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Titel: Der Mensch in einer sozialisierten Welt

Autor:: Herbert Marcuse

Erzähler: Herbert Marcuse

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-18-08

Herausgeber: Quartino GmbH

Kategorien: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Marcuse macht deutlich, warum er innerhalb der Kritischen Theorie eine Sonderstellung einnimmt. Er weicht dem politischen Engagement nicht aus, sondern bezieht es in sein Denken mit ein.

(c)+(p) 2008 Quartino GmbH

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Title: The Modern Scholar

Subtitle: Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance

Author: Joshua Kaplan

Narrator: Joshua Kaplan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 78 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Professor Kaplan's goal is to make these works accessible without distorting or oversimplifying them. As you will see, the study of political theory is an enjoyable, gratifying, and challenging subject that will reward the effort you put into thinking about it many times over.

Political theory helps us to think about who we are, where we are coming from, and where we are going. At the same time, theory does not tell us what to do, but can help us to act with purpose and vision. It helps us to step back and get perspective on our problems and on who we really are.

Here, you'll investigate how the language of political theory conveys its meaning. This course is not a substitute for reading the texts, but it can help you to overcome some of the obstacles that the texts present. It is not easy to pick up a book by Aristotle or Hobbes and figure it out on your own. We all need some help in understanding the world, and that is the starting point for political theory itself.

As you embark on this adventure, you are taking part in a community that comes from specific times and places, but transcends them. These great works can speak to us today, wherever we are. Political theory does this better than many other subjects, in part because the theorist wants us to look around and think about the specifics of the world around us, but also to lift our heads and see farther than we normally do. By the conclusion of this course, you will see a dramatic difference in your ability to understand what you read or watch in the news.

Members Reviews:

Every American Should Listen to This

As the presidential election gathered steam this fall, I was listening to this course by Dr. Kaplan and felt as if he was channeling expert commentary from the great political thinkers of history. My advice: Turn off the TV talking heads and listen to this course. It will connect many of the bits of information you already have about politics -- then sharpen everything into a clear picture.

Quite enjoyable and informative.

If you could sum up The Modern Scholar in three words, what would they be?

I love Thucydides

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Modern Scholar?

The narrator, professor Kaplan, begins his analysis of political science with the ancient Greeks and leads up to modern Game theory. It between, you take a trip through many of the great authors that deal with the subject of political science such as: Machiavelli, Rousseau, John Locke, et cetera. This is one of my favorite audio books, and I plan to listen to it many more times.

Inconsistent, but enjoyable

Anyone looking for a wide-ranging, systematic treatment of classical political thought/science might look elsewhere. I would retitle this something like, "some of this professor's favorite important political thinkers: a grab bag." As such, it is fairly well-delivered and a pleasant listen. It is in a sort of vernacular, personalized style, which I might call "very college, very undergrad;" not the sort of high academic delivery I might have expected. Some will prefer that, and for fine reasons: it will speak to a pretty wide audience.

Excellent book to be read

this book let you understand political theory and its evolving process by the certain peoples' ideas, briefly.

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Title: The Credit Crunch

Subtitle: How Safe is Your Money?

Author: Simon Nixon

Narrator: Lisa Coleman, Richard Lyddon, Stephen Pacey, Lucy Price-Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-08

Publisher: Pocket Issue

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Pocket Issue looks behind the hype to uncover the facts behind the headlines.

Critic Reviews:

"For everyone who longs to be well-informed but lacks the time (or attention span)." (Alex Clark, The Observer)

Members Reviews:

good one

A great book. I would recommend buying this.

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Title: The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius

Author: Mark Forstater

Narrator: Derek Jacobi

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-16-08

Publisher: Mark Forstater Productions Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from AD 161 until his death in 180, was the philosopher-king envisaged by Plato. A stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius wrote a series of spiritual exercises (now known as his meditations) while engaged on a series of border wars in the Danube region.

His writings, intended only for himself, reveal a mind of great humanity, humility, and insight. For over 2,000 years, these writings have inspired men and women to engage in the philosophical life, which involves two goals: to "know yourself" and then to ask, "What is the right way to live?"

Members Reviews:

Muffled audio ruins the listening experience

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

Better, clearer audio quality. With a little effort, I am certain that the audio could have been restored.

What other book might you compare The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius to and why?

Derek Jacoby and Marcus Aurelius should have been an unbeatable team, a meditative experience. Instead, the audio is muffled, and this is a great distraction, and disrespectful of this great work and the great actor.

Would you be willing to try another one of Derek Jacobis performances?

Of course.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius?

You've got to be kidding.

Any additional comments?

This is the only recording from audible of which I have had a disappointing experience.

Very inspirational

Fascinating seeing as the philosophy comes from 2000 ago without any of today's technology. The key to contentment explained in a simple and easy to understand way

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Title: The Little Book of Failure

Author: Marc Blake

Narrator: Joy Gelardi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-08

Publisher: Matrix Digital Publishing

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it.

©2006 Crombie Jardine; (P)2008 Summersdale Publishers Ltd

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Title: VangoNotes for Economics, 2/e

Author: Glenn Hubbard, Anthony O'Brien

Format: Original Recording

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-08

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Economics, 2/e 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 Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: Nonviolence Includes Animals

Author: Ingrid E. Newkirk

Narrator: Ingrid E. Newkirk, Dennis Kucinich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-08

Publisher: PETA Foundation

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

To make "nonviolent" choices is to allow respect for others to spring up out of the abyss of misunderstanding; to use voices, not guns, and peaceful actions, not tanks; and to open hearts to the possibility of peaceful coexistence with others. In this speech, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk asks us to open our minds to the idea that the way we treat animals is a reflection of who we are and helps us determine whether we have grasped the most basic problem facing us as we attempt to resolve conflict: a lack of empathy for others who are not like us. It is an interesting exercise that requires us to confront our most ingrained prejudices, even as we challenge others to confront theirs.

© PETA Foundation

Members Reviews:

Why is this noteworthy?

This talk was so powerfully convincing that it seems impossible that the need for it ever existed. How sad that it does! Bravo to the author.

Something for Everyone to Think About

What did you love best about Nonviolence Includes Animals?

The message was clear without being preachy

What did you like best about this story?

How is this different than the first question?

Have you listened to any of Ingrid E. Newkirk and Dennis Kucinich s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Well, yes, it was quite short.

Any additional comments?

The message was clear without being preachy, but sadly few will probably listen to this. People, in general, don't seem to want to know, see, hear about the plight of animals and how we are directly involved in their suffering.

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Title: VangoNotes for Survey of Economics, 3/e

Author: Arthur O'Sullivan, Steven Sheffrin, Stephen Perez

Narrator: Dennis Holland, Maria Hickey

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-07

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Survey of Economics, 3/e 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 Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: Plato's Republic

Subtitle: Books That Changed the World

Author: Simon Blackburn

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

In Plato's Republic, Simon Blackburn explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in The Republic. Blackburn also examines The Republic's remarkable influence and unquestioned staying power, and shows why, from Saint Augustine to 20th-century philosophers, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Henri Bergson, Western thought is still conditioned by this most important of books.

Critic Reviews:

"Rigorous and humble, admiring and dismissive: a clear and accessible introduction to philosophy's first superstar." (Kirkus)

"Plato's Republic...is loaded with perennial questions that every generation must struggle with." (The Independent)

Members Reviews:

Not about Plato

This is not a book about Platos Republic. It is a collection of political, historical and philosophical musings based upon the Republic. If you are interested in the insights of author Simon Blackburn, this book is for you. If you are looking for a book about Platos Republic, you should seek elsewhere. The book is very well read and recorded.

Less than I expected

The commentary in this audiobook was not what I expected. I thought I was going to get a reading of Plato's "Republic" but instead this is a commentary on the book with very few quotes from the book. This audiobook is a chapter by chapter commentary by the author consisting of his interpretations of what he though Plato was trying to say. In that aspect, the commentary was reasonably good, but certainly less that a reading of Plato's book as I had expected.

Please hold the politics

I liked the idea, and the early part of this book, in that it's a "biography" of a book, where the author discusses the book rather than reading the book itself. With a book as old and "deep" as Republic, this seemed like a good way to get some perspective on the work. Unfortunately, as the book goes on, Blackburn increasingly abuses his readers by indulging his bitter political bias against George Bush and Neoconservatives.

Blackburn is as entitled to his arbitrary political opinions as anyone else, but not in the context of a book purporting to give an objective analysis of subject matter far removed from modern day political partisanship.

Blackburn's assertion, for example, that that the ousting of an aggressive and murderous Dictator sitting on one of the world's greatest stores of wealth in Iraq, is somehow equivalent or analogous to the Athenian Greeks putting an apparently innocent, unobtrusive neighboring city-state to the sword because they could, is not only gratuitous, it is a whopping non-sequitur.

Since the entire reason for this book, given the structure I've described above, necessarily leaves the reader to trust the author to provide an objective, reasonable analysis of the subject material at hand, Blackburn's ongoing grinding of his political axe soon had me asking whether his take on Plato and philosophy was as overtly biased and arbitrary as his needlessly imposed political views. As the frequency of political harping increased as the book went on, I turned it off, for good, about two thirds of the way through.

If you are someone who genuinely wants to concentrate on and find good and trustworthy information on the title subject, you will be distracted at best, and probably disgusted, as I was, by this author's political self-indulgence.

I would suggest that if Mr.

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Title: Connected

Subtitle: 24 Hours in the Global Economy

Author: Daniel Altman

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-07

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Now you can. Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn't another polemic for or against globalization. Daniel Altman takes you on a whirlwind journey through more than a dozen cities, gathering points of view from moguls, ministers, and men and women on the street. At each stop, you'll hear how the world's workers played their parts in the events of a single day. Starting with their stories, related in their own words, you'll take on pressing questions in new ways: Can poor countries become rich too quickly? Can corruption ever be a good thing? Do companies need crises in order to stay competitive? What determines the global economic pecking order? Most important, you'll learn how the billions of decisions made by individuals can and do change the future.

Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy is part travel guide, part owner's manual: an absorbing, accessible, and essential road map for every citizen of the global economy in the 21st century.

Members Reviews:

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