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Robert Philip
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A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia?
Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs. This is a truly global story. Looking to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, Philip reveals how musicians have been brought together by trade and migration and examines the vast impact of colonialism. From Hildegard von Bingen and Clara Schumann to Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, great performers and composers have profoundly shaped music as we know it.
Covering a remarkable range of genres, including medieval chant, classical opera, jazz, and hip hop, this Little History shines a light on the wonder of music—and why it is treasured across the world.
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The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to downtown New York in the '60s and '70s. We meet the maverick personalities and follow the rise of mass culture on this sweeping tour of 20th-century history through its music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much!
- De Paula en 02-18-08
De: Alex Ross
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent book
- De ML en 10-09-20
De: Alex Ross
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Dancing in the Streets
- A History of Collective Joy
- De: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oddly leaves out the largest phenomenon of celebration in N. America
- De Emma Goldman en 04-20-19
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Apollo's Angels
- A History of Ballet
- De: Jennifer Homans
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 23 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
For more than 400 years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to 16th-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a great book poorly read
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-11
De: Jennifer Homans
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 29 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidescopic panorama of an enigmatic culture.
- De Tarquin en 02-13-19
De: Orlando Figes
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- The Man Who Recorded the World
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They Done Good
- De DonnaMarie113 en 06-26-22
De: John Szwed
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The Ornament of the World
- How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
- De: Maria Rosa Menocal, Harold Bloom - foreword
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De Zahid Ahmad en 08-14-18
De: Maria Rosa Menocal, y otros
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On the Shoulders of Giants
- My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and best-selling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites listeners on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace. He leads us through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of both worlds
- De Marianne en 10-06-08
De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, y otros
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- De JK en 10-28-21
De: Orlando Figes
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Dig If You Will the Picture
- Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
- De: Ben Greenman
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Ben Greenman, New York Times best-selling author, contributing writer to The New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reads like a indepth career review & analysis
- De herb en 05-18-17
De: Ben Greenman
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Light & Shade
- Conversations with Jimmy Page
- De: Brad Tolinski
- Narrado por: Robert Fass, John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band's notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books; yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir nor cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Production History, FY!
- De Amy Peacock en 02-21-17
De: Brad Tolinski
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Beyond the North Wind
- The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North
- De: Christopher McIntosh, Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - foreword
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 578
"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads listeners through the magical and spiritual history of the North, as well as its modern manifestations, as documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore. This mythic conception of a powerful, mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as "Hyberborea" - the "Land Beyond the North Wind".
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mostly fringe
- De Meg en 11-28-20
De: Christopher McIntosh, y otros
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Incarnations
- India in Fifty Lives
- De: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 16 h y 51 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 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen, the author is biased
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-19
De: Sunil Khilnani
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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
- De: Ben Crystal, David Crystal
- Narrado por: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Jane Savage, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Some people say 'sconn' while others say 'schown'. He says 'bath' while she says 'bahth'. You say 'potayto'. I say 'potahto'. And - wait a second, no one says 'potahto'. No one's ever said 'potahto'. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of received pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father, David, travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish there were more native recordings.
- De Matt Dobler en 07-01-16
De: Ben Crystal, y otros
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Write Songs Right Now
- De: Alex Forbes
- Narrado por: Alex Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs - an approach that been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of old wine in new skins, still good for that
- De Marc en 01-12-14
De: Alex Forbes
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The Secret Life of the American Musical
- How Broadway Shows Are Built
- De: Jack Viertel
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great review lacked music
- De joseph f mcgovern en 10-14-18
De: Jack Viertel
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
- De: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot, Jim Meskimen
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Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles to a simple sentence or paragraph. Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts to a tutorial on eloquence conducted by Churchill and Lincoln, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine, and more than a hundred others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invention of Scarcity
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With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful!
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Now I Know
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Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to invade Canada? And what actually happened to the flags left on the moon? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know. From uncovering what happens to lost luggage to New York City's plan to crack down on crime by banning pinball, this book will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Scientifically inaccurate
- De Sara en 12-04-20
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A History of England, Volume 1: Early and Middle Ages to 1485
- De: Cyril Robinson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
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The history of England can be said to have begun with the arrival of Julius Caesar in 54 BC. Four hundred years later, Romano British civilization came to an end with the withdrawal of Roman military protection and the onslaught by successive waves of Germanic invasions. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Norsemen ravaged Britain for almost 500 years. The native Celtic peoples were displaced and driven westward into present-day Wales, where their descendants dwell to this day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting
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Demetrius
- Sacker of Cities
- De: James Romm
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The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take Alexander’s place, his empire fragmented into five pieces. Capitalizing on good looks, youth, and sexual prowess, Demetrius sought to weld those pieces together and recover the dream of a single world-state, with a new Alexander—himself—at its head.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A chapter is missing
- De Brendon miller en 12-02-22
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Girt
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Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Typically irreverent.
- De patricia heffernan en 12-27-15
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Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles to a simple sentence or paragraph. Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts to a tutorial on eloquence conducted by Churchill and Lincoln, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine, and more than a hundred others.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Typically irreverent.
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Why Patti Smith Matters is the first book about the iconic artist written by a woman. The veteran music journalist Caryn Rose contextualizes Smith’s creative work, her influence, and her wide-ranging and still-evolving impact on rock and roll, visual art, and the written word. Rose goes deep into Smith’s oeuvre, from her first album, Horses, to acclaimed memoirs operating at a surprising remove from her music. The portrait of a ceaseless inventor, Why Patti Smith Matters rescues punk’s poet laureate from “strong woman” clichés.
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The Start
- 1904-1930
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William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography. A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in a personal history that parallels the greater historical events for which he served as a witness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clouds gathering on the horizon in Europe
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Roman History
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Appian of Alexander was a Greek historian who lived at the height of the Roman Empire during the first half of the 2nd century AD, having been born around AD 95 and died about AD 165. Very little is known about him beyond what he reveals about himself, along with the fact that he lived in Alexandria. He was a Roman citizen and held several senior-level public offices, both in Alexandria and in Rome.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Epic Title by Charlton Griffin!
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Beyond the Mountain
- De: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
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What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A life-changing book
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History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 1: 1848-1861
- De: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Suzy B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage
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History of Woman Suffrage is a window into the suffragette movement, a front-row seat to the fight for women’s rights. This historic work draws a dramatic picture of the massive effort and struggle that took place in America from 1848 to 1861 through letters and documents, as well as uncensored thoughts and ideas from women during this evolving time, all rich with lively wit. The writing is vivid and compelling, with rousing speeches defending the legitimacy of the request for suffrage and strong, witty defense against those too comfortable in the status quo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding - the journey to Women’s equality is a story we all should know
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The Cello Still Sings
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- De: Janet Horvath
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of who and what they were before, silencing the past in order to live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Family Story
- De Barry Rubin en 01-30-25
De: Janet Horvath
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George Washington, Volume 1
- Young Washington
- De: Douglas Southall Freeman
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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George Washington, a Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman was the second great historical masterpiece by him to win the Pulitzer Prize, awarded posthumously in 1958. Freeman completed six volumes of this magnificent biography, but died before finishing the seventh and final volume, concluded for him by his research associates in 1957. In Volume One, Young Washington, we follow the development of George from childhood to young manhood. It is an extraordinary tale of youthful vigor and determination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fine work on Washington
- De lps562 en 03-29-21
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The Apache Diaspora
- Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
- De: Paul Conrad
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Across four centuries, Apache (Nde) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their mobility, resistance, and proximity to multiple imperial powers. The Apache Diaspora brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were separated.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Informative ... and Biased
- De Rue37 en 01-14-24
De: Paul Conrad
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The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
- The Fall of the Roman Empire, Book 1
- De: Nick Holmes
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor History, with an axe to grind with Christianity
- De Anonymous User en 03-08-25
De: Nick Holmes
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A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)
- A History of the African-American Athlete
- De: Arthur Ashe
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Available once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activist’s lifelong dream.
De: Arthur Ashe
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United States of True Crime: Vol. 1
- 60 Chilling True Crime Cases from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, and California
- De: Ashley Hudson
- Narrado por: Ashley Hudson
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Five book collection: first five states in the United States of True Crime series. Sixty chilling true crime cases of murders, kidnappings, and serial killers from across the United States!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Christy en 04-16-23
De: Ashley Hudson
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David Lynch
- The Man from Another Place (Icons)
- De: Dennis Lim
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch's life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening for Lunch fans
- De Michael P. Mesaros en 08-14-18
De: Dennis Lim
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Little History of Music
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- klaemint
- 06-08-23
Great book
This book concisely explains the history of music, and that's no easy feat to achieve.
A great narrator in addition to perfect recording and mixing makes the narration excellent.
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