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The World as I See It
- De: Albert Einstein
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed the narrator
- De Milena Pritel en 03-29-25
- The World as I See It
- De: Albert Einstein
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
The brilliant mathematician espouses pacifism.
Revisado: 12-28-24
Clearly written prior to World War II, Einstein rails against the impending Nazi regime and their warlike posturing. The overall impression for me is one of a radical pacifist, pushing his boulder of non-aggression up a mountain, as Sisyphus might, while the mountain was crumbling beneath him. Also interesting are his opinions specific to his being a Jew and a German, those two realities being in stark contrast in the years leading up to World War II.
The focus of his writing here is less about mathematics, physics, and science, than it is about his idealism. Einstein seems to have had a deep suspicion of what the Nazis might do with his Theory of Relativity a decade before the Manhattan Project succeeded in splitting the atom.
Interestingly, after the War, Einstein wrote, "We must not condemn man because his conquest of the forces of nature have been exploited for destructive purposes. Rather, the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man's moral development". Today we owe him a great debt of gratitude, no only for his math, but because he was a pacifist and not a Nazi.
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Agricola, Germania, A Dialogue Concerning Oratory
- De: Tacitus
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
These three vibrant texts show different sides of the Roman historian Tacitus. Agricola was a successful general and Governor of Britain (77-83CE), a task which he carried out with firmness and probity. Tacitus' account of Germania shows a very different land with its many tribes, their habits and qualities in a strongly rural and resistant environment. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, by contrast, is placed decidedly at the heart of Roman culture, a survey of rhetoric and the art of eloquence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- De That Chap en 12-28-24
- Agricola, Germania, A Dialogue Concerning Oratory
- De: Tacitus
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
Revisado: 12-28-24
The section on Agricola is compelling and interesting. Likewise, the section on Germania gives a splendid description of that territory and the tribes which inhabited it in Roman times. A corresponding map would be tremendously helpful to visualize what Tacitus describes, but I suppose that is the drawback of audio books.
The section on Oratory is interesting, and describes well the finer points which separate that lost art from mere speech, but listening grows tedious after his point has already been made. I imagine that the original in Latin would be required reading to understand how the great orators left their marks upon history, but alas.
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