History Essays

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  • Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Henry David Thoreau
    • Narrateur(s): Duncan Brownlehe
    • Durée: 9 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s....

    Prix courant: 43,98 $

    • Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
    • Auteur(s): Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
    • Narrateur(s): an all-star cast
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • A Life in Essays
    • Auteur(s): Nell Irvin Painter
    • Narrateur(s): Nell Irvin Painter
    • Durée: 17 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • Why We Love the Water
    • Auteur(s): Lynn Sherr
    • Narrateur(s): Lynn Sherr
    • Durée: 5 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It's an inquiry into why we swim - the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water....

    Prix courant: 23,81 $

    • The Magic in Great Performances
    • Auteur(s): David Thomson
    • Narrateur(s): David Thomson
    • Durée: 10 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Through intimate anecdote and humor, Thomson explores the reasons we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives. This book is not only necessary listening for an insider’s view of the industry, but a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living....

    Prix courant: 23,99 $

    • The Boy Who Would Be King and the Ugly Bear
    • Auteur(s): Bob Mee
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
    • Durée: 12 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Three months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, prizefighters Charles "Sonny" Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world....

    Prix courant: 33,01 $

    • Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
    • Auteur(s): James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter - preface
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

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    • Essays on China and the World
    • Auteur(s): Liang Qichao, Peter Zarrow - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel York Loh
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • Auteur(s): W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Allen
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $

    • Auteur(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrateur(s): Gary D. MacFadden
    • Durée: 1 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This collection includes two of Emerson’s essays: History and Intellect. Emerson wrote most of his essays to be presented as lectures first, and later revised them for print....

    Prix courant: 13,00 $

    • Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine
    • Auteur(s): Richard Forer
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Forer
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Explore the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict through a powerful lens of transformation and truth.

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • Auteur(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrateur(s): Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Durée: 9 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-06-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • An Epic in the Kitchen
    • Auteur(s): Rebecca May Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Bretton
    • Durée: 4 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking—that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books—as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world....

    Prix courant: 14,47 $

  • Prix courant: 37,30 $

    • Essays in Medieval Christianity
    • Auteur(s): Eamon Duffy
    • Narrateur(s): Eamon Duffy
    • Durée: 14 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In these vivid and approachable essays, Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation....

    Prix courant: 21,85 $

    • Vinous Veritas: Essays
    • Auteur(s): Jay McInerney
    • Narrateur(s): Jay McInerney
    • Durée: 8 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This new collection by the acclaimed novelist - and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America” - is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

    • Auteur(s): Tony Judt
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 5 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever experienced before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind....

    Prix courant: 14,47 $

    • From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
    • Auteur(s): Bob Boilen
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Boilen
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians....

    Prix courant: 25,63 $