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• Kitchens of the Great Midwest

• A Novel
• De: J. Ryan Stradal
• Narrado por: Amy Ryan, Michael Stuhlbarg
• Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 1,360
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199

Kitchens of the Great Midwest is about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country's most coveted dinner reservation. When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine - and a dashing sommelier - he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter - starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• unevenly cooked!

• De joyce en 10-13-15

• The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

• De: Alan Charles Kors, The Great Courses
• Narrado por: Alan Charles Kors
• Duración: 12 h y 34 m
• Grabación Original

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Revolutions in thought (as opposed to those in politics or science) are in many ways the most far-reaching of all. They affect how we grant legitimacy to authority, define what is possible, create standards of right and wrong, and even view the potential of human life. Between 1600 and 1800, such a revolution of the intellect seized Europe, shaking the minds of the continent as few things before or since. What we now know as the Enlightenment challenged previously accepted ways of understanding reality, bringing about modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars, sparking what Professor Kors calls "perhaps the most profound transformation of European, if not human, life." In this series of 24 insightful lectures, you'll explore the astonishing conceptual and cultural revolution of the Enlightenment. You'll witness in its tumultuous history the birth of modern thought in the dilemmas, debates, and extraordinary works of the 17th- and 18th-century mind, as wielded by the likes of thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.And you'll understand why educated Europeans came to believe that they had a new understanding-of thought and the human mind, of method, of nature, and of the uses of knowledge-with which they could come to know the world correctly for the first time in human history, and with which they could rewrite the possibilities of human life.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Good material, annoying voice

• De Don en 08-29-13

• A Short History of Nearly Everything

• De: Bill Bryson
• Narrado por: Richard Matthews
• Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 28,098
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 21,254

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science. Although he doesn't know anything about the subject (at first), he is eager to learn, and takes information that he gets from the world's leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading

• De Andrew en 11-09-09

• Afghanistan

• A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban
• De: Stephen Tanner
• Narrado por: Raymond Todd
• Duración: 14 h y 36 m
• Versión completa

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  4 out of 5 stars 198
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For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. As a result of the United States' engaging in armed conflict with the Afghan regime, an understanding of the military history of that blood-soaked land has become essential to every American.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• A Great Overview

• De Colin en 10-16-08

• The Foundations of Western Civilization

• De: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
• Narrado por: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Duración: 24 h y 51 m
• Grabación Original

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  4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433

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.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• Not Engaging or Very Interesting

• De Tommy D'Angelo en 03-05-17

• Foundations of Eastern Civilization

• De: Craig G. Benjamin, The Great Courses
• Narrado por: Craig G. Benjamin
• Duración: 23 h y 22 m
• Grabación Original

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  4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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China. Korea. Japan. Southeast Asia. How did Eastern civilization develop? What do we know about the history, politics, governments, art, science, and technology of these countries? And how does the story of Eastern civilization play out in today's world of business, politics, and international exchange?

• 4 out of 5 stars

• A worthwhile "big-history" survey

• De Acteon en 11-22-13