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Best Sellers
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- Written by: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Is Dalio on the CCP payroll?
- By Lucas on 2022-02-13
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Endgame
- Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival
- Written by: Omid Scobie
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it....
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too biases
- By K on 2023-12-11
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Dumbing Us Down
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine....
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Eye opening
- By Anonymous User on 2020-09-18
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- Written by: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....
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excellent
- By STEVE on 2018-06-24
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Written by: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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Excellent
- By grant on 2020-11-27
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- Written by: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Common Sense
- By Laura Jackson on 2023-12-08
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- Written by: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Is Dalio on the CCP payroll?
- By Lucas on 2022-02-13
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Endgame
- Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival
- Written by: Omid Scobie
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it....
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too biases
- By K on 2023-12-11
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Dumbing Us Down
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine....
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Eye opening
- By Anonymous User on 2020-09-18
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- Written by: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....
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excellent
- By STEVE on 2018-06-24
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Written by: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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Excellent
- By grant on 2020-11-27
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- Written by: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Common Sense
- By Laura Jackson on 2023-12-08
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Written by: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas that culminated in the assault on America....
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Why an Author Should Not Narrate Their Own Work
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-07-08
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Fascism
- A Warning
- Written by: Madeleine Albright
- Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most admired international leaders comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses....
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super monotone reading.
- By AR on 2018-07-09
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Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- Written by: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents....
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Fantastic
- By Reese on 2024-03-27
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Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism....
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Not her best work
- By Chuong Nguyen on 2022-03-27
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- Written by: Kyle Chayka
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices....
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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Interesting.
- By Jake L.S. on 2020-09-04
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- Written by: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....
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Eye opener
- By Muzik on 2020-07-29
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- Written by: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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The Last Leonardo
- The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
- Written by: Ben Lewis
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, therecently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing....
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Who Rules the World?
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is risking catastrophe....
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 2021-04-22
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
- Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Written by: Mark Rozzo
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood....
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The Showman
- Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
- Written by: Simon Shuster
- Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access....
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Author is biosed
- By Anonymous User on 2024-03-22
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Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
- And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
- Written by: Joshua Hammer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....
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MBS
- The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
- Written by: Ben Hubbard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society of the richest country in the Middle East—and gather as much power as possible into his own hands....
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Informative
- By Cheryl Benoit on 2020-07-18
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Echo in Ramadi
- The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
- Written by: Scott A. Huesing
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, 250 marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq....
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Amazing story
- By Mikhail van Nieuwkerk on 2023-12-10
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Empathy
- Turning Compassion into Action
- Written by: David Johnston, Brian Hanington - contributor, The Hon. Rosalie Abella - foreword
- Narrated by: David Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the personal experiences of author David Johnston, the book explores how awakening to the transformative power of listening and caring permanently changes individuals, families, communities, and nations....
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Phenomenal insights on how we can all help build a better world… start with Empathy!
- By N/A on 2023-04-06
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Doom
- The Politics of Catastrophe
- Written by: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters....
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Somewhat underwhelming
- By 099880897979 on 2022-09-12
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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Life-altering, fantastic
- By Stu B. on 2019-07-31
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Homelands
- A Personal History of Europe
- Written by: Timothy Garton Ash
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies...
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The Day the World Came to Town
- 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
- Written by: Jim DeFede
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When 38 jetliners bound for the US were forced to land at Gander International Airport on September 11, the population of this small town swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000....
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Wonderful!
- By Dawn on 2022-08-15
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe....
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.
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Secret Empires
- How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
- Written by: Peter Schweizer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose....
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horrible corruption from Biden Pelosi and McConne!
- By edd on 2022-04-18
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Hunting LeRoux
- The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire
- Written by: Elaine Shannon
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down....
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Well written real-life international crime. Full of suspense with superb details and perfectly narrated
- By Veronica on 2024-04-20
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- Written by: Alexandra Stark
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
Written by: Alexandra Stark
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Goodbye Globalization
- The Return of a Divided World
- Written by: Elisabeth Braw
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
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In this groundbreaking account, Elisabeth Braw explores the collapse of globalization and the profound challenges it will bring to the West. Drawing on interviews with prominent executives and policymakers from around the world, Braw poses the difficult questions all businesses and economies will face-and traces the intricate story of globalization from the exuberant 90s to the embattled present.
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Putin's Wars and NATO's Flaws
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This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin's actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread?
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The Truce
- Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
- Written by: Hunter Walker, Luppe B. Luppen
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The Truce is a definitive history of a half-decade of upheaval in the Democratic Party in which a new generation aggressively pursued their progressive ideals while the powerful, centrist establishment adapted to remain in command. Journalists Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen illuminate this story of backroom maneuvering and political strategy with new revelations about pivotal events and exclusive, on-the-record comments from activists, campaign operatives, and members of Congress.
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Keir Starmer
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Keir Starmer: The Biography is an authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the first Labour leader in a generation to win power, even though most voters still say they don’t know much about him. It not only tells Starmer’s story but also examines the paradox of a politician often uncomfortable with politics, someone who is both remarkably ordinary and capable of defying all efforts to define him.
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Burning Horizon
- British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003
- Written by: Julian Whippy, Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
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Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. While the British public prepared for the worst as its soldiers were facing weapons of mass destruction, most servicemen and women were under no illusion that they were invading Iraq to rid the people of Saddam Hussein.
Written by: Julian Whippy, and others
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- Written by: Alexandra Stark
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
Written by: Alexandra Stark
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Goodbye Globalization
- The Return of a Divided World
- Written by: Elisabeth Braw
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
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In this groundbreaking account, Elisabeth Braw explores the collapse of globalization and the profound challenges it will bring to the West. Drawing on interviews with prominent executives and policymakers from around the world, Braw poses the difficult questions all businesses and economies will face-and traces the intricate story of globalization from the exuberant 90s to the embattled present.
Written by: Elisabeth Braw
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Putin's Wars and NATO's Flaws
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This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin's actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread?
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The Truce
- Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
- Written by: Hunter Walker, Luppe B. Luppen
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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The Truce is a definitive history of a half-decade of upheaval in the Democratic Party in which a new generation aggressively pursued their progressive ideals while the powerful, centrist establishment adapted to remain in command. Journalists Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen illuminate this story of backroom maneuvering and political strategy with new revelations about pivotal events and exclusive, on-the-record comments from activists, campaign operatives, and members of Congress.
Written by: Hunter Walker, and others
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Keir Starmer
- The Biography
- Written by: Tom Baldwin
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Keir Starmer: The Biography is an authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the first Labour leader in a generation to win power, even though most voters still say they don’t know much about him. It not only tells Starmer’s story but also examines the paradox of a politician often uncomfortable with politics, someone who is both remarkably ordinary and capable of defying all efforts to define him.
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Burning Horizon
- British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003
- Written by: Julian Whippy, Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams - Foreword by
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Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. While the British public prepared for the worst as its soldiers were facing weapons of mass destruction, most servicemen and women were under no illusion that they were invading Iraq to rid the people of Saddam Hussein.
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