Philip
- 18
- reviews
- 22
- helpful votes
- 35
- ratings
-
From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity
- By: Bart D. Ehrman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Bart D. Ehrman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 942
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 932
Step back to Christianity's first three centuries to see how it transitioned from the religion of Jesus to a religion about Jesus. How did a single group from among many win the struggle for dominance to establish the beliefs central to the faith, rewrite the history of Christianity's internal conflicts, and produce a canon of sacred texts – the New Testament – that supported its own views?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Objective History of Early Christianity
- By Wurm on 09-18-13
Ehrman hopes you don't listen.
Reviewed: 08-15-21
Legit listened hoping to get a scholarly perspective on the time period, someone to give just the facts and no opinions.
Ehrman: Jesus and Paul where poor, jailed and murdered.
Jesus and Paul: taught against being wealthy
Early Christians: sold homes to pay off each other's debts, overwhelming poor.
Ehrman's conclusion: Christianity spread because Romans thought God would make their material lives better.
Lolz okay
Ehrman: The gospels have issues, we don't know who wrote them, Jesus was dead 30 years when they where written. They're as accurate as kids playing telephone.
Me: I didn't know that!
Ehrman later: We think the gospels pulled from an original source "Q".
Me: Wait that means there was a source within 30 years of Jesus' death. Wouldn't that be pretty accurate, possibly written by the disciples who knew Jesus?
Ehrman: Moving on!
Also also Ehrman: The never canonized gospel of Thomas! Jesus had a twin! I'm not going to question it's authority, authorship or tell you when it was written! When it was written: 100-110 or 250 AD, scholars disagree.
This happens over and over again.
Anyone got something better than Bart?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
11 people found this helpful
-
Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,001
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 61,472
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61,106
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Not as good as Tipping Point, Outliers or Blink
Reviewed: 02-19-20
Lacks good data, sends mixed messages, leaves out critical parts of stories that totally change his conclusions. He seems to be running out of things to investigate.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Right Side of History
- How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,991
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,105
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,047
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times best-selling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
As an atheist
- By Benjamin on 03-27-19
- The Right Side of History
- How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
Old jokes, old stories, little debth.
Reviewed: 05-14-19
Ben presented no new information he doesn't repeat over and over five days a week on The Ben Shapiro Show. Most of this is a summary of really complex philosophies Ben doesn't cover in depth, the rest is criticism of Steven Pinker and reliving college riots.
Save your money and time.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
The Presidents and the Constitution
- A Living History
- By: Ken Gormley - editor
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office - the first president to the 44th - has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation's chief executive.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
great book about the presidency & Constitution
- By Rob on 12-27-16
- The Presidents and the Constitution
- A Living History
- By: Ken Gormley - editor
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Great performance,
Reviewed: 12-18-17
Very interesting, well preformed. A bit opinionated toward the end. The last four presidents aren't covered as well or without favor due to how little time has passed since their administrations.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 802
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 712
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 710
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul". Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Heart, Soul & Iron Fist Of Russia
- By Sara on 02-22-17
- Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber, Rebecca Lowman, Jorjeana Marie, Coleen Marlo, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders
Must listen
Reviewed: 10-01-17
It's long and graphic but worth it to know the history of communism from the people who lived it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Where Am I Wearing?
- A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes, Revised and Updated
- By: Kelsey Timmerman
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 26
When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great book skip the preachy last chapter.
- By Philip on 08-14-17
- Where Am I Wearing?
- A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes, Revised and Updated
- By: Kelsey Timmerman
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Great book skip the preachy last chapter.
Reviewed: 08-14-17
In this edition the author gets pompous at the end. Otherwise it's a great look at global capitalism, wages, and competition.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- By: Manning Marable
- Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,413
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,189
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,189
Of the great figure in 20th-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age 39. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
invites further reading on Malcolm X
- By connie on 05-14-11
- Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- By: Manning Marable
- Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas
Don't meet your heroes.
Reviewed: 07-16-17
It's a great, detailed book and is about as unbiased as it can be. It is a must read in 2017 as social movements sound exactly like Malcom X did decades ago.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- By: Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 276
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence—like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality—has become routine and relentless. And like a horde of locusts devouring everything in their path, the unchecked plague of violence ruins lives, blocks the road out of poverty, and undercuts development.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really worth listening to
- By Adam Shields on 12-15-15
- The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- By: Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Must read
Reviewed: 03-05-17
Make it to chapter 5 without crying, I dare you. After that it's an educational experience.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,901
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,354
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 4,341
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Surprisingly honest autobiography.
- By History on 11-17-11
- Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
A normal, stubborn man.
Reviewed: 12-27-16
It's a great listen with a great performance. Mandela was a regular Joe,human in every way. He's a self-described pragmatist who advocated nonviolence as long as it worked. He liked communism, and showed that lawyers care more about themselves than skin color. He wasn't a Saint, just effective.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Advertising Effect
- By: Adam Ferrier, Jennifer Fleming
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 409
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 352
In The Advertising Effect, respected advertising insider, Adam Ferrier, reveals the ten techniques used by some of the best-known brands across the globe. These techniques are grounded in psychological theory with award winning real world examples and explore how the most effective way to change behaviour is through action rather than the conventional advertising practices (emotional or rational persuasion).
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Good info if you get past the author's arrogance
- By Ron on 05-05-15
- The Advertising Effect
- By: Adam Ferrier, Jennifer Fleming
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
all of your behavior science classes is a $27 book
Reviewed: 12-08-16
and its 100 times more fun to listen to than your professor. Adam is also more forthcoming about the ethics of psychology than the APA. Its a great book that should replace the materials your sociology introduction class uses tomorrow.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!