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The Doomsday Machine
- Written by: Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
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The most important book you'll ever read
- By Daniel Lipworth on 2021-04-09
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The Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2017-12-05
- Language: English
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White Rage
- The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Written by: Carol Anderson
- Narrated by: Pamela Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014 and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'Black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'
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Great Book!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-10-06
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White Rage
- The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Narrated by: Pamela Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-26
- Language: English
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Written by: Jerry Grayson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever to serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-16
- Language: English
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010 marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diary entries run alongside those of Amundsen and Bjaaland, never before translated into English.
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-12
- Language: English
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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- Written by: John Mullan
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness. In 20 short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen’s novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction.
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What a find, this is a treasure trove.
- By maaseru on 2021-02-11
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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-01
- Language: English
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Invisible Nation
- How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
- Written by: Quil Lawrence
- Narrated by: Mark Moseley
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Through a history dating back to biblical times, they have endured persecution and betrayal, surviving only through stubborn compromise with greater powers. They have always desired their own state, and now, accidentally, the United States may have helped them take a huge step toward that goal.
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Invisible Nation
- How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
- Narrated by: Mark Moseley
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-03
- Language: English
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The Dreyfus Affair
- The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- Written by: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
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On October 13, 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned by the General de Boisdeffre to the Ministry of War. Despite minimal evidence against him he was placed under arrest for the crime of high treason. Not long afterward Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island. But how did an innocent man come to be convicted? And why was he kept locked up for so long? The Dreyfus Affair uniquely combines a fast-moving mystery story with a snapshot of France at a moment of great social flux and cultural richness.
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Excellent resource
- By Kindle Customer on 2023-02-19
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The Dreyfus Affair
- The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-04
- Language: English
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Needs a new narrator
- By CC on 2024-03-12
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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We Look Like the Enemy
- The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands
- Written by: Rachel Shabi
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Rachel Shabi was born in Israel to Jewish Iraqi parents. When she was a child her family emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1974. Their leaving reversed the spiritual trek of the Jewish Diaspora, around the world whose members wistfully repeat at the Passover tables, "Next year in Jerusalem." Years later, in fact, Shabi went back to visit and to live for an extended period, but her attitude toward her former homeland is conflicted by the longstanding discrimination suffered by Arab Jews in Israel.
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We Look Like the Enemy
- The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-05
- Language: English
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Written by: Timothy Brook
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world.
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-13
- Language: English
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The Downfall of Money
- Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
- Written by: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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A hundred years ago, many theorists believed - just as they did at the beginning of our 21st century - that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never-before-seen human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and prosperity. Then, as now, the German mark was one of the most trusted currencies in the world. Yet the early years of the Weimar Republic in Germany witnessed the most calamitous meltdown of a developed economy in modern times.
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My thoughts
- By William Kane Kuhnke on 2020-08-25
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The Downfall of Money
- Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-18
- Language: English
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Written by: Catherine E. McKinley
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish "rag traders"; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and African slaves - her ancestors were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase human life.
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2013-02-26
- Language: English
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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- Written by: Philip Barclay
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. Arriving to work at the British Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip Barclay found a temperate paradise and a sophisticated and charming population. But during a three-year stay in what used to be Africa's finest country, he saw it ruined by violence and grotesque economic mismanagement. Philip Barclay was at the centre of the tumultuous events of 2008.
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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-01
- Language: English
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Owning the Earth
- The Transforming History of Land Ownership
- Written by: Andro Linklater
- Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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The history and evolution of land ownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals - Chinese emperors; German peasants; the 17th century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism.
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Owning the Earth
- The Transforming History of Land Ownership
- Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-30
- Language: English
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Jungle of Snakes
- A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
- Written by: James R. Arnold
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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The end of the Cold War promised a new era of international peace. But instead, violence has proliferated across the globe, not in the form of a superpower arms race or a clash of armies, but in bitter local conflicts marked by terrorism, insurgency, and guerrilla warfare. Former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey likened the post-Cold-War world to "a jungle full of snakes". The emergence of this new, potentially never-ending struggle has forced our military to reevaluate strategies or risk losing hearts, minds, and soldiers the world over.
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Jungle of Snakes
- A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-26
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Written by: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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A powerful and provocative work
- By GUY on 2023-02-18
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-12
- Language: English
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Rise Up Women!
- The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
- Written by: Diane Atkinson
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
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On 6 February 1918, after campaigning for over 50 years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made. A hundred years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them.
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Rise Up Women!
- The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-08
- Language: English
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The Phoney Victory
- The World War II Illusion
- Written by: Peter Hitchens
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945, many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this audiobook, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good War'. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment or the independence of Poland the right issue.
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Sympathetic without sycophancy.
- By Brent on 2019-09-05
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The Phoney Victory
- The World War II Illusion
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-30
- Language: English
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- Written by: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal act of submission not only swathes of the richest land in India but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond.
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Intricate jewel & its equally complex history
- By Books&Blossoms on 2023-08-08
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-15
- Language: English
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- Written by: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance.
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-09
- Language: English
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