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Emile or On Education
- De: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Foxley - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
- Duración: 22 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Published in 1762, it had a profound impact on the approach to the education and upbringing of a child, through infancy, childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. This was partly fuelled by the format – for Rousseau presents before us the boy Emile, taking him through the various stages of life, and as Emile becomes a young man, introducing a female counterpart, Sophie. This device personalises what would otherwise be a more formal philosophical presentation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration
- De Harry Ballan en 07-07-24
- Emile or On Education
- De: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Foxley - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
Excellent narration
Revisado: 07-07-24
Rousseau’s answer to Plato’s Republic, Emile is much more than a parenting treatise or a Bildungsroman. And Audible has provided an excellent reading of an excellent translation.
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- De: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrado por: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent
- De Amazon Customer en 03-07-25
- The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- De: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrado por: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Seroca Davis, Jay Bernard, Michael Balogun, Roy McMillan
Very jarring voices
Revisado: 03-12-24
The sample gives you one attractive voice, but the subsequent voices include some that are shrill and many that overact in a way that is unpleasant. The narrators change OFTEN, so that the intro of a story is told by a different speaker from the storyteller. Often the gender is mismatched. Really is disturbing. I hope this is re-recorded one day. It’s a great translation.
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People Love Dead Jews
- Reports from a Haunted Present
- De: Dara Horn
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 646
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 582
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture - and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly anti-Semitic attacks - Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: She was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wrong Narrator for this Book
- De MYK en 01-04-22
- People Love Dead Jews
- Reports from a Haunted Present
- De: Dara Horn
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
Stunning book
Revisado: 02-13-24
No matter what you are expecting, this book will surprise you. Captivating, punchy, wise.
Sands’ reading, too, is superb.
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A Macat Analysis of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- De: Sulaiman Hakemy
- Narrado por: Macat.com
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
David Graeber's 2011 book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, seeks to overturn hundreds of years of economic theory, specifically the idea that people have a natural inclination to trade with each other and that the concept of money developed spontaneously to overcome the inefficiencies of a bartering system. The US-born social activist uses his training as an anthropologist to trace the histories of money and of debt and reaches the conclusion that money was in fact created by the state as a means of exploiting the poor.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very thin overview
- De Harry Ballan en 08-12-20
Very thin overview
Revisado: 08-12-20
The author repeats his main observations, having to go with Graeber’s anti-capitalism, a dozen or more times. He gives you no guidance on those dense middle chapters about the Axial Age, Middle Ages, etc. The only content he refers to is all from the first or second chapter (about the barter myth). I would have wanted someone who could in an hour and a half address some of the other issues Graeber discusses.
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Conversational German Dialogues
- 50 German Conversations & Short Stories (Conversational German Dual Language Books, Volume 1)
- De: Touri Language Learning
- Narrado por: Stephen Bounds
- Duración: 3 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In this audiobook, we have compiled 50 German stories along with their translations, providing new German speakers with the necessary tools to begin effectively studying how to set up a meeting, how to check into a hotel, and even what to say during an emergency. Our German dialogues get straight to the point, saving you precious time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Educational, engaging and super helpful!
- De Lewis D. Conrad en 06-23-20
- Conversational German Dialogues
- 50 German Conversations & Short Stories (Conversational German Dual Language Books, Volume 1)
- De: Touri Language Learning
- Narrado por: Stephen Bounds
Terrible book
Revisado: 06-06-20
The voices the narrator uses are silly and cartoonish. It is impossible to listen to.
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