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A Beautiful Mind, the book, explores the stigma attached to people who've struggled with mental illness. The accounts of Nash being hospitalized against his will and subjected, again and again, to a treatment he described as "torture"—insulin shock therapy, which provoked extremely violent, spontaneous seizures—are not easy reading. (Fortunately, his wife and colleagues said no to electroshock therapy for fear of numbing Nash's genius.) After his hard-fought recovery, Nash was nearly passed over for the Nobel Prize because of his history with schizophrenia. Could you give the highest of scientific honors to a man who had mental illness? Some committee members were dubious, believing that schizophrenia had transformed Nash into a different, and lesser, person. Taking us inside the secret deliberations at the Swedish Academy, Nasar reveals the controversy over recognizing Nash, with his fragile mental health, at age 66 for a theory he had conceived as an exceptionally mentally strong 21 year old. It was a fraught, contentious decision. Nash was not permitted to give an acceptance speech, contrary to the movie’s dramatic final scene. But Alicia was in Stockholm with him, supportive as always.
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Resumen del Editor
This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard.
“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?” the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did,” came the answer. “So I took them seriously.”
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius, who was already a legend by age thirty, when he slipped into madness, and who—thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community—emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution.
The inspiration for an Academy Award–winning movie, Sylvia Nasar’s now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.
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"Nasar tells a story of triumph, tragedy, and enduring love." ( Library Journal)
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- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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Great Listen
- De John H. Davis III en 10-22-05
De: Jennet Conant
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Endgame
- Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
- De: Frank Brady
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.
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A Trajedy
- De Roy en 02-27-11
De: Frank Brady
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A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- De: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the Digital Revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.
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I wanted more information about Information Theory
- De Bonny en 05-08-18
De: Rob Goodman, y otros
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Going Clear
- Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Morton Sellers
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.
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Shockingly Great
- De Michael en 01-27-13
De: Lawrence Wright
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
- Selected Letters of Richard Feynman
- De: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrado por: Richard Poe, Johanna Parker
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Few scientists have enthralled more people than Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Six Easy Pieces and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Beloved for his engaging character and zest for life, he is an American icon. In this selection of letters, Feynman's towering genius and singular personality shine like dazzling stars.
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Absolutely delightful
- De csk en 07-07-05
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Inside Scientology
- The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
- De: Janet Reitman
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of government to further its goals.
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My cup of tea.
- De MWMcCabe en 08-09-11
De: Janet Reitman
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: John Kroft
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Fantastic book, weak technical execution
- De Paul en 10-13-18
De: Jennet Conant
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Alan Turing
- Unlocking The Enigma
- De: David Boyle
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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Alan Mathison Turing. Mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, a founder of computer science, and the father of Artificial Intelligence, Turing was one of the most original thinkers of the last century - and the man whose work helped create the computer-driven world we now inhabit. But he was also an enigmatic figure, deeply reticent yet also strikingly naive. Turing's openness about his homosexuality at a time when it was an imprisonable offense ultimately led to his untimely death at the age of only 41.
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Fascinating look at a fascinating man
- De kwestrope en 10-16-18
De: David Boyle
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The Gift of Adversity
- The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections
- De: Norman E. Rosenthal M.D.
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life. Although we can and should learn from all experiences, both positive and negative best-selling author Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal believes that adversity is by far the best teacher most of us will ever encounter.
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Book ruined by the narrator
- De David C. en 12-07-22
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The Catcher Was a Spy
- The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
- De: Nicholas Dawidoff
- Narrado por: Jeff Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" ( Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.
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An interesting topic made horribly dull!
- De Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe en 05-01-14
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War
- How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match
- De: David Edmonds, John Eidinow
- Narrado por: Sam Tsoutsouvas
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men, the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer, met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.
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Engrossing
- De Gene en 02-09-05
De: David Edmonds, y otros
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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Agent M
- The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- De: Henry Hemming
- Narrado por: Henry Hemming
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight - the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M. Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this movement. He was also truly eccentric - a thrice-married jazz aficionado who kept a menagerie of exotic pets - and almost totally unqualified for espionage. Yet he had a gift for turning practically anyone into a fearless secret agent.
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Outstanding in every way!
- De Grace O'Malley en 07-18-22
De: Henry Hemming
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Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease that has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals alike. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia, and explores living with it from both the patient’s and the family’s point of view.
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Completely misleading title
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Zodiac
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Interesting
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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A must for fans of The Da Vinci Code
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.
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A New Campaign to Reasses Grant
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Rosemary's Baby
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She is a housewife: young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor: charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home, a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin, where terror is as near as your new neighbors and where evil wears the most innocent face of all.
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Here Be Witches
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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Beware limitations of the reader
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De: Richard Rhodes
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Beautiful Mind
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- Charles Frasier
- 07-04-20
A Flawed Geneus
This book details the relationships and accomplishments of a brilliant but deeply flawed and tragically fragile member of the elite of mathematics. He thrived in the uniquely tolerant world extreme math. But when math could not protect him from the “real” world, he became a
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- Arizona Wildcat
- 05-22-19
A masterpiece in research and storytelling
I am grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the enigmatic lives of Dr. Nash and Alicia and Eleanor, both remarkable women. This was an amazing story that far surpasses in truth and in depth the engaging but more superficial account as told in the movie.
For all of my praise for this book, there was a somewhat annoying flaw in the audio production.
The narrator was excellent. The editing, however, was not excellent as evidenced by at least a dozen times when several sentences were repeated.
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- R. G. Pickering
- 05-24-15
A Lot of math.
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Not really. It had too much about math for me.
If you’ve listened to books by Sylvia Nasar before, how does this one compare?
I don't think I have.
Have you listened to any of Anna Fields’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I don't think I have.
Did A Beautiful Mind inspire you to do anything?
No.
Any additional comments?
It dwelled too much on the math involved and the theories. I enjoyed the portions about his life, per se, and his personality, and the basic accomplishments in the math/game theory field, but there was entirely too much, for me, about the math part so that I almost quit half-way through.
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- Patrick
- 04-09-15
Eye Opening
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I learned things about Nash that were very enlightening. Truly, he has a beutiful mind.
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- Marie
- 11-07-11
Good Story, Above average overall
Above average I would say but some of the math ideas and game theory explanations were complex to a regular guy such as myself. The story of Nash itself was interesting and held my attention. If you understand some of Nash's ideas or are familiar with his work then I would say this book is a must, and you shouldn't be reading my reviews anyway. I gave it 3 of five stars
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- S. Yates
- 11-03-16
Moving and technically challenging
Which character – as performed by Anna Fields – was your favorite?
Her narration was excellent overall, with no particular character being better than the others.
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This is a standout biography that manages to combine some fairly detailed discussions of mathematics as a field, the scientific milieu of the 20th century, and mental illness and treatment in the 20th century, with a meticulous exploration of Nobel winner John Forbes Nash's life. The book is wonderful and the depth and breadth of the interviews conducted to make it possible is astounding. Sensitively written, but unflinchingly honest, this is a book well worth the time.
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- Diana Snyder
- 07-23-20
long book but worth the read
Sylvia does a great job of filling in many details and setting the scene for each part of the story. If I hadn't read this book I never would have realized just how wrong the movie adaptation was.
Nash had his first episode when he was 30 (long after he was going to school or working at Rand) and he never had visual hallucinations. He continued to work and publish throughout his illness and without medications. He refused meds after 1970 and experienced a "spontaneous remission" aka he got his symptoms under control and became functional and productive again all on his own. He also never posed a danger to his son—he wasn't even in the same country when he son was a baby. So basically Hollywood got everything wrong.
An honest examination of history is necessary to inform us for our own circumstances, and that's exactly what this book is. It's the TRUE story of a genius who suffered from a debilitating illness and ultimately recovered from it through his own volition.
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- Renee Sullivan
- 02-16-18
Great reading!!
I especially enjoyed the reading by Anna Fields. The story was fascinating enough and Anna really made it come alive.
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- Harvey Kliman
- 11-28-23
Edit this recording!
It is unacceptable for an Audible book to be so terribly edited. There are numerous instances of text being reread. Not one, not two, but many, many times. Stop offering this book until this is fixed!
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- Amber W.
- 06-06-17
Very... Thorough
That author spent a very long time on irrelevant topics, I very much doubt one has to know, say, the entire history of Princeton University to understand John Nash's story. Uses the word 'ostensibly' five times a chapter.
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