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    • Auteur(s): Ezra Klein
    • Narrateur(s): Ezra Klein
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction....

    Prix courant: 25,61 $

    • The Limits of Progressive Politics
    • Auteur(s): Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 6 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrateur(s): Ignat Solzhenitsyn
    • Durée: 21 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 499 évaluations
    • The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

    Prix courant: 50,10 $

    • An American Family
    • Auteur(s): Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 30 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
    • Auteur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
    • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 769 évaluations
    • Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $

    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • Auteur(s): Jieun Baek
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline McLaughlin
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools
    • Auteur(s): Tanya Talaga
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Talaga
    • Durée: 15 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • The Amazing Women in the Israeli Secret Service
    • Auteur(s): Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
    • Narrateur(s): Christine Williams
    • Durée: 11 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This book describes the turbulent lives, loves, and perilous missions of the greatest Mossad lohamot, the female warriors of the Israeli Secret Service. The stunning feats of these strong, bold women prove that they are equal to men and often even better....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • Auteur(s): Michael Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 évaluations
    • What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • Auteur(s): Samantha Barbas
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • Auteur(s): Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 11 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
    • Auteur(s): David Talbot
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Altschuler
    • Durée: 25 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 évaluations
    • An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington....

    Prix courant: 57,10 $

    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
    • Série: Political Order, Livre 2
    • Durée: 24 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 évaluations
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

    Prix courant: 50,06 $

    • The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 19 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 évaluations
    • The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • Auteur(s): Walter Scheidel
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 17 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

    Prix courant: 25,60 $

    • Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
    • Auteur(s): Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrateur(s): Lucy Rayner
    • Durée: 11 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
    • Auteur(s): Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Danko
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported....

    Prix courant: 28,40 $

    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • Auteur(s): P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 11 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler
    • Auteur(s): Tobias Straumann
    • Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
    • Auteur(s): Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
    • Narrateur(s): William Sarris
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $