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A Very Short Introduction
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Laura Marcus
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Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians, and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.
In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by "autobiography", and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analyzing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.
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Shusaku Endo's novel Silence took visual artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage of grappling with the nature of art, the significance of pain, and his own cultural heritage. His artistic faith journey overlaps with Endo's as he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and literature, expressed in art both past and present. He finds connections to how faith is lived amid trauma and glimpses of how the Gospel is conveyed in Christ-hidden cultures.
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A unique book of history and reflections
- De M. Burlingame en 02-26-18
De: Makoto Fujimura, y otros
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis
- Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
- De: Alister McGrath
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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Have you ever wondered…whether God exists? whether life has meaning? Whether pain and suffering have a purpose? This audiobook is my invitation to sit down with C. S. Lewis and me to think about some of the persistent questions and dilemmas every person faces in life. We’ll explore Lewis’s thoughts on everything from friendships to heaven, from the reasons for faith to the power of stories.
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A great overview
- De Kevin en 12-31-14
De: Alister McGrath
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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
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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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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- De John en 09-04-18
De: Alan Jacobs
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Martin Heidegger
- De: George Steiner
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 6 h
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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger." (George Kateb, The New Republic)
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Where is Heidegger on audible?!
- De Abdullah Taha en 10-14-19
De: George Steiner
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Secular Buddhism
- Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
- De: Stephen Batchelor
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious without compromising the integrity of the tradition?
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Good, but repetition of old material
- De Ludwig en 02-25-18
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The Courage to Create
- De: Rollo May
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives.
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May takes on the Creative Act
- De Lowball en 01-16-19
De: Rollo May
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Anthony Storr
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión resumida
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology, which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
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best for starters and reviewers
- De Graziela en 12-27-14
De: Anthony Storr
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Development
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ian Goldin
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development.
De: Ian Goldin
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Mary Shelley
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate for the rights of women, she refused to be governed by social conventions, running away with a married man, having children out of wedlock, and authoring books, stories, and essays that broke literary conventions.
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Great portrait of a great writer
- De Anonymous User en 12-30-24
De: Charlotte Gordon
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Hannah Arendt
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Dana Villa
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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This Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical ideas and political theories belonging to one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. As a survivor of the Holocaust, Arendt's life informed her work exploring the meaning and construction of power, evil, totalitarianism, and direct democracy. Dana Villa explains how Arendt gained world-wide fame with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism, and went on to have a distinguished career as a political theorist and public intellectual.
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Brilliant: both Arendt and this introductory work
- De Anonymous User en 11-11-24
De: Dana Villa
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Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Nicholas Cook
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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This Very Short Introduction, written with both humor and flair, begins with a sampling of music as human activity and then goes on to consider the slippery phenomenon of how music has become an object of thought. Covering not only Western and classical music, Cook touches on all types from rock to Indonesian music and beyond. Incorporating musical forms from every continent, Music will be enjoyable for beginner and expert alike.
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Wrong Book!!!
- De Aaron Moreno en 09-05-21
De: Nicholas Cook
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The Beats
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Sterritt
- Narrado por: James Conlan
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time - particularly those involving sex, race, and class - in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959).
De: David Sterritt
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Emotion (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Dylan Evans
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages, or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build robots that have feelings? In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dylan Evans explores these and many other intriguing questions in this guide to the latest thinking about the emotions.
De: Dylan Evans
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Development
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ian Goldin
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development.
De: Ian Goldin
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Mary Shelley
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate for the rights of women, she refused to be governed by social conventions, running away with a married man, having children out of wedlock, and authoring books, stories, and essays that broke literary conventions.
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Great portrait of a great writer
- De Anonymous User en 12-30-24
De: Charlotte Gordon
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Hannah Arendt
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Dana Villa
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
This Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical ideas and political theories belonging to one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. As a survivor of the Holocaust, Arendt's life informed her work exploring the meaning and construction of power, evil, totalitarianism, and direct democracy. Dana Villa explains how Arendt gained world-wide fame with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism, and went on to have a distinguished career as a political theorist and public intellectual.
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Brilliant: both Arendt and this introductory work
- De Anonymous User en 11-11-24
De: Dana Villa
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Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Nicholas Cook
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General
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This Very Short Introduction, written with both humor and flair, begins with a sampling of music as human activity and then goes on to consider the slippery phenomenon of how music has become an object of thought. Covering not only Western and classical music, Cook touches on all types from rock to Indonesian music and beyond. Incorporating musical forms from every continent, Music will be enjoyable for beginner and expert alike.
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Wrong Book!!!
- De Aaron Moreno en 09-05-21
De: Nicholas Cook
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The Beats
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Sterritt
- Narrado por: James Conlan
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time - particularly those involving sex, race, and class - in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959).
De: David Sterritt
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Emotion (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Dylan Evans
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages, or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build robots that have feelings? In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dylan Evans explores these and many other intriguing questions in this guide to the latest thinking about the emotions.
De: Dylan Evans
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Music and Technology (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Mark Katz
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation.
De: Mark Katz
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George Bernard Shaw
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Christopher Wixson
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity.
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Silent Film
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Donna Kornhaber
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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Encompassing the 35 year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief, engaging account, these formative decades come vividly to life.
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Great Overview
- De Oliver en 01-08-25
De: Donna Kornhaber
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British Cinema
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Charles Barr
- Narrado por: Kevin E. Green
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the twentieth century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial—often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios and sponsorship, against the wider view of changing artistic, socio-political, and industrial climates over the decades of the twentieth century.
De: Charles Barr
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Plague
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Paul Slack
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Paul Slack takes a global approach to explore the historical and social impact of plague over the centuries, looking at the ways in which it has been interpreted and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature.
De: Paul Slack
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Classical Mythology
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Helen Morales
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction audiobook goes beyond a simple retelling of the stories to explore the rich history and diverse interpretations of classical mythology. It is a wide-ranging account, examining how classical myths are used and understood in both high art and popular culture, taking the listener from the temples of Crete to skyscrapers in New York, and finding classical myths in a variety of unexpected places: from Arabic poetry and Hollywood films, to psychoanalysis, the Bible, and New Age spiritualism.
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Woeful: poorly titled, written, and structured
- De Drone Boy en 05-08-24
De: Helen Morales
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Numbers
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Peter M. Higgins
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Numbers are integral to our everyday lives and factor into almost everything we do. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Peter M. Higgins, a renowned popular-science writer, unravels the world of numbers, demonstrating its richness and providing an overview of all the number types that feature in modern science and mathematics.
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Better as a physical book
- De LJLee en 01-08-25
De: Peter M. Higgins
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Ivan Pavlov
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Daniel P. Todes
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
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Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. Beyond a basic biography, Todes devotes particular attention to Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion and his iconic studies of conditional reflexes and higher nervous activity, as well as his experiments with dogs. Todes shows that Pavlov was not a behaviorist, did not use a bell, and was uninterested in training dogs. The Russian scientist sought to explain not merely external behaviors, but the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans.
De: Daniel P. Todes
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Intelligence, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ian J. Deary
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controversial, when in fact, the field of intelligence holds some of psychology's best-replicated findings. This Very Short Introduction audiobook describes what psychologists have discovered about how and why people differ in their thinking powers. Drawing on largescale data, Ian Deary considers how many types of intelligence there are and how intelligence changes with age.
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useless on audible
- De Mark on Amzon en 07-20-22
De: Ian J. Deary
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American Poetry
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Caplan
- Narrado por: Amir Abdullah
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
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With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign.
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Preachy
- De Amber Diggs en 09-01-24
De: David Caplan
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Abolitionism
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Richard S. Newman
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimke - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action.
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Habeas Corpus
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Amanda Tyler
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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The concept of habeas corpus - literally, to receive and hold the body - empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the basis on which they are being held by the government and grant prisoners their freedom when they are held unlawfully. It is no wonder that habeas corpus has long been considered essential to freedom.
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Audio could be better
- De Runekeon en 03-11-25
De: Amanda Tyler