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In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.
“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time - dazzling.” (The Wall Street Journal)
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Ben Wilson takes us on an exhilarating tour of more than two dozen cities and thousands of years ... Metropolis is a bold undertaking that makes for gripping reading." (The New York Times Book Review)
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- De: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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Ended up returning this one
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-21
De: Eric D. Weitz
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Why the Dutch Are Different
- A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
- De: Ben Coates
- Narrado por: Ciaran Saward
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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A personal portrait of a fascinating people, a sideways history, and an entertaining travelogue, Why the Dutch Are Different is the story of an Englishman who went Dutch. And loved it.
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Good Start, Then He Goes Dark
- De amazonnance en 12-17-21
De: Ben Coates
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Earning the Rockies
- How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age.
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Magnificent book that found a great narrator!
- De BotakTree en 03-09-17
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Monsoon
- The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed 20th century, but in the 21st century, that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Burma, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Tanzania—best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan explains how crucial this dynamic area has become to American power.
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A map is worth a thousand words ...
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De: Robert D. Kaplan
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City of the Century
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 24 h y 18 m
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Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects.
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A STORY THAT TRIES TOO HARD....AND FAILS
- De The Louligan en 02-01-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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The Germans and Europe
- A Personal Frontline History
- De: Peter Millar
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent. Focussing on nine cities (only six of which are in the Germany of today), he takes us on a zigzag ride back through time via the fall of the Berlin Wall through the horrors of two world wars and the patchwork states of the Middle Ages to the splendour of Charlemagne and the fall of Rome.
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One of the best books I have listened to on here
- De Shaun en 05-17-18
De: Peter Millar
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- De: Nadav Eyal
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt, or simply unresponsive to urgent needs.
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Good observations, very politically biased.
- De P. Bradley en 11-29-23
De: Nadav Eyal
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Triumph of the City
- How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
- De: Edward Glaeser
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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Urbanophile Brain Candy
- De Clay Downing en 12-18-15
De: Edward Glaeser
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- De: Tim Hannigan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
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More Indonesian history please Audible
- De Damien en 08-20-19
De: Tim Hannigan
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
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A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
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In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- De: Jamie Mackay
- Narrado por: John Lee
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Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places.
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Wonderful overview of Sicily
- De jay lazier en 01-28-24
De: Jamie Mackay
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- De: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrado por: Roman Mars
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99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.
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The 99% Invisible City
- De Louise Schraa en 01-09-21
De: Kurt Kohlstedt, y otros
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What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
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In the heart of the Scientific Revolution, when new theories promised to explain the affairs of the universe, Britain was broke, facing a mountain of debt accumulated in war after war it could not afford. But that same Scientific Revolution - the kind of thinking that helped Isaac Newton solve the mysteries of the cosmos - would soon lead clever, if not always scrupulous, men to try to figure a way out of Britain’s financial troubles.
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Financial innovation's first song of the siren.
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In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams - and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government.
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From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking, to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the 21st century.
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Physics has always been engaged in the pursuit of expanding our knowledge of the nature of matter and the world around us. But how can you use experiments to further this quest? How do you measure the mass of a particle a trillion times smaller than a grain of sand? And, finally, why is all this important? In The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the experiments that changed the course of history.
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John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth-tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results; and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson. When John Adams succeeded George Washington as President, his son had already followed him into public service and was stationed in Europe as a diplomat.
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Superior
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Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real.
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The Wages of Destruction
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period.
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Metropolis a history of urban civilization
Accurate and detailed. The effect of the city on the progress of mankind is carefully spelled out and evaluated. If you have wondered what every day life was like in the first city or for an inhabitant of the first civilizations, this book provide clear concise answers.
It explains the role pivotal cities played for many of the premier civilizations of their time; how advances that affected the progress of all humanity came to be discovered and implemented in urban centers.
The book greatly deepens the readers understanding of how history came to be.
It further describes how even the earliest cultures had an impact on the environment around them, that ultimately determined their long-term success.
It describes how cities of the future will adapt to our current environmental crisis; how humankind and urban centers will develop symbiotically with nature To make for a brighter greener future.
This is a must read for all.
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- amazonshopperb
- 11-23-22
terrible narration
I struggled to finish this book. The narrator sounded like he was whispering. It contains unnecessary profanity, making it unsuitable for some.
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- John Kopcak
- 04-19-22
Great research…
Were it not for the reader’s incessant breathlessness to end nearly every sentence ( not every interesting piece of information is a gift from the heavens), this would easily have been 5 stars across the board. Still a great listen for the information the author collected and wrote.
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- Noah Guither
- 10-16-22
Hit or Miss
This was a very in depth argument around the role of cities in human history. Many of the chapters I enjoyed and intrigued me, but a number of others bored me or I had little interest in. If you liked how the chapter began, then it was worth finishing,but if you didn't like the premise or content of the chapter then it lasted forever. Interesting read for a historian like myself, not sure how many others would get into it much less dedicate this much time to the argument the author makes.
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- Edward
- 12-28-20
A beautiful audio book
One of the best books I’ve read in years. The author is a gifted storyteller and a wonderful writer. With a narrator who smoothly guides you across ideas and places, I’d suggest immersing yourself a chapter a time. This is a great book to lose yourself in thought.
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- GogolGirl
- 01-05-21
Mildly entertaining/informative
Found some chapters more interesting than others. Narrator’s American accent sounded very John Wayne (even when talking about 90s rap scene). Overall, seemed far too long to hold interest.
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- alidr
- 07-13-21
Great Listen
Very much enjoyed this Audiobook. Probably the best narrated book so far with my subscription to audible.
Very insightful and excellent history of cities . Found early civilization chapters particularly fascinating!
Highly recommend this book to history buffs and anyone with penchant for social sciences . Very very impressed with this selection!
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- Mark C
- 04-27-24
Fascinating but...
Narrator commits the greatest sin. Don't overact the quotes and dear God, don't do accents.
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- BCM
- 12-28-20
Sorry that I can’t rate it higher
I generally enjoyed the book until it veered into being mostly an advocacy piece against cars, roads, suburbs, etc. The author goes to great lengths in detailing the shortcomings of suburbs without giving equal treatment to the shortcomings of city centers. Suburbs happened because people were fleeing the problems of the cities such as crime, housing costs, pollution, and the daily hassles of living in top of each other.
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