
The Ornament of the World
How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished.
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Portugal has a rich history that dates to prehistoric times. The first settlers left amazing art behind in the form of rock carvings and rock monoliths. Even though Portugal is probably best known for exploring the world during the Age of Discovery, the history of mainland Portugal is rarely described outside of the country. The purpose of this audiobook is to familiarize English speakers with the events and personas that built the Portuguese kingdom, its overseas empire, and the state that Portugal is today.
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Solid overview
- De Casey Parsons en 11-13-22
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Lisbon
- War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939–1945
- De: Neill Lochery
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated. Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality but in reality was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval, wars between the Allies and the Nazis. The story is not, however, a conventional tale of World War II in that barely a shot was fired or a bomb dropped. Instead, it is a gripping tale of intrigue, betrayal, opportunism, and double-dealing....
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Expostiion of Little Known Story
- De Lynn en 06-16-12
De: Neill Lochery
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- De: Robert Goodwin
- Narrado por: Jeremy Clyde
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach--across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change. Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring this tumultuous and exciting period to life
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Deep look at an accidental empire
- De Clavain en 03-17-25
De: Robert Goodwin
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The Moors in Spain
- De: Stanley Lane-Poole
- Narrado por: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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The Moors in Spain is an overview of the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854 - 1931), the author, was a noted British archaeologist.
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Terrible Narration
- De Michael en 09-13-20
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Iberia
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history.
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Michener's Masterpiece
- De ahusmc en 09-14-17
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Maimonides
- The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
- De: Joel L. Kraemer
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough's John Adams and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Maimonides is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time.
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Great book. Distracting pronunciation errors.
- De Rabbi Eitan Levy en 04-06-09
De: Joel L. Kraemer
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The Battle for Spain
- The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.
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Not an Accurate History Book
- De Jose en 10-16-19
De: Antony Beevor
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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Danubia
- A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
- De: Simon Winder
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 22 h y 11 m
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From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia. This is a narrative that, while erudite and well researched, prefers to be discursive and anecdotal. In his survey of the centuries of often incompetent Habsburg rule which have continued to shape the fate of Central Europe, Winder does not shy away from the horrors, railing against the effects of nationalism, recounting the violence that was often part of life.
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Magnificent history of the Habsburg Empire
- De Skeptical en 10-25-18
De: Simon Winder
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The Makers of Scotland
- Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings
- De: Tim Clarkson
- Narrado por: David Vickery
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals, or rulers of small kingdoms.
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Good book easy to listen to
- De Jennifer S en 08-14-24
De: Tim Clarkson
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The Arc of a Covenant
- The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
- De: Walter Russell Mead
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 26 h y 14 m
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In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day.
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Concise Accurate Information
- De Peakbagger en 03-27-25
Barely comprehensible
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She pronounces it Izlum.
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Excellent Book
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Needs to be rewritten
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Most relevant to today’s global state of affairs.
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Painful mispronunciation
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A Must-Read for all Medieval Enthusiasts
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Painfully realistic
Mandates one to ponder over if the fate of multi-religious America & the world.
Refreshing, realistic, reflective
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Informative and well-told
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Interesting
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