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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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Venus and Aphrodite
- History of a Goddess
- De: Bettany Hughes
- Narrado por: Bettany Hughes
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the 21st century and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus' origins in powerful ancient deities, Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than first meets the eye.
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5 out of 5 stars
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it was pretty good
- De JJ en 01-17-24
De: Bettany Hughes
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- De: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Narrado por: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. An audiobook that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art. With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pushing Past Stereotypes
- De Troy en 06-09-15
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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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5 out of 5 stars
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I’ll read everything Greg writes
- De Patrick White en 09-19-22
De: Greg Jenner
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- De: Eleanor Janega
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Get a Rosalie Gilbert book instead
- De Jennifer Martin en 07-11-23
De: Eleanor Janega
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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What Would Frida Do?
- A Guide to Living Boldly
- De: Arianna Davis
- Narrado por: Marisa Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
Revered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time whose paintings have earned her generations of admirers around the globe. But perhaps her greatest work of art was her own life. What Would Frida Do? explores the feminist icon's signature style, outspoken politics, and boldness in love and art, even in the face of pain and heartbreak.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I was excited
- De Edgar E Armendariz en 01-14-21
De: Arianna Davis
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Threads of Life
- A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
- De: Clare Hunter
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Textile bucket list.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-21
De: Clare Hunter
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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Who Cooked the Last Supper?
- The Women's History of the World
- De: Rosalind Miles
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overturns centuries of preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the center of culture, revolution, empire, war, and peace. Spiced with tales of individual women who have shaped civilization, celebrating the work and lives of women around the world, and distinguished by a wealth of research, Who Cooked the Last Supper? redefines our concept of historical reality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of Time
- De Chihuahua Mom en 11-18-19
De: Rosalind Miles
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The History of Western Art
- De: Peter Whitfield
- Narrado por: Sebastian Comberti
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whirlwind tour of Western art
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-18-12
De: Peter Whitfield
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short and fabulous
- De André C. en 03-13-20
De: Mary Beard
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Before We Were Trans
- A New History of Gender
- De: Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D
- Narrado por: Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 54
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Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Heyam looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The history we need right now
- De Daniel Hebert en 04-11-23
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This foray into art history is a disappointment.
- De Stephen J Chiulli en 11-10-21
De: Mary Beard
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Feminism and Pop Culture
- Seal Studies
- De: Andi Zeisler
- Narrado por: Angela Reed
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism on pop culture (and vice versa) from the 1940s to the present and beyond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really needs an update
- De Lori Grossman en 04-05-18
De: Andi Zeisler
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin.
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On Argentina
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The American war in Vietnam has left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos. That small region saw the most intense aerial bombing campaign in history, the massive use of toxic chemicals, and the heaviest casualties on both sides.
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The foundations of modern knowledge - philosophy, math, astronomy, geography - were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean....
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What is life? In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name; it is a domain where biology, computing, logic, chemistry, quantum physics, and nanotechnology intersect.
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
- And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
- De: A. Kendra Greene
- Narrado por: A. Kendra Greene
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: how to display what can't be seen?
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Beautiful Performance
- De Natalie Bossler en 06-08-20
De: A. Kendra Greene
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City at the Edge of Forever
- Los Angeles Reimagined
- De: Peter Lunenfeld
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? In City at the Edge of Forever, Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences.
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Intriguing stories
- De DEANNA M DILLION en 02-27-23
De: Peter Lunenfeld
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- De: Chris Impey
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it. From the small questions to the big ones - from the tiniest particles to the nature of space-time itself - black holes might be the key to a deeper understanding of the cosmos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Above my brain grade
- De Amazon Customer en 12-02-21
De: Chris Impey
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A Most Beautiful Thing
- The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
- De: Arshay Cooper
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.
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Maureen Morrison
- De Hermanator33 en 07-14-20
De: Arshay Cooper
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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Bolder even than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.
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For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Women in the Picture
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- Patricia Torres
- 01-23-23
Fantastic book!
Very clear explanation about the representation of women in our society, and its social and political consequences.
Great book.
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- C. E. Fisher
- 09-07-23
Brillant and much needed insights
Most people don’t think much about what art is saying - they often just enjoy it and love to the next painting. This book can open your eyes to d’épée meaning.
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- Lauren Asheim
- 03-08-23
An excellent listen!
First of all, Patty Nieman’s delivery is perfection! Listening to her confident and warm voice helped take in all the frustrating and accurate thoughts in this book.
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- Rachel Isaac
- 07-07-24
The in-depth details, passionate history and truth
I absolutely loved this book! It is fascinating to me to learn about art and this really taught me so much of the view and power art has towards women. The author did such an amazing job with this!
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