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A History of Thinking on Paper
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Roland Allen
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A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of Leonardo and Frida Kahlo, Isaac Newton and Marie Curie, and writers from Chaucer to Henry James; shows how Darwin developed his theory of evolution in tiny pocket books and Agatha Christie plotted a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books; and introduces a host of cooks, kings, sailors, fishermen, musicians, engineers, politicians, adventurers, and mathematicians, all of whom used their notebooks as a space to think—and in doing so, shaped the modern world.
In an age of AI and digital overload, the humble notebook is more relevant than ever. Allen shows how bullet points can combat ADHD, journals can ease PTSD, and patient diaries soften the trauma of reawakening from coma. The everyday act of moving a pen across paper, he finds, can have profound consequences, changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative, more productive—and maybe even happier.
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The Midnight Ride
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Corey Carthew
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.
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Great idea, mediocre approach
- By Josh on 10-14-22
By: Ben Mezrich
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Corked with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.
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The Casualness of the Performance
- By Paula L. Simon on 05-22-25
By: Marc Fennell
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Goblins
- The X-Files, Book 1
- By: Charles Grant
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".
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Not a bad start
- By Russell B. on 04-09-15
By: Charles Grant
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Pillars of Creation
- How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
- By: Richard Panek
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos.
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The sheer scope of unknowns probably dwarfs what we already grasp.
- By EZ Flyer on 01-02-25
By: Richard Panek
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The Inherited Mind
- A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental Illness
- By: James Longman
- Narrated by: James Longman
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.
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Excellent Read !
- By Tricia on 02-12-25
By: James Longman
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran.
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Good History and Historiography
- By David A on 04-19-22
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Poland 1939
- The Outbreak of World War II
- By: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrated by: Roger Moorhouse
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.
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Always Overlooked
- By C. G. Telcontar on 05-27-21
By: Roger Moorhouse
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Oathbreakers
- The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
- By: Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The Franks, led by Charlemagne, had built the largest European domain since Rome in its heyday. Though they jockeyed for power, prestige, and profit, the Frankish elites enjoyed political and cultural consensus. But just two generations later, their world was in shambles. Civil war, once an unthinkable threat, had erupted after Louis the Pious’s sons tried to overthrow him—and then placed their knives at the other’s neck. Families who had once charged into battle together now drew each other’s blood.
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History made amusing
- By Avox on 12-18-24
By: Matthew Gabriele, and others
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A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition
- By: Arthur Goldschmidt, Ibrahim Al-Marashi
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
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A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab–Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamist values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and more.
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Narration is robotic
- By Rana R. on 01-04-25
By: Arthur Goldschmidt, and others
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
By: Robert Darnton
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- By: John Strausbaugh
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following--that seemed to achieve the impossible. It was proof, it seemed, that the USSR had manpower and collective will that went beyond America's material advantages. They had asserted themselves as a world power. But in The Wrong Stuff, John Strausbaugh tells a different story.
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Fun and insightful story
- By ryan allison on 05-15-25
By: John Strausbaugh
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The Writhing
- By: Abe Moss
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Alex watches from her bedroom window as the small, secluded town of Amberton sleeps: a bright, pleasant town with a dark, disturbing secret. Helen, her foster mother, is gone all hours of the night with no explanation. The neighbors, always friendly, always smiling, are also always watching. They know something Alex doesn't. Something she shouldn't....
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Abe Moss is the Real Thing
- By Michael on 01-02-21
By: Abe Moss
Only two somewhat negative thoughts: 1. I was hoping that the author might talk about notebooks or similar in the Eastern world, especially after mentioning wood pulp paper originated in Asia. 2. There were some chapters that seemed more repetitive and only serving to relate the topic to famous figures without novel aspects of the notebook.
An Interesting Look at History
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Enlightening new angle on history!
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It’s not a formal history in the authors own words. It is concise and well written.
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Some of the reasons include:
- The narrator is exceptional-10/10!
-Even when I was familiar with the subjects covered, I received a lot of extra details because the book was written from the point of view of how the individual or group used notebooks;
- I learned interesting tidbits, like when lined notebooks were first patented; and
- I learned that even in today’s electronic world, the notebook still plays an important role.
As an inventor, my stacks of notebooks are a testament to that last bulleted item!
A fascinating look at an often overlooked powerful tool.
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Surprisingly interesting and captivating
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Never knew I could enjoy a book about notebooks and its history
Remarkable read
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A fascinating tale through notebooks
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Bill Bryson look out!!
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How much can be said about an everyday commonplace
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A Gem!
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