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    The History of Spain - Iberians, Romans, Moors and the Christian Reconquista - From Colonial Empire, through Civil War and Dictatorship, to a Major Cultural Nation

    by Bert Alexander Petzold, Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Series Audiobook 16 - Global Basics 101 - Your Series for Modern Knowledge

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Why does Spain continue to fascinate as a land of conquerors, kings, artists and visionaries, and how did a medievally shaped colonial empire become a modern cultural and economic nation? This audiobook leads listeners into the very heart of Spanish history and shows why this country has shaped Europe, the Atlantic world and our understanding of culture, power and identity. The author and editor ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sigmund Freud, Neurologist and Psychologist

    The Life and Work of the Founder of Psychoanalysis and Pioneer in the Study of the Human Unconscious

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    What happens when a person no longer understands themselves as master in their own house and suddenly senses that unconscious wishes, repressed conflicts and old childhood images are steering their thinking? This non fiction book takes you into the world of Sigmund Freud and explains, in an accessible way, why his ideas around 1900 shook medicine and still shape our view of psyche, culture and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo - The Life and Works of an Icon of Art and Feminism

    by Bert Alexander Petzold, Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Global Basics 101 - Your Series for Modern Knowledge

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Why does the art world so readily celebrate male genius while sidelining the women who transformed how we see pain, identity and the female experience? "The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo" shows how one Mexican artist defied convention, suffering and erasure to become a defining feminist voice of the twentieth century. Frida Kahlo did not simply paint self-portraits; she invented a visual language ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

    Superstar during the Golden Age of the Netherlands · Life and Works of the Baroque Painter

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who looks at Rembrandt van Rijn sees more than Baroque painting. They see light that grows out of darkness, faces full of inwardness, and a kind of painting that still feels like a conversation today. What makes Rembrandt’s art so distinctive that his pictures in the Rembrandt Museum and in the great collections of the world hold people spellbound, from art lessons at school to art history ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of China

    Imperial dynasties, Confucianism, inventions, revolutions and reforms · China’s rise from an ancient empire through the People’s Republic to a global economic power

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could one of the world’s oldest civilisations become a state that today commands global attention, poised between millennia-old culture and digital supremacy? Anyone wishing to understand China needs more than headlines. ‘History of China’ shows, in a clearly structured way, how dynasties, revolutions and modernisation gave rise to one of the most influential powers of the present day.The book ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Physicist Albert Einstein

    Life and Works of the Founder of the Theory of Relativity and the Best-Known Scientific Genius and Pacifist of the Twentieth Century

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who knows Albert Einstein only as a tousle haired face on a poster has seen only the surface. How could a physicist so fundamentally change the Newtonian view of the world that time and space suddenly became mobile and the twentieth century learned a new way of thinking. This non fiction book shows why Einstein, as the originator of the theory of relativity, became the very image of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of France

    Celts, Romans, Kings, Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars · The History of France between Courtly Culture, Republican Tradition, Cultural Prestige and Political Influence in Europe

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why did France become a country that shaped Europe’s history, politics and culture over the centuries more profoundly than almost any other nation? This book presents France as the cultural visionary of the new Europe and leads straight into a history full of upheavals, power struggles, ideas and moments of artistic brilliance. Anyone wishing to understand Europe will discover here the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

    Romans, Normans, Empire, Industrialisation and Imperialism · The History of Great Britain from Monarchy and Global Sea Power to Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could an island on the edge of Europe give rise to the power that, through kings, Parliament, empire and industrialisation, shaped the world for centuries? Anyone wishing to understand Great Britain, its political upheavals and its global influence, will find in this book far more than a mere chronicle. ‘The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’ is a fact ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Superstar during the Golden Age of the Netherlands - Life and Works of the Baroque Painter

    by Bert Alexander Petzold, Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Global Basics 101 - Your Series for Modern Knowledge

    Unabridged

    1 hour 12 min

    Anyone who looks at Rembrandt van Rijn sees more than Baroque painting: light rising out of darkness, faces charged with inner life, pictures that still feel like a conversation. What is it about him that makes works in the Rembrandt House Museum and in the world's great collections hold viewers spellbound - from school lessons to university seminars, in Amsterdam and far beyond? This non-fiction ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Eccentric Painter and Artist Salvador Dalí - The Life and Works of a Leading Representative of Surrealism

    by Bert Alexander Petzold, Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Global Basics 101 - Your Series for Modern Knowledge

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí's world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget - and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Eccentric Painter and Artist Salvador Dalí

    The Life and Works of a Leading Representative of Surrealism

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí’s world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget – and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Painter and Versatile Artist Pablo Picasso

    Life and Works of a Multifaceted Twentieth-Century Genius

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso’s art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus