen to this book. This is not a book for someone who wants easy understandable knowledge of the life and world of the Neanderthals and early modern humans. Though I am a bit of a amateur science nerd, I very much enjoyed listening to it! I feel as though I have gain a deeper understanding of both the origins of humans and microbiology as well as the scientific process.
I am from Sweden and the narrator has (understandably) a very strange way of pronouncing the name of Svantes son, I did not until the end of the book realise that it was the quiet ordinary Swedish name Rune! [Rune-ae]
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