Public History

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    • How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
    • Auteur(s): Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
    • Durée: 20 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....

    Prix courant: 30,70 $

    • Economics in Ten Simple Questions
    • Auteur(s): Rupal Patel, The Bank of England, Jack Meaning
    • Narrateur(s): Rupal Patel, Jack Meaning
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going to set the terms. A pity, then, that many of us have no idea how the economy actually works. That's where this book comes in....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
    • Auteur(s): Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
    • Narrateur(s): Kaleo Griffith
    • Durée: 11 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves....

    Prix courant: 31,46 $

    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Auteur(s): Jared Diamond
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Murney
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In his million-copy best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

  • Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • Auteur(s): Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 14 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
    • Auteur(s): Josh Baron, Dean Budnick
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 17 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry....

    Prix courant: 40,25 $

    • America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    • Auteur(s): Eric Foner
    • Narrateur(s): Norman Dietz
    • Durée: 30 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Oliver
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • Auteur(s): Mark Blyth
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

    Prix courant: 28,14 $

    • A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
    • Auteur(s): Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 22 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to public service in Washington's halls of power....

    Prix courant: 41,22 $

  • Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
    • Auteur(s): Robert Draper
    • Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
    • Durée: 15 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Even now, after more than 15 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
    • Auteur(s): Michael VanRooyen
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
    • Durée: 6 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
    • Auteur(s): Robert Bryce
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Bryce
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • How America Gave Up on Free Markets
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Philippon
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Why are cellphone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics....

    Prix courant: 25,27 $

    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • Auteur(s): Scott J. Shapiro
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 15 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....

    Prix courant: 33,80 $

    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • Auteur(s): Richard A. Muller
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

    Prix courant: 34,24 $

    • The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Jeanna Smialek
    • Narrateur(s): Barrie Kreinik, Jeanna Smialek
    • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions—the Federal Reserve....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

  • Prix courant: 16,11 $