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Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Hunter Pechin en 12-15-22
De: Irene Vallejo, y otros
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The Cats of Ulthar
- De: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: Ashley Bogert
- Duración: 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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In a small village a cruel elderly couple are killing their neighbor's pets with gleeful abandon. When an orphan traveling with a band of gypsies has his beloved kitten killed by the weird old couple, he retaliates in a horrifying act of supernatural revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Cats of Ulthar
- De Trevor en 04-28-09
De: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- De: John Tresch
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Know the Real Poe
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 06-28-21
De: John Tresch
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Irrational Man
- A Study in Existential Philosophy
- De: William Barrett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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heady
- De A. Antine en 07-28-22
De: William Barrett
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: John Little
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 958
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 946
Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
De: Will Durant
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Just for Wagner Experts!
- De Rupert Pupkin en 09-26-20
De: Alex Ross
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Cosmos and Psyche
- Intimations of a New World View
- De: Richard Tarnas
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 25 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the two world wars, and September 11. Cosmos and Psyche is a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling content; monochromatic narration
- De Melissa Chase en 04-14-21
De: Richard Tarnas
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Time of the Magicians
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
- De: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, in search of spiritual clarity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator butchers foreign many language quotations
- De William G. Brown en 08-31-20
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- De: Joseph Campbell
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- De Anonymous User en 08-11-18
De: Joseph Campbell
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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The Discarded Image
- An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Richard Elwood
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 126
The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval worldview, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science, and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe". This, Lewis' last book, has been hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind".
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hope more of Lewis's scholastic stuff is coming
- De James en 04-01-21
De: C. S. Lewis
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The Flip
- Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
- De: Jeffrey J. Kripal
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an extreme, life-changing experience. The Flip is Kripal’s ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting subject, terrible narrator
- De Lesley en 11-16-22
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The Secret History of the World
- De: Jonathan Black
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Here, for the first time, is a complete history of the world based on the beliefs and writings of secret societies, researched with the help of an initiate of more than one secret society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for beginners
- De Being of Light en 09-13-12
De: Jonathan Black
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Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
- De: Peter Gay
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging book, terrible narrator
- De Beth Simone Noveck en 05-08-21
De: Peter Gay
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Time Travel
- A History
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 503
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 438
James Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fiction gives us Truth by connecting the dots
- De Gary en 04-21-17
De: James Gleick