The History of Time
A Very Short Introduction
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five- and then six-day weeks.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the leap year to the 1920s project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.
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Richard Carrier, Ph.D., philosopher, historian, blogger, has published a number of papers in the field of ancient history and biblical studies. He has also written several books and chapters on diverse subjects, and has been blogging and speaking since 2006. He is known the world over for all the above. But here, together for the first time, are all of Dr. Carrier's peer reviewed academic journal articles in history through the year 2013, collected with his best magazine articles, research papers, and blog posts on the same subjects.
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3 out of 5 stars
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"Call Me Underwhelmed"
- De Ray M en 09-12-16
De: Richard Carrier
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Infinitesimal
- How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
- De: Amir Alexander
- Narrado por: Ira Rosenberg
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing and underappreciated bit of history
- De Marino en 09-22-14
De: Amir Alexander
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A History of Judaism
- De: Martin Goodman
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 23 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not easy to follow.
- De Max en 03-12-19
De: Martin Goodman
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- De: S. Frederick Starr
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 25 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Subject worthwhile but repetative narrative
- De F-M en 04-10-14
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Democracy
- A Life
- De: Paul Cartledge
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Ancient Greece first coined the concept of democracy, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker - from Plato and Aristotle onward - was ambivalent toward or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: The elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece, there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of antidemocratic thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- De Timothy en 06-01-21
De: Paul Cartledge
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- De: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrado por: Frank Block
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 266
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This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History told from an honest point
- De Lee en 12-19-21
De: Cheikh Anta Diop
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Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
- How America Kept Its Feet
- De: John Bemelmans Marciano
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 16 ounces in a pound, 100 pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Deceptive Title - Not really about the US
- De Kah en 04-08-22
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101 Secrets of the Freemasons
- The Truth Behind the World's Most Mysterious Society
- De: Barb Karg, John K. Young PhD
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
From the illustrious George Washington and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover to brilliant imaginer Walt Disney and bad boy of baseball Ty Cobb, Freemasons have influenced every aspect of American life. Yet this secret society remains as controversial and mysterious as ever. In this tell-all audiobook, you'll learn the truth about the largest - and oldest - fraternal organization and unravel the mystery of this intriguing society - one secret at a time!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Scattered
- De Amazon Customer en 03-04-20
De: Barb Karg, y otros
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The Ancient Dead Sea Scroll Calendar
- And the Prophecies it Reveals
- De: Ken Johnson
- Narrado por: Jeff Raynor
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
The Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls speak about a mysterious 364-day solar calendar used by the ancients from the time of Creation to about 170 BC. In the second century BC, it was replaced with a lunar calendar by corrupt Jewish priests. Today we know this corrupt lunar calendar as the modern Jewish calendar. In this book we will learn about God’s original solar calendar and discover what prophecies it reveals. Most Christians know that the Jewish festivals teach prophecy. Festivals like Passover, teach about the First Coming of the Messiah.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Insights,
- De Dan Guthrie en 06-07-24
De: Ken Johnson
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 7 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and informative
- De Michael Kellogg en 09-29-05
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
- Lives of the Great Religious Books
- De: John J. Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Moseley
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran, in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination - and more controversy - than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells the story of the bitter conflicts that have swirled around the scrolls since their startling discovery, and sheds light on their true significance for Jewish and Christian history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Great Biography"
- De Marilyn Lame' en 12-04-14
De: John J. Collins
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The Genesis of Science
- How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution
- De: James Hannam
- Narrado por: Rich Germaine
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
If you were taught that the Middle Ages were a time of intellectual stagnation, superstition, and ignorance, you were taught a myth that has been utterly refuted by modern scholarship. As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam shows in his brilliant new book, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, without the scholarship of the "barbaric" Middle Ages, modern science simply would not exist. The Middle Ages were a time of one intellectual triumph after another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful!
- De John en 07-07-15
De: James Hannam
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Pagans
- The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
- De: James J. O'Donnell
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These "pagans" were actually pious Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and Gauls, who observed the traditions of their ancestors. To these devout polytheists, Christians who worshiped only one deity were immoral atheists who believed that a splash of water on the deathbed could erase a lifetime of sin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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19th Century Scholarship
- De Marianne en 10-16-18
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Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jennan Ismael
- Narrado por: Kate Zane
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've learned a great deal about time, and its study has moved from a subject of philosophical reflection to instead became part of the subject matter of physics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Sergey en 01-08-23
De: Jennan Ismael
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beard guides the reader through the Classics
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Mary Beard, y otros
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Philosophical Method
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Timothy Williamson
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent what's philosophy intro
- De Matjaz Potrc en 10-05-20
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Foucault (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Gary Gutting
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Gary Gutting presents a wide-ranging but nonsystematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought. Beginning with a brief biography to set the social and political stage, he then tackles Foucault's thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society; and his thoughts on sexuality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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VSI # 122
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Gary Gutting
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Consciousness, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Susan Blackmore
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Biased in its conclusions, judgemental of conflicting opinions while still having a lot of science in there
- De Robert B Hayes en 10-30-24
De: Susan Blackmore
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Socrates (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: C.C.W. Taylor
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Christopher Taylor explores the life of Socrates and his philosophical activity, before looking to the responses his philosophical doctrines have evoked in the centuries since his betrayal and execution at fellow Athenian hands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A master class in the interpretation of ancient texts.
- De cpk en 11-29-24
De: C.C.W. Taylor
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Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jennan Ismael
- Narrado por: Kate Zane
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've learned a great deal about time, and its study has moved from a subject of philosophical reflection to instead became part of the subject matter of physics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Sergey en 01-08-23
De: Jennan Ismael
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beard guides the reader through the Classics
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Mary Beard, y otros
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Philosophical Method
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Timothy Williamson
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent what's philosophy intro
- De Matjaz Potrc en 10-05-20
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Foucault (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Gary Gutting
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Gary Gutting presents a wide-ranging but nonsystematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought. Beginning with a brief biography to set the social and political stage, he then tackles Foucault's thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society; and his thoughts on sexuality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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VSI # 122
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Gary Gutting
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Consciousness, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Susan Blackmore
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Biased in its conclusions, judgemental of conflicting opinions while still having a lot of science in there
- De Robert B Hayes en 10-30-24
De: Susan Blackmore
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Socrates (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: C.C.W. Taylor
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Christopher Taylor explores the life of Socrates and his philosophical activity, before looking to the responses his philosophical doctrines have evoked in the centuries since his betrayal and execution at fellow Athenian hands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A master class in the interpretation of ancient texts.
- De cpk en 11-29-24
De: C.C.W. Taylor
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Systems Biology
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Eberhard O. Voit
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 8
Systems biology came about as growing numbers of engineers and scientists from other fields created algorithms which supported the analysis of biological data in incredible quantities. Whereas biologists of the past had been forced to study one item or aspect at a time, due to technical and biological limitations, it suddenly became possible to study biological phenomena within their natural contexts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not suitable for audiobook
- De Kindle Customer en 12-07-20
De: Eberhard O. Voit
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The Laws of Thermodynamics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Peter Atkins
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal - everything is moved or restrained by four simple laws. This powerful and compact introduction explains what these four laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No PDF
- De Willem Landman en 01-27-25
De: Peter Atkins
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Game Theory
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ken Binmore
- Narrado por: Jesse Einstein
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 6
Games are everywhere: Drivers maneuvering in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. This Very Short Introduction offers a succinct tour of the fascinating world of game theory, a groundbreaking field that analyzes how to play games in a rational way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No pdf supplementary materials
- De Thomas en 10-06-21
De: Ken Binmore
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Heidegger
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- De: Michael Inwood
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century. In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegger's most important work, Being and Time, to explore its major themes of existence in the world, inauthenticity, guilt, destiny, truth, and the nature of time.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Limited and One-sided View
- De Jack L. Sammons en 10-25-24
De: Michael Inwood
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Existentialism
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Thomas Flynn
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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One of the leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which marked the movement as a way of life, not just a way of thinking.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT an Intro to.
- De RAYMOND BARRY en 01-02-25
De: Thomas Flynn
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The First World War
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Michael Howard
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War - from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very quick synopsis
- De Anonymous User en 11-22-22
De: Michael Howard
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Critical Theory (Second Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Stephen Eric Bronner
- Narrado por: Justin Price
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and, if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Superfluously Grandiloquent Exegesis of an Ostentatiously Verbose Tome
- De Anonymous User en 03-01-25
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Numbers
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Peter M. Higgins
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Better as a physical book
- De LJLee en 01-08-25
De: Peter M. Higgins
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Forensic Psychology
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Canter
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re-offending, the minds of serial killers, and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly known as forensic psychology. This fascinating Very Short Introduction discusses all the aspects of psychology that are relevant to the legal and criminal process as a whole.
De: David Canter
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Political Philosophy
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Miller
- Narrado por: Luci Bell
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the key concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality. Accessible and assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, it encourages the listener to think clearly and critically about the leading political questions of our time. Miller first investigates how political philosophy tackles basic ethical questions such as "how should we live together in society?"
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3 out of 5 stars
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starts great, well written, very informative but
- De Jonas S. de Almeida en 03-30-22
De: David Miller
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Ovid
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Llewelyn Morgan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Llewelyn Morgan explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great, but technical
- De Jonathan L. en 08-15-24
De: Llewelyn Morgan
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Poetry
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Bernard O'Donoghue
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called "poetry" - from the Greeks to the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poetry is for, and considers contemporary debates on its value. Is there a universality to poetry? And does it have a duty of public utility and responsibility?
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Great Primer for Poetry Students
- De Drone Boy en 09-03-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The History of Time
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- THE WAR WITHIN
- 05-19-24
Absolutely amazing
It’s like getting a PhD in world history in three hours. Absolutely mind blowing. Very advanced read.
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