Greg Camp
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story of a great mathematician
- By James Orlin on 04-28-22
- Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
Don't bother
Reviewed: 11-26-24
This book is a waste of time, spending far too much of its attention on irrelevancies and too little--and in too little detail--on Gödel's work, the part of his life that makes him worth remembering.
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Intrepid’s Last Case
- By: William Stevenson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide best seller A Man Called Intrepid.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This needed an editor
- By Greg Camp on 10-29-24
- Intrepid’s Last Case
- By: William Stevenson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
This needed an editor
Reviewed: 10-29-24
The subject matter is interesting, but it's presented in a jumbled manner. And a book written by William Stevenson about someone named William Stephenson really needs a note from the publisher at the start of the audiobook to indicate the difference.
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The Emperor's New Mind
- Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- By: Roger Penrose
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". Penrose examines what physics and mathematics can tell us about how the mind works, what they can't, and what we need to know to understand the physical processes of consciousness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By john galt on 12-10-19
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- By: Roger Penrose
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Doesn't work as an audiobook
Reviewed: 09-20-24
This is an important text in the history of artificial intelligence and the theory of mind, and Penrose is among the elder statesmen of contemporary physics. Julian Elfer's reading is also well done. The problem is that the book is not suited for the audio format. It depends on equations and tables of data that do not work well when read aloud.
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Lost Islamic History
- Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
- By: Firas Alkhateeb
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 119
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1,400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities, and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen, and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration
- By Jamal on 06-19-22
- Lost Islamic History
- Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
- By: Firas Alkhateeb
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
Survey and propaganda
Reviewed: 07-30-24
Nothing here is lost history, and the author is a partisan of Sunni Islam, but the book is a workable survey of Islamic history.
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Empires of the Steppes
- By: Kenneth Harl
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interview with Dan Carlin
- By Laurie A. Steuart on 08-17-23
- Empires of the Steppes
- By: Kenneth Harl
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
A good review of the history, an inept narrator
Reviewed: 04-14-24
This is a good review of a region and its history that doesn't get enough attention in America.
The narrator has a third grader's level of reading skill. He gets English words mostly correct, but is an embarrassment to Hukd on Fonix whenever he ventures out into any other language or culture.
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Timekeeper
- The Timekeeper Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Tara Sim
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,553
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,406
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,404
Two o'clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time - and a destroyed one can stop it completely. It's a truth that 17-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to his superiors.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting premise; dull main character
- By WILLARD FRAUMANN on 03-22-18
- Timekeeper
- The Timekeeper Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Tara Sim
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
Should be better
Reviewed: 03-28-24
The premise of this series is interesting, though the execution is unsystematic and poorly realized, and the motivations and actions of the characters are frequently incoherent. And the erotica is tedious.
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Learn to Speak German
- By: Knowledge for All
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Easy course to learn German language.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Useful, but....
- By Greg Camp on 03-22-24
Useful, but....
Reviewed: 03-22-24
This is useful for practicing German phrases, with a bit of grammar thrown in, but the advertising at the start and ending is obnoxious. At the very least, the volume level for the shilling should match the lessons. As things are now, I have to crank the lesson's volume up to heat, only to get blasted by some chipper person trying to take my money.
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Natural Right and History
- By: Leo Strauss
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mismatch of text and narrator
- By Greg Camp on 03-14-24
- Natural Right and History
- By: Leo Strauss
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
Mismatch of text and narrator
Reviewed: 03-14-24
This is an important work for American political philosophy, and the narrator should have been someone who can read at more than a third-grade level and thus pronounce all the words correctly.
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Pagans
- The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
- By: James J. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These "pagans" were actually pious Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and Gauls, who observed the traditions of their ancestors. To these devout polytheists, Christians who worshiped only one deity were immoral atheists who believed that a splash of water on the deathbed could erase a lifetime of sin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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19th Century Scholarship
- By Marianne on 10-16-18
- Pagans
- The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
- By: James J. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: David Drummond
Pleasing scent with too much wind to enjoy it
Reviewed: 12-15-23
The material is interesting, but the author's presentation of it is too flippant and gossipy, and he's constantly wandering about, rather than developing a solid argument.
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The Making of the Fittest
- DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 350
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 170
DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed: it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is a living chronicle of how the marvelous creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Be prepared...
- By RVT3 on 09-22-07
- The Making of the Fittest
- DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
An important message that needed a better narrator
Reviewed: 11-23-23
This book provides a good overview of evolutionary biology, concluding with an explanation of how important it is to overcome the ignorance of creationism--even if it's called intelligent design. But the narrator insists on using goofy pseudo-accents whenever he reads the author's quotations from other books, distracting from the subject.
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