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- De Kathi en 02-18-16
De: Ruth Goodman
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Ask a Historian
- 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Dan Schreiber, Greg Jenner, Janina Ramirez, y otros
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Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through history from the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. From ancient joke books, African empires and the invention of meringues, to mummies, mirrors and menstrual pads—Ask A Historian is a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities.
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best bonus content ever!
- De Matthew K Wendelken en 03-24-22
De: Greg Jenner
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat? Ian Mortimer shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. He sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you to the Middle Ages. The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: evolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail.
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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- De Marc-Andr? en 05-13-10
De: Ian Mortimer
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My Planet
- Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
- De: Mary Roach
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Follow New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach - but be careful not to trip - as she weaves through personal anecdotes and everyday musings riddled with her uncanny wit and amazingly analytical eye. These essays, which found a well-deserved home within the pages of Reader's Digest as the column "My Planet," detail the inner workings of hypochondriacs, hoarders, and compulsive cheapskates. (Did we mention neurotic interior designers and professional list makers?) For Roach, humor is hidden in the most unlikely places, which means that nothing is off limits.
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Narrator drove me crazy
- De Ann en 04-23-14
De: Mary Roach
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Breakfast in Burgundy
- A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France
- De: Raymond Blake
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Laced with compelling writing about French food and its ways, Breakfast in Burgundy is part travel memoir, part foodie detective story, and part love song to Raymond's adopted home. This audiobook tells the story of the Blake's decision to buy a house in Burgundy. Raymond describes the moments of despair such as the water leak that cost a fortune and the fantastic times too. Blake has admitted to being fascinated by flavor and how it is created."
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surprisingly lulz and interesting
- De Amazon Customer en 12-02-21
De: Raymond Blake
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A Short History of Drunkenness
- How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
- De: Mark Forsyth
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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Almost every culture on Earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. Making stops all over the world, A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the 20th century.
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Wow!!
- De Ryan L. Waggoner en 02-03-23
De: Mark Forsyth
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The Hearing Trumpet
- De: Leonora Carrington
- Narrado por: Siân Phillips
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....
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fantastical ride
- De Edward Berry en 01-12-21
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The Clanlands Almanac
- Seasonal Stories from Scotland
- De: Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
- Narrado por: Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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From First Footing to Samhain, Fringe Festival follies to whisky lore, Sam and Graham guide listeners through a year of Scottish legends, traditions, historical and contemporary events, sharing personal stories and tips as only these two chalk-and-cheese friends can. As entertaining as it is practical, The Clanlands Almanac is a light-hearted education in Scottish history and culture, told through the eyes of two passionate Scotsmen. The perfect escapist guide, The Clanlands Almanac is intended as a starting point for your own Scottish discoveries.
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Sam & Graham!!!
- De Annie en 11-25-21
De: Sam Heughan, y otros
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A Year in Provence
- De: Peter Mayle
- Narrado por: Peter Mayle
- Duración: 2 h y 52 m
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Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, grey winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen. They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life.
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Ban abridged versions
- De marlowe en 03-30-15
De: Peter Mayle
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Mere Anarchy
- De: Woody Allen
- Narrado por: Woody Allen
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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For the first time ever, hear Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy in the author’s own distinctive and hilarious voice. Here, in his first short-story collection since his three classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Allen has managed to write a book that answers the most profound questions of human existence.
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What can I say…?
- De Diane en 07-03-12
De: Woody Allen
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
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Almost French
- De: Sarah Turnbull
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular - and often hilarious - cultural clashes.
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Almost Terrific
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-13
De: Sarah Turnbull
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- De: Jean Kerr
- Narrado por: Marni Webb
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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Poor narration of smart, dry, funny essays
- De Buyseverythingonline en 04-30-16
De: Jean Kerr
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Indonesia, Etc.
- Exploring the Improbable Nation
- De: Elizabeth Pisani
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that cannot be erased.
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Bill Bryson channels Margaret Mead
- De John S. en 09-01-14
De: Elizabeth Pisani
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Dead Famous
- An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Greg Jenner
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Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realize. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience....
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I’ll read everything Greg writes
- De Patrick White en 09-19-22
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Ask a Historian
- 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
- De: Greg Jenner
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Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through history from the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. From ancient joke books, African empires and the invention of meringues, to mummies, mirrors and menstrual pads—Ask A Historian is a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities.
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best bonus content ever!
- De Matthew K Wendelken en 03-24-22
De: Greg Jenner
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
- Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
- De: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.
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It's all stuff from QI
- De Bonnie Kennedy en 04-07-21
De: John Lloyd, y otros
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Stuff Matters
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- De: Mark Miodownik
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
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Surprisingly good
- De D. MacLeod en 01-29-15
De: Mark Miodownik
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The Mental Floss History of the World
- An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
- De: Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
- Narrado por: Johny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization. Everything since then, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in class that day, the geniuses at mental_floss magazine have put together a hilarious (and historically accurate) primer on everything you need to know---and that means the good stuff.
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Brilliant and Funny. What more could you want?
- De Septimus MacGhilleglas en 01-22-09
De: Steve Wiegand, y otros
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You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
- Shocking but Utterly True Facts
- De: Cracked.com
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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You're going to wish you never got this audiobook. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in. Think you're going to choose whether or not to buy this book? Scientists say your brain secretly makes all your decisions 10 seconds before you even know what they are.
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Buenas fabulas de humor
- De Cynthia en 10-27-14
De: Cracked.com
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Dead Famous
- An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Greg Jenner
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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I’ll read everything Greg writes
- De Patrick White en 09-19-22
De: Greg Jenner
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Ask a Historian
- 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Dan Schreiber, Greg Jenner, Janina Ramirez, y otros
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Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through history from the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. From ancient joke books, African empires and the invention of meringues, to mummies, mirrors and menstrual pads—Ask A Historian is a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities.
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best bonus content ever!
- De Matthew K Wendelken en 03-24-22
De: Greg Jenner
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
- Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
- De: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.
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It's all stuff from QI
- De Bonnie Kennedy en 04-07-21
De: John Lloyd, y otros
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Stuff Matters
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- De: Mark Miodownik
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
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Surprisingly good
- De D. MacLeod en 01-29-15
De: Mark Miodownik
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The Mental Floss History of the World
- An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
- De: Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
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About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization. Everything since then, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in class that day, the geniuses at mental_floss magazine have put together a hilarious (and historically accurate) primer on everything you need to know---and that means the good stuff.
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Brilliant and Funny. What more could you want?
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- Shocking but Utterly True Facts
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- De Cynthia en 10-27-14
De: Cracked.com
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Periodic Tales
- A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
- De: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they are to us.
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Interesting but Rambling
- De Carolyn en 08-24-15
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Now I Know
- The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
- De: Dan Lewis
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to invade Canada? And what actually happened to the flags left on the moon? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know. From uncovering what happens to lost luggage to New York City's plan to crack down on crime by banning pinball, this book will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts.
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Scientifically inaccurate
- De Sara en 12-04-20
De: Dan Lewis
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222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions
- De: The QI Elves
- Narrado por: Anne Miller, James Harkin, John Lloyd, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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Which lottery numbers should I pick? Is it true that we are made entirely of stardust? Can dogs tell the time? Why do songs get stuck in my head? If Rome wasn't built in a day, how long did it take? Do plants make noises? Where is last Wednesday? This audiobook is a collection of their cracking, unexpected and frequently hilarious answers. Chock full with extra facts from the Elves, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions will spark wonder and joy.
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lots of new brain nuggets!
- De J. Blackman en 06-30-24
De: The QI Elves
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If Walls Could Talk
- An Intimate History of the Home
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two "dirty centuries?" Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit?In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen.
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Compelling.
- De Kirsten en 06-05-12
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history—the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills, and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting—the past not as something to be studied, but as lived experience.
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SKIP THIS BOOK
- De Lady Aristotle en 09-05-22
De: Ian Mortimer
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How to Be a Tudor
- A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to 16th-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era.
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Excellent book!
- De Kathi en 02-18-16
De: Ruth Goodman
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What Einstein Didn't Know
- Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
- De: Robert L. Wolke
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do ice cubes crackle in your glass? And how can you keep them quiet? These are questions that torment us all. Now Robert L. Wolke, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, provides definitive - and amazingly simple - explanations for the mysteries of everyday life.
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A funny thing happened on the way to a great book
- De Joseph en 10-01-12
De: Robert L. Wolke
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Chaucer's People
- Everyday Lives in Medieval England
- De: Liza Picard
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court-men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor house to the lending houses and Inns of Court in London. In Chaucer's People, we meet, again, the motley crew of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury.
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A delight
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Liza Picard
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
- A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman reveals in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee" to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul.
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I learned a lot about cultural norms..even today's
- De Alanna R en 03-18-19
De: Ruth Goodman
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Fact or Fiction
- Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
- De: Scientific American
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected 58 of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
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funny
- De jim en 03-19-24
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The Domestic Revolution
- How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria.
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Zombie Apocalypse
- De PeachPecan en 12-25-20
De: Ruth Goodman
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
- De: Garrett Ryan
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.
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Garret Ryan delivers an accessible and thoroughly entertaining deep dive
- De Rafael en 11-03-21
De: Garrett Ryan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Million Years in a Day
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- cachorro-urubu
- 03-11-22
good
Didn't like the author's narrative style very much nor the narrator's reading, but the book was very well researched and pretty interesting
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- Patrick White
- 02-08-23
I wish Greg narrated this!
The book was great, but I wish Greg had narrated it himself. I love his other book and podcast!
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- Sam Peter Qudsieh
- 06-19-18
INTRESTING
The whole book was interesting and now I know a bunch of useless fun facts :)
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- Brandon
- 07-07-16
Super interesting!
Loved it. Very entertaining and full of odd and interesting facts. A BBC style doc for your ears.
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- P. Wang
- 05-25-19
Light hearted journey through history on everyday living
This is an entertaining books of historical trivia/factoids on everyday living.
The author’s humor and the performance are great.
This book is more broad in its scope than deep. Abbreviated versions of historical events were depicted rather than a long whimsy explanation.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book!
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- Joseph
- 12-23-16
I returned this book
The premise of this book is outstanding. Understanding the development of our modern world in the context of a single day was compelling.
BUT I could not tolerate the lame jokes, wise cracking metaphors, and snide references to current events. Regrettably, the narrator struggles with the puerile tone. And that combination had me throwing in the towel.
An alternative I'd recommend is Bill Bryson's At Home.
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- T. Keefe
- 05-04-23
Childish
The book had some potential as a lightly factual chronicle of daily life through the ages. Instead, it veers to the asinine and juvenile, using as many words for toilet activities as possible. Might be mildly useful for a particularly dense 12 year old.
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- rah
- 03-25-19
All the thumbs down
Booooo this book is awful. Its like: historical fact, comical metaphor, historical fact, comical metaphor historical fact, comical metaphor and so on. Anything is fair game. A frisbee, a sports car, sunning black cat, bumping uglies...
also I hate a book that talks to me like it knows me and assumes my predetermined assumptions about things like cavemen and clocks
Boooooooo dont waste your time
Also the endless cell phone/modern technology references seem like a grampy wrote the book
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