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The Square and the Tower
- Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- ナレーター： Elliot Hill
- 再生時間： 17 時間 22 分
- カテゴリー： 政治学・社会科学, 政治・政府
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者： Jared Diamond
- ナレーター： Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間： 16 時間 20 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- 著者： John Bolton
- ナレーター： Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- 再生時間： 20 時間 52 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars 5
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 5
As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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この半年で1番刺激的で面白い
- 投稿者： Amazonユーザー 日付： 2020/08/04
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者： Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター： Derek Perkins
- 再生時間： 11 時間 41 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars 24
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者： Amazon カスタマー 日付： 2020/01/19
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- 著者： Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター： Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間： 23 時間 44 分
- 完全版
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総合評価0 out of 5 stars 0
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ナレーション0 out of 5 stars 0
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ストーリー0 out of 5 stars 0
By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者： Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター： Derek Perkins
- 再生時間： 15 時間 17 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History and future of human
- 投稿者： Amazon カスタマー 日付： 2019/03/29
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- 著者： Jared Diamond
- ナレーター： Henry Strozier
- 再生時間： 18 時間 44 分
- 完全版
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars 2
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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ストーリー5 out of 5 stars 2
In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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歴史のジェネラリスト
- 投稿者： 出張勝也 日付： 2019/12/10
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者： Jared Diamond
- ナレーター： Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間： 16 時間 20 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- 著者： John Bolton
- ナレーター： Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- 再生時間： 20 時間 52 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars 5
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 5
As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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この半年で1番刺激的で面白い
- 投稿者： Amazonユーザー 日付： 2020/08/04
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者： Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター： Derek Perkins
- 再生時間： 11 時間 41 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars 24
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者： Amazon カスタマー 日付： 2020/01/19
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- 著者： Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター： Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間： 23 時間 44 分
- 完全版
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総合評価0 out of 5 stars 0
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ナレーション0 out of 5 stars 0
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ストーリー0 out of 5 stars 0
By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者： Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター： Derek Perkins
- 再生時間： 15 時間 17 分
- 完全版
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総合評価4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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ストーリー4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History and future of human
- 投稿者： Amazon カスタマー 日付： 2019/03/29
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- 著者： Jared Diamond
- ナレーター： Henry Strozier
- 再生時間： 18 時間 44 分
- 完全版
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars 2
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ナレーション4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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ストーリー5 out of 5 stars 2
In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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歴史のジェネラリスト
- 投稿者： 出張勝也 日付： 2019/12/10
批評家のレビュー
“Captivating and compelling. Whether describing the surprisingly ineffective 18th century network of the mysterious Illuminati that continue to be the subject of crank conspiracy theorists or the shockingly effective 20th century network of Cambridge University spies working for the Soviets, Ferguson manages both to tell a good story and provide important insight into the specific qualities that power successful networks.” (The New York Times)
“Remarkably interesting...always surprising and always thought-provoking in the places and entities it chooses to pause and examine, everything from the Mafia to the Soviet Union of Stalin.... The Square and the Tower, in addition to being provocative history, may prove to be a bellwether work of the Internet Age.” (Christian Science Monitor)
"Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book.... His short chapters are lucid snapshots of a world history of Towers and Squares, filled with gracefully deployed learning.... The Square and the Tower is always readable, intelligent, original. You can swallow a chapter a night before sleep and your dreams will overflow with scenes of Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Napoleon, Kissinger. In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it." (The Wall Street Journal)
あらすじ・解説
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks
Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers, and field marshals. It's about states, armies, and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even history "from below" is often about trade unions and workers' parties. But what if that's simply because hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on? What if we are missing the informal, less well documented social networks that are the true sources of power and drivers of change?
The 21st century has been hailed as the Age of Networks. However, in The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson argues that networks have always been with us, from the structure of the brain to the food chain, from the family tree to freemasonry. Throughout history, hierarchies housed in high towers have claimed to rule, but often real power has resided in the networks in the town square below. For it is networks that tend to innovate. And it is through networks that revolutionary ideas can contagiously spread. Just because conspiracy theorists like to fantasize about such networks doesn't mean they are not real.
From the cults of ancient Rome to the dynasties of the Renaissance, from the founding fathers to Facebook, The Square and the Tower tells the story of the rise, fall, and rise of networks, and shows how network theory - concepts such as clustering, degrees of separation, weak ties, contagions, and phase transitions - can transform our understanding of both the past and the present.
Just as The Ascent of Money put Wall Street into historical perspective, so The Square and the Tower does the same for Silicon Valley. And it offers a bold prediction about which hierarchies will withstand this latest wave of network disruption - and which will be toppled.
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars
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- 匿名
- 2018/01/20
Ferguson's unique perspective of world history
As Ferguson states, this is an honest (and, IMO, successful) attempt to reclaim the framing of world history as the result of big men and bigger institutions from that told by conspiracy theorists to those with rational perspective. An expertly narrated and well told enjoyable read.
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars
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ナレーション3 out of 5 stars
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ストーリー5 out of 5 stars
- Harold Bishop
- 2018/05/02
Very good but
Excellent material. I enjoyed the historical content and the thread of presentation for both homogeneous and hierarchical networks. However the narration is dry and without enthusiasm. For a long book the presentation overall is less than engaging.
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総合評価4 out of 5 stars
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars
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ストーリー4 out of 5 stars
- Ted
- 2018/04/25
Power? Does it come from hierarchies or networks?
Niall Ferguson is a scholar and this is a serious work of scholarship. I recommend it, but you can probably use fast forward or set your device to 3X during chapter 5 where he explains the theoretical constructs of his attack upon historical process.
Ferguson argues that historians for a range of reasons, examine hierarchies to explain the past. Wrong! At least that's the author's persuasive argument and he instead looks at relationship management to instead understand why historical events occurred. No, he doesn't argue that hierarchical research is invalid, but that it merely explains only part of the engine that's led us to this moment in time.
It's a fascinating premise, and except for chapter 5, he's quite clear and interesting as he applies his theory to so many epochs and tipping points. It's a thesis that resonates with me now and I'll look for it as I listen to other books.
It does take 17 hours though for Elliot Hill to read us this book. And though he reads it very well, I think that some sharpened-pencil editing could have either removed or abridged some of Ferguson's examples to achieve the same end.
For me though, this is an important book and finishing it has rewarded me. Be prepared though to study Ferguson as you listen to Hill.
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars
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ストーリー5 out of 5 stars
- The_Buyer
- 2018/03/23
Niall F. develops brilliant insights into patterns of history
Whether you agree exactly with every element of his thesis, this book is a tour de force of the application of socio-historical understanding and interpretation to the analysis and assessment of broad contemporary trends. This work helps the reader developer the skills associated with strategic pattern and policy analysis that’s applicable today.
I had the privilege of meeting Prof. Ferguson once in Cambridge and observing his thoughtful and incisive thinking.
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総合評価3 out of 5 stars
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ナレーション5 out of 5 stars
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ストーリー4 out of 5 stars
- John
- 2018/03/01
Meandering
Left me searching for a broad conclusions about the meaning and grand way to address networks in society. Yet this never really happened.
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総合評価2 out of 5 stars
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ストーリー2 out of 5 stars
- Ben
- 2018/05/24
Not a book on networks, power, Freemasons, or power
This was a history book about what the author felt like writing. It had the occasional reference to networks and power but they were disjointed and very little about Freemasons and Facebook. It was an enjoyable(ish) history book, just nothing like the title.
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars
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- Peter
- 2018/04/07
Worth the effort
Interesting topic well handled by one of my favorite polymaths. Niall gets tangled up once or twice and this is not as good as my favorite of his (“The Assent of Money”). Well worth the thought and effort.
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総合評価5 out of 5 stars
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- Eric Schrier
- 2018/03/19
networks, hierarchy and global trends
great exploration of networks vs hierarchies and the cases for both in their time /place
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- Rosemary
- 2018/02/09
Ferguson is always great but this narrator is zero!
I could not get into this book at all due to an overlong and boring introduction and mostly because of the very prissy voice of the reader. I love English voices. I prefer them. Ferguson’s own voice is terrific but this fellow made me return the book after half an hour listening.
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総合評価2 out of 5 stars
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- David
- 2018/02/05
Not his best by a long chalk: Read Steven Pinker.
As much as I've enjoyed Niall Ferguson's other books, this one is a clunker. To begin with, he cherry-picks historical evidence worse than Michel Foucault in his prime. The core of his thesis appears to be based on network theory, but his actual analysis seldom seems to use it; he seems more like a social scientist waving a math book around from a podium. The exposition rambles badly; many times I found myself thinking, "Why is this germane?" I detected enough factual errors, particularly in his descriptions of the history of computer networks and the history of the Iraq war, to make me wary of any other interesting claims he might make. His anti-Islamic diatribes were not only shocking vitriolic but seemingly greatly in excess of what would be warranted to support his arguments.
All in all, read Steven Pinker, a scholar that Ferguson appears to take pot-shots at whenever possible.
Oh, and the narrator. His voice lacks what singers call a “point”, and every phrase is uttered with breathless intensity. His pauses for “air quotes” were long enough for cat-naps.