Great Music of the 20th Century

• Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion

• Autor: Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Bill Messenger
• Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 59 Min.
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Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation.

Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.

• Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy

• Autor: The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Professor David K. Johnson PhD University of Oklahoma
• Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 30 Min.
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The science fiction genre has become increasingly influential in mainstream popular culture, evolving into one of the most engaging storytelling tools we use to think about technology and consider the shape of the future. Along the way, it has also become one of the major lenses we use to explore important philosophical questions. The origins of science fiction are most often thought to trace to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, a story born from a night of spooky tale-telling by the fireside that explores scientific, moral, and ethical questions that were of great concern in the 19th century - and that continue to resonate today.

• Enlightenment Now

• The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
• Autor: Steven Pinker
• Sprecher: Arthur Morey
• Spieldauer: 19 Std. und 49 Min.
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, read by Arthur Morey. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Reason, science, humanism and progress

• Von Henrik Am hilfreichsten 16.03.2018

• The American Civil War

• Autor: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Gary W. Gallagher
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 36 Min.
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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

• David Copperfield [Audible]

• Autor: Charles Dickens
• Sprecher: Richard Armitage
• Spieldauer: 36 Std. und 30 Min.
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Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage ( The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Meisterwerk

• Von Watson Am hilfreichsten 06.07.2016

• Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

• Autor: Randall Bartlett, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Randall Bartlett
• Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 10 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

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Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

• 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 20 Min.
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"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 History of Jazz, Second Edition

• Autor: Ted Gioia
• Sprecher: Bob Souer
• Spieldauer: 21 Std. und 59 Min.
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• For both beginners and aficionados

• Von translator 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 54 Min.
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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

• Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

• Autor: Pamela Bedore, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Pamela Bedore
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 26 Min.
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Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.

• 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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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

• Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

• Autor: Mark Leary, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Mark Leary
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 11 Min.
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Every day of your life is spent surrounded by mysteries that involve what appear to be rather ordinary human behaviors. What makes you happy? Where did your personality come from? Why do you have trouble controlling certain behaviors? Why do you behave differently as an adult than you did as an adolescent?Since the start of recorded history, and probably even before, people have been interested in answering questions about why we behave the way we do.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Extremely interesting

• Von Niko Am hilfreichsten 15.10.2015

• 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 24 Min.
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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.

• Food: A Cultural Culinary History

• Autor: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Ken Albala
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 22 Min.
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."

• 5 out of 5 stars

• interesting....right?

• Von Dissidentdreamr Am hilfreichsten 14.05.2015

• Stürmischer Beginn

• Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts 1
• Autor: Golo Mann
• Sprecher: Achim Höppner
• Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 37 Min.
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Unruhige Jahre sind es, die am Beginn der modernen deutschen Geschichte stehen selbst wenn die Unruhe zunächst von außen kommt. Die Französische Revolution, dann Napoleon mit seinen Feldzügen verändern die europäische und auch die deutsche Landkarte.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Standardwerk

• Von Un Am hilfreichsten 09.01.2008