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Hands of Time
- A Watchmaker’s History
- Narrado por: Anna Ploszajski
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Resumen del Editor
"A hugely entertaining achievement." –Esquire
“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists." – Wall Street Journal
"As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.” –Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists and Land
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the invention of time through the centuries-long story of one of mankind’s most profound technological achievements: the watch.
Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon. The watch has sculpted the social and economic development of modern society; it is an object that, when disassembled, can give us new insights both into the motivations of inventors and craftsmen of the past, and, into the lives of the people who treasured them.
Hands of Time is a journey through watchmaking history, from the earliest attempts at time-keeping, to the breakthrough in engineering that gave us the first watch, to today – where the timepieces hold cultural and historical significance beyond what its first creators could have imagined. Acclaimed watchmaker Rebecca Struthers uses the most important watches throughout history to explore their attendant paradigm shifts in how we think about time, indeed how we think about our own humanity. From an up-close look at the birth of the fakes and forgeries industry which marked the watch as a valuable commodity, to the watches that helped us navigate trade expeditions, she reveals how these instruments have shaped how we build and then consequently make our way through the world.
A fusion of art and science, history and social commentary, this fascinating work, told in Struthers’s lively voice and illustrated with custom line drawings by her husband and fellow watchmaker Craig, is filled with her personal observations as an expert watchmaker—one of the few remaining at work in the world today. Horology is a vast subject—the “study of time.” This compelling history offers a fresh take, exploring not only these watches within their time, but the role they played in human development and the impact they had on the people who treasured them.
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A Revelation about a Revolution
- De Roy en 08-01-10
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The White Road
- Journey into an Obsession
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and best-selling international sensation The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, best-selling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold".
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Marvelous and addictive
- De Elizabeth en 09-27-17
De: Edmund de Waal
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Who Built That
- Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
- De: Michelle Malkin
- Narrado por: Michelle Malkin
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and number-one New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress.
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Marvelous
- De Susan en 05-27-15
De: Michelle Malkin
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Land Rover
- The Story of the Car That Conquered the World
- De: Ben Fogle
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land Rover Defender. It mirrors many of our national traits, stiff upper-lipped and slightly eccentric.
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Amazing! Great sub-stories
- De Daniel Caballero en 04-30-24
De: Ben Fogle
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Tesla vs Edison
- A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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Human history has seen many surprising and profound turning points. The ways that humans learned to use raw materials to create activity and resources set the stage for the most compelling and life-altering phase of the modern era, the Industrial Revolution. Born during this time on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.
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Arduous
- De Hasbro en 10-22-18
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Stoned
- Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
- De: Aja Raden
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.
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Cringe-inducing, vapid, and self-conscious
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-27-16
De: Aja Raden
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The Dawn of Innovation
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- De: Charles R. Morris
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer and the most intensely commercialized society in history.
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How our industries started
- De Jean en 02-22-13
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Battle for the Big Top
- P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Millions have sat under the “big top,” watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country’s most beloved pastimes. In Battle for the Big Top, New York Times best-selling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings - James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling - all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus.
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Fantastic!
- De EinsteinzVice en 09-30-22
De: Les Standiford
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22
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The Man Who Made Things out of Trees
- De: Robert Penn
- Narrado por: Robert Penn
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia.
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Amazing tale and daunting warning
- De Amazon Customer en 06-11-19
De: Robert Penn
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De reader en 05-03-23
De: Simon Winchester
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Cunning Plans
- Talks by Warren Ellis
- De: Warren Ellis
- Narrado por: Sam Devereaux
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
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Cunning Plans collects several of NYT best-selling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
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By the time you are finished it all makes sense!
- De Beverly Lynn Sterling en 12-18-17
De: Warren Ellis
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A Brief History of Timekeeping
- The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
- De: Chad Orzel
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
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repetitive
- De D. Lockwood en 05-17-24
De: Chad Orzel
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash
- Writers Confront the Occupation
- De: Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.
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I think it is one of the worst books that I ever read.
- De Popo en 03-26-19
De: Michael Chabon, y otros
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To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth
- The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
- De: Tom Clavin, Phil Keith
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
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Fascinating how these men traveled the world on a ship in the mid 19th century.
- De Jacob Llamas en 03-10-24
De: Tom Clavin, y otros
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Watches Throughout Time
- De: J.S. Fox
- Narrado por: Thomas Heard
- Duración: 1 h
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An account of the most iconic men's watches throughout history. From the first watch ever made for soldiers during world war one to the futuristic smartwatches of today, explore the most powerfully innovative and remarkable timepieces throughout history that helped to revolutionize the watchmaking industry as we know it today.
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Far too brief.
- De Xathy en 05-08-23
De: J.S. Fox
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Freedom's Detective
- The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
- De: Charles Lane
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h
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Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.
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Evan Review
- De Evan en 06-23-19
De: Charles Lane
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Fallen Idols
- Twelve Statues That Made History
- De: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past.
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Interesting Read
- De Michelle en 01-23-22
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A Brief History of Timekeeping
- The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
- De: Chad Orzel
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
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repetitive
- De D. Lockwood en 05-17-24
De: Chad Orzel
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash
- Writers Confront the Occupation
- De: Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.
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I think it is one of the worst books that I ever read.
- De Popo en 03-26-19
De: Michael Chabon, y otros
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To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth
- The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
- De: Tom Clavin, Phil Keith
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
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Fascinating how these men traveled the world on a ship in the mid 19th century.
- De Jacob Llamas en 03-10-24
De: Tom Clavin, y otros
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Watches Throughout Time
- De: J.S. Fox
- Narrado por: Thomas Heard
- Duración: 1 h
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An account of the most iconic men's watches throughout history. From the first watch ever made for soldiers during world war one to the futuristic smartwatches of today, explore the most powerfully innovative and remarkable timepieces throughout history that helped to revolutionize the watchmaking industry as we know it today.
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Far too brief.
- De Xathy en 05-08-23
De: J.S. Fox
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Freedom's Detective
- The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
- De: Charles Lane
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h
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Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.
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Evan Review
- De Evan en 06-23-19
De: Charles Lane
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Fallen Idols
- Twelve Statues That Made History
- De: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past.
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Interesting Read
- De Michelle en 01-23-22
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during 45 years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful?
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Excellent
- De James en 03-30-18
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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The Saboteur
- The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
- De: Paul Kix
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur - and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
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Brave outstanding young man
- De paula wright en 06-02-20
De: Paul Kix
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In Search of Perfumes
- A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature’s Scents
- De: Dominique Roques
- Narrado por: Jean Brassard
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry’s leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.
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Perfume Travel Around the World
- De L. Locker en 02-05-24
De: Dominique Roques
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About Time
- A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
- De: David Rooney
- Narrado por: David Rooney
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Through the stories of 12 clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where 19th-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years.
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A strange disappointment
- De Jeffrey L. Smith, PE en 06-25-22
De: David Rooney
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Edison's Ghosts
- The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
- De: Katie Spalding
- Narrado por: Susie Riddell
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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“As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius—but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition.
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Wonderful Wonderful Read.
- De marc edge en 06-01-23
De: Katie Spalding
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Into the Planet
- My Life as a Cave Diver
- De: Jill Heinerth
- Narrado por: Jill Heinerth
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today - and one of the very few women in her field - Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring listeners face-to-face with the terror and beauty of Earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability.
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The Story of the World's Premier Woman Cave Diver
- De Peakbagger en 02-24-20
De: Jill Heinerth
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- De: Arthur Firstenberg
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before - from an environmental point of view - by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet.
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Crackpot
- De Peter Nee en 08-29-21
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Chasing the Panther
- Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
- De: Carolyn Pfeiffer, Gregory Collins - contributor
- Narrado por: Devon O'day
- Duración: 10 h
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For a moment in the 1980s, Carolyn Pfeiffer was the only woman in Hollywood who could greenlight a movie. Working with directors like Sam Shepard and Wes Craven, and with actors like River Phoenix and Bette Davis, she had a hand in producing or distributing many landmark films, among them Ridley Scott's The Duellists, Alan Rudolph's Choose Me, and the Academy Award-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman. However, long before establishing herself as a player in the world of film, Carolyn was a horseback-riding tomboy who dreamed of exploring the world beyond her small hometown.
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Captivating and well crafted
- De SF en 06-10-23
De: Carolyn Pfeiffer, y otros
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Moonshot
- Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
- De: Dr. Albert Bourla
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made “the impossible possible”—creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop. Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated minds at Pfizer overcame a series of crises that were compounded by social and political unrest.
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Incredible, consuming, history.
- De Mike Lake en 05-14-23
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Flying, Falling, Catching
- An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom
- De: Henri J. M. Nouwen, Carolyn Whitney-Brown
- Narrado por: BJ Harrison, Karen Gundersen
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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During the last five years of his life, best-selling spiritual author Henri J. M. Nouwen became close to The Flying Rodleighs, a trapeze troupe in a traveling circus. Like Nouwen’s own life, a trapeze act is full of artistry, exhilarating successes, crushing failures and continual forgiveness. He wrote about his experience in a genre new to him: creative non-fiction. In Flying, Falling, Catching, Nouwen's colleague and friend Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents his unpublished trapeze writings framed by the true story of his rescue through a hotel window by paramedics during his first heart attack.
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Dragged on and on
- De Debby from NJ en 04-06-24
De: Henri J. M. Nouwen, y otros
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Mother of God
- An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
- De: Paul Rosolie
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.
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This whole book is B.S.
- De bob fields en 09-30-18
De: Paul Rosolie
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- K. Hurd
- 10-08-23
Excellent
A welcome treat for someone who loves watches and horology but doesn't get much interaction with fellow enthusiasts. Beautifully read. Love it.
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- Sean Rapoza
- 07-21-23
Fantastic history of watches…
…entwined with an autobiography. You will learn things! Plus, this book has nothing to do with clocks, but watches.
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- E. Onaya
- 09-12-23
Perceptions of time.
I loved taking this fascinating journey through history learning about the evolution of clocks and watchmaking. The author especially made me think about so much more by considering the impact these captivating pieces of engineering have on culture and history. Fantastic!
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- Pierre Michel
- 09-23-23
What a marvelous read!
Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey through the world of timekeeping with 'Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History.' Dr. Rebecca Struthers has crafted a literary masterpiece that delves into the captivating art of horology and takes us on a profound historical odyssey. This book is an indispensable historical reference that will undoubtedly become your trusted companion on your watchmaking endeavors. Dr. Struthers' unparalleled expertise and unbridled passion for preserving the legacy of watchmaking are nothing short of exhilarating.
In sum, 'Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History' is a triumph, a literary treasure that will ignite your fascination with watches and their intricate stories. This book is a must-read for anyone who cherishes the artistry of timekeeping and leaves you inspired to explore the world of horology with newfound vigor.
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- Kico M
- 04-20-24
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This is a good book, with good passages about the history of clock and respecting a timeline of events. However, it is more a personal approach from the author to the world of watches than a history book. I was expecting the latter, but still could enjoy the book. The author’s passion compensate a bit.
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- Nicholas Conrad
- 07-05-23
Very interesting, while it was about clocks.
A fascinating and elucidating trip through the history of human timekeeping, told by a master clock maker with the ability to appreciate the engineering and design of each new invention and improvement. This is one of the few Audible titles where I went looking for an accompanying PDF, hoping to see some of the wondrous objects being described; alas, only to come up empty. If this were the whole of the book (and had a PDF), it would easily have been 5 stars.
Unfortunately, Rebecca often drifts off course into politics, economics, and sociology, wherein her talents clearly do not lay. Just as one example: a whole chapter serves no purpose in furthering the story of time keeping, and only exists so that at the end she can trumpet the virtues of socialized healthcare; a chapter in which she recounts how her (socialized) doctors misdiagnosed and gaslit her for years telling her repeatedly that her symptoms were imaginary until she badgered them into doing more tests that revealed she had MS. Yeah, not exactly a ringing endorsement of the NHS despite the literary happy ending she gave it.
And despite being one of the most skilled and sought-after (not to mention highly-paid) practitioners in her field, she is constantly entreating the audience to see her as a victim for being, alternatingly, not like the other girls (a girl who makes clocks, can you even imagine!), and not like the other clock makers (a clock maker who is a girl, preposterous!). The entire work would be a little bit shorter, and a whole lot better if Rebecca had simply stuck to the subject at hand.
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