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Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: They are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves.
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Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, listeners will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries on more than 50 individual creatures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pt 2 was delightful (+no cringey pronunciations!!)
- De Julieanne en 06-04-19
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When They Severed Earth from Sky
- How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
- De: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber
- Narrado por: Beth Richmond
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Volcano Book
- De Stanley en 02-05-11
De: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, y otros
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- De: Joseph Campbell
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- De Anonymous User en 08-11-18
De: Joseph Campbell
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Beast
- Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
- De: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, S. R. Schwalb
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as werewolf-y as I wanted, but good
- De TrevorTrujillo en 03-23-23
De: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, y otros
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Mythology: Folklore, Myths & Legends: The History of Gods, Men and the Mythologies of the World
- De: Michael J. Stewart
- Narrado por: William Bahl
- Duración: 1 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
When is a story more than just a story? When does it become a myth? When it holds a piece of truth about our history, our morality, and the cosmos. Throughout history, humankind has used stories to explain the unknown. From the cycle of the moon to the changing of the seasons, tales about supernatural beings and events have served to account for the purpose of the cosmos. But mythology isn’t entirely fiction. These stories have been passed down for generations for a reason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very useful
- De Angela en 02-10-21
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God
- A Human History
- De: Reza Aslan
- Narrado por: Reza Aslan
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,518
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,319
In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, "Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless if we are believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves."
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5 out of 5 stars
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His best work yet
- De Jeff M en 11-15-17
De: Reza Aslan
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The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- De: Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,793
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,573
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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TERRIBLE Narration!
- De Kayla I en 07-08-22
De: Terry Pratchett
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The History and Folklore of Vampires
- The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vampires from Medieval times to the present
- De MolllyT en 05-14-15
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Norse Mythology
- Captivating Stories of the Gods, Sagas and Heroes
- De: Matt Clayton
- Narrado por: JD Kelly
- Duración: 1 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Though the world came to know of the Norse and their legends through Roman interaction at about the time of Christ, most of what we came to know were handed-down from folk tales gathered by native writers like Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179 - 1241). This was from a time when the Norse had already been converted to Christianity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting
- De E. Allison en 04-30-18
De: Matt Clayton
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Gods and Robots
- Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
- De: Adrienne Mayor
- Narrado por: Adrienne Mayor
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention, more than 2,500 years ago. In this groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements - and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.
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2 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- De C Makoski en 10-31-19
De: Adrienne Mayor
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Krampus: The History and Legacy of the Mythological Figure Who Punishes Children During the Christmas Season
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Colin Fluxman
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Krampus: The History and Legacy of the Mythological Figure Who Punishes Children During the Christmas Season examines the pagan and Christian influences of the yuletide villain and dives into the riveting and frightening history behind the creature. You will learn about Krampus like never before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Kindle Crone en 12-06-23
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The Secret History of the World
- De: Jonathan Black
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Here, for the first time, is a complete history of the world based on the beliefs and writings of secret societies, researched with the help of an initiate of more than one secret society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for beginners
- De Being of Light en 09-13-12
De: Jonathan Black
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
- Why the Greeks Matter
- De: Thomas Cahill
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
Best selling history writer Thomas Cahill continues his series on the roots of Western civilization with this volume about the contributions of ancient Greece to the development of contemporary culture. Tracing the origin of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European horsemen into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, he follows their progress into the creation of the Greek city-states, the refinement of their machinery of war, and the flowering of intellectual and artistic culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super super
- De Richard en 12-28-03
De: Thomas Cahill
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Monster of God
- De: David Quammen
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above - so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, shame about the performance
- De Shirzy en 05-23-18
De: David Quammen
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American Holocaust
- The Conquest of the New World
- De: David E. Stannard
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 165
For 400 years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most important book I never heard of
- De Robert Bourque en 03-16-18
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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- De: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the 20th century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This one is a MUST!!! Thought provoking....
- De kristen en 03-10-14
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Odin: The Origins, History and Evolution of the Norse God
- De: Jesse Harasta, Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Anthony R. Schlotzhauer
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
A one-eyed old man, with a gray cloak and a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a staff. A wanderer who appears when least expected, bringing triumph or doom. The god of prophecy, poetry and fate. A shape changer. A sorcerer. The god Odin cuts a dramatic figure in Norse mythology and is still a part of the popular imagination. He is the inspiration for figures like J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf the Grey, and he still appears in modern literature as varied as Marvel Comics and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but enjoyable nontheless
- De Goose en 07-13-15
De: Jesse Harasta, y otros