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De: Ross King
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,754
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,435
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,436
This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
De: David McCullough
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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- De: Franny Moyle
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
J. M. W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Balanced biography of a complex artist
- De Thomas S. en 05-05-17
De: Franny Moyle
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The Apparitionists
- A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- De: Peter Manseau
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 31 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 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation.
De: Peter Manseau
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,387
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,805
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,804
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McCullough takes it to the next level
- De gregory m loyd en 07-12-11
De: David McCullough
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Da Vinci's Ghost
- Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
- De: Toby Lester
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Toby Lester, author of the award-winning The Fourth Part of the World, masterfully crafts yet another century-spanning saga of people and ideas in this epic story of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square. Over time, the nearly 550-year-old ink-on-paper sketch has transformed into a collective symbol of the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Haunting Expierience
- De Paul en 02-10-12
De: Toby Lester
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The Sun and the Moon
- Hoaxers, Showmen, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th-Century New York
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. It quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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some very good some very bad
- De peter en 10-30-10
De: Matthew Goodman
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 844
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. During the four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent laboring over the ceiling, power politics and personal rivalries swirled around him. He battled ill health, financial and family difficulties, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the Pope's impatience - a history that is more compelling than most novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History brought to life!
- De Anne en 05-17-03
De: Ross King
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- De: William Carlsen
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 606
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 544
In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- De thomas en 01-10-17
De: William Carlsen
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The Buried Book
- The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
- De: David Damrosch
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 350
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 266
One day in 1872, self-taught Assyriologist George Smith was sifting through a pile of clay tablets when he realized he was reading about "a flood, storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land". This is the riveting story of the discovery of the world's first literary epic, the "Epic of Gilgamesh".
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3 out of 5 stars
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interesting- but not for everyone
- De J Michael en 07-16-08
De: David Damrosch
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Rediscovering God in America
- Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History and Future
- De: Michael Giorgione, Callista Gingrich - photographer
- Narrado por: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich
- Duración: 3 h y 30 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 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
As a reminder of God's role in the history and future of America, Newt and Callista Gingrich give listeners a look into the architecture and beauty of the nation's capital in Rediscovering God in America. Listeners will take a walk through Washington, DC, to view the nation's monuments and memorials, including the National Archives, where Thomas Jefferson's immortal words jump off the page. But this is not simply a walking tour of the city; this is a tour of American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!!!
- De Billy O en 01-01-19
De: Michael Giorgione, y otros
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 675
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 441
In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head. He noticed that the rocks he was excavating were arranged in layers; more important, he could see quite clearly that the fossils found in one layer were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who knew rocks could be so deceptive?
- De Jody R. Nathan en 11-09-04
De: Simon Winchester
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Eiffel's Tower
- And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris
- De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Reminiscent of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, this fascinating account from acclaimed author Jill Jonnes recaptures the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Casting vehement criticism aside, Gustave Eiffel built his tower to be the fair's centerpiece. Perched at the top all summer, he hosted a string of dignitaries.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just read the first half
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
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From Bauhaus to Our House
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis McKee
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 190
In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So snarky I kept having to back up and repeat
- De Ellen en 04-08-09
De: Tom Wolfe
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Stealing God's Thunder
- Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
- De: Philip Dray
- Narrado por: David Chandler
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning rod, Franklin's attempt to control the heavens, that caused the greatest controversy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Abigail en 05-26-11
De: Philip Dray
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Tesla vs Edison
- A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
Human history has seen many surprising and profound turning points. The ways that humans learned to use raw materials to create activity and resources set the stage for the most compelling and life-altering phase of the modern era, the Industrial Revolution. Born during this time on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Arduous
- De Hasbro en 10-22-18