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Island Infernos
By: John C. McManus
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 25 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America... Read more
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Challenging China
By: Sam Kaplan
Narrated by: Brian Craig
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.
This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the... Read more
The Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works
By: Miyamoto Musashi
Narrated by: Richard Trapp
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work.
This piece of writing by famed samurai Musashi (1584-1645) is the single-most influential work on samurai swordsmanship, offering insights into samurai history, the... Read more
Led Zeppelin
By: Bob Spitz
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 21 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling.” —PEOPLE
From the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguable the greatest rock band of all time.
Rock star. Whatever that term... Read more
The Hundred Years War
By: David Green
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them... Read more
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Our National Forests
By: Greg M. Peters
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“An inspiring reminder of the incredible resource that is our public lands.” —Brendan Leonard, author of The Camping Life and Surviving the Great Outdoors
Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. They welcome 170 million... Read more
Volunteers
By: Jerad W. Alexander
Narrated by: Jerad W. Alexander
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing
As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and... Read more
1962
By: David Krell
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees won their twentieth title.
Baseball was expanding with the Houston Colt .45s and the... Read more
Katrina
By: Andy Horowitz
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans... Read more
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James Madison
By: Jay Cost
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it
How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal... Read more
The Big East
By: Dana O'Neil
Narrated by: Dana O'Neil
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East
“This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine
The names need no... Read more
The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
By: Jaime Breitnauer
Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Where did Spanish flu come from, and what can the possible sites of origin tell us today? This book looks at how Spanish flu changed the focus of scientific thought from eugenics to the creation of public health, and how it unfolded across each continent.
In Budapest, a lone woman dies quietly on a bench in the late afternoon sun, while in... Read more
Power Hungry
By: Suzanne Cope
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them.
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community center laden with boxes of donated food to cook for the neighborhood children. By the end of... Read more
By Any Other Name
By: Simon Morley
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The rose is bursting with meaning: over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death, and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life's seminal moments.
Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has... Read more
In the Beginning
By: Immanuel Velikovsky
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In his main work, the bestselling Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentions there that, as part of his intensive research, he found numerous indications of even more catastrophes that took place earlier in the history... Read more
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Thinking About History
By: Sarah Maza
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is... Read more
The Land Beyond the Border
By: Johannes Becke
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on three case studies from the Middle East, The Land beyond the Border advances an innovative theoretical framework for the study of state expansions and state contractions. Johannes Becke argues that state expansion can be theorized according to four basic ideal types—a form of patronage (patronization), the imposition of a satellite... Read more
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Never Silent
By: Peter Staley
Narrated by: Peter Staley
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex.
A week... Read more
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (Ungekürzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wer die Philosophien zur Moderne verstehen will, der sollte Leben und Werke der französischen Existenzialistin und Feministin kennen. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Simone de Beauvoir. Simone de... Read more
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (Ungekürzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wer Strukturen und Prozesse totaler Herrschaftssysteme verstehen will, der sollte Leben und Werke der Publizistin kennen. Der erfahrende Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und erläutert verständlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Hannah Arendt. Die deutsche Jüdin Hannah Arendt... Read more
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Adidas Versus Puma
By: Philip Barlow
Narrated by: Dominic Edwards
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Former employees of Adidas and Puma will remember for a long time what the first dozen years of fierce competition between the two brothers looked like. A rivalry that left its mark on the life of the entire Herzogenaurach, where they came from and where they founded the company Adolf and Rudolf Dassler.
How did this emotional conflict arise? Who... Read more
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (Ungekürzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Sigmund Freud - Erfinder der Psychoanalyse Als Vater der Psychoanalyse erschuf Sigmund Freud eines der bedeutendsten tiefenpsychologischen Gedankenkonstrukte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die erfahrenen Autoren Richard Braun und Bert Alexander Petzold (Hg.) nehmen uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutern verständlich, unterhaltsam und... Read more
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (Ungekürzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Aufgrund seiner bahnbrechenden Errungenschaften auf dem Gebiet der Physik wird Albert Einstein (1879-1955) der bekannteste Forscher des 20. Jahrhunderts - und zum Inbegriff des Wissenschaftlers, Genies und Pazifisten. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert... Read more
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Winter in America
By: Daniel Robert McClure
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the... Read more
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