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Peter Rogers MD
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This audiobook is a great gift for persons who like art, music, and movies.
This audiobook shows the best art, music, movies, and books. For every painting and song chosen, 500 were considered.
This audiobook is a tour guide to the best art, music, movies, and literature of Western Civilization. In just a few hours you will become an intermediate level scholar of great paintings, and music.
This audiobook is an Ark full of cultural masterpieces from which civilization can be rebuilt.
The emphasis is on ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Bible art, Renaissance art, Catholic counter reformation, and the Victorian age for paintings.
Music listed includes classical, christian, country, Irish, rock and roll, workout music, Spanish music. Helps you to find the best songs of the greatest singers of all time like Pavarotti, McCormack, Piaf.
Essay on John Ruskin, the Victorian age art critic with comparisons of him to Oscar Wilde.
Historical timeline includes the best of art, music, movies, literature and related events.
Peter Rogers MD is an amateur student of Western culture for 35 years so he can just tell you the truth about how to find the good stuff and not have to pretend to like or include all the junk that usually gets included in survey art and music history books. The most beautiful works of the great ones like van der Weyden (Descent from The Cross, Seven Sacraments), Michelangelo (Pieta, Sistine), Raphael (School of Athens), Caravaggio (Matthew, Seven acts of Mercy), Friberg, Bateman, Krafft (Faust), Tadema, Cole (Voyage of Life), Hudson River School, PreRaphaelites, Millais, Rockwell and others in painting.
So much great art and music is quickly available to you. Nowadays with a computer you can see all the paintings and you can listen to all the songs. It's easier than ever before to become familiar with the great artistic achievements. The music is put into categories like love, exercise etc.
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Super super
- De Richard en 12-28-03
De: Thomas Cahill
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: John Little
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
De: Will Durant
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and thought provoking.
- De Holly Stockley en 04-24-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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The Sistine Secrets
- Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
- De: Benjamin Blech, Roy Doliner
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world - the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched!
- De Natalie K. en 08-28-17
De: Benjamin Blech, y otros
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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
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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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Primitive Mythology
- The Masks of God Series, Volume I
- De: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic speculation into the origins of our mythic consciousness
- De BGZ en 01-10-19
De: Joseph Campbell, y otros
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 430
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 361
Western civilization is under attack. At universities and in the media, professors and pundits decry Western civilization as exploitative, destructive, and without value. But fear not: coming to its defense is this "P.I." guide to Western civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A warning against political correctness
- De Nathan E Wegener en 03-20-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- De: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bard’s biography is a “black hole,” yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) “immoral.” In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Virgil Tracy en 06-03-23
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Consider the Women
- A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible
- De: Debbie Blue
- Narrado por: Sheri Beth Dusek
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 32
A timely and compelling new look at three key women in the biblical narrative. Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian matriarch) - and finds in them unexpected and inviting new ways of navigating faith and life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Full Spectrum Nature Of God Extolled
- De C. C. Dawn en 05-26-19
De: Debbie Blue
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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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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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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Who Is This Man?
- The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
- De: John Ortberg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 244
Best-selling author John Ortberg shares how Jesus' influence has swept over history and how his vision of life continues to impact humanity today. Jesus' impact on our world is highly unlikely, widely inescapable, largely unknown, and decidedly double-edged. It is unlikely in light of the severe limitations of his earthly life; it is inescapable because of the range of impact; it is unknown because history doesn't connect dots; and it is doubled-edged because his followers have wreaked so much havoc, often in his name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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NOT narrated by John Ortberg, sadly
- De T. Harris en 08-15-12
De: John Ortberg
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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- De: Joseph Campbell
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- De Anonymous User en 08-11-18
De: Joseph Campbell
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Patience with God
- Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism)
- De: Frank Schaeffer
- Narrado por: Frank Schaeffer
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Frank Schaeffer has a problem with Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and the rest of the New Atheists—the self-anointed “Brights.” He also has a problem with the Rick Warrens and Tim LaHayes of the world—the religious fundamentalists. The problem is that he doesn’t see much of a difference between the two camps. As Schaeffer puts it, they “often share the same fallacy: truth claims that reek of false certainties.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very Personal Book
- De Thomas en 09-24-10
De: Frank Schaeffer
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Measure for Measure
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Royal Shakespeare Company
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo, is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelo's first act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
- De Todd en 10-16-08
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Lighthouse Faith
- God as a Living Reality in a World Immersed in Fog
- De: Lauren Green
- Narrado por: Lauren Woodward
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Fox News religion correspondent Lauren Green uses her wealth of stories, her vast network of contacts, and her own extensive study of theology to take the listener on a unique journey of spiritual discovery. With few female authors writing in the field of theology, Green provides an important perspective to all who wish to move closer to not only a deeper relationship with God, but an understanding of what makes that possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Emmanuel en 07-22-17
De: Lauren Green
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- Ruffkutt
- 07-21-19
Jordan Peterson Wanabee
Cutesy rambling opinionated closet libertarian-conservative indoctrination, or how western philosophy and religion will save the world. Stick to medicine.
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