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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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Fun Story Bad History
- By Elizabeth Barrett on 05-09-16
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-15-16
- Language: English
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man's perceptions - and the course of Western history.
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A Very Good Book (Just Not As Good As Others)
- By George Monnat Jr on 02-18-19
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-20-18
- Language: English
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided human knowledge into separate categories, he enabled our understanding of the world to develop in a systematic fashion.
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Misrepresentation of Aristotle
- By Jonathan Wells on 09-09-20
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-13-04
- Language: English
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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Kant lite
- By CyberMind on 05-25-04
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-13-04
- Language: English
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history - the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence. By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
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Extravagant rich peacocks and true believers
- By Philo on 10-17-15
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-05-15
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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Great intros
- By Peter on 09-05-04
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-13-04
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Gossip
- By Amazon Customer on 10-02-19
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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Shallow and misleading
- By Mark G on 07-17-04
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-13-04
- Language: English
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic's eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history.
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Mesmerizing
- By Gary R. Frank on 08-24-15
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-29-14
- Language: English
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Latin American literature was never primitive; yet, from its beginnings, it was suffused with a fresh, often childish lyricism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage, but he is a modern rarity: a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the richest literary dreams ever written.
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Finally, a way to get through 100 Years!
- By Lissa on 10-27-09
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-14-05
- Language: English
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- By L Mark Higgins on 08-01-12
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-05-07
- Language: English
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was the forerunner of logic; he used it to cut through the twaddle of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Rather than questioning the world, he believed, we would be better off questioning ourselves.
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I thought it was OK
- By Theodore on 11-21-11
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-08-05
- Language: English
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from St. Augustine's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place St. Augustine within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
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Author hates subject
- By MM on 06-21-10
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-08-05
- Language: English
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Beckett in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Beckett's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Beckett's chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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Well done invaluableB
- By Amazon Customer on 11-19-23
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-02-09
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism", makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's facade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the Universal Will, blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery and suffering; our only hope is to liberate ourselves from its power and from the trappings of individualism and egoism that are at its mercy.
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- By L Mark Higgins on 08-01-12
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-19-05
- Language: English
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God, one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza's conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of today's ecologists) to politics (the idea that the state exists to protect the individual).
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Very Useful for the Beginner
- By Jesse on 05-06-06
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-19-05
- Language: English
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.
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Narrator ruins the narrative
- By amavita on 03-24-22
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-24-21
- Language: English
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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Less progressive opinion, more on Plato
- By Josiah Brunette on 09-08-21
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-14-04
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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Hatchet Job
- By Joseph on 05-13-05
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-14-04
- Language: English
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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The title says it all
- By James McIlvaine on 10-27-20
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-13-04
- Language: English
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