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Title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Subtitle: Excerpts

Author: Samuel Pepys

Narrator: Alexander Spencer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Samuel Pepys's meticulous chronicles of life in 17th-century England are an exacting record of a unique historical era. Pepys lived through one of the most colorful periods of British history. He witnessed - and recorded detailed accounts of - the execution of Charles I, a civil war, the Restoration, a plague, and the Great Fire of London. His entries also record the minutiae of everyday life - scandals, intrigues, infidelities and vulgarities - presenting a comprehensive portrait of a fascinating era.

Editorial Reviews:

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the enduring legacy of a British parliamentarian and naval administrator whose journal offers startling firsthand glimpses into the most dramatic events in 17th-century England.

Born in 1633, Pepys was a witness to many of Englands historical traumas: the Great Plague, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys writes about these events with great detail, but he also writes with simple elegance about everyday delights like drinking wine and the pleasures of the opposite sex.

Using a British accent, Alexander Spencer intones Pepys words with an introspective tone.

Members Reviews:

Despite the Fuzzy Audio . . .

I have been curious about Samuel Pepys for some years now so I got this book to find out what all the fuss was about. The audio quality is unfortunate; format 2 is the best that can be downloaded. The sound is so fuzzy that I can hardly understand the narration when I play the disks in my car (where I listen to nearly all of my Audible books as I make the daily commute to work). What I can hear, however, makes me hungry for more. The content is rich, detailed and full of references to people, events and literature contemporary to the 1660s but not so well known in 2007(naturally enough:it's a daily diary which can hardly be expected to spell out those things which were well-known or obvious to the writer). Consider this book as an appetizer. If it whets your appetite, as it has mine, you'll probably want to go to the nearest public library for one of the unabridged volumes - but make sure it's annotated!

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Title: Was the moon landing a lie?

Subtitle: Researching the truth behind the Apollo 11 mission

Author: Michael Nolden

Narrator: Keith Lightbody

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-13

Publisher: NAVARRA Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

The Eagle has landed - really? Summer 1969. Millions of people all over the world listened to the radio and starred at their tv-screens - back then on monochrome displays. The small moon lander called the "Eagle" reaches its destination and touched down on the surface of the moon. The Apollo 11 mission succeeded. Neil Armstrong's feet step on the sandy floor of the moon. The first human being walked on the moon. The whole world was cheering. But what did they really hear and see? Are the six successful moon landings between the years of 1969 and 1972 a gigantic fake? If yes: Why? What happened on the moon? We'll bring light into the darkness.

©2013 Frimondo GmbH (P)2013 Frimondo GmbH

Members Reviews:

I still don't believe it.

I still don't believe the moon landings were true. This author's logic was so difficult to follow that it added to my sceptcism.

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Title: Dread

Subtitle: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

Author: Phillip Alcabes

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Alcabes examines epidemics through history to show how they reflect the particular social and cultural anxieties of their times. From Typhoid Mary to bioterrorism, as new outbreaks are unleashed or imagined, new fears surface, new enemies are born, and new behaviors emerge. Dread dissects the fascinating story of the imagined epidemic: the one that we think is happening, or might happen; the one that disguises moral judgments and political agendas; the one that ultimately expresses our deepest fears.

Critic Reviews:

"Showing how even epidemics hinge on societal attitudes and expectations, Alcabes presents an engrossing, revealing account of the relationship between progress and plague." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Informative but dull

Any additional comments?

There are aspects to this audiobook that are much to like. It ably recaps mankinds fear of and responses to outbreaks of disease and illness along a historical timeline in a sort of Epidemiology 101 primer way. In this respect it is informative without being trivial and will interest listeners with little or no understanding of the topic. In using an expansive definition of epidemic to include conditions which arguably are neither illnesses nor necessarily transmittable (e.g. autism, obesity), the author is able to focus more on mankinds social response to perceived causes and cures rather than disease pathology. In this regard, Dread can intrigue by tracing how little our thinking has evolved over the centuries in our need to 1) find a cause for each epidemic and 2) equate that cause with an ethnic, religious, behavioural, or other scapegoat to both fear and blame. Still, I found it difficult to really get into this book. Despite the intriguing title, the writing style is dry and academic, akin to reading a textbook and the professorial tone of the narration brought me back to some of my worst experiences as a University freshman. In the end, this book may be better suited to skimming rather than listening to from start to finish.

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Titel: Weimar. Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Teil 6)

Autor:: Golo Mann

Erzähler: Claus Biederstaedt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-08-07

Herausgeber: Diogenes Verlag AG

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Golo Mann berichtet nicht nur von den politischen Ereignissen, sondern fragt auch nach der Rolle der Wirtschaft und der Intellektuellen in diesem labilen deutschen Gleichgewicht, das durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 noch weiter erschüttert wird. Und er zeichnet Anfang und Aufstieg der nationalsozialisitischen Partei nach - bis zur Krise und zur Auflösung der Weimarer Republik.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Golo Mann hat mit seiner "Deutschen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts" ein Standardwerk geschaffen, das dem Leser bis heute einen neuen Blick auf sein Land eröffnet. Engagiert und sachlich kommentierte Geschichtsstunden.

--Frankfurter Neue Presse

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Title: Het koninklijk huis

Subtitle: Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau

Author: Bernard Woelderink

Narrator: Bernard Woelderink

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

De rijke geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau wordt door Woelderink op zeer deskundige wijze verteld in dit twee uur durende college. Woelderink laat de geschiedkundige feiten tot de verbeelding spreken en neemt de betrokken personages, paleizen en de politiek van toen onder de loep. Mede puttend uit brieven, gedichten en archiefstukken, houdt hij een helder en gedegen betoog over de Oranjes in de afgelopen 600 jaar.

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©2004 Home Academy (P)2004 Home Academy

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Titel: Man möchte immer weinen und lachen in einem

Untertitel: Revolutionstagebuch 1919

Autor:: Victor Klemperer

Erzähler: Burghart Klaußner

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-18-15

Herausgeber: Aufbau Verlag

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

Victor Klemperers Schilderung des Chaos nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und des Scheiterns der Münchner Räterepublik. Solch genaue, anschauliche Momentaufnahmen aus der belagerten Stadt findet man nirgendwo sonst. Ein bewegendes Gesamtbild von diesem entscheidenden Wendepunkt der deutschen Geschichte - aus der Revolution von 1918/19 ging nicht nur die erste deutsche Demokratie hervor, zugleich kündigte sich in ihr das kommende Unheil an.

Mit einem Vorwort von Christopher Clark und einem historischen Essay von Wolfram Wette.

©2015 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (P)2015 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

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Title: VangoNotes for The World

Subtitle: A Brief History, 1/e, Volume 2

Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-07

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from The World: A Brief History, 1/e, Volume 2 and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are -- whatever you're doing -- you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook:

©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: Klassieke Oudheid

Subtitle: Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de Grieken en Romeinen

Author: Fik Meijer

Narrator: Fik Meijer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Meesterverteller Fik Meijer behandelt in deze lezing de geschiedenis van de Grieken en Romeinen aan de hand van enkele concrete probleemstellingen. Wat waren de oorzaken en gevolgen van de Griekse expansie? Waarom was juist de 'democratische' volksvergadering in het oude Athene zo imperialistisch. En hoe kan het dat de Romeinen zo machtig waren, terwijl hun oorlogsverklaringen altijd van een defensieve overweging uit ging? Meijer geeft in deze lezing meer dan een historische uiteenzetting van de Grieken en Romeinen. Hij weet een levendig beeld te schetsen van het leven in de klassieke oudheid.

Dit college is tot stand gekomen in samenwerking met CREA Studium Generale van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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©2005 Home Academy (P)2005 Home Academy

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Title: Amerika: Een hoorcollege moderne geschiedenis van de V.S.

Author: Maarten van Rossem

Narrator: Maarten van Rossem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In "Amerika: een moderne geschiedenis" zet prof. dr. Maarten van Rossem op humoristische wijze de ontwikkeling van de VS in de laatste eeuw uiteen. In een lezing van zes hoofdstukken rijgt Van Rossem moeiteloos verschillende onderwerpen als de emancipatie van de zwarte burgerbevolking, de New Deal en de periode van de Koude Oorlog aaneen. Een boeiende reis door de geschiedenis van de enige overgebleven supermacht.

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Title: Halvmne og Hagekors

Subtitle: Det Tredje Rige, araberne og Palaestina

Author: Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin Cüppers

Narrator: Peter Milling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Sensationelt historisk emne - rystende beretning om samarbejdet og venskabet mellem Nazitysklands top og arabiske antisemitter i bl.a. Palaestina under Anden Verdenskrig. Hitler blev beundret i Mellemsten og en overgang sgar sidestillet med profeten selv.

Bogen giver ny indsigt i baggrunden for jdeudryddelser: Stormuftien Amin el-Husseini fik afgrende indflydelse p Endlösung-projektet, idet han pvirkede nazisterne til at stoppe med at drive jderne ud af Europa og i stedet indfre en konsekvent udryddelsespolitik, idet han ville hindre endnu flere flygtende jder i at sl sig ned i Palaestina.

©2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Andreas Harbsmeier (P)2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof

Critic Reviews:

Det er et sobert og meget kildenaert studie, der holder den faglige fane hjt, primaert p grundlag af tysk arkivmateriale.

-- Politiken

Velkommen oversaettelse til dansk af et spraenglaerd vaerk, der giver et sjaeldent indblik i forholdet mellem islam og nazismen, som det foldede sig ud omkring Anden Verdenskrig (...) Laerdheden er naturligvis bogens styrke; uden de tallse kildehenvisninger til tyske arkiver og den enorme bibliografi ville mange i nutiden uden tvivl afvise dens pointer som bagvaskelse.

-- Weekendavisen