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Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought.
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Riddled With Problems
- De Ben en 11-01-13
De: David Berlinski
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The Upright Thinkers
- The Human Journey From Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Leonard Mlodinow
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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In this fascinating and illuminating work, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which, he demonstrates, were propelled forward by humankind's collective struggle to know. From the birth of reasoning and culture to the formation of the studies of physics, chemistry, biology, and modern-day quantum physics, we come to see that much of our progress can be attributed to simple questions - why? how? - bravely asked.
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10/10 Got What I Wanted.
- De Austin en 09-22-15
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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Isaac Newton
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science: how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan's mind.
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BRUTAL
- De Andrew en 05-25-05
De: James Gleick
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The Dream of Reason, New Edition
- A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries like Erasmus and Bacon, philosophy emerges here as a phenomenon unconfined by any one discipline.
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Bias spoils the work.
- De MC en 08-21-20
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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A good overview of scientific theory
- De MJ Walters en 09-11-18
De: Jim Holt
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The King of Infinite Space
- Euclid and His Elements
- De: David Berlinski
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
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Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over 2,000 years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements.
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Funniest Highest and Fullest math overview
- De Francisco Garcia en 12-12-22
De: David Berlinski
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- De: Ian Stewart
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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Beware
- De Anton Kurtz en 12-08-18
De: Ian Stewart
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The Landscape of History
- How Historians Map the Past
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today.
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Excellent Book!
- De Billy en 09-15-18
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Euclid's Window
- The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.
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Wow!
- De Eric en 08-13-10
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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To Explain the World
- The Discovery of Modern Science
- De: Steven Weinberg
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
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In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries, from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand or how to understand it.
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How the world created a Newton
- De Gary en 03-02-15
De: Steven Weinberg
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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Calculus Ergo Modernity
- De Nelson Alexander en 07-09-11
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Genesis of Science
- How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution
- De: James Hannam
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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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Insightful!
- De John en 07-07-15
De: James Hannam
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit
- Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
- De: David Wootton
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton reveals, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives.
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- De: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.
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Good text, tedious book structure
- De Diane K. en 10-07-15
De: Susan Wise Bauer
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To Explain the World
- The Discovery of Modern Science
- De: Steven Weinberg
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
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In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries, from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand or how to understand it.
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How the world created a Newton
- De Gary en 03-02-15
De: Steven Weinberg
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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Calculus Ergo Modernity
- De Nelson Alexander en 07-09-11
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Genesis of Science
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- De: James Hannam
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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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Insightful!
- De John en 07-07-15
De: James Hannam
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit
- Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
- De: David Wootton
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton reveals, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives.
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- De: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.
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Good text, tedious book structure
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De: Susan Wise Bauer
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Mankind in Amnesia
- De: Immanuel Velikovsky
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Immanuel Velikovsky called this book the "fulfillment of his oath of Hippocrates - to serve humanity." In this book, he returns to his roots as a psychologist and psychoanalytical therapist, yet not with a single person as his patient but with humanity as a whole.
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Classic work
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The Knowledge Machine
- How Irrationality Created Modern Science
- De: Michael Strevens
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.
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Almost there. Scholarly review.
- De John en 05-02-21
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The First Americans
- In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
- De: J.M. Adovasio, Jake Page
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
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J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited.
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Worth a read/listen
- De Thomas Gordon en 01-16-23
De: J.M. Adovasio, y otros
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Four Princes
- Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
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John Julius Norwich - whom the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian" - has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a 10-year period. Against the vibrant background of the Renaissance, these four men laid the foundations for modern Europe and the Middle East, as they collectively impacted the culture, religion, and politics of their respective domains.
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For the most part, very informative.
- De Paula en 02-05-18
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24 Hours in Ancient Athens
- A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
- De: Philip Matyszak
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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During the course of a day we meet twenty-four Athenians from all strata of society—from the slave-girl to the councilman, the vase painter to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite—and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in the life of the ancient city.
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Maybe the narrator for 24 hours in Rome spoiled me
- De Dan R. en 04-06-23
De: Philip Matyszak
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Discourse on Metaphysics, On the Ultimate Origin of Things and Other Principal Essays
- De: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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This Leibniz collection contains some of the philosopher’s most important works and ideas, spans three decades and illuminates the fascinating intellectual journey undertaken by him in his quest for truth. A prodigious polymath, Leibniz was a mathematician, philosopher, physicist and statesman and engaged with a sweeping range of ideas and disciplines, striving throughout his life to be at the cutting edge of scientific thinking. These Principal Essays are arranged in chronological order.
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Philosophy at it’s best
- De Roman Greenberg en 02-03-22
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Isaac Newton
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science: how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan's mind.
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BRUTAL
- De Andrew en 05-25-05
De: James Gleick
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Horizons
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When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But the history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavor. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques that came from Arabic and Persian texts. Newton’s laws of motion used astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia.
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A Woke version of Whig History of Science
- De Trebla en 03-30-22
De: James Poskett
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- De: Ian Stewart
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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Beware
- De Anton Kurtz en 12-08-18
De: Ian Stewart
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
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This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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Still Current, Without Opening Recent Wounds
- De wbiro en 11-09-17
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history—the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills, and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting—the past not as something to be studied, but as lived experience.
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SKIP THIS BOOK
- De Lady Aristotle en 09-05-22
De: Ian Mortimer
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- De: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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Too much judgement
- De Historic Philosopher en 04-23-24
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- Brian Corbin
- 07-27-21
Good but too much
Excellent book. Great way of looking at science. My only issue was its length. I felt as if the author kept repeating themselves. This would probably be a better book in the abridged version. If that doesn’t exist, however, it is still well worth the listen.
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- Kristi Nelson
- 09-09-21
Must read for many reasons
this is a must read for history and science nerds both, and worth recommending to others.
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- La Bookeria
- 08-10-16
New Postmodern Historiography of History o Science
Highly recommended textbook on Historiography of Scientific Thinking & Dialogue with Posmodern Turn in History.
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- T. S. Thompson
- 06-28-18
A detailed and persuasive set of arguments
Loved it. It assessed problems with both the history and philosophy of science, as promulgated by other modern scholars. Look for this richly detailed and covertly argued work to become a classic in the field.
The narration was flawless.
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- doggedstrength
- 06-13-19
Pretty Much the Whole Ball of Wax
For a non-scientist, and that's most of us, getting a grip on science seems alternatively vital and too difficult to attempt. We want to know what science is, yet science itself seems reserved for experts. Apparently in order to understand it you have to master it.
But Wootton magisterially demonstrates that science as we know it required grappling, mistakes, gargantuan misconceptions and strenuous argument to be lodged where it sits today, ostensibly implacable if not entirely unapproachable. In fact, science doesn't "know" today what it will "know" tomorrow. It's a set of procedures, undertakings, theories tested, retested and refined into edgy, always pulsing, custom. It's not truth. It's one pathway through the human mystery. Its inquiries never culminate. Its watchword is always "Behold!"
That's why it's hard. And that's how it entices us. It doesn't bow to mystery, nor does it ever claim to entirely vanquish it.
Wootton is a deeply learned, subtle, witty and profoundly considerate writer -- none of his chapters are too long, for one thing. More importantly, he's both graceful and honest. His citations are scrupulous, his claims always supported right before your eyes. He gives you the tools you need to expand on or refute what he says.
It's a life-changing book. Science at its heart is thinking in earnest, imagination followed by application. Scientists are warriors. They want certainty and are not entirely comfortable when they invariably have to settle for less. This book will show you that fighting for what seems to you to be accurate will nearly always prove to be worth it. For even if you are wrong, you are suddenly on a higher path toward an understanding you didn't beforehand even know was possible.
One of the great, essential books of my lifetime.
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- Robert D Volz
- 10-17-22
Informative but tedious
This book reminded me of the old adage “I wrote you a long letter because I didn’t take the time to write a short one.” While informative about the works of those who brought about the dawn of science in the western world, it’s length and detail made it tedious listening as an audio book. A condensed version would have been far more enjoyable. I thought this book would be focused on the scientific discoveries and their significance to society. But instead it seemed to focus on the vocabulary of science and the origin of specific words. It was not what I expected and became tedious to finish.
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- Renee Sullivan
- 12-22-18
So so
I expected the book to tell how scientific inventions came about. This was more an ancient history of what science was and was not for most of human history. The word fact wasn’t something people talked about for most of human history. So this was interesting but didn’t hold my attention as I had hoped.
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- R. Williams
- 02-08-24
well done
Author had amazing range and an interesting, different take. Loved the ending, talking about Montagne.
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- bryan
- 12-09-16
A boring argument about semantics
It's all about the definition of "modern scientific revolution." A very boring and pointless story mixed with science trivia
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- Chris
- 07-05-16
Tedious, dryly academic
Would you try another book from David Wootton and/or James Langton?
I'd be very careful about trying another book from Wooton.
Has The Invention of Science turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, I'm happy to read other history books on science.
What character would you cut from The Invention of Science?
The author. He's there too much, lecturing us on every detail. I'd prefer to have the people making discoveries be the caracters.
Any additional comments?
This book may be useful for an academic who wants every detail drawn out in excruciating detail, but it's painfully slow for me.
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