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The Devil's Best Trick
- How the Face of Evil Disappeared
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Lane Hakel
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Nimble and expertly researched, The Devil’s Best Trick brilliantly melds cultural and historical commentary and a suspenseful true-crime narrative. Randall Sullivan, whose reportage and narrative skill has been called “extraordinary” and “enthralling” by Rolling Stone, takes on a bold task in this book that is both biography of the Devil and a look at how evil manifests in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Patience Required or Bust
- De LK en 06-04-24
- The Devil's Best Trick
- How the Face of Evil Disappeared
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Lane Hakel
Full of fascinating historical detail, but narration is poor
Revisado: 06-09-24
Great content but not well delivered. But the narration sounds so much like AI - robotic, stilted phrasing, mispronunciations - I would have returned the title if the content were any less engaging.
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,081
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 953
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 947
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
- At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
One of the best titles I've purchased in years
Revisado: 05-20-24
The book's title does not do it justice. This is a sweeping work, part history, part biography, part comparitive philosophy -- absolutely fantastic in the way it sets the existentialist movement in context while keeping close to the compelling personal details of the thinkers involved.
The narrator does launch into an awful drawl when reading quotes from Americans that smacks of subtle editorializing, as if Americans are all vacuous cowboys. For all the careful pronunciation of every French location it was also comical that the narrator managed to mispronounce the US state of "Maryland".
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Ice
- From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
- De: Amy Brady
- Narrado por: Jennifer Aquino
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always this way—and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms. In Ice, journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old history of ice in America
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration! Fascinating and well researched topic.
- De Jack Reasoner en 11-03-24
- Ice
- From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
- De: Amy Brady
- Narrado por: Jennifer Aquino
Engaging, well-researched and diverse
Revisado: 06-11-23
Wide-ranging and full of interesting stories and details. Incorporates history and science so you never get too bogged down in one or the other. Also, I now want to experience some of these fancy cocktail ice cubes! Who knew!
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A Plague upon Our House
- My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
- De: Scott W. Atlas MD
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,089
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 985
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 981
When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it- hate it!
- De Chuck Weinberg en 12-01-21
- A Plague upon Our House
- My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
- De: Scott W. Atlas MD
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
If you really believe in "following the science"..
Revisado: 04-22-22
... you should read this. Painstaking explanation and defense of the position against broad lockdowns, supported by data at every turn. The media's spin on this was shameful.
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Until Proven Safe
- The History and Future of Quarantine
- De: Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh
- Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent writing, timely and informative
- De MSE en 07-24-21
- Until Proven Safe
- The History and Future of Quarantine
- De: Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh
- Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio
Great book with narration issues
Revisado: 03-13-22
The narrator has a habit (conscious or not) of changing her voice when narrating quotes. It comes off as cartoonish, making the person being quoted sound like a little bit of a buffoon. Since she does not apply the technique evenly, but instead reserves it for certain speakers, it creates an editorial subtext, suggesting subtly what is to be taken seriously and what is not.
Additionally there are some pronunciation issues, in particular with names in other languages.
Otherwise, great content and very engaging.
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Lithium
- A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
- De: Walter A. Brown
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration and exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement" described, for the first time, lithium's astonishing efficacy at both treating and preventing the recurrence of manic-depressive episodes, and would eventually transform the lives of patients, pharmaceutical researchers, and practicing physicians worldwide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read great information
- De Safe Harbor en 08-17-19
- Lithium
- A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
- De: Walter A. Brown
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
Thorough historical overview
Revisado: 07-20-20
Thorough and interesting history that gets somewhat bogged down with the exhaustive details of one study and researcher after another. Still worth the listen.
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 917
What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison - was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
- Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
Interesting but would be better with less jokes
Revisado: 07-11-20
Humour is a great thing in the right dose, but in this case just about every second sentence the authors insert some eyerolling-type aside, bad pun or catty remark. It eventually gets distracting to the story. But the material is interesting.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56,720
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 48,483
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48,162
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading
- De Blue Zion en 12-22-18
- Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Great if you love unbearable pontification
Revisado: 06-04-20
Shallow opinion passed off as scientific inquiry. So infuriatingly pompous in its delivery (the prose, not the narration) I decided to actually delete it from my library and that is a first for me.
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