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The Strategy of Denial
By: Elbridge A. Colby
Narrated by: Mike Lenz
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition
Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of U.S. defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America's defense must change to address China's growing power and ambition. Based... Read more
Dangerous Medicine
By: Sydney A. Halpern
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects
From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic... Read more
Albemarle Street
By: John Meurig Thomas
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts,... Read more
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
By: Ray Dalio
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Ray Dalio
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
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“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
By: Kyle T. Mays
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs
By: Ann R. Williams
Narrated by: Mari Weiss
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous “Lost City of the Monkey God” tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that illuminate our past. Read more
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The Real Valkyrie
By: Nancy Marie Brown
Narrated by: Lu Banks
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors.
In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real... Read more
Cords of Affection
By: Emily Pears
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Emily Pears investigates efforts by the founding generation's leadership to construct and strengthen political attachments in and among the citizens of the new republic. These emotional connections between citizens and their institutions were critical to the... Read more
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Audience-ology
By: Kevin Goetz
Narrated by: Kevin Goetz
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.
Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood—a place where famous directors are reduced to tears and multi-millionaire actors to fits of rage. A place... Read more
Patterns of Connection
By: Fritjof Capra
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection. First introduced in the late 1950s to the work of Werner Heisenberg, a founder of quantum mechanics, Capra quickly intuited the connections between the discoveries of quantum physics and the... Read more
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A Brief History of Thought
By: Luc Ferry
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound relevance to modern daily life and its essential role in achieving happiness and living a meaningful... Read more
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Las señoritas
By: Laura Ramos
Narrated by: Noelia Antúnez
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
La historia más bella y mejor documentada de las sesenta y una jóvenes maestras que Sarmiento "importó" de los Estados Unidos a la Argentina en el siglo XIX. Sus amores, tragedias y relaciones prohibidas, y sus batallas pedagógicas y aventuras en las luchas políticas que asolaban la república, en un relato cautivante de la mano de Laura... Read more
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American Invasions of Canada: The History of America’s Attempts to Conquer Canada and Other Border Disputes
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States and Canada today share the longest undefended border in the world, encompassing 5,525 after the U.S. purchased Alaska, and though they have long been allies, the border has not always been peaceful. During colonial times, generations of the British war with France meant generations of threats and of actual attacks by Canadian... Read more
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Brothers and Wives
By: Christopher Andersen
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring unreported details and stunning revelations, the long-awaited follow-up to the “fabulous, addictive” (Chicago Sun-Times) New York Times bestseller Diana’s Boys explores the last twenty years in the lives of Princes William and Harry and the evolution of their relationship as adults, with one brother the designated heir, and the other... Read more
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Approaching the Almighty
By: A. W. Tozer
Narrated by: Phil Shappard
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the never-before-published prayers of A. W. Tozer as he opens his sermons.Is there a holier moment than when a preacher steps into the pulpit and opens the Scriptures before the people of the Lord? A. W. Tozer certainly understood the gravity and sanctity of that moment. His pulpit prayers reflect the holy awe that he experienced as... Read more
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The National Road
By: Tom Zoellner
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).
What does it mean when a nation accustomed to moving begins to settle down, when political discord threatens unity, and... Read more
Scotland
By: Alistair Moffat
Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
Length: 23 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: "Deserves a prominent place in the history canon" (Scots Magazine).
Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish nation. Focusing on key moments such as the Battle of... Read more
Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots
By: Liz Rosenberg
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Moody and restless, teenage Louisa longed for freedom. Faced with the expectations of her loving but hapless family, the Alcotts, and of nineteenth-century New England society, she struggled to find her place. On long meandering runs through the woods behind Orchard House, she thought about a future where she could write and think and dream.... Read more
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Looking for the Good War
By: Elizabeth D. Samet
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately... Read more
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Collapse
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 23 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the... Read more
The Aztec Civilization
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: John Michael Jalonen
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to the concise, all-you-need explanation of the Aztec empire!
When you think of the Aztecs, you might think of certain movies you have seen or what you've been taught in history class. And although some of those images and descriptions fit the main narrative, there is still much left to be discovered. This brief book will take you on a... Read more
Spymaster
By: Helen Fry
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick
Thomas Kendrick (1881–1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport Officer," he ran spy networks across... Read more
The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.
Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression.... Read more
Dead Men Telling Tales
By: Matilda Greig
Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808–1814), Matilda Greig charts the... Read more
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