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The Medieval World
- De: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Dorsey Armstrong
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,976
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,955
Far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history. But what was it like to actually live in those extraordinary times? Now you can find out.These 36 lectures provide a different perspective on the society and culture of the Middle Ages: one that entrenches you in the daily human experience of living during this underappreciated era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good start
- De Occasional Barista en 05-26-15
- The Medieval World
- De: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Dorsey Armstrong
Good factual information, poor performance
Revisado: 07-09-21
This is the poorest overall Great Courses lecture series of many to which I have listened.
The factual information is good, but the story arc is not strictly chronological. It doesn’t have to be organized that way, but the flow feels somewhat chaotic. Some lectures are tied together chronologically while others are organized by subject matter. This is a minor complaint, but it could be better.
Worse is Professor Armstrong’s performance. It’s wooden and it is clear that she’s reading every word from a curated document. Every other lecture series to which I’ve listened, without exception, sounds genuinely “in-classroom” - as if the professors were lecturing using notes. Not this one. Professor Armstrong’s verbatim performance, in which you can hear her read parentheses and frequently use “clever” alliteration that is in no way extemporaneous, was, in my opinion, distracting and annoying.
Worst of all are the professor’s incessant references to information she introduced in other lectures. “… as discussed in a previous lecture …” “… as discussed in the lecture on …” “… as we’ll see in the next lecture …” - so frequently do these references occur that I began to find it comical and to physically roll my eyes. I counted over a dozen such references in the one lecture I bothered to count, but most lectures feature a similar frequency.
If that doesn’t bother you, you’ll enjoy this just fine. But the performance flaws I describe here so annoyed me that I did not enjoy this lecture series. The factual material was good enough that I finished all the lectures, so there’s at least that.
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The Hidden Corporation
- A Data Management Security Novel
- De: David Schlesinger
- Narrado por: Bobby Hundley
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
If you wonder why good companies lose lots of personal information, and are not sure if your company is immune from this disaster, this insightful book shines a bright light on the hidden processes in most companies where data governance and information security are usually absent. These gaps are often the root cause of sensitive data loss.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Amateurishly written and performed
- De Robert en 10-14-16
- The Hidden Corporation
- A Data Management Security Novel
- De: David Schlesinger
- Narrado por: Bobby Hundley
Amateurishly written and performed
Revisado: 10-14-16
Imagine how an information security professional might write fiction and you've pretty much nailed this book. It reads alternately like a CISSP study guide and bad Internet fan fiction.
The "heroine" of the book (who is supposed to be an accomplished CISSP and security professional) often seems perplexed by concepts she would have had to know simply to pass the CISSP exam. While the text does contain a great deal of good factual information, I feel like it's lost on the target audience (current and aspiring CISSPs.)
The performance of the voice artist is worse. He presents caricatures of various nationalities when trying to use distinct voices for each character.
I would recommend this book to those InfoSec professionals who have just begun prep work for the CISSP exam and who can disregard the bad voice acting and 11th grade writing style.
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