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Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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interesting but unbalanced and somewhat biased
- De Joseph Sullivan en 11-10-21
- Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
Stunning book
Revisado: 01-15-24
This book is fantastic. Deeply researched, engagingly written, and extraordinarily moral without taking sides or feeling preachy. Highest possible recommendation.
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet—a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites—from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoy David Thomson's books
- De Boxing Fan en 08-05-24
- The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
Stunning
Revisado: 11-27-23
I found this book incredibly moving - and so dazzlingly thought and written. Could not recommend more highly. Astounding scholarship and philosophy.
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Atlantic
- Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 569
Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts Better Than it Finishes
- De Ray en 12-18-10
- Atlantic
- Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
Stunning Book
Revisado: 04-30-22
This is a thrilling book, full of unexpected associations. I highly recommend reading or listening to it.
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The Modern Scholar
- Ideas that Shaped Mankind
- De: Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Narrado por: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Ideas That Shaped Mankind flows from internationally respected historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world. This ability, seen most profoundly in individual, startling moments of genius - or equally startling moments of chance - is what separates humans from the animals and allows humans to re-imagine the world in ever more complex designs.
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1 out of 5 stars
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horrible
- De Alena en 10-26-09
- The Modern Scholar
- Ideas that Shaped Mankind
- De: Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Narrado por: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Very enjoyable, very entertaining and enlightening
Revisado: 01-05-13
Where does The Modern Scholar rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
high
What did you like best about this story?
This course is a huge overview of a lot of ideas, so it does skim the surface of most of them, but it does so in a way that piques your interest to investigate many things further, which is the purpose of the course in the first place.
Have you listened to any of the narrator’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Pay no attention to the people complaining about the narrator's performance. Yes, he has a specifically eccentric Ox-Bridge accent, but that is part of the interest and fun of the course. If you are so fixated on an accent that you miss the content, you probably picked the wrong course.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No. But I enjoyed it a lot.
Any additional comments?
Get it.
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