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Anthropology and the Study of Humanity
- By: Scott M. Lacey, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott M. Lacey
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 368
What does it mean to be human? Where did we come from? And what unites us in our diversity today? Anthropology and the Study of Humanity is your chance to tackle these big questions as you survey one of the world's most engaging - and human - sciences. Taught by acclaimed professor and field researcher Scott M. Lacy of Fairfield University, these 24 wide-ranging lectures are the ideal guide through the world of anthropology, or the study of humanity across time and space.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I WANT MY CREDIT BACK
- By Aurora on 07-06-17
- Anthropology and the Study of Humanity
- By: Scott M. Lacey, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott M. Lacey
es-*KA*-tology
Reviewed: 04-15-23
how in the WORLD does this man think that it's pronounced "eshhh-atology"? how does that happen?? this man has a PhD in anthropology and he doesn't know how the word "eschatology" is pronounced??? i can't decide if it's driving me crazy enough to stop listening..... it's sort of fine otherwise and half of what everyone else has said is true.
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Reversing Hermon
- Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ
- By: Michael S. Heiser
- Narrated by: Michael Duty
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 580
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Story5 out of 5 stars 506
This is an academic work describing how the New Testament writers re-purpose Genesis 6:1-5 in their presentation of Jesus as messiah. Though every topic addressed in Reversing Hermon can be found in scholarly academic literature, Reversing Hermon is the first book to gather this information and make it accessible to Bible students everywhere. The book also includes lengthy appendices on the ancient debate on the inspiration of the book of 1 Enoch, New Testament allusions to the book, and academic resources.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Put Away Your Preconceptions
- By Genesis 6 Man on 01-01-21
- Reversing Hermon
- Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ
- By: Michael S. Heiser
- Narrated by: Michael Duty
"snotty" reading
Reviewed: 03-03-23
Michael Heiser was a damn interesting Biblical scholar with some crucial insights. i'm sad that it's now "was" instead of "is"......... i have no idea why this narrator affects this bizarre, snotty tone throughout. it's *really* off-putting.
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The Façade
- The Façade Saga, Book 1
- By: Michael S Heiser
- Narrated by: Mike Duty
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 521
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 522
Dr. Brian Scott and a team of world-class scholars are given a confidential mission: to prepare humanity for a new reality. They are here. But as the government's involvement with extraterrestrials is revealed, strange things begin to happen. Something isn't right. Unraveling layer after layer of deception and counter-deception, Brian moves toward a shocking revelation that will forever alter how humanity sees itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Narrator is good.
- By J on 09-13-19
- The Façade
- The Façade Saga, Book 1
- By: Michael S Heiser
- Narrated by: Mike Duty
this term gets overused,...
Reviewed: 08-29-22
...but the narration is simply BIZARRE.
some other things are also bizarre about other aspects of this product. so if you happen to be a pothead with an incredibly long attention span....
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,746
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,207
"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, EXCELLENT reading!
- By Jessica on 02-18-09
- Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
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Reviewed: 07-07-22
the feller reading REALLY lays into it. it's almost more of a one man show than a reading---which i loved.
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 250
"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hatchet Job
- By Joseph on 05-13-05
- Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
whew, the OPINIONS
Reviewed: 12-22-21
nicely written again from this Paul Strathern character, but WOW (again) is it just way too overly opinionated to be a good overview of Wittgenstein. his gawl damned OPINIONS make it sort of more fun than it would be otherwise, as his snark comes with real wit, ..... but DAMMIT it does NOT make for a great overview of a great mind's being and doings ..... this one's better than his crapping all over Hegel tho.
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The New Testament
- A Translation
- By: David Bentley Hart
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur", "as if doctrine is not given". Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts' impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening listeners to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Back To the sources of The Source
- By Canon John 3 on 07-04-18
- The New Testament
- A Translation
- By: David Bentley Hart
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
chapters
Reviewed: 06-27-21
someone did a really, really GREAT job with the chapter breakdown and headings on this one.... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn*NOT* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Colin Farrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,726
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,510
This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bitterly disappointed
- By James on 01-29-19
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Colin Farrell
ka-BOOM
Reviewed: 11-21-20
i don't know how to title this dumb review. the book is, obviously, brilliant. nuf said. the reading is good and clear and charming and all that, *BUT* ... just for one thing, when Colin Farrell is speaking for the characters who are (admittedly) not a lot more than foils for our friend Stephen Dedalus, he tends to make them sound like stupider, crass-er, even less-dimensional beings than they should .... and when he's delivering more direct thoughts or lines from Stephen Dedalus himself, Colin Farrell tends to make them sound more ethereal or distant or loftily detached than they need to be .... or something ...... but eh. it eas still an excellent way to take in this book!
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William James, Charles Peirce, and American Pragmatism
- By: James Campbell
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 166
C.S. Peirce was an authentic American genius who developed a tough minded pragmatism and a sweeping philosophy of evolutionary love. William James, a trained physician, carefully studied human experience, including the highest reaches of consciousness. Peirce and James established a rich, sensible, and pragmatic American approach to philosophy's traditional problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A nice little introduction
- By Dennis on 02-24-07
- William James, Charles Peirce, and American Pragmatism
- By: James Campbell
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
excellent
Reviewed: 11-18-20
i am fully addicted to this short survey of... series. it's really maybe the best that i know of. and brah - VOE, Lynn Redgrave!
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Investigating Wittgenstein
- By: Giles Fraser
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 105
Curious, confounding and brilliant, Wittgenstein is a philosopher whom people find it easy to get obsessed with. In Investigating Wittgenstein, Giles Fraser explores the secrets of his attraction. The How to Believe series explores the teachings, philosophies and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, easy-to-access format, leading writers present new understandings of these perennially important ideas.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting But Author's Christian Focus Seems TMI
- By Rich S. on 06-06-15
- Investigating Wittgenstein
- By: Giles Fraser
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
best. EXTREMELY. short. survey. of. Wittgenstein.
Reviewed: 11-10-20
Ever.
(evidently "a review requires at least 15 words")
((ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, aaaaad...))
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Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Giants of Philosophy
- By: Richard Schacht
- Narrated by: Charlton Heston
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Nietzsche condemned nearly all of the religious and philosophical thought of his day to blunt terms (e.g., God is dead). He says the only reality is this world of life and death, conflict and change, creation and destruction. For centuries, religious ideas have given meaning to life in the western world; but as they now collapse, humanity faces a grave crisis of nihilism and despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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General overview of a revolutionary thinker
- By DC Reed on 12-14-12
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Giants of Philosophy
- By: Richard Schacht
- Narrated by: Charlton Heston
another good one from this series
Reviewed: 11-07-20
i really liked how you could hear Charlton Heston *inhaling* throughout the reading. they seem to either edit or coach that out of other readers' performances. you might think it would be irritating, but i found it endearing. i also love how they use different actors for the source quotes. this is an excellent series of brief survey books. way better than the '...In 90 Minutes' books!!!
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