Metamorphoses
In Search of Franz Kafka
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Karolina Watroba
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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, customers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka.
Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects.
Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are, in part, homages to the great man himself.
Metamorphoses presents a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life, combining literary scholarship with the responses of his audiences throughout the last century. It is a both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.
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We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fluidity of concept to reality explanation from the author
- De Rony exantus en 01-06-25
De: Kelly Clancy
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Kingmaker
- Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing–and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes–on both sides of the Atlantic–remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pamela reigns! But.....
- De Lucy Johnson en 11-30-24
De: Sonia Purnell
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Written in Water
- The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
- De: Rochelle Gurstein
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in the canon, all of which went so completely against common knowledge that it was hard to believe it was true.
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The Whole Story
- Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
- De: John Mackey
- Narrado por: Adam Barr, John Mackey
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 60
Whole Foods Market's cofounder and CEO for forty-four years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its remarkable impact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story about Whole Foods!(up there with Shoe Dog for best business book!)
- De Sachin Dalal en 04-02-25
De: John Mackey
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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast, we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Altered my perception of History
- De IowaGreyhound en 06-25-24
De: Ian Mortimer
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The Eastern Front
- A History of the Great War 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 22 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an eloquent account of a conflagration whose consequences we are still grappling with
- De Richard M. Bendix, Jr. en 04-01-25
De: Nick Lloyd
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Why War?
- De: Richard Overy
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled Why War?, it conveyed Freud's conclusion that the "death drive" made any deliverance impossible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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War is Peace
- De Anonymous User en 01-23-25
De: Richard Overy
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The Year of Living Constitutionally
- One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
- De: A.J. Jacobs
- Narrado por: A.J. Jacobs
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Is the Constitution a living document that needs to evolve with the times? Or should we try to divine the original meaning that our Founding Fathers intended, and hew to that as strictly as possible, as present-day originalists suggest? In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful!
- De BranWick en 07-14-24
De: A.J. Jacobs
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The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- De: Thomas R. Cech
- Narrado por: Joshua Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 12
A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA's spectacular powers, to Cech's own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De Auinash Kalsotra en 09-16-24
De: Thomas R. Cech
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Reentry
- SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 289
From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One story after another
- De Darek en 12-30-24
De: Eric Berger
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Reagan
- His Life and Legend
- De: Max Boot
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 32 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides “the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date” (Robert Mann).
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1 out of 5 stars
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Has An Agenda
- De CC en 01-07-25
De: Max Boot
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Slow Productivity
- The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- De: Cal Newport
- Narrado por: Cal Newport
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 812
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cal Needs Narration Training
- De T. S. Tatum en 04-25-24
De: Cal Newport