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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
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The truth of it all
- De Kathy Jordan en 05-23-24
De: Mansoor Adayfi, y otros
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- De: Marcus Aurelius, James Harris
- Narrado por: Gregory Allen Siders
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These books have been carefully adapted into modern English form to allow for easy listening. Enjoy!
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- De Anonymous User en 06-13-19
De: Marcus Aurelius, y otros
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The Prophet
- De: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrado por: Riz Ahmed
- Duración: 1 h y 25 m
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On the face of it, a simple book of 26 poem fables sharing one man’s wisdom. But The Prophet is so much more than that. It has inspired people from John F Kennedy to The Beatles and became the '60s Bible of counterculture – all because of the timeless truths it shared. Each poem takes a different theme – pleasure, beauty, freedom, joy and sorrow – as the fictional Al Mustapha shares his thoughts and experiences as he prepares to travel back to his island home.
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Riz Ahmed's Narraration Is So Moving!
- De Dee Tree en 09-12-21
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The Mastery of Self
- A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
- De: Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
- Narrado por: Charlie Varon
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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The ancient Toltecs believed that life, as we perceive it, is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and these come together to form the dream of the planet, or the world in which we live. Problems arise when our perception of the dream becomes clouded with negativity, drama, and judgment (of ourselves and others), because it's in these moments of suffering that we have forgotten that we are the architects of our own reality and we have the power to change our dream if we choose.
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listen.. .then listen again
- De Casiano en 12-22-16
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)
- Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power
- De: Brené Brown
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
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I'm sure its great if you are a mother ....
- De Leslie A Hill en 08-09-11
De: Brené Brown
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The Complete Book of Five Rings
- De: Miyamoto Musashi, Kenji Tokitsu - editor/translator
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text, along with several other works by Musashi.
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Best translation I have encountered.
- De DW en 05-27-16
De: Miyamoto Musashi, y otros
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Eight Dates
- Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- De: John Gottman PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman PhD, Doug Abrams, y otros
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin, Julie McKay
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on 40 years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.
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What the F. Robot-reader???!?!?!
- De Anonymous User en 01-21-20
De: John Gottman PhD, y otros
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Audible Masterpiece
- De Phoenician en 09-10-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 2 h y 2 m
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Leaves much to be desired
- De Melody H en 02-02-20
De: Michael Pollan
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
- De: M. Doreal
- Narrado por: John Marino
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years. The writer is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, erroneously attributed to Cheops. In it he incorporated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and instruments of ancient Atlantis.
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Excellence...
- De Light Worker en 04-21-18
De: M. Doreal
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The Ethical Slut
- A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, & Other Adventures
- De: Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton
- Narrado por: Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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For anyone who has ever dreamed of love, sex, and companionship beyond the limits of traditional monogamy, this groundbreaking guide navigates the infinite possibilities that open relationships can offer. Experienced ethical sluts Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths and cover all the skills necessary to maintain a successful and responsible polyamorous lifestyle.
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The information and advice is 100% totally solid!
- De Troy en 07-28-15
De: Janet W. Hardy, y otros
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Buddhism for Beginners
- De: Thubten Chodron, His Holiness the Dalai Lama - foreword
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions - beginning with “What is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings?” - and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron’s responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching Buddhism make this an exceptionally complete and accessible introduction - as well as a manual for living a more peaceful, mindful, and satisfying Life.
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Amazing introduction to Buddhism
- De chad d en 07-02-15
De: Thubten Chodron, y otros
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Mythology: Mega Collection
- Classic Stories from the Greek, Celtic, Norse, Japanese, Hindu, Chinese, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Mythology
- De: Scott Lewis
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser, Oliver Hunt
- Duración: 31 h y 37 m
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Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
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An interesting set of introductions.
- De Kevin Potter en 05-30-19
De: Scott Lewis
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- De: Mary Beard
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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This foray into art history is a disappointment.
- De Stephen J Chiulli en 11-10-21
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Confronting the Classics
- Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
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One of the world's leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century. Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people - the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women.
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Annoying narrator
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The Parthenon
- De: Mary Beard
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Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this audiobook conducts listeners through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world.
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Wonderful
- De Marcus Martinez en 11-24-23
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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Really needs a PDF
- De Britt Elin Gihleengen en 12-06-18
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was - more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? - and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath....
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Delightful Description of Life in Ancient Pompeii
- De Emily en 08-27-19
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image.
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Disappointing
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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This foray into art history is a disappointment.
- De Stephen J Chiulli en 11-10-21
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Confronting the Classics
- Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Lynne Jenson
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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One of the world's leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century. Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people - the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women.
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Annoying narrator
- De Chris E en 02-27-15
De: Mary Beard
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The Parthenon
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this audiobook conducts listeners through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world.
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Wonderful
- De Marcus Martinez en 11-24-23
De: Mary Beard
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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Really needs a PDF
- De Britt Elin Gihleengen en 12-06-18
De: Mary Beard
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was - more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? - and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath....
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Delightful Description of Life in Ancient Pompeii
- De Emily en 08-27-19
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- De: Mary Beard
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image.
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Disappointing
- De Warthog en 10-08-23
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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- De: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths.
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Entertaining history tour with a smooth UK narrator
- De JW en 12-24-23
De: Mary Beard, y otros
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
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Wasn't sure but won me over
- De John S. en 01-26-24
De: Mary Beard
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial.
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Short and fabulous
- De André C. en 03-13-20
De: Mary Beard
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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In SPQR, world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.
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Shallow and unsatisfying
- De Joe en 02-19-17
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SPQR
- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- De: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió
- Narrado por: Neus Sendra
- Duración: 17 h y 29 m
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Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto de su historia: una historia que, nos dice, «al cabo de dos mil años, sigue siendo la base de nuestra cultura y nuestra política, de cómo vemos el mundo y nuestro lugar en él».
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Mary Beard is a superb Roman historian
- De Conrado Villaseñor Sánchez en 01-30-24
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Roman Warfare
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome's history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare, celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare.
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Not much here.
- De Placeholder en 12-06-23
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?
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Vindolanda
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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AD, 98. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over 20 years' time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now, defences are weak as tribes rebel against Rome. It falls to Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, to keep the peace. But it will take more than just a soldier's courage to survive life in Roman Britain.
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Much like Bernard Cornwell in style
- De Daniel P. Fradl en 06-28-18
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Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- De: Edward J. Watts
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents.
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A Well Written Timely Work
- De David I. Williams en 09-10-20
De: Edward J. Watts
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The Last Great War of Antiquity
- De: James Howard-Johnston
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 20 h y 50 m
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented scale, and its end brought the classical phase of history to a close. Despite all this, it has left a conspicuous gap in the history of warfare. This book aims to finally fill that gap.
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Perfect book for getting in the weeds.
- De Miles Simpson en 09-24-23
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
- A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
- De: Peter Heather
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart.
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A New HIstory but not a better history
- De Mario en 03-28-14
De: Peter Heather
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- De: Judith Herrin
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.
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Not a comprehensible history
- De kevin arsenault en 10-07-23
De: Judith Herrin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Roman Triumph
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Well explained.
Would recommend reading this for a comparison of how modern parades after major wars, almost mirror, the Roman triumph. Example the New York tickertape parade after a Second World War. And the military parade in Washington DC with Norman Schwarzkopf after the first Iraq war.
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- Travis Brown
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The narrator
she pauses at the end of each sentence. it's so long and awkward. after ready the sentence so fast.
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- Matthew I. Kennel
- 11-23-23
Interesting book, but poorly narrated
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: the narrator was terrible, but don’t let that stop you from buying the book if you’re interested in the topic. The narrator had this extremely annoying vocal tick, where her tone starts out low, then goes extremely high, then comes back down again. This happens repeatedly and I found it grating. That having been said, the book was still worth listening to. This was an interesting book. Mary Beard is obviously very learned, and she does a great job of bringing together many strands of evidence to talk about the Roman Triumph. I do find that sometimes she seems to meander in her argumentation. I also think that she’s too skeptical for her own good at times. That haven’t been said, her perspective is always worth listening to, and this was a spectacular spectacle of a book, bringing out all the exotic glory of the Roman triumph, and asking many interesting, and worthwhile questions about it.
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Historia
- daryl
- 03-03-23
Did Mary Beard really write this book?
It reads like research notes cobbled together into a book. It is all over the place - jumping from one reference to another. Some of the sentences are so long the narrator is left gasping for breath. I have enjoyed watching Mary Beard hosting TV documentaries on ancient Rome and she comes across as very knowledgeable and witty. She has a great personality but none of that personality is in this book. The narration was very monotonal. If the author(s) was trying to inject some interest or entertainment, then you would never pick it in the narration.
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