Walls

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A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick

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Walls

A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick

"A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library Journal)—walls—and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.
With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as "informative, relevant, and thought-provoking," we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed—to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out.

The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves—rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood's gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era.

Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as "provocative, well-written, and—with walls rising everywhere on the planet—timely," Walls gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.

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مغایرت عنوان کتاب با توضیحات و تصویر جلد
عدم رعایت حقوق نشر طبق قوانین جمهوری اسلامی ایران
محتوای مستهجن
توهین به قومیتها و محتوای نژادپرستی
توهین به اقیلیتهای مذهبی
اهانت به مقامات سیاسی و مذهبی
اشاعه ی کودک آزاری
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audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2018

نویسنده

Arthur Morey

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Simon & Schuster Audio

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9781508263289

20,000 تومان

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After the author's serviceable reading of the introduction, narrator Arthur Morey takes over to deliver, with smooth professionalism, this sweeping history of walls from the Sumerians to Trump, those who live within them, and those who assail them from without. Morey has a fine command of sense, naturally good pacing, and an effortless variation in tone that avoids monotony or repetitive patterns. He makes the narration into an intelligent discussion, easy and pleasant to listen to. Some of the author's humorous asides are strained, but Morey makes the most of them, supplying an aptly sardonic tone when appropriate. The history is necessarily superficial, but in both details and in overall themes and ideas, it remains interesting; Morey's performance makes it enjoyable. W.M. � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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