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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- De: Annabelle Hirsch
- Narrado por: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Vitrol & fascination
- De Kealani en 04-04-24
Vitrol & fascination
Revisado: 04-04-24
What a "broad" romp through women's story. There's so much great information here. Alas, alas there is a whopping dose of vitriolic hatred of men, the past, the church. Instead of relating historical past focused on women, every object's essay is colored, biased so strongly. All the author ends up only saying is how lucky none of us lived in that horrible, miserable past, how we would have suffered. I prefer my history to relate how fascinating humans are in their variety and how interestingly we've striven and struggled and pulled ourselves forward.
Marvelously, the book is still a great listen. Magnificently, each 101 object's essay is read by different women drawn from all aspects of our culture. Each woman brings a great deal to her narration. All together, they are a joy.
Listener beware: rape and other acts of violence against women are vividly described. Hearing may be uncomfortable or disturbing.
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Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter
- Pinter & Martin Why It Matters, Book 17
- De: Amy Brown
- Narrado por: Alice Allan
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
A startlingly large number of women who want to breastfeed have to stop before they are ready, leaving them feeling a range of negative emotions, including grief, anger, guilt, shame, and frustration. They often blame themselves. But in a society that places little value on breastfeeding and mothers' feelings, their painful stories are often swept under the carpet to the detriment of women's mental health and experience of new motherhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely revolutionary read!!!
- De Sydnee en 04-25-24
- Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter
- Pinter & Martin Why It Matters, Book 17
- De: Amy Brown
- Narrado por: Alice Allan
Impact and healing
Revisado: 02-12-24
My Breast feeding trauma was 30 years ago, but is never behind me. I had sadness and heartache that no one around me understood. I needed this book-listen like a blood transfusion. Hearing validation and experiences of other mothers lifted my pain and restored my heart.
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Agatha Christie
- An Elusive Woman
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Lucy Worsley
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 456
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to rarely seen personal letters and papers, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delight and a revelation
- De theenglishmajor en 12-02-22
- Agatha Christie
- An Elusive Woman
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Lucy Worsley
Multi-fascited view!
Revisado: 12-23-22
Hurrah! Lucy Worsley engages even the long time Christie Lover. Whatever you thought you knew about Agatha will be augmented, refreshed & polished.
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The Museum Podcast Special: Sir Hans Sloane
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
In 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection of over 70,000 objects to the nation, founding the British Museum’s collection, and those that would become the British Library and Natural History Museum. His collection spanned from natural history specimens to ancient sculpture, plants and contemporary 18th-century objects. But Sloane’s collecting is tied closely to colonialism, empire and slavery – his family profited from sugar plantations in Jamaica worked by enslaved people, and some of the objects in his collection were also collected with assistance from enslaved people. ...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Conversation Hijacked
- De Kealani en 04-30-22
Conversation Hijacked
Revisado: 04-30-22
This hour plus was really an important, necessary, cogent Swim into ideas of how important it is for today's museums to make their outreach as broad spanning across lines of age, race, background and politics as Sir Hans Sloane's foundational collection has been to the four outstanding museums which benefit from it.
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Rächende Geister
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Susanne Schröder
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Mord im Land der Pharaonen: Als Renisenb nach langer Abwesenheit ins Haus ihres Vaters, des Totenpriesters Imhotep, zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Mysteriöse Todesfälle verbreiten Angst und Schrecken.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Agatha invents the historical novel?
- De Kealani en 09-16-21
- Rächende Geister
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Susanne Schröder
Agatha invents the historical novel?
Revisado: 09-16-21
Murder at the Manor. Just in Egypt before the Second Kingdom . Agatha gets it right because the puzzle is tricky, the dialogue lures the reader downstairs and up, and the historical information is as perfect as only the member of an archaeological team can make it. Sorry, I don't trust my kinder Deutsch to write this properly in the German.
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1
- The Man Who Got Away
- De: Lise Pearlman
- Narrado por: Lise Pearlman
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Astonishingly more key evidence is accessible today than was presented at the death penalty trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnap/murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. You get to judge for yourself who committed the "crime of the century". This shocking but true story is told in dozens of short, riveting chapters you can't put down. In the depths of the Depression, millions worldwide followed every twist and turn of the Lindbergh baby kidnap/murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, not great, needs to be abridged
- De Buretto en 07-11-21
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1
- The Man Who Got Away
- De: Lise Pearlman
- Narrado por: Lise Pearlman
Solution to all the clues
Revisado: 09-03-21
Loved it! It's the most perfectly crafted explaination of ALL the details. And am so relieved to have made it to the end without having to hear that Alexis Carrell actually ate the baby.
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The Riddle of the Rosetta
- How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- De: Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology - that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fasinating!
- De Kealani en 02-10-21
- The Riddle of the Rosetta
- How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- De: Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
Fasinating!
Revisado: 02-10-21
Beautifully thorough examination of this momentous recapturing of humanity's story. The narrator took a little getting used to. He seemed to fall often into the cadence of a 1930s radio announcer. But as he is relating such excitement and discovery, it works.
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How Paris Became Paris
- The Invention of the Modern City
- De: Joan DeJean
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
At the start of the 17th century, Paris was known for a few monuments, but it had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like many European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But within a century, Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we now know. Most people associate the signature characteristics of Paris with the 19th century. Joan DeJean demonstrates that the Parisian model for urban space was in fact invented two centuries earlier, when the first full design for the French capital was implemented.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The text refers to illustrations
- De Mary en 06-29-14
- How Paris Became Paris
- The Invention of the Modern City
- De: Joan DeJean
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
Sparkling
Revisado: 11-26-18
Fascinating, chrisp history connects the various developments and inventions which made Paris the City of Light and every travelers mecca. Blessed with perfect French, the Reader delivers every noun and nuance so beautifully as to truly complement the flowing threads of this history.
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In Broad Daylight
- The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets
- De: Father Patrick Desbois
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 79
In The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II, based on wartime documents, interviews with locals, and the application of modern forensic practices on long-hidden gravesites. Nearly a decade of further work by his team, drawing on interviews with 5,000 neighbors of the Jews, has resulted in stunning new findings about the extent and nature of the genocide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! From Silence to Hair-Raising Details
- De deb en 01-24-18
- In Broad Daylight
- The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets
- De: Father Patrick Desbois
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Astonishing!
Revisado: 09-02-18
Absolutely unique, powerful, and highly disturbing information illuminates what used to be thought of as having happened in secret. As difficult as it is to learn details of the holocaust, the tone of the author detracts. For bless this dear priest, he waxes on quite incredulous that everybody was guilty and victimized, complicit and compromised in carrying out this "final solution". Still no other holocaust history book I've read in my forty reading years has come close to providing this detailed and painfully intimate account of the brutal and senseless "action". It is mandatory reading for anyone who hopes to maintain his humanity, but is absolutely not for children or the very delicate.
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Those Wild Wyndhams
- Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
- De: Claudia Renton
- Narrado por: Claudia Renton
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
They were confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, their lives entwined with the most celebrated and scandalous figures of the day, from Oscar Wilde to Henry James. They were the lovers of great men - or men of great prominence... They lived in a world of luxurious excess, a world of splendor at 44 Belgrave Square and later at the even more vast Clouds, the exquisite Wiltshire house on 4,000 acres, the "house of the age", designed in 1876 by the visionary architect Philip Webb - the model for Henry James' The Spoils of Poynton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SLOW START BUT STICK WITH THIS ONE
- De The Louligan en 01-22-19
- Those Wild Wyndhams
- Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
- De: Claudia Renton
- Narrado por: Claudia Renton
Powerful Women
Revisado: 08-06-18
After having read about these sisters and their families on the periferie of so many other histories and biographies, it is magical to have a whole great read devoted to just them.
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