Votre titre Audible gratuit
Stranger in a Strange Land
Les clients ayant acheté ce titre ont aussi aimé
-
The Cut Out Girl
- De : Bart van Es
- Lu par : Bart van Es
- Durée : 8 h et 49 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families.
-
A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- De : James Barr
- Lu par : Peter Noble
- Durée : 15 h et 7 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
-
The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- De : Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Lu par : Stefan Rudnicki
- Durée : 45 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
-
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De : Jim Holt
- Lu par : David Stifel
- Durée : 15 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
-
Black Earth
- The Holocaust as History and Warning
- De : Timothy Snyder
- Lu par : Mark Bramhall
- Durée : 16 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the 20th century and reveals the risks that we face in the 21st. Based on new sources from Eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think and thus all the more terrifying.
-
Lincoln in the Bardo
- A Novel
- De : George Saunders
- Lu par : Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Durée : 7 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill.
-
The Cut Out Girl
- De : Bart van Es
- Lu par : Bart van Es
- Durée : 8 h et 49 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families.
-
A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- De : James Barr
- Lu par : Peter Noble
- Durée : 15 h et 7 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
-
The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- De : Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Lu par : Stefan Rudnicki
- Durée : 45 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
-
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De : Jim Holt
- Lu par : David Stifel
- Durée : 15 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
-
Black Earth
- The Holocaust as History and Warning
- De : Timothy Snyder
- Lu par : Mark Bramhall
- Durée : 16 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the 20th century and reveals the risks that we face in the 21st. Based on new sources from Eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think and thus all the more terrifying.
-
Lincoln in the Bardo
- A Novel
- De : George Saunders
- Lu par : Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Durée : 7 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill.
Description
Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem - the 20th-century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah - Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.
In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of the cosmos has been in eclipse in the United States. He vividly conjures Scholem's upbringing in Berlin and compellingly brings to life Scholem's transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, the critic and philosopher. In doing so he reveals how Scholem's frustration with the bourgeois ideology of Germany during the First World War led him to discover Judaism, Kabbalah, and finally Zionism as potent counterforces to Europe's suicidal nationalism.
Prochnik's own years in the Holy Land in the 1990s brings him to question the stereotypical intellectual and theological constructs of Jerusalem and to rediscover the city as a physical place rife with the unruliness and fecundity of nature. Prochnik ultimately suggests that a new form of ecological pluralism must now inherit the historically energizing role once played by Kabbalah and Zionism in Jewish thought.
Autres livres audio du même :
Ce que les membres d'Audible en pensent
-
Global5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Tadish Durbin
- 05/03/2019
A truly compelling tale
The story of Gershom Sholem is of tremendous value. He is a towering figure of 20th century Jewish spiritual thought. His contribution is being understood more and more, and I was so grateful for the fully detailed picture of his life.
I was also very engaged with the author's story, and how he wove it into Sholem's narrative.
That said, the reader should have made an effort to attempt to pronounce Hebrew names, words, and places more accurately. It was totally obnoxious that the reader mispronounced the name 'Gershom'. There is no ambiguity that the name is pronounced with an 'sh'. In the Torah, the name is clearly spelled with the letter Shin, yet the reader pronounced it as though it was spelled with a Sin or Samek.
0 sur 1 personne(s) ont trouvé cet avis utile.