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    • The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
    • Auteur(s): Julia Boyd
    • Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
    • Durée: 13 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
    • Auteur(s): Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 20 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Auteur(s): Jared Diamond
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 27 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 évaluations
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

    Prix courant: 34,96 $

    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • Auteur(s): Jared Diamond
    • Narrateur(s): Doug Ordunio
    • Durée: 16 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 663 évaluations
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • Auteur(s): Christian Goeschel
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
    • Durée: 12 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • How the World Became Modern
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
    • Durée: 9 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 évaluations
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • Auteur(s): Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 17 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Cleary
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Michael Summerer
    • Durée: 2 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

    Prix courant: 12,24 $

    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • Auteur(s): Kim TallBear
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • A History of Collective Joy
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin T. Smith
    • Narrateur(s): John Curless
    • Durée: 17 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • Auteur(s): David Aaronovitch
    • Narrateur(s): James Langton
    • Durée: 14 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

    Prix courant: 24,49 $

    • Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
    • Auteur(s): Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrateur(s): David Cochran Heath
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? That conservatives - and President Donald Trump in particular - are fascists. Nazis, even....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Nagel
    • Narrateur(s): Adriel Brandt
    • Durée: 2 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Author of Mortal Questions and The View from Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems....

    Prix courant: 12,24 $

    • 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 $

    • The Impossible Country
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Tudor
    • Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): A. C. Grayling
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Gardner
    • Durée: 28 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • With characteristic clarity and elegance, A. C. Grayling takes the listener from the worldviews and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates through Christianity's capture of the European mind....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $

    • England’s Most Notorious Prisoners
    • Auteur(s): John Paul Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
    • Durée: 10 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics, and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • 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 $