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The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out. Always ready with a drink and a story, Clarke was a well-known figure in Cairo social circles and nightlife. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell—and almost no one really knew at all.
Clarke thought of himself as developing a new kind of weapon. Its components? Rumor, stagecraft, a sense of fun. Its target? The mind of Erwin Rommel, Hitler's greatest general. Throughout history, military commanders have sought to mislead their opponents. Dudley Clarke set out to do it on a scale no one had imagined before. Even afterwards, almost no one understood the magnitude of his achievement.
Drawing on recently released documents and hugely expanding on the louche portrait of Clarke as seen in SAS: Rogue Warriors, journalist and historian Robert Hutton reveals the amazing story of Clarke's "A Force," the invention of the SAS and the Commandos, and the masterful hoodwinking of the Desert Fox at the battle of El Alamein. The Illusionist tells for the first time the dazzling tale of how, at a pivotal moment in the war, British eccentricity and imagination combined to thwart the Nazis and save innumerable lives—on both sides.
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
June 1940: Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler’s army, and Britain is his next target. Winston Churchill exhorts the country to resist the Nazis, and the nation seems to rally behind him. But in secret, some British citizens are plotting to hasten an invasion. Agent Jack tells the incredible true story of Eric Roberts, a seemingly inconsequential bank clerk who, in the guise of “Jack King”, helped uncover and neutralize the invisible threat of fascism on British shores.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real spy story.
- De Doug Drader en 05-31-24
De: Robert Hutton
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Woodrow Wilson
- The Light Withdrawn
- De: Christopher Cox
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 25 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Woodrow Wilson was a horrible President
- De Mary en 01-05-25
De: Christopher Cox
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Myths of Geography
- Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
- De: Paul Richardson
- Narrado por: Orlando Wells
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 1
Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the center of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbors. In his punchy and authoritative new book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how the world is represented often isn't how it really is—that the map is not the territory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the best book I read this year
- De Villageidiot en 11-15-24
De: Paul Richardson
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Awakening the Spirit of America
- FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindinbergh–and the Battle to Save Democracy
- De: Paul M. Sparrow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Franklin Roosevelt awoke on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The president warned for years that Hitler's fascist regime posed an existential threat to democracy, but the American public remained stubbornly isolationist as fascist sympathizing groups, egged on by right wing media stars promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, plotted to overthrow the president. The situation was dire, and Roosevelt found himself facing an unexpected adversary: Charles Lindbergh.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trust the title, not the blurbs.
- De George Knight en 01-07-25
De: Paul M. Sparrow
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Land Between the Rivers
- A 5,000-Year History of Iraq
- De: Bartle Bull
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 22 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Bull chronicles the story of Iraq from the exploits of Gilgamesh to the fall of the Iraqi monarchy that ushered in its modern era. The land between the rivers has been the melting pot and battleground of countless outsiders. Here, Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape.
De: Bartle Bull
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A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men
- The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
- De: Shannon Monaghan
- Narrado por: George Weightman
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De thecol en 10-16-24
De: Shannon Monaghan
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Agent Jack
- The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
- De: Robert Hutton
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
June 1940: Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler’s army, and Britain is his next target. Winston Churchill exhorts the country to resist the Nazis, and the nation seems to rally behind him. But in secret, some British citizens are plotting to hasten an invasion. Agent Jack tells the incredible true story of Eric Roberts, a seemingly inconsequential bank clerk who, in the guise of “Jack King”, helped uncover and neutralize the invisible threat of fascism on British shores.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real spy story.
- De Doug Drader en 05-31-24
De: Robert Hutton
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Woodrow Wilson
- The Light Withdrawn
- De: Christopher Cox
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 25 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Woodrow Wilson was a horrible President
- De Mary en 01-05-25
De: Christopher Cox
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Myths of Geography
- Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
- De: Paul Richardson
- Narrado por: Orlando Wells
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 1
Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the center of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbors. In his punchy and authoritative new book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how the world is represented often isn't how it really is—that the map is not the territory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the best book I read this year
- De Villageidiot en 11-15-24
De: Paul Richardson
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Awakening the Spirit of America
- FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindinbergh–and the Battle to Save Democracy
- De: Paul M. Sparrow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Franklin Roosevelt awoke on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The president warned for years that Hitler's fascist regime posed an existential threat to democracy, but the American public remained stubbornly isolationist as fascist sympathizing groups, egged on by right wing media stars promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, plotted to overthrow the president. The situation was dire, and Roosevelt found himself facing an unexpected adversary: Charles Lindbergh.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trust the title, not the blurbs.
- De George Knight en 01-07-25
De: Paul M. Sparrow
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Land Between the Rivers
- A 5,000-Year History of Iraq
- De: Bartle Bull
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 22 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Bull chronicles the story of Iraq from the exploits of Gilgamesh to the fall of the Iraqi monarchy that ushered in its modern era. The land between the rivers has been the melting pot and battleground of countless outsiders. Here, Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape.
De: Bartle Bull
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The Melting Point
- High Command and War in the 21st Century
- De: Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (Ret)., Gen. James Mattis - foreword
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important—and controversial operations in modern US military history. McKenzie provides an honest assessment of his time in command-describing decisions that were sound, as well as some outcomes he wishes were different.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Insightful
- De W. Mason en 12-13-24
De: Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (Ret)., y otros
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One More Good Flight
- The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
- De: Ric Gillespie
- Narrado por: J. Rodney Turner
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out to advocate, excuse, honor, or impugn. They saw the Earhart disappearance as an aviation accident and reasoned the answer to its cause and outcome should be discoverable if they could find, assemble, and analyze the relevant data.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard evidence, delivered by an active, engaging narrator
- De Sheryl McCallister en 11-09-24
De: Ric Gillespie
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Book and Dagger
- How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
- De: Elyse Graham
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Monotone narrator
- De JMR en 01-27-25
De: Elyse Graham
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Searching for Franklin
- New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
- De: Ken McGoogan
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story with poor narrator
- De A. M. Rado en 07-06-24
De: Ken McGoogan
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Forged in Hell
- The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi Stranglehold
- De: Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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July 1943: The largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers. The Royal Navy warship carrying them-a former passenger ferry transformed for battle-bore the iconic winged dagger emblem carved on its prow, plus the motto 'Who Dares Wins,' painstakingly fashioned with the most rudimentary tools by Sergeant William 'Bill' Deakins, the foremost explosives expert on board and a Royal Engineer by trade.
De: Damien Lewis
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Unsung Heroes of the Ancient World
- De: Gregory S. Aldrete, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gregory S. Aldrete
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
The 24 revealing lectures of Unsung Heroes of the Ancient World reconstruct over a dozen biographies from the classical world—most of them little-known, some of them quite unlikely heroes. With Professor Emeritus Gregory Aldrete as your expert guide, you will meet the ambitious travel writers, dedicated engineers, careful cartographers, diligent farmers, woman philosophers, devoted wives, skilled military generals, African rebels, Persian kings, and impressive athletes who stood out among their peers centuries ago.
De: Gregory S. Aldrete, y otros
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1930
- Europe in the Shadow of the Beast
- De: Arthur Haberman
- Narrado por: Ed Thomasen
- Duración: 14 h y 3 m
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Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period.
De: Arthur Haberman
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
Operation Biting retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters from Winston Churchill, who promoted the raid, to Lord Mountbatten, who commanded Combined Operations, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory. A cliffhanger of a story that ratchets the suspense to the last moment, Operation Biting sheds new light on an exciting and little-known chapter of the Second World War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just excellent. So enjoyable.
- De GuardDog en 02-16-25
De: Max Hastings
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
- De: Padma Lakshmi, Jaya Saxena
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it.
De: Padma Lakshmi, y otros
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger May
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, London, and even in Italy itself.
De: Paul Strathern
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The Elements of Marie Curie
- How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
- De: Dava Sobel
- Narrado por: Pat Rodrigues
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
“Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science—Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De A. Zitelli en 02-06-25
De: Dava Sobel
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Box Office Poison
- Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
- De: Tim Robey
- Narrado por: Tim Robey
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public’s appetite–or lack of it–and the circumstances that saw such flops actually made? Away from the canon, this is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Book on the Worst Movies
- De Kareem en 01-27-25
De: Tim Robey