• The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World

• Autor: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Robert Garland
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 28 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 63
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 63

Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Great course and great lecturer

• Von A customer Am hilfreichsten 24.02.2017

• 1066: The Year That Changed Everything

• Autor: Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Jennifer Paxton
• Spieldauer: 3 Std.
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  5 out of 5 stars 3
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  5 out of 5 stars 3
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 3

With this exciting and historically rich six-lecture course, experience for yourself the drama of this dynamic year in medieval history, centered on the landmark Norman Conquest. Taking you from the shores of Scandinavia and France to the battlefields of the English countryside, these lectures will plunge you into a world of fierce Viking warriors, powerful noble families, politically charged marriages, tense succession crises, epic military invasions, and much more.Your journey starts in the 10th and early 11th centuries, when power in England and Normandy was very much up for grabs-and when the small island nation was under continuous assault from Viking forces. Professor Paxton helps you gain a solid grasp of the complex political alliances and shifting relationships between figures such as Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and Edward the Confessor. She also recounts for you the two seminal battles that pitted England against the Scandinavians and the Normans: the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. Throughout the lectures, Dr. Paxton opens your eyes to continued debates and controversies over this year and offers her own take on the Norman Conquest's enduring legacy and the fascinating results of this epic clash. By exploring the year 1066-what led up to it, what happened during that fateful year, and what changed as a result-you'll gain a sharper perspective and a greater understanding of everything that would come afterward.

• A Day's Read

• Autor: The Great Courses, Emily Allen, Grant L. Voth, und andere
• Sprecher: Arnold Weinstein, Emily Allen, Grant L. Voth
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 25 Min.
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• Gesamt

  3 out of 5 stars 3
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  2.5 out of 5 stars 2
• Geschichte

  2.5 out of 5 stars 2

Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can finish-and engage with-in a day or less. Perfect for people with busy lives who still want to discover-or rediscover-just how transformative an act of reading can be, these 36 lectures range from short stories of fewer than 10 pages to novellas and novels of around 200 pages. Despite their short length, these works are powerful examinations of the same subjects and themes that longer "great books" discuss.

• The Celtic World

• Autor: The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Professor Jennifer Paxton PhD
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 52 Min.
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Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what we thought we knew about the Celts has been radically transformed. In The Celtic World, discover the incredible story of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose art, language, and culture once spread from Ireland to Austria. This series of 24 enlightening lectures explains the traditional historical view of who the Celts were, then contrasts it with brand-new evidence from DNA analysis and archeology that totally changes our perspective on where the Celts came from.

• The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

• Autor: Daniel N. Robinson, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Daniel N. Robinson
• Spieldauer: 30 Std. und 11 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 22
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 18
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 17

Grasp the important ideas that have served as the backbone of philosophy across the ages with this extraordinary 60-lecture series. This is your opportunity to explore the enormous range of philosophical perspectives and ponder the most important and enduring of human questions-without spending your life poring over dense philosophical texts.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Well read! best coverage of philosophers .

• Von Amazon Customer Am hilfreichsten 20.04.2018

• The American Civil War

• Autor: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Gary W. Gallagher
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 37 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

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  5 out of 5 stars 20
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 18
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 18

Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Lautstärke schwankt

• Von Georg Am hilfreichsten 24.07.2018

• 12 Rules for Life

• An Antidote to Chaos
• Autor: Jordan B. Peterson
• Sprecher: Jordan B. Peterson
• Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 39 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 881
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 797
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 788

What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers. In this book, he provides 12 profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Listen/read only a few pages at a time

• Von Asgar Am hilfreichsten 12.02.2018

• The Storm Before the Storm

• The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
• Autor: Mike Duncan
• Sprecher: Mike Duncan
• Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 13 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 54
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  5 out of 5 stars 50
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 50

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, the Romans refused to allow a single leader to seize control of the state and grab absolute power. The Roman commitment to cooperative government and peaceful transfers of power was unmatched in the history of the ancient world. But by the year 133 BCE, the republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled.

• Hannibal

• A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 BC, with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War
• Autor: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
• Sprecher: Bill Wallace
• Spieldauer: 20 Std. und 14 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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  5 out of 5 stars 2
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 2

Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Descending into Italy, he destroyed the main Roman army at Lake Trasimeno and came close to conquering Rome itself.

• Principles

• Life and Work
• Autor: Ray Dalio
• Sprecher: Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb
• Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 5 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 479
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 421

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Zur kritischen Reflektion

• Von Amazon Kunde Am hilfreichsten 06.10.2017

• The Dead Sea Scrolls

• Autor: Gary A. Rendsburg, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Gary A. Rendsburg
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 21 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 4
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  5 out of 5 stars 4
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  5 out of 5 stars 4

Whether complete or only fragmentary, the 930 extant Dead Sea Scrolls irrevocably altered how we look at and understand the foundations of faith and religious practice. Now you can get a comprehensive introduction to this unique series of archaeological documents, and to scholars' evolving understanding of their authorship and significance, with these 24 lectures. Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus.

• Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition

• Autor: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Richard Wolfson
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 17 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

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  4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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  5 out of 5 stars 27

"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics. After that, you'll follow along as Professor Wolfson outlines the logic that led to Einstein's profound theory of special relativity and the simple yet far-reaching insight on which it rests. With that insight in mind, you'll move on to consider Einstein's theory of general relativity and its interpretation of gravitation in terms of the curvature of space and time.From there, you'll embark on a dazzling exploration of how inquiry into matter at the atomic and subatomic scales led to quandaries that are resolved-or at least clarified-by quantum mechanics, a vision of physical reality so profound and so at odds with our experience that it nearly defies language.By bringing relativity and quantum mechanics into the same picture, you'll chart the development of fascinating hypotheses about the origin, development, and possible futures of the entire universe, as well as the possibility that physics can produce a "theory of everything" to account for all aspects of the physical world. But the goal throughout these lectures remains the same: to present the key ideas of modern physics in a way that makes them clear to the interested layperson.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Interesting and good explained

• Von isolator Am hilfreichsten 27.01.2017

• The Foundations of Western Civilization

• Autor: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 51 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

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  5 out of 5 stars 30
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 27

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• very interesting overview

• Von Martin Pfemeter Am hilfreichsten 07.12.2017

• Prisoners of Geography

• Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
• Autor: Tim Marshall
• Sprecher: Ric Jerom
• Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 29 Min.
• Ungekürztes

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  4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 44

If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here. In 10 chapters, using essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Genial

• Von MOR Am hilfreichsten 10.03.2018

• Hitler

• A Biography
• Autor: Ian Kershaw
• Sprecher: Damian Lynch
• Spieldauer: 44 Std. und 7 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 33

Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Super Buch –Hörbuch aber mit technischen Schwächen

• Von Friedrich Am hilfreichsten 01.04.2017