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Titre: Le Moyen Age (Histoire de la littérature française 1)

Auteur: Alain Viala

Narrateur: Alain Viala, Daniel Mesguich

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-12-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent des cours particuliers sur l'histoire de la littérature française, racontée, expliquée et analysée par Alain Viala, professeur émérite à l'université de Paris-Sorbonne, avec des extraits lus par Daniel Mesguich, comédien, metteur en scène et directeur du Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.

Alain Viala nous propose une plongée dans le Moyen Age sous forme d'un cours didactique que Daniel Mesguich illustre par des lectures de textes, qui nous imprègnent d'une époque et de son expression. De la poésie à la farce populaire, de la chanson de geste aux débuts du roman, une découverte vivante de la littérature au travers de son histoire.

Claude Colombini Frémeaux

L'intervenant

(né en 1947) est un historien et sociologue de la littérature française. Titulaire de la Chaire de littérature française à Oxford et professeur émérite à la Sorbonne. Alain Viala a fait des études de Lettres, passant par l'ENS (Cachan) et est agrégé de Lettres modernes (1971) et docteur ès Lettres (1983, doctorat d'Etat) et s'est voué ensuite à la carrière universitaire, en militant de l'Ecole et du littéraire.

Il se fait connaître notamment pour ses travaux en sociologie de la littérature inspirés des travaux de Pierre Bourdieu (Naissance de l'écrivain, 1985) et son approche de la réception qu'il nomme "sociopoétique" (Approches de la réception, avec Georges Molinié, 1993). Spécialiste de la littérature classique française, Viala a également consacré des ouvrages au théâtre, à l'école et à la théorie littéraire. Il est co-fondateur avec Christian Jouhaud du GRILH, Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire - EHESS/Paris III.

Le narrateur

a été élève au Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris dans les classes d'Antoine Vitez et de Pierre Debauche. II y enseigne depuis 1983. Au théâtre, il a mis en scène nombre de textes classiques et contemporains dont récemment "Antoine et Cléopâtre" de William Shakespeare et "Le Diable et le bon Dieu" de Jean-Paul Sartre. II est également metteur en scène d'opéra. Acteur de cinéma il a joué notamment avec François Truffaut, Alain Robbe-Grillet et James Ivory...

©2013 Frémeaux& Associés / PUF (P)2013 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini

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Title: Inventing the AIDS Virus

Author: Peter H. Duesberg

Narrator: J. Arthur Tripp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.

Editorial Reviews:

For all the wonders and advancements the science world has given us, scientists can sometimes fall into the trap of consensus beliefs, which is exactly what's at the heart of Peter H. Duesberg's Inventing the AIDS Virus. Known for his cancer research, Duesberg, in this audiobook, challenges the wildly held view that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Accomplished narrator, J. Arthur Tripp, handles the challenging text with the appropriate aggression needed for this controversial subject matter. Listeners are sure to be intrigued by this lesser-heard side of the AIDS discussion.

Members Reviews:

A must read! Even if you don't agree with Dr. Duesberg's theory for the cause of AIDS.

Duesberg plainly describes the systems in place which are used to manipulate and control the narratives and silence dissent of the medical industrial complex and control the founding and/or release of new technologies. This technique is not only used in the so called medical industry, but in all areas of industry such as energy and defense.

Must read/listen for everyone!

If you could sum up Inventing the AIDS Virus in three words, what would they be?

Factual, Frightening and Infuriating

What was one of the most memorable moments of Inventing the AIDS Virus?

The moment you realize we have ALL been lied to for all these years.

What about J. Arthur Tripps performance did you like?

His voice is easy on the ears and consistent.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Yes. It made me even more furious than I already was about this topic.

Any additional comments?

It is obvious to see why Dr. Peter Duesberg has been ostracized all these years for daring to stand up to the establishment. After all, AIDS is a business first!

Hyperbole at its Best, But Sounds Plausible

The first thing that struck me as I listened to the book and its hyperbolic claim that HIV does not cause AIDS, was that the book was written 15 years ago. And of course, 15 years of medical research is nearly an eternity; consequently, I would have preferred a book making such a brazen claim that had a more recent copyright. I found one on Amazon, Science Sold Out by Rebecca Culshaw (2007); however, it is not available on audio or digital, so I was limited to Duesberg's research if I was staying with audio. Although most of the book was too detailed for my taste buds - quoting stats and referring to studies - his premise seems to be plausible.

After listening to Inventing the AIDS Virus, I was reminded of the old saying, "It was worth the price of admission." Despite the chock full of statistics, there is plenty to like about the book. I found a number of items that made the listen worth while. For instance (and I don't think this is a spoiler), Duesberg questions the notion of a virus causing a terminal disease that lays dormant in the body for more than 10 years. Typically a virus manifests its symptoms within days or weeks.

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Titel: Die Deutschen: Im 20. Jahrhundert. Vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum Fall der Mauer

Autor:: Guido Knopp

Erzähler: Herbert Schäfer

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-05-13

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Guido Knopp durchwandert in diesem Hörbuch zur 5-teiligen ZDF-Serie dieses Schicksalsjahrhundert mit seinen Visionen, seinen in Blut ertränkten Träumen und mit seinen mutigen Aufbrüchen. Zusammen mit ihren Nachbarn haben die Deutschen damit die Basis geschaffen für ein friedliches 21. Jahrhundert.

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

No printed or Kindle edition.

Great. An interesting German audio book, but no printed or Kindle edition. Not good for students studying German.

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Title: Ancient Iran

Subtitle: Cosmology, Mythology, History

Author: Iraj Bashiri

Narrator: Mark Delgado

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History presents Iran's pre-Islamic history within the context of both its complex cosmology and rich mythology. The audiobook uses the concept of farr to show how authority, finding guidance in the cosmic realm, organized the lives of Iran's hero-saints in the mythic realm. It also discusses how historical monarchs organized their hierarchical societies according to the dictates of Ahura Mazda.

The audiobook is divided into three parts. The first part examines cosmology, concentrating on Ahura Mazda and the Ahuric order that emanates from him. The next section addresses mythology and describes how the rulership of hero-saints promoted the farr, culminating in the unique creed of Zoroaster. The final section tells the history of pre-Islamic Iran. It begins with a study of life on the plateau, moves on to the stages of empire and concludes with the rule of the Parthians and Sassanids.

Additionally, through a new interpretation of Firdowsi's Shahname, the volume shows how the prophet Zoroaster reorganized Mazdian cosmology to fit the ethical, philosophical, and sociological dynamics of Achaemenid and Sassanid Iran.

Members Reviews:

Very disappointing

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

To make the theological (he called it cosmology) narration and explanation clearer and simpler. To give reference for all the rulers history, which was given as facts without supporting evidence. Less confusing new names that kept being introduced, without making emphasis on who are the main characters to concentrate on. Also, the narrator was not familiar with how to pronounce the names as we are used to call them in other history books (may be he was using Iranian way of pronunciation, but it was difficult to follow).

What will your next listen be?

Another book on ancient history, but from Great Courses library.

What didnt you like about Mark Delgados performance?

Too quick in reading especially with many new names (some are trivial characters) and pronouncing their names in a different way than other history books do.

What character would you cut from Ancient Iran?

To shorten the theology (cosmology) and to emphasise who are the main characters in the story.

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Title: In the Sewers of Lvov

Author: Robert Marshall

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels, there to live for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods that washed some of them away, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair.

Their only support was a sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them if they ran out of money. Many died; some of cyanide in mass suicide, some of falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. A baby was born and then murdered almost immediately. The group quarrelled, split into factions and threatened each other at gun point. The survivors found themselves at one point, trapped in a chamber filling to the roof with storm water.

Yet survive they did, even infiltrating themselves into the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable. When they opened their eyes their eye seemed blood red. Robert Marshall, author of All the King's Men, has written the harrowing story of the survivor's ordeal based on a long series of interviews and a hitherto private diary, creating a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance.

Members Reviews:

Read the book!

Sadly, an amazing book about survival, luck of the draw,

making your own luck, and tale of sacrifice by others to save holocaust victims.

Not sure in my best days I would have had the will power to survive.

The luck to survive, in intelligence to make my own luck to survive.

And I wrestled through college, played rugby D1 men's USA for 10 years and

30 yr excellent career as a fee based/commission based financial advisor.

I still wonder as now in my 60s if I could have from age 40-60 had I been a victim during those ages in my life.

READ THE BOOK forget the film IMO

III

Powerful story, beautifully written and well researched.

Very much enjoyed this book. It is well researched, drawing from interviews of several of the survivors. It is the story of a small group of people who managed to survive the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto by hiding in the sewers for 18 months. Aided by a polish sewer worker and true hero, Leopoldo Socha, the book deals with the delicate balance of mans worst and best inpmpulses. While the accounts of the survivors, did not always agree when interviewed years later, the author takes great pains to arrive at an ultimate truth. It is the story of courage in the face of horrific circumstances and is deeply moving. I have read a great deal about the camps, but did not know as much about the ghettos and the actions the Nazis took there. I had heard and been taught mostly about Warsaw, but knew nothing about Lvov. This is an important bit of history, and shouldn't be missed by anyone who has an interest in the Holocaust. There was a movie made, in Polish called "In Darkness" which I had heard of, but wanted to read the book first, so that I could get a move accurate accounting. The movie actually honored the truth of the book to a surprising degree and is well worth seeing. There is also another book called The Girl In the Green Sweater by the young girl who survived the atrocities in this story.

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Title: A Companion to Benjamin Franklin

Author: David Waldstreicher

Narrator: Scott Thomsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.

Members Reviews:

A great and slightly more academic collection of perspectives on the multi-faceted Franklin...

Anyone who has studied Ben Franklin for any period of time knows that there just isn't one Franklin, there are many. His various personae, styles and dispositions seemed to suit more his current goal or project than to foster a unique and homogeneous identity. As many have said, Franklin resists easy categorization. Arguably considered the "most approachable" founding father, the one we would want to drink ale with and chat with for hours, Franklin's historical persona nonetheless remains enigmatic on many levels: ferociously serious, almost pedantic at times, childishly adolescent at others. That this highly revered, almost worshiped, wizard of electricity also wrote satirical pieces saturated with fart jokes and puns provides a case in point. As such, his prose displays familiarity and comfort with high and mighty rulers as well as with workers and laborers. Just when Franklin seems to reveal himself, another facet appears that contradicts, or at least undermines, a previous conception. Pinning him down seems impossible.

Perhaps that's why "The Cambridge Companion To Benjamin Franklin" does not attempt to sum up Franklin's work, life or philosophy. Its essays instead look at singular parts of the Franklin that reaches out to us from vast volumes of letters and mostly short literary works. Not to mention his one book, his Autobiography. The essays don't build on one another, so readers can pick up and browse with ease. Though most of the essays number 10 - 20 pages and the book itself numbers only some 200, the collected scope and depth belie the book's thin wiry spine.

Numerous topics receive attention: the fate of Franklin's library, for one. He had a wing built on his house to hold his substantial collection that reached four thousand volumes by the late 18th century. Sadly, his original house no longer stands in Philadelphia (visitors will see a large ghostly wire frame reproduction in its place), but this essay gives a good idea of what that rather modest (for a founding father, at least) dwelling may have contained. Upon Franklin's death his library stayed intact only until 1801 when the books were sold.

Essays follow on Franklin's conception of virtue, his voluminous satiric works and fictional personae, including his famous "Silence Dogood" letters, the "Speech of Miss Polly Baker," "Dialogue between Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Saxony and America," "A Conversation on Slavery" and his final 1789 work "An Address to the public" that satirizes slavery. These satires often have political or social motives, either on the state of Britain and the colonies or on a particularly polarizing topic, which America never seems to lack.

Another essay explores Franklin's alter-egos and his entry into the "republic of letters." Alter-egos apparently were preferred for print and personal names for more "serious topics." Franklin fell right into this tradition as even a cursory glance at his literary output will show.

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Title: Ovid

Author: Katharina Volk

Narrator: Liza Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.

The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarship.

Discusses the complete works of Ovid.

Accessible writing and a thematic approach make this text ideal for a broad audience.

A current revival in Ovid makes this timely edition highly valuable.

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Title: The Crisis of the Naval War

Author: John Rushworth Jellicoe

Narrator: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: FNH Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

1917 was a terrible time for the British Navy and Mercantile marine. The German adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare was sinking British and Empire shipping at an unsustainable rate, hundreds of thousands of tons were being sunk each month.

It was necessary for the war-fighting techniques and the organisation at Admiralty to change to meet this new threat. In this audiobook Viscount Jellicoe relates details of his time in charge of the worlds largest Naval force and its attempts to battle the submarine menace.

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Title: Home

Author: Witold Rybczynski

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Laurendesigned environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of home. Youll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries and wall-to-wall carpeting, discover how some of our most welcome luxuries were born of architectural necessity, and much more.

Members Reviews:

Interesting, but yawn-inspiring at times

Would you listen to Home again? Why?

No. It was interesting, but it bogged down at times.

Would you be willing to try another book from Witold Rybczynski? Why or why not?

Maybe. It would depend on the subject.

Any additional comments?

This was a good overall history of the home, but failed to keep my interest. I found my attention wandering frequently while listening.

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Title: The Siege at Peking

Author: Peter Fleming

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In June 1900 the foreign legations at Peking were attacked by troops of the Boxer rebellion and Imperial Chinese troops. The ensuing siege lasted 55 days and shook the world. In this work, Peter Fleming traces its history and impact.

Members Reviews:

Old school, but engaging

One can certainly find many more current and more scholarly studies on the Boxer Rebellion. For a work written in 1959, however, Fleming's treatment of China's reaction to European imperialism is remarkably sympathetic and balanced. Moreover it's a great read so far as military history goes. The book's one bothersome issue is giving a number of quotes in French without offering translations. The narration is a perfect match for the subject.

The History Behind the Movie

For fans of Charlton Heston's movie "55 Days at Peking", this is the history that inspired the movie. I knew something of the history of the Boxer Rebellion and the Allied efforts to relieve the besieged legations. Fleming's book gives great detail of the intrigue in the Chinese Imperial Court, the dithering of the Allied ministers and the bravery of the soldiers and residents of the foreign legations. Shaw-Parker's narration was a bit dry at times, but good overall.

So, THAT'S where they got the movie from!

As a youth I was thrilled by the (now) old-fashioned derring-do, color, and bravery of the movie "55 Days in Peking" with Charleston Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner et al. The story of the "Boxer Rebellion" and its siege of the foreign legations in Peking in 1900 was drawn from this book. Well-written, well-paced, and very well read!

The only quibble is that the book reflects its provenance ( UK, 1959) when the author quotes Frenchmen in their original French and leaves their words untranslated. One supposes Peter Fleming assumed any educated person could handle a few sentences in French ;-) However, at least the French is well-pronounced by the narrator.

Recommended!

Insightful

Informative and insightful. Peter Fleming's eye and pen misses little. Concise yet thorough. Good narration. Kudos.

Thoroughly entertaining.

This is a jolly good piece of work, narrative history of another generation, the kind of which fell from popularity for many years. Reading like an adventure story, the author marshals his material with all the skill and pace that one might expect form his more famous relative. It's well read and well paced and will suit those who like their history to be easily comprehensible and fun; those looking for a more dense analysis of China at the time might find it a little wanting, however. For me, a really good listen.