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This pamphlet, first published in 1776, set in print the word every American was thinking about, but none dared say: independence! It was published anonymously in New York, selling 120,000 copies in the first 3 months and half a million in that same year. Its author, Thomas Paine, wrote in a language that could be understood by any reasonably literate colonist. But more important than it being so well received, is that it captured the American colonists' imaginations and was a primary catalyst to the independence movement in the United States. Noted American historian Bernard Bailyn called it "the most brilliant pamphlet written during the American Revolution, and one of the most brilliant ever written in the English language."
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- De reggie p en 08-20-03
De: Thomas Paine
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Politics
- De: Aristotle
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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Aristotle's Politics is a work of political philosophy. The end of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise, or perhaps connected lectures, dealing with the philosophy of human affairs. Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory.
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Aristotle Lives Again!
- De Jeff en 02-25-15
De: Aristotle
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Prince
- De: Nicolo Machiavelli
- Narrado por: Joseph Gomez
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, after he was forced to leave Florence as a political exile. Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the work is Machiavelli’s advice to the ruler of Florence on how to stay in power.
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- De: Michael Parenti
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility - the one percent of the population who controlled 99 percent of the empire's wealth. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti recounts this period, spanning the years 100 to 33 BC, from the perspective of the Roman people. In doing so, he presents a provocative, trenchantly researched narrative of popular resistance against a powerful elite.
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another side to Roman history
- De Darksnovia en 04-16-22
De: Michael Parenti
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The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages
- De: Ferdinand Lot
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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Ferdinand Lot (1866-1952) was one of the great historians of his generation, and the transition from Roman to Medieval civilization was a process that fascinated him most of his life. Rather than placing the emphasis for Rome’s fall on purely political or military reasons, Lot put forth multiple explanations for the birth of the Middle Ages which embrace not only politics and war, but linguistic, geographic, cultural, social and economic factors.
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A Rome "too vast, too complicated and too cunning"
- De Philo en 11-26-15
De: Ferdinand Lot
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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tim Reynolds
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was a far more complex and sympathetic character than is often portrayed.
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Awesome
- De Crisitna Tunon en 07-16-21
De: Ross King
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- De: Charles MacKay
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic - first published in 1841 - shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.
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People don't change
- De J. en 07-05-16
De: Charles MacKay
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- De: Plutarch, James Romm - preface and notes, Pamela Mensch - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.
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Terrific
- De Michael en 06-13-23
De: Plutarch, y otros
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- De: Plutarch
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 83 h y 11 m
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Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about 20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia. His best known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek life and one Roman life as well as four unpaired single lives.
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For the Very Dedicated
- De John Pinkerton en 03-13-18
De: Plutarch
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The New World
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume II
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Between 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home, and the discovery of 'the round world' enabled a vast continent across the Atlantic to be explored. While this new era was spawning the beginnings of modern America, England was engaged in a bloody civil war and sustained a Republican experiment under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.
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Churchill series
- De Elizabeth Weingarten en 08-27-08
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume Two (A.D. 395 to A.D. 641)
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Loved it.
I enjoyed the details of the characters in this book. The narrator is exceptional. I recommend this book to those seriously interested in this historic drama.
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Book download does not show an art cover design, although it does display it when I play the book. In all other areas, very good!
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