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- Narrado por: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Take a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was, how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature. Origins of The Wheel of Time will provide exciting knowledge and insights to both new and longtime fans.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Agenda driven ideological bend.
- De Maxwell en 06-19-23
De: Michael Livingston, y otros
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Batman Unauthorized
- Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City
- De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, Leah Wilson - editor
- Narrado por: Colby Elliott
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 146
Compiled by a veteran writer of the comic series, this collection of essays explores Batman’s motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just skill, drive, and a really well-made suit.
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1 out of 5 stars
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batman uninformed opinions
- De Aurey C. en 04-13-17
De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, y otros
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101 More Amazing Harry Potter Facts
- De: Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor
- Narrado por: Jack Goldstein
- Duración: 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
Following on from Jack Goldstein and Frankie Taylor's popular 101 Amazing Harry Potter Facts, this wonderful audiobook contains over 100 amazing facts covering topics such as muggles in the series, the Ministry of Magic, the Weasleys, quidditch, the triwizard tournament and much more! Through JK Rowling's novels and films, we have been introduced to a fantastic and magical world that many of us would like to visit, despite the chance of running into a Death Eater or even Voldemort himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun Facts
- De Maverick’s Trove en 03-07-18
De: Jack Goldstein, y otros
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So We Read On
- How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
- De: Maureen Corrigan
- Narrado por: Maureen Corrigan
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 198
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading Gatsby as an adult reveals its greatness!
- De Mark en 10-06-14
De: Maureen Corrigan
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- De: Margalit Fox
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Discovery and Translation of Linear B Script
- De Sires en 01-11-14
De: Margalit Fox
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Disfigured
- On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
- De: Amanda Leduc
- Narrado por: Amanda Barker
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed bag
- De Kim Padan en 01-18-22
De: Amanda Leduc
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,050
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,065
Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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Draft No. 4
- On the Writing Process
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McPhee is the Craft
- De Darwin8u en 09-19-17
De: John McPhee
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The Ten-Cent Plague
- The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
- De: David Hajdu
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 878
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 671
In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books. The Ten-Cent Plague explores this cultural emergence and its fierce backlash while challenging common notions of the divide between "high" and "low" art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very frightening
- De Paul en 09-24-08
De: David Hajdu
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Ghost in My Brain
- How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
- De: Clark Elliott Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Tedious With Moments of Insight
- De Brent en 01-17-16
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Semicolon
- The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
- De: Cecelia Watson
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
A pause-resisting, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark. Through her rollicking biography of the semicolon, Watson writes a guide to grammar that explains why we don’t need guides at all and refocuses our attention on the deepest, most primary value of language: true communication.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Silly me; I thought it was about semicolons
- De Jeffrey D en 08-15-19
De: Cecelia Watson
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The Kingdom of Speech
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 248
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
- De Wayne en 09-01-16
De: Tom Wolfe
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Technically Wrong
- Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- De: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Narrado por: Andrea Emmes
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good but not complete
- De Casey en 10-29-17
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Paranormality
- The Science of the Supernatural
- De: Richard Wiseman
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and out of body experiences produces remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour and beliefs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great insight into what one believes is paranormal
- De Ony en 07-10-16
De: Richard Wiseman
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Smarter Than You Think
- How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
- De: Clive Thompson
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson documents how every technological innovation - from the printing press to the telegraph - has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt, learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Title should be Getting Smarter Through Technology
- De A. Yoshida en 03-10-17
De: Clive Thompson