The Medici
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall30
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Performance23
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Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history - the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence....
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Amazing story, superbly written
- By Laverdm on 2023-12-31
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-05
- Language: English
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance45
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A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely...
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Medici vision
- By Anonymous on 2025-09-17
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-15
- Language: English
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far...
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Comprehensive
- By RW on 2024-02-25
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-29
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy...
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excellent
- By S2 on 2026-06-01
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-06
- Language: English
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
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Kafka in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Overall26
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Performance22
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We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability...
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great reader, some humour, no info
- By Skoot on 2023-11-08
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-16
- Language: English
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Overall21
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Performance18
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of...
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Poor analysis
- By Anonymous on 2022-03-17
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 2007-07-05
- Language: English
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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Overall16
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Performance15
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not...
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was...
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Outdated drivel
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-12-27
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Overall28
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Performance25
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Spinoza's system and conclusions have compelling beauty unequaled in the history of philosophy....
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Es muy corto y general.
- By Isra Linares on 2023-07-16
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-19
- Language: English
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Overall28
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Performance26
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Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to. His well-meaning platitudes, quaint maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes combined to produce an ideal philosophy for civil servants. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils...
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Good Listen
- By AmazonShopper416 on 2023-08-28
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Overall4
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This audiobook offers a concise, expert account of Lawrence's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world....
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 2009-02-02
- Language: English
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Overall45
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Performance40
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With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a...
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Seems the Author does not like or respect Nietzsch
- By D.J.Wheelz on 2023-03-01
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being."...
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Overall31
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Performance28
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught...
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Fantastic introduction to Plato
- By Annata on 2022-10-04
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-14
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Overall32
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Performance30
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....
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Read it to understand Dostoyevsky
- By Marc Schelpe on 2022-06-13
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Overall25
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Performance22
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Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely...
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Garbage Propaganda
- By Robgoren on 2025-12-27
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism", makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's facade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the Universal Will, blind and...
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Joyously irreverent and penetrating
- By Tim LAW on 2023-01-07
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-19
- Language: English
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Overall17
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Performance14
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David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the...
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
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