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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself.
De: John Gray
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- De: Alan Jacobs
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear the Allies would win the Second World War. Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. These Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others - sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- De John en 09-04-18
De: Alan Jacobs
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 7 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,003
Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and informative
- De Michael Kellogg en 09-29-05
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Ibn Khaldun
- An Intellectual Biography
- De: Robert Irwin
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
- De Moh 3aly en 01-02-19
De: Robert Irwin
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- De: Anthony Pagden
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A thorough political tract rather than history
- De Jacobus en 03-08-14
De: Anthony Pagden
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent exploration of this subject
- De Caroline en 01-13-15
De: Matthew Stewart
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Anti-Judaism
- The Western Tradition
- De: David Nirenberg
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book: Terrible Narrator
- De LB en 12-29-16
De: David Nirenberg
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,486
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470
Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and insightful book
- De ESK en 01-25-13
De: Will Durant
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The House of Wisdom
- How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
- De: Jonathan Lyons
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Here is the remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile, Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing history
- De Robert en 11-26-11
De: Jonathan Lyons
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The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
- De Rodger en 12-05-19
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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What Are We Doing Here?
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unpersuasive and a bit repetitive
- De Adam Shields en 03-07-18
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Soul Machine
- The Invention of the Modern Mind
- De: George Makari
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High yield
- De Mark Twain en 01-21-16
De: George Makari
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Battling the Gods
- Atheism in the Ancient World
- De: Tim Whitmarsh
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories of the cosmos based on matter and notions of matter based on atoms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have a history as long and as rich as any relig
- De Glencannnon en 08-13-19
De: Tim Whitmarsh
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Atheist Delusions
- The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
- De: David Bentley Hart
- Narrado por: Ralph Morocco
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Conversion Experience.
- De Ted en 12-01-14
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The Givenness of Things
- Essays
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly thoughts on religious things
- De Adam Shields en 01-26-16
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In this companion volume to The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more than three thousand years of human artistic achievement, examining painting, sculpture, architecture, theology, philosophy, history, poetry, drama, literature, dance, music, and film.
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The Discoverers
- A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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Daniel J. Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, the author delves into the discoveries of our world and the freedoms those discoveries bestowed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Warning! Abridged version.
- De jennifer w. en 08-26-19
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The Discoverers
- A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Why didn't the Chinese discover America? Why were people so slow to learn the earth goes around the sun? How and why did we begin to think of "species" of plants and animals? How, when, and why did people begin digging in the earth to learn about the past? How did the study of economics begin? These are but a few of the fascinating questions answered by Dr. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my Top 10 Fav. Books!
- De shannonnn en 05-09-05
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
- A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
- Narrado por: Timothy Danko
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boorstin’s deep Conservative mindset reaches through every example in this book.
- De Christine en 10-12-20
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A Curious Mind (Expanded Edition)
- The Secret to a Bigger Life
- De: Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman
- Narrado por: Norbert Leo Butz, Steven Weber, Brian Grazer - introduction
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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In this specially combined edition with a new foreword, Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed author Charles Fishman blend their insights from bestselling books A Curious Mind and Face to Face to transform the art of connecting with and through curiosity. A Curious Mind Expanded invites you to consider your personal journey of human connection.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of anecdotes, little substance
- De Graham Wicas en 12-30-23
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Empire
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
- De Hectoris en 08-13-20
De: Niall Ferguson
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The Creators
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- De: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrado por: Michael Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
In this companion volume to The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more than three thousand years of human artistic achievement, examining painting, sculpture, architecture, theology, philosophy, history, poetry, drama, literature, dance, music, and film.
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2 out of 5 stars
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abridge too far
- De mosselyn en 04-09-03
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The Discoverers
- A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Daniel J. Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, the author delves into the discoveries of our world and the freedoms those discoveries bestowed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Warning! Abridged version.
- De jennifer w. en 08-26-19
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The Discoverers
- A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Why didn't the Chinese discover America? Why were people so slow to learn the earth goes around the sun? How and why did we begin to think of "species" of plants and animals? How, when, and why did people begin digging in the earth to learn about the past? How did the study of economics begin? These are but a few of the fascinating questions answered by Dr. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my Top 10 Fav. Books!
- De shannonnn en 05-09-05
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
- A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
- Narrado por: Timothy Danko
- Duración: 10 h y 50 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 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boorstin’s deep Conservative mindset reaches through every example in this book.
- De Christine en 10-12-20
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In this specially combined edition with a new foreword, Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed author Charles Fishman blend their insights from bestselling books A Curious Mind and Face to Face to transform the art of connecting with and through curiosity. A Curious Mind Expanded invites you to consider your personal journey of human connection.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of anecdotes, little substance
- De Graham Wicas en 12-30-23
De: Brian Grazer, y otros
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Empire
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
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De: Niall Ferguson
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- nancy
- 01-16-19
This book is great
This book is one of an amazing trilogy but I would avoid this abridged edition like the plague. It totally ruins a beautifully crafted history.
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- Senior Villager
- 12-09-23
This is only an abridged version!
Don’t get this version. I bought it without reading the reviews and regret it. Now looking for an unabridged version. Love the books in this series though.
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