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Achilles in Vietnam
- Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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An original and groundbreaking audiobook that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In this strikingly original and groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written 27 centuries ago, it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.
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Destined to become a Classic
- De Lynn en 09-05-11
De: Karl Marlantes
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The Theater of War
- What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
- De: Bryan Doerries
- Narrado por: Adam Driver
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 761
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 699
This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Marisa en 11-09-15
De: Bryan Doerries
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The Warrior Ethos
- De: Steven Pressfield
- Narrado por: Steven Pressfield
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,533
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,272
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,267
We are all warriors. The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs, and other warriors in other walks of life. The audiobook examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and "mental toughness".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my thing, but still enjoyed it
- De Book Monster en 06-13-19
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On Combat
- The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
- De: Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
- Narrado por: Dave Grossman
- Duración: 18 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,535
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,163
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,151
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle and the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, memory - then discusses new research findings as to what measure warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay in the fight, survive, and win. A brief, but insightful look at history shows the evolution of combat, the development of the physical and psychological leverage that enables humans to kill other humans, followed by an objective examination of domestic violence in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just what I needed.
- De Jonah en 03-21-17
De: Dave Grossman, y otros
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Tribe
- On Homecoming and Belonging
- De: Sebastian Junger
- Narrado por: Sebastian Junger
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15,116
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,963
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,889
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians - but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most profound book on the subject
- De joseph en 05-26-16
De: Sebastian Junger
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Super Soldiers
- A Salute to the Comic Book Heroes and Villains Who Fought for Their Country
- De: Jason Inman
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and former host of All Access, DC Comics' web show, Jason Inman, discusses the influence war has had on some of the most memorable superheroes in comics.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De dgm en 03-25-21
De: Jason Inman
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Looking for the Good War
- American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
- De: Elizabeth D. Samet
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans - all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States' "exceptional" history and destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading for military officers and political decision makers.
- De Arlene S. Burke en 02-23-22
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The Greatest Evil Is War
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 46
In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another amazing title by an amazing journalist.
- De Zzzing en 12-28-22
De: Chris Hedges
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Soldaten
- On Fighting, Killing, and Dying
- De: Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More accounts less analysis please!
- De Tony en 01-14-13
De: Sonke Neitzel, y otros
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the best-selling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, probably should be read and not listened to via audible for the best experience.
- De Tanya en 10-24-16
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Chris Hedges
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful, perceptive, personal
- De Cx30 en 08-08-07
De: Chris Hedges
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Enduring Vietnam
- An American Generation and Its War
- De: James Wright
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse the mistakes, but it brings those who served out of the shadows. Enduring Vietnam recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Rebecca Delgado en 03-20-23
De: James Wright
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Stay
- A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
- De: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Narrado por: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative but oddly dispassionate
- De Scott en 01-07-14
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This Republic of Suffering
- Death and the American Civil War
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives - equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a unique civil war perspective
- De D. Littman en 04-21-08
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Un-American
- A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War
- De: Erik Edstrom
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it’s intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change. Un-American is a revolutionary act, offering a blueprint for redressing America’s relationship with patriotism, the military and military spending.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Veteran supports many of the points in this book!
- De Kevin H. en 06-26-22
De: Erik Edstrom
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The Sunflower
- On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
- De: Simon Wiesenthal
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to - and obtain absolution from - a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What Would You Do?
- De Simone en 08-31-16
De: Simon Wiesenthal
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Worth Dying For
- A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation
- De: Ellis Henican, Rorke Denver
- Narrado por: Rorke Denver
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 959
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 860
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 858
In a fast-paced and action-packed narrative, Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver tackles the questions that have emerged about America's past decade at war - from what makes a hero to why we fight and what it does to us. Heroes are not always the guys who jump on grenades. Sometimes, they are the snipers who decide to hold their fire, the wounded operators who find fresh ways to contribute, or the wives who keep the families together back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Analysis of Recent History
- De Jean en 06-19-16
De: Ellis Henican, y otros
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The Summer of 1876
- Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
- De: Chris Wimmer
- Narrado por: Chris Wimmer, Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern listeners were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous—or infamous—moments of their lives. Those individuals were Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James. The Summer of 1876 weaves together the timelines of the events that made these men legends.
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3 out of 5 stars
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author should voice his own work
- De DeWayne en 06-11-23
De: Chris Wimmer
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They Came for Freedom
- The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
- De: Jay Milbrandt
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and children's stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards. The true story of the Pilgrim fathers could not be more different.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very dramatic history
- De Ted Baehr en 09-12-22
De: Jay Milbrandt
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Odysseus in America
- Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
- De: Jonathan Shay MD, John McCain - foreword, Senator Max Cleland - foreword
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Max Cleland
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay used the story of the Iliad as a prism through which to examine how ancient and modern wars have battered the psychology of the men who fight. Now he turns his attention to the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society. The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture: danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy and homelessness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading
- De J. Sharp en 04-09-22
De: Jonathan Shay MD, y otros
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Indentured
- The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA
- De: Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune - at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Armament agnst NCAA: Enlightening, Infuriating
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-16
De: Joe Nocera, y otros
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Science Fictions
- How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
- De: Stuart Ritchie
- Narrado por: Stuart Ritchie
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless—or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science—with sometimes deadly consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needed Now More Than Ever
- De Todd en 08-06-20
De: Stuart Ritchie
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A House Built by Slaves
- African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
- De: Jonathan W. White
- Narrado por: Jesse Lipscombe
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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impeccably researched
- De Laileanah en 04-23-24
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The Summer of 1876
- Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
- De: Chris Wimmer
- Narrado por: Chris Wimmer, Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern listeners were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous—or infamous—moments of their lives. Those individuals were Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James. The Summer of 1876 weaves together the timelines of the events that made these men legends.
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3 out of 5 stars
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author should voice his own work
- De DeWayne en 06-11-23
De: Chris Wimmer
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They Came for Freedom
- The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
- De: Jay Milbrandt
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and children's stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards. The true story of the Pilgrim fathers could not be more different.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very dramatic history
- De Ted Baehr en 09-12-22
De: Jay Milbrandt
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Odysseus in America
- Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
- De: Jonathan Shay MD, John McCain - foreword, Senator Max Cleland - foreword
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Max Cleland
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay used the story of the Iliad as a prism through which to examine how ancient and modern wars have battered the psychology of the men who fight. Now he turns his attention to the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society. The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture: danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy and homelessness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading
- De J. Sharp en 04-09-22
De: Jonathan Shay MD, y otros
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Indentured
- The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA
- De: Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune - at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Armament agnst NCAA: Enlightening, Infuriating
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-16
De: Joe Nocera, y otros
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Science Fictions
- How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
- De: Stuart Ritchie
- Narrado por: Stuart Ritchie
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless—or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science—with sometimes deadly consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needed Now More Than Ever
- De Todd en 08-06-20
De: Stuart Ritchie
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A House Built by Slaves
- African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
- De: Jonathan W. White
- Narrado por: Jesse Lipscombe
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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impeccably researched
- De Laileanah en 04-23-24
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The Network
- The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
- De: Scott Woolley
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
This is the origin story of the airwaves - the foundational technology of the communications age - as told through the 40-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor. David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and equal parts Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and William Randolph Hearst, was the greatest supporter of his friend, Edwin Armstrong, developer of the first amplifier, the modern radio transmitter, and FM radio.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Classic Struggle
- De Jean en 06-01-16
De: Scott Woolley
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Robert E. Lee and Me
- A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
- De: Ty Seidule
- Narrado por: Ty Seidule
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 738
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 646
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 641
Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the US Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changing a heart and mind
- De Matt Poe en 02-01-21
De: Ty Seidule
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What's Wrong with US?
- A Coach’s Blunt Take on the State of American Soccer After a Lifetime on the Touchline
- De: Bruce Arena, Steve Kettmann
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Every four years, Americans turn their attention to the world’s game - soccer. As recently as 1998, the USMNT merely made up the numbers at the biggest sporting tournament of all, but once Bruce Arena took over the team, American soccer started to find its footing. In the 2002 World Cup, a highly-fancied Portugal team, featuring the great Ronaldo, lost to Arena’s US team in a shocking 3-2 victory, and but for a handball that wasn’t given, they could well have knocked off eventual winners Germany.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title
- De David W. Swatosh en 06-22-18
De: Bruce Arena, y otros
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JFK
- A Vision for America
- De: Stephen Kennedy Smith, Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Paul Michael, Kirsten Potter, Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by a commentary and reflections by leading American and internationals figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great original speeches
- De Jim en 06-07-17
De: Stephen Kennedy Smith, y otros
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Future Presence
- How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
- De: Peter Rubin
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same. Peter Rubin, senior culture editor for Wired and the industry's go-to authority on the subject, calls it an "intimacy engine".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lacked Depth and Range; Some New Content
- De wbiro en 05-11-18
De: Peter Rubin
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The Disordered Mind
- What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
- De: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new audiobook, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain?
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Thoroughly enjoyed
- De Dayle en 11-07-18
De: Eric R. Kandel
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Dottir
- My Journey to Becoming a Two-Time CrossFit Games Champion
- De: Katrin Davidsdottir
- Narrado por: Katrin Davidsdottir
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Dottir is two-time consecutive CrossFit Games Champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of “Fittest Woman on Earth” twice, Davidsdottir knows all about the importance of mental and physical strength. She won the title in 2015, backing it up with a second win in 2016, after starting CrossFit in just 2011.
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Amazing!
- De Andrea A. en 08-11-19
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Short Life in a Strange World
- Birth to Death in 42 Panels
- De: Toby Ferris
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at - in situ - every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most influential and important artist of Northern Renaissance painting. The result of that pursuit is a remarkable journey through major European cities and across continents. As Ferris takes a keen analytical eye to the paintings, each piece brings new revelations about Bruegel’s art, and gives way to meditations on mortality, fatherhood, and life.
De: Toby Ferris
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Catullus' Bedspread
- The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
- De: Daisy Dunn
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome.
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Wonderful exciting historical
- De Architecto en 03-19-23
De: Daisy Dunn
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- De: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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Good book bad narration
- De Anonymous User en 09-18-19
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April 1945
- The Hinge of History
- De: Craig Shirley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing.
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-22
De: Craig Shirley
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A Survey of the Old Testament: Audio Lectures
- De: Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton
- Narrado por: Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Grabación Original
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The purpose of studying the Old Testament is to understand God and his redemptive work more fully. However, this goal is complicated by the fact that it was transmitted through a very different language and culture from our own. A Survey of the Old Testament provides an indispensable guide for undergraduate students and other listeners by exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind the Old Testament and its various books.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Matching the actual book
- De MrsDean22 en 09-03-16
De: Andrew E. Hill, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Achilles in Vietnam
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- tim
- 02-09-24
Must read for any veteran. Yeah you
This book was one of the first ones that I ever left to review for. It’s amazing the messages powerful it resonates, and anyone that listens to this book will be able to take something away from it.
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- Kimberly
- 05-28-23
This was an excellent read.
I can’t believe I never heard of this book. More folks in our military and mental health communities should learn from this!
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-05-23
ANAZING
Enough said. This is a must and the reading is phenomenal. The ONLY reason it’s five stars is because I can’t give it more. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.
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- Henri
- 12-21-18
A phenomenal narration of a PTSD classic.
The great character actor, David Strathairn, performs the gravelly voices of combat veterans, including that of Achilles. Who knew that Homer could be so gripping and relevant?
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- kenny freeman
- 12-14-21
excellent
110 percent recommended. straight and to the point. this analysis is both fascinating and gripping. buy and listen.
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- jeremy Morse
- 01-29-20
Great
This is a fantastic primer to PTSD and understanding how it affects people. the book shows its age, but i believe that the lessons in it are still just a valuable today, as when it was written.
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- Huy Nguyen
- 01-07-24
Truly breathtaking
I loved David Straithairn’s performance. The contents are important to understanding that war is ugly and those who must endure it must be taken care of.
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- Watercat
- 01-18-19
"If you fail to feel the pain of others...
You do not deserve the name of man." ~Saadi Shirazi
This is the closest I've ever been able to get in trying to understand the agony my dad experienced during the war and upon coming home. Thank you for the emotional reading of the personal testimonies. He never broke down in front of me, he hid his pain behind a wall of indifference. This book is my ladder so I can climb it.
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- Fred271
- 03-04-19
Admirable book, admirably read
Empathetic and incisive. David Straithairn waived his fee for narrating the book, for reasons that are easily apparent.
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- Nathan
- 02-13-20
should be required reading in highschool
I believe this book could improve humanity in general. however, I feel it especially useful for modern society in the United States of America. I wish more people, especially young people, would gain access to this.
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