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Title: O scurt istorie a românilor povestit celor tineri 4

Author: Neagu Djuvara

Narrator: Neagu Djuvara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Romanii sub "turcocratie", Mircea cel Batran, Al doilea stat romanesc - Moldova, Dinastia angevina in Ungaria si starea romanilor din Ardeal, Iancu de Hunedoara, Vlad Dracul si Vlad Tepes, Matei Corvin, Stefan cel Mare.

Please note: This audiobook is in Romanian.

©1999 Humanitas (P)2007 Humanitas

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Titel: Weltgeschichte to go

Autor:: Alexander von Schönburg

Erzähler: Christoph Maria Herbst

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-25-16

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 6 Stimmen

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Von Adam bis Apple in weniger als sechs Stunden. Alles, was man über Weltgeschichte wissen muss

Eigentlich geht das gar nicht: Die ganze Weltgeschichte in weniger als sechs Stunden zu erzählen. Aber Alexander von Schönburg macht das so elegant und leichtfüßig, dass man plötzlich süchtig wird nach Geschichte. "Weltgeschichte to go" nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise zu den wichtigsten Städten der Menschheit, berichtet von den größten Helden und den schlimmsten Schurken. Überraschende Durchblicke quer durch das Dickicht der Jahrtausende und die pointierte Lesung von Christoph Maria Herbst machen dieses Hörbuch zu einem Erlebnis.

Eine Reise durch die Weltgeschichte - Infotainment at its best mit Christoph Maria Herbst.

©2016 Alexander von Schönburg / Rowohlt Verlag (P)2016 Random House Audio

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Title: Populisme: Hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de populistische politiek in Nederland

Author: Maarten van Rossem

Narrator: Maarten van Rossem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Sinds de snelle opkomst van Pim Fortuin in 2002 is de Nederlandse politiek veranderd. De politieke partijen lijken zich inmiddels te hebben hervonden. Niet door zich tegen het populisme te keren, maar eerder door het te erkennen. Wat is populisme? En is het echt zo nieuw of is het onlosmakelijk deel van de democratie?

Maarten van Rossem plaatst het hedendaagse populisme in historisch perspectief. Hij laat met humor de merkwaardige paradox zien dat we nooit zo welvarend en veilig zijn geweest, maar ook nooit zo ontevreden en angstig.

Inhoud:

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©2011 Home Academy (P)2011 Home Academy

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Title: Summary and Analysis of "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World"

Author: Summary Station

Narrator: Doris A. Ervin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Summary Station

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Learn about the modernization of our planet in a fraction of the time it takes to listen to the actual book!

In the introduction, author Steven Johnson shares some valuable knowledge about the journey ahead. While inventions are exciting, it is important to remember that the innovations in this book belong to everyday, normal life, not science fiction. Johnson details several groundbreaking yet simple inventions (air-conditioning, a glass of clean drinking water, etc.) that utterly changed our lives, and how these changes further inspired more ingenuity and occurrences that we may not even know are connected.

Take for example the printing press. Do you know that Gutenberg's press led to our ability to view microscopic cells? That may not be a connection we easily make, but when we break down the timeline of inventions, it becomes quite clear. Gutenberg invented the printing press, which created a "surge in demand for spectacles." Reading now enabled people to realize they had vision problems (farsightedness), so the growing need for spectacles urged people to experiment with lenses to help various eye types. This brought about the invention of the microscope, which of course, made us able to look at our cells and study them.

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Members Reviews:

'How we got to "Not Now"...'

Too simplistic. I thoroughly enjoyed the TV documentary which prompted me to order the Summary version. While I appreciate that it is a Summary on each great idea/invention, I thought that it would have much more detail & a bit more depth to it.

I test-ordered 6 with the expectation that I might order more. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Perhaps you would like to send me (1) Free copy of the actual book instead. I probably would find it more fascinating & wind up ordering a large quantity as a result for my clients to read & enjoy.

Looks like a child's primer

A 30-odd "page" booklet printed in ridiculously LARGE TYPE, huge MARGINS and SPACING (16 lines/page!). Looks like a child's primer. Sold for the outrageous price of $10. Future books in this collection should be described as VERY BRIEF COMMENTARY of the book in question.

Wasn't impressed

Sorry but I can't believe I paid almost $10 for this. Not well written. Readability for

about 6th grade level of comprehension. It did serve the purpose of providing

an idea as to what the book is about, but probably could have figured that out

by reading book reviews.

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Title: America's Favorite Holidays

Subtitle: Candid Stories

Author: Bruce David Forbes

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture.

Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday's traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween?

Appealing and insightful, America's Favorite Holidays satisfies our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the fascinating ways in which religion and culture mix.

Members Reviews:

Interesting backstories

Very fun stuff. Interesting backgrounds on the holidays, including things you didn't know about Christmas. Well researched, well written.

Good read

A very informative, enjoyable read

Five Stars

Love this book - makes a great Christmas gift for someone who has everything

Five Stars

Perfect.

A lively and informative history of Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Haloween and Thanksgiving in the USA.

Forbes is a professor of religion at a Midwestern college. His writing is lively (much of the text is somewhat autobiographical), and his Christian background informs his discussion of the holidays in an informed but objective way. He discusses Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving. A reader can read one or more chapters in any order. The discussion is in all cases informative, and I suspect any reader will find some new details, even people who have read about holidays in other books. I certainly did so.

He notes, as is commonly known, that holiday derives from "holy day" but that the secular sense of a day off goes back to the 1400s. He posits that most holidays, and all of these, have layers if you look at history. One, they start as seasonal events. Two, they acquire some religious or national association, and three, popular culture shapes the observances, differently in different places even of the same holiday.

Christmas hearkens back to a end of year, near solstice holiday. Yule, for example, is the name for a pre-Christian holiday in parts of Europe. The holiday has never been purely spiritual, he says, and there's a party aspect still. Deciding on December 25th is discussed in fascinating detail. Among other odd details is the poinsettia, brought from Mexico in 1828 by then ambassador Joel Poinsett. Christmas was forbidden in places, such as 1659 Massachusetts when celebrating it in any way cost a 5 shilling fine. The American Christmas owes a lot to specific people. Cartoonist Thomas Nast created the Santa Claus image as we know it. Clement Moore's Night before Christmas poem is important, as is the "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" column.

Valentine's day has some old stories, which likely are not true. Forbes discusses the phenomenon of Valentine's cards and the heart symbol. He says the commonly held belief that Easter comes from a goddess names Eostre is questionable, based on all of two sentences in a work by Bede (if you don't know that name, Google it, he is an important figure). The tradition of rabbits bringing eggs to children seems to stem from Germans who settled in Pennsylvania.

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Title: Breakdown

Subtitle: Shell Shock on the Somme

Author: Taylor Downing

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.

When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be done to cure it. But the numbers were never large. Then, in July 1916, with the start of the Somme battle, the incidence of shell shock rocketed.

The high command of the British army began to panic. An increasingly large number of men seemed to have simply lost the will to fight. As entire battalions had to be withdrawn from the front, commanders and military doctors desperately tried to come up with explanations as to what was going wrong.

'Shell shock' - what we would now refer to as battle trauma - was sweeping the Western Front. By the beginning of August 1916, nearly 200,000 British soldiers had been killed or wounded during the first month of fighting along the Somme. Another 300,000 would be lost before the battle was over. But the army always said it could not calculate the exact number of those suffering from shell shock. Reassessing the official casualty figures, Taylor Downing for the first time comes up with an accurate estimate of the total numbers who were taken out of action by psychological wounds. It is a shocking figure.

Taylor Downing's revelatory new book follows units and individuals from signing up to the Pals Battalions of 1914, through to the horrors of their experiences on the Somme which led to the shell shock that, unrelated to weakness or cowardice, left the men unable to continue fighting. He shines a light on the official - and brutal - response to the epidemic, even against those officers and doctors who looked on it sympathetically. It was, they believed, a form of hysteria. It was contagious. And it had to be stopped.

Members Reviews:

Humane Treatment of the Horrors of the Somme

"Breakdown" is a poignant account of what was a baffling condition at the time. Though instances of shell shock are found throughout war's history, 'soldier's heart' in the Civil War for one, shell shock during WW1 threatened the very state of the armies fighting on the Somme.

This was such a good and brutal account of what went on that I was inspired (nay, driven) to purchase "The Somme" by Peter Hart to learn more. As it is, I learned plenty, though I must say that World War I, though I am fond of military history, hasn't been my main area of interest: I'm more of a WWII, Vietnam kind of gal, so maybe other people might find this to be old hat.

"Breakdown" covers the initial enthusiasm of signing up the Pals Battalions all the way through to the end, and everything in between. It covers the medics first encounters with soldiers who have bulging eyes, the shakes, who possibly can neither see nor hear tho' there's nothing wrong with their eyes or ears, men who act irrationally and with day and night terrors.

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Titre: Hexagone : Sur les routes de l'Histoire de France

Auteur: Lorànt Deutsch

Narrateur: Lorànt Deutsch

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-17-16

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 5 votes

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Après l'immense succès de Métronome, Lorànt Deutsch met une nouvelle fois son formidable talent de conteur au service de l'Histoire de notre pays. Des voies romaines aux sentiers de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, le comédien nous entraîne dans une promenade érudite et passionnante sur ces routes qui ont façonné la France. On s'émerveille avec lui des vestiges de notre passé, on frémit des terribles crimes qui l'ont accompagné et on se régale des innombrables anecdotes romanesques qui parsèment son récit. Et enfin, à l'horizon, se dessine peu à peu une figure bien connue : l'Hexagone.

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©2013 Michel Lafon (P)2015 Audible FR

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Title: Caligula: Life of a Roman Emperor

Author: Suetonius

Narrator: Jonathan Waite

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-16

Publisher: Astorg Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers.

The emperor Caligula was one of the strangest and cruelest rulers that ever lived, and most of what is known about his reign comes from Suetonius. The first six months of his reign appear to have been moderate and successful; but after that, he fell into a spiral of sadism, sexual perversity, and plain insanity that made him one of the most hated tyrants of all time.

His biography gathers many extravagant anecdotes, from naming his horse consul to calling people to his palace in the middle of the night just to play a strange game of fright with them. He was eventually assassinated, but not before many strange omens predicted the event, according to Suetonius.

©2016 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2016 Compagnie du Savoir

Members Reviews:

Short, fast, and jam packed

I love the fact that this book tells you what other sources seem to leave out in the name of some kind of misplaced historical modesty. Jam packed with information on the making, atrocities, personage, and subsequent downfall, it makes a great companion piece to I, Claudius (which is amazing).

The timeline is a little scattered, but thats not much of a complaint more than an observation. Where this book shines is in the gory details.

pretty good

Thought it was quite insightful. Excellent narrator. Kept my attention and historically interesting compared to the book I CLAUDIUS.

A Disappointing Reading

An interesting story but unfortunately ruined by an unusually poor reading. There were so many mispronunciations you start listening out for these rather than following the text. The voice and tone were ok but I don't think the reader had any feel for the narrative and hadn't bothered to practice reading the book. There was also the occasional gasp of breath which should have been edited out. This is not Audible's finest and I'd suggest potential readers try an alternative version.

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Title: The Tulip

Author: Anna Pavord

Narrator: Phyllida Nash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

With a new introduction exclusively in audio, read by Anna Pavord.

The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their parts in the development of the tulip into the worldwide phenomenon it is today.

No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts and plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.

Pavord tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey and took the whole of Western Europe by storm. This beautifully produced and irresistible volume will become a Bible, a unique sourcebook, a universal gift book and a joy to all who possess it.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful flowers.

I'm sorry to say, but I felt let down by this book. For myself it would have been improved if the author had given commonly known names as well as the Latin and the quotes from letters written in French had been translated as well. This, I believe, has spoiled the book for me.

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Titre: Métronome : L'Histoire de France au rythme du métro parisien (Métronome 1)

Auteur: Lorànt Deutsch

Narrateur: Lorànt Deutsch

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-03-15

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 6 votes

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Saviez-vous que la Lutèce des origines ne se situait pas sur l'île de la Cité, mais à Nanterre ? Que les derniers combattants gaulois massacrés par les Romains reposent sous la tour Eiffel ? Que les vestiges de la première cathédrale de Paris se trouvent sous le parking d'un immeuble moderne du Ve arrondissement ?

Au fil de ses découvertes, Lorànt Deutsch vous emmènera vers ce qui fut le Pont-au-Change, ancêtre de la Bourse, puis chez ce bistrotier qui entasse ses bouteilles dans une cellule de la Bastille sauvée de la destruction, et tout au long des rues où se cachent des trésors que vous ne soupçonniez pas. Une promenade captivante, où défilent les seigneurs alliés comme les princes rebelles, et tout ce qui a forgé le pays. Vous verrez s'ériger des murailles contre l'envahisseur, s'agiter l'Église, s'imposer les marchands, s'ébrouer les artistes, l'Université s'installer sur des ballots de paille place Maubert, le peuple de Paris se soulever - violent, sanglant, emblématique -, et se construire ainsi toute l'Histoire de France.

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©2009 Michel Lafon (P)2015 Audible FR

Avis des membres:

Nice French-language recording--Deutsch speaks quickly, but clearly

A very nice French-language recording of Deutsch's book on the history of France as told through the metro stations of Paris. On the recording, he sometimes speaks somewhat quickly, but always very clearly.

To thank you

This is easier to read than the first one . I am not so good in France. I keep on trying - I have lots of time I'm at the moment just 83 yrs. Réa

subway

Makes every single Paris subway ride much more interesting, fun and intriguing. A must in your daily routine or to read each night

Five Stars

book was as described and shipped fast

A lovely journey through history

Lorant Deutsch has found time amid all the acting to write this delightful book, Metronome: L'histoire De France Au Rythme Du Metro Parisien (The History of France to the Rhythm of the Paris Metro). Using various Metro stations as chronological landmarks, the reader is guided through the story of France throughout the centuries from pre-Romans times to the present day. Using a highly approachable conversational writing style, Metronome draws on historical anecdote, biography and legend with humour and enthusiasm. A must for all who have Paris in their soul! Also recommended is the illustrated edition:Metronome Illustre Fl (French Edition)