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Tony Judt
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever experienced before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation "was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution". A series of road trips across America leads not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet - a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.
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The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- De Neil Richert en 07-13-20
De: Michael Booth
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Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Zeb Soanes
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Anna Karenina en 07-05-23
De: David Edmonds
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,681
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,424
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frederick Davidson's a Great Reader
- De Debali en 01-11-09
De: George Orwell
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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Square Haunting
- Five Writers in London Between the Wars
- De: Francesca Wade
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures - many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living - and, therefore, of being - these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative independence.
De: Francesca Wade
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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The Bonjour Effect
- The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- De: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrible French pronunciation
- De CA en 01-24-19
De: Julie Barlow, y otros
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance
- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- De: Charles King
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced". What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Much Needed despite poor performance
- De J. Kahn en 08-21-19
De: Charles King
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Those Who Forget
- De: Geraldine Schwarz
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer - those who followed the current. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her grandfather took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what it purports to be
- De DPM en 10-10-20
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De Thumb Guy en 05-03-23
De: Simon Winchester