Modern World History

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    • How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): David Bodanis
    • Narrateur(s): Del Roy
    • Durée: 6 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The best-selling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets....

    Prix courant: 15,00 $

    • The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
    • Auteur(s): Charles Fountain
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Reed
    • Durée: 11 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players - including Shoeless Joe Jackson - agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds....

    Prix courant: 33,01 $

    • The History of the Transition from World War II to Modern Japan
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Welch
    • Durée: 1 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The American occupation of Japan holds a singular and problematic place in the histories both of Japan and of American foreign policy....

    Prix courant: 9,20 $

    • How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): William Egginton
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

    • A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
    • Auteur(s): Paul Preston
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 29 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Paul Preston's magisterial work begins in the late 19th century with Spain's collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory....

    Prix courant: 38,97 $

    • Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
    • Auteur(s): Shimon Peres
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In this, his final work, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness....

    Prix courant: 22,13 $

    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • Auteur(s): Jan Karski
    • Narrateur(s): Janusz Guttner
    • Durée: 18 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organisation and its activities....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
    • Auteur(s): Duncan Hamilton
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWII....

    Prix courant: 33,41 $

    • A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
    • Auteur(s): Darrell Hartman
    • Narrateur(s): Mack Sanderson
    • Durée: 11 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Stevens
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Healy
    • Durée: 9 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
    • Auteur(s): George Weigel
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals....

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created
    • Auteur(s): William Bernstein
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 4 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Based upon the premise that mankind experienced virtually zero economic growth from the dawn of time until 1820, this provocative, big-picture book identifies the four conditions necessary for sustained economic progress....

    Prix courant: 16,07 $

    • The Year that Made Modern Canada
    • Auteur(s): Ken Cuthbertson
    • Narrateur(s): David Pevsnar
    • Durée: 13 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • It was a watershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course into the future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities....

    Prix courant: 34,95 $

    • Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
    • Auteur(s): David S. Mason
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Henderson Norman
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent....

    Prix courant: 26,82 $

    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • Auteur(s): Ian Kershaw
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Bates
    • Durée: 17 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

  • Prix courant: 9,20 $

    • A Captivating Guide to Its Imperialism, Expansion into the New World, Colonial Conflicts, and Its Legacy in Modern Times (European Exploration and Settlement)
    • Auteur(s): Captivating History
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Herbert
    • Durée: 4 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Spanish Empire stands as one of the most magnificent empires in the history of the world. It unfurled its might across multiple continents, conquered all who stood in its way, and left an indelible impact on cultures around the globe....

    Prix courant: 18,74 $

    • Virago Modern Classics
    • Auteur(s): Monica Dickens, Lissa Evans
    • Narrateur(s): Katy Sobey
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Considering herself unsuitable for any other contribution to the war effort, Monica Dickens opts for nursing, imagining herself gliding through the wards, serene in a pure white halo cap. On enrolment, however, she is promptly stripped of all illusions....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
    • Auteur(s): Michael Vatikiotis
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Bates
    • Durée: 12 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers....

    Prix courant: 27,21 $

    • The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
    • Auteur(s): Richard Snow
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 12 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • I Invented the Modern Age reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $