Historical Nonfiction

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    • How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
    • Auteur(s): Suzanne O'Sullivan
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne O'Sullivan
    • Durée: 8 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients. We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new...

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    • A History
    • Auteur(s): Pankaj Mishra
    • Narrateur(s): Mikhail Sen
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • "Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” —Naomi Klein “This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.” —Hisham Matar “A triumphant work of empathy in a...

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    • The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
    • Auteur(s): Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 32 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 13 évaluations
    • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several...

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    • A History of Sex and Christianity
    • Auteur(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Narrateur(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Durée: 25 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • "A magisterial new history"—The New York Times "An epic tale, and MacCulloch is an undaunted guide.”—New York Review of Books A groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family--and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of...

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    • Auteur(s): John Hersey
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 5 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 10 évaluations
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through...

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    • Auteur(s): Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 9 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-06-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 7 évaluations
    • In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

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    • Auteur(s): Henry Kissinger
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Hormann
    • Durée: 14 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 35 évaluations
    • “Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time "An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and...

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    • Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
    • Auteur(s): David Grann
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 13 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 évaluations
    • Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon...

    26,22 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • A Family History of Humanity
    • Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore, Full Cast
    • Durée: 68 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 6 évaluations
    • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian “Succession meets Game of Thrones.”...

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    • Auteur(s): Henry Kissinger
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Hormann
    • Durée: 20 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 23 évaluations
    • “Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

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    • A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 9 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 32 évaluations
    • A Financial Times Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year “A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale “A fascinating read. Highly recommended!”-John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood "Truly...

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    • The Victorian Medical Detective Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes
    • Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2026-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

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    • The Origins of Inequality
    • Auteur(s): Angela Saini
    • Narrateur(s): Sohm Sohm Kapila
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 évaluations
    • For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our...

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    • A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
    • Auteur(s): Ben Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): John Sackville
    • Durée: 17 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 21 évaluations
    • In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first...

    29,14 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
    • Auteur(s): Peter Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): John Lee
    • Durée: 18 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire.

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    • The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
    • Auteur(s): Hampton Sides
    • Narrateur(s): James Naughton
    • Durée: 5 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-05-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 15 évaluations
    • A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American...

    15,09 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Penguin Classics
    • Auteur(s): Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford - introduction
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Reynolds
    • Durée: 14 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 10 évaluations
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Tanya Reynolds, star of Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane...

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): William Nester
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 12 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

    27,83 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • The Odyssey of Indenture
    • Auteur(s): Gaiutra Bahadur
    • Narrateur(s): Gaiutra Bahadur
    • Durée: 13 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history.

    27,83 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks
    • Auteur(s): Geoff White
    • Narrateur(s): Geoff White
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 évaluations
    • Brought to you by Penguin. There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these...

    26,00 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours