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Title: Summary and Analysis of Journeys on the Silk Road

Subtitle: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book

Author: Summary Station

Narrator: Alexandra Reed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-16

Publisher: Summary Station

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In Journeys on the Silk Road, Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters use historical records to create an entertaining narrative that brings the past to life. Rather than making a dry history book or a simple account of what happened, the authors color the story with vivid descriptions and minor details that allow listeners to gain not just a sense of what happened, but how it happened.

Even as the authors take some creative liberty (adding specific dialogue where it is definitely not possible to have known exactly what was said), they remain as objective as possible and tell a story that conveys the facts as accurately as possible. This objectivity comes through clearly in the portions of the book in which the authors describe alternative perspectives on the historical events which occurred.

For example, listeners are given opposing viewpoints in the form of the letter from the angry Chinese scholars who denounce Aurel Stein, the novel's protagonist, as a looter and thief. Later on, the authors discuss the controversy surrounding the British explorer's legacy in light of recent scholarly concerns. This extends to a broader discussion of who owns cultural heritage materials. While the Chinese claim cultural ownership over the scrolls and other artifacts removed from the caves by Aurel Stein, many of the scrolls were written in languages other than Chinese (such as Tibetan), and languages that are now long dead. The authors bring up the problem of who can claim ownership over material representing cultures which no longer exist?

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Carole Hillenbrand's The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives

Author: Damien Peters

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

The story of the Crusades (1095-1291) is of two centuries of repeated invasion and occupation of Muslim kingdoms by Western European Catholics. This was in response to Muslim conquests of Christian lands from the 7th century on. The story has been told and retold in Western histories - but only from the Western perspective. Hillenbrand's collection of authentic Islamic sources, many previously untranslated or inaccessible, tells the Crusades from an entirely Muslim point of view.

For the first time, the era's Muslim voices can be heard fully, and their accounts challenge narratives of the Crusades that have been subsequently accepted in the West and the East. Their different understandings of jihad, the often-friendly relations between Muslims and Crusaders, the widespread inter-Arab warfare and near indifference to the invaders' religious beliefs may well surprise listeners. Given today's worldwide political and religious conflicts, interest in the Crusades is greater than ever. And again, misinformation and propaganda is everywhere. Hillenbrand's book remains crucial in telling the real Muslim side of this story.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading

Author: Damien Peters

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1960s, British historian Jonathan Riley-Smith first began studying the knightly orders of the Middle Ages that formed after the First Crusade. By the late 1970s, he had begun writing books from a "revisionist" point of view, challenging the common belief that the Crusades were motivated by fanaticism, and were designed to plunder the Holy Lands. To an extent, Riley-Smith's 1986 book The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading overturned this previously held view.

Riley-Smith came to his conclusions after studying handwritten documents held in churches across Western Europe, in which Crusaders explained their personal reasons for heading out on the "holy war." He then pioneered the use of computer spreadsheets to cross-reference data on individual Crusaders and their families, which allowed him to paint a much more complete picture than had been seen previously. He came to the conclusion that most Crusaders were actually motivated by spiritual devotion and a genuine desire to atone for past sins.

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Título: La Dictadura Argentina: El episodio más oscuro de la historia [The Argentina Dictatorship: The Darkest Episode in History]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 38 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-15-16

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Calificaciones: 2.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: History, World

Resumen del editor:

El 24 de marzo de 1976 ocurrió lo que muchos esperaban: Isabel Perón, la recordada "Evita", fue detenida, sacada de la Casa Rosada y trasladada a Neuquén. La Junta de Comandantes, que designó como presidente de facto a Jorge Rafael Videla, asumió el poder, comenzando así el audodenominado "Proceso de Reorganización Nacional".

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Opiniones de los miembros:

Brief, informative, and clear.

Fine reading and clear, concise reporting. One thing was annoying and confusing: the narrator screamed the chapter titles. i have no idea why.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles

Author: Etienne Stockland, Luke Freeman

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In his 1966 book, The Night Battles, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg detailed the lives of peasant people who were marginalized in their own society and have been all but forgotten in ours. He created a new school of study, microhistory, which has influenced thinkers from a range of different disciplines.

The Night Battles looks at the witch trials of a small group of peasants in 16th-century Italy who believed they turned into animals at night to ward off evil spirits and safeguard their crops. Ginzburg's analysis of available primary sources creates a remarkably detailed picture of this shamanism, which he claims could be traced back as far as 1,500 years.

Ginzburg issued a challenge to late-20th-century academic norms - and pioneered new historical research techniques in doing so. Today, listeners turn to The Night Battles not only for its account of a series of witch trials but for Ginzburg's groundbreaking analysis of the ways prevailing ideologies reinterpret, create, and impose new meanings on popular practices.

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Title: A Macat Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

Author: J.A.O.C. Brown, Bryan R. Gibson

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

A Macat analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

London: Faber & Faber, 2012

Albert Hourani's 1991 work, A History of the Arab Peoples, is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history, from the rise of Islam to the late 20th century. Going far beyond the political history that had generally characterized previous examinations, Hourani integrates a wide range of scholarship to provide a deep analysis of social, cultural, and economic structures. His interest in the everyday lives of Arab people and his desire to understand what united - rather than divided - many different nationalities gives listeners a new and vital perspective on the region.

In A History, Hourani distils all of his thoughts, gathered over a long and distinguished career. In doing so, he creates a work that has wide appeal to general listeners, every bit as much as to scholars. Despite dramatic changes in the Arab world since Hourani's death in 1993, his analysis remains a credible and influential starting point for anyone with an interest in the Middle East.

You can find out more about how Albert Hourani's ideas have been challenged and applied - and how his work has impacted on thinkers in other academic disciplines - by exploring further in the Macat Library.

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Members Reviews:

This is reads like a high school term paper

This is reads like a high school term paper. It is repetitive, shallow, and certainly not worth the price. If you want to read a series of book reviews all saying essentially the same thing, this is the book for you. I would like to get my money back.

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Title: Finding North

Subtitle: How Navigation Makes Us Human

Author: George Michelsen Foy

Narrator: Tom Zingarelli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In 1844, George Michelsen Foy's great-great grandfather, captain of a Norwegian cargo ship, perished at sea after getting lost in a snowstorm. Foy decides to unravel the mystery surrounding Halvor Michelsen's death - and the roots of his own obsession with navigation - by re-creating his ancestor's trip using only period instruments.

Beforehand, he meets a colorful cast of characters to learn whether men really have better directional skills than women; how cells, eels, and spaceships navigate; and how tragedy results from GPS glitches. He interviews a cabby who has memorized every street in London, sails on a Haitian cargo sloop, and visits the site of a secret navigational cult in Greece.

At the heart of Foy's story is this fact: Navigation and the brain's memory centers are inextricably linked. As Foy unravels the secret behind Halvor's death, he also discovers why forsaking our navigation skills in favor of GPS may lead not only to Alzheimer's and other diseases of memory but to losing a key part of what makes us human.

Critic Reviews:

"Voyagers of all kinds will cherish this book." (Paul Raeburn, author of

The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting)

Members Reviews:

Don't waste your time or money

What I hoped would be a good sailing story was banal drivel

What I hoped would be a good maritime story was instead banal drivel

7

Wise and moving

A wise and moving book. Lyrical , a voyage of insights that transported both to new frontiers and to self. I understood the ineluctable draw of loss and love.

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Title: Vaderlandse Geschiedenis: Een hoorcollege over het ontstaan van Nederland

Author: Herman Beliën

Narrator: Herman Beliën

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

In zijn hoorcollege neemt Herman Beliën ons op geheel eigen wijze mee door de geschiedenis van het ontstaan van Nederland als eenheidsstaat. In twaalf hoofdstukken maakt hij korte metten met bestaande opvattingen over onze 'tolerantie', de mythen rond de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd tijdens de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en de historische invloed van Nederland in Europa en de rest van de wereld. Een uiterst scherpe en onderhoudende terugblik op de staat- en natievorming van de Nederlanden door de eeuwen heen.

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©2004 Home Academy (P)2004 Home Academy

Members Reviews:

well deserved dubbeltje on this audio

loved listening to this. very entertaining. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Title: O scurt istorie a românilor povestit celor tineri 3

Author: Neagu Djuvara

Narrator: Neagu Djuvara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Nasterea statelor medievale romanesti, Basarab Intemeietorul si urmasii sai, Momentul 1330, Descalecatul in Moldova, Sistemul de succesiune la tron, Adunarile de stari, Marii boieri, Boierii mici, Mosneni si razesi, Rolul Bisericii, Tiganii, Oastea, Regimul feudal.

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©1999 Humanitas (P)2007 Humanitas

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Title: O scurt istorie a românilor povestit celor tineri 5

Author: Neagu Djuvara

Narrator: Neagu Djuvara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Petru Rares, Tara Romaneasca de la Neagoe Basarab la Petru Cercel, Transilvania in veacul al XVI-lea, Protestantismul, Mihai Viteazul si vitejii lui, Coalitia initiata de Rudolf II.

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©1999 Humanitas (P)2007 Humanitas