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The most objective historian of all time, Thucydides gives the answer to all these problems by describing the symptoms and the effects of the pandemic in the Ancient Athens Empire (he was also ill from the plague and got over it!).
By listening to this book, you’ll have a complete blueprint of how to deal with the effects of the pandemic on both social and psychological levels, so you won't get affected by fake teachers and fake news.
Also, you will realize that a pandemic is a no joke, and it makes no discriminations among social ranks.
Stay safe; stay home!
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It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat elemental
- De Bertha Watkins en 10-23-21
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The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Jimmy Kieffer
- Duración: 1 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched audiobook, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored. Fascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fine history of a pandemic
- De Fr. S. en 03-25-23
De: Hourly History
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- De: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrado por: Doug Kaye
- Duración: 1 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 344
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 301
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to be a politician ...
- De Benedict en 07-31-13
De: Quintus Tullius Cicero, y otros
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,733
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,992
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon 34 more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-19th-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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The Spiritual Teachings of Seneca
- Ancient Philosophy for Modern Wisdom
- De: Mark Forstater, Victoria Radin
- Narrado por: David Troughton, Louisa Millwood Haig
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Seneca was dedicated to Stoicism, and in his essays and letters he explained the stoic position on many fundamental issues: pleasure and the problem of desire, happiness, and contentment; anger, fear, living in the present, how to think for yourself, anxiety and tranquillity, goodness, freedom, trusting the universe; courage, opportunity, cruelty and how to deal with it, friendship, love and trust, death and how to live, learning , chance and fate, time, aspirations, wisdom - and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd presentation style
- De Mark en 08-03-08
De: Mark Forstater, y otros
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Middle Ages
- A Captivating Guide to the Dark Ages and Black Death
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Randy Whitlow
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Following the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the entire dynamic of Europe underwent a complete shift in power and culture. The Dark Ages was an interesting period of about six centuries. During it, Europe was still trying to figure out what it was and how it would survive the chaos that followed the fall of Rome.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Black Death
- De manuel jimenez en 07-28-21
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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Influenza Outbreak
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Steve Marvel
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
In 1918, the world was still in the throes of the Great War, the deadliest conflict in human history at that point, but while World War I would be a catastrophic war surpassed only by World War II, an unprecedented influenza outbreak that same year inflicted casualties that would make both wars pale in comparison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complacency can kill
- De MolllyT en 12-10-16
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Seneca - On the Shortness of Life: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- De: Lucius Seneca, James Harris
- Narrado por: Scott R. Smith
- Duración: 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
De Brevitate Vitae (frequently referred to as On the Shortness of Life in English) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives man enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration. Sorry I purchased this one!
- De Ellis Vee en 01-12-17
De: Lucius Seneca, y otros
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Utopia
- De: Sir Thomas More
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,088
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 929
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 928
Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island in this political work written in 1516. Book I of Utopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More's unobtainable vision of the ideal society
- De Darwin8u en 06-12-13
De: Sir Thomas More
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Stay
- A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
- De: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Narrado por: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative but oddly dispassionate
- De Scott en 01-07-14
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Corona Crisis
- Plagues, Pandemics, and the Coming Apocalypse
- De: Mark Hitchcock
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In Corona Crisis, professor Mark Hitchcock shares how the current coronavirus outbreak is related to the vivid, end-time biblical prophecies about plagues, pestilences, and pandemics. Jesus listed "pestilences in various places" as a sign of his coming (Luke 21:11). In the prophecy of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the fourth rider kills one-fourth of the earth with pestilence and the "wild beasts of the earth".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional content
- De Thurman T. Kilgore en 10-16-20
De: Mark Hitchcock
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Journal of the Plague Year
- De: Daniel Defoe
- Narrado por: Andrew Cullum
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, from whose journals the book was supposedly adapted) we witness great grief, depravity and despair: crazed sufferers roam the streets, unearthly screams resound across the city, death carts dump their grisly loads into mass graves, and quackery and skulduggery feed on fear. But there is kindness and courage too, as mutual support and caring are upheld through the worst of days.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The novel as journalism
- De Tad Davis en 12-22-18
De: Daniel Defoe
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The Prince of Medicine
- Galen in the Roman Empire
- De: Susan P. Mattern
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129-ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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history of medicine
- De Jean en 07-27-14
De: Susan P. Mattern
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Wuhan Diary
- Dispatches from a Quarantined City
- De: Fang Fang, Michael Berry - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In-depth look at life under quarantine
- De Yan Chen en 06-18-20
De: Fang Fang, y otros
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The Undying
- Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- De: Anne Boyer
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
A week after her 41st birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, pro-pain "dolorists", and the many little murders of capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provocative and moving
- De C. FREEMAN en 05-13-20
De: Anne Boyer
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The Journal of the Plague Year
- London, 1665
- De: Daniel Defoe
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 228
London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens. Daniel Defoe, author of the classic Robinson Crusoe, was five years old when the Plague swept through London, and grew up hearing many stories - some truthful, others exaggerated - of its deadly effects. Blending those anecdotes with his childhood recollections and factual data from government registers, Defoe wrote this comprehensive account of what happened to London in 1665.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- De Ellen Spertus en 08-29-03
De: Daniel Defoe
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Yes to Life
- In Spite of Everything
- De: Viktor E. Frankl, Daniel Goleman - introduction
- Narrado por: Joelle Young, David Rintoul
- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 554
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 462
Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl's words resonate as strongly today as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim "Live as if you were living for the second time".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary story of courage
- De Gail D. en 05-08-20
De: Viktor E. Frankl, y otros