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Elderhood
- Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
- By: Louise Aronson
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, 'old' has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written but too long
- By Eric Troyer on 08-21-20
- Elderhood
- Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
- By: Louise Aronson
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Truly a great book
Reviewed: 10-07-22
As I now find myself having to look out for my father who is in his 90s and dealing with my own reflections on approaching retirement age, this book is a great resource for finding positive energy and reconnecting with things that are important and enjoyable in life. When one gets past the more well known decades one gets exposed to in family and dealings in life, there is yet more to experience and grow from. I was not expecting such a journey with this book, but it is that and more. This book crushed the fears I was harboring and gave me insights into attitudes and the strength that comes from hope for the future.
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Redefining Reality
- The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
- By: Steven Gimbel, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven Gimbel
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,678
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,227
No subject is bigger than reality itself, and nothing is more challenging to understand, since what counts as reality is undergoing continual revision and has been for centuries. The quest to pin down what's real and what's illusory is both philosophical and scientific, a metaphysical search for ultimate reality that goes back to the ancient Greeks. For the last 400 years, this search has been increasingly guided by scientists, who create theories and test them in order to define and redefine reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind = blown
- By Bailey on 09-13-15
- Redefining Reality
- The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
- By: Steven Gimbel, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven Gimbel
Masterful
Reviewed: 02-14-16
Any additional comments?
Bought on a whim, and was floored. I'm into science and not so much into philosophy. This course wove the two brilliantly into a perspective on reality. This is my favorite of the Great Courses so far.
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61 Hours
- Jack Reacher, Book 14
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,013
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,318
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,309
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing..
- By Constance on 05-28-10
How a narrator ruins a story
Reviewed: 05-19-15
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I would not select the narrator for any audio book. He reads like he is reading a children's book to a child.
How could the performance have been better?
The narrator enunciates well but that's about it. He has a sing-song voice, usually high pitched and loud and too rapid at the beginning of sentences. At the end he is low pitched, very soft and dragging at the end of sentences. The narrator needs training to not go so extreme. Listening to this book in a car was tortuous. The high frequencies were cutcut from the recording so it became difficult to distinguish the narrator's voice from road noise. It had to be turned up, which caused things to buzz and resonate at times. The beginings of sentences were ear splitting and the endings were inaudible. The narrator rarely used his voice to highten the impact of the story. Instead he was sing-song-like to bring attention to himself.
Any additional comments?
Lee Child is one of my favorite authors. I'm wishing that I had read a print version as this audio version just ruined the experience of crawling into the novel and the mind of Jack Reacher.
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Your Best Brain: The Science of Brain Improvement
- By: John Medina, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John Medina
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,804
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,333
In Your Best Brain, Professor John J. Medina - an award-winning scientist, New York Times best-selling author, and leading advocate for brain research - delivers 24 exciting lectures that probe the origins of consciousness, memory, emotion, attention, intelligence, and beyond. He focuses on five key areas of study in neuroscience: the brain’s physical structure and function, and how it enabled us to become the planet’s apex predator.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Clear and Entertaining
- By Charles on 07-22-15
Instructional and entertaining
Reviewed: 01-07-15
I'm already a fan of the subject matter. The content was current. I found both the course and presenter highly engaging. Very happy I chose this.
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