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The Jihadi Next Door
By: Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The recruitment of ISIS terrorists may have begun as an extremist crusade in Iraq, but it has quickly become a global phenomenon that is taking hold of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and belief systems. The iconic image of a terrorist as an old, angry, middle-eastern man is long gone. It has since been replaced by young men and women... Read more
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Queen of the World
By: Robert Hardman
Narrated by: Robert Hardman
Length: 23 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its... Read more
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Bloomberg QuickTake: Disruption's Fallout
By: Bloomberg News
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall, Lesa Lockford & David Bendena
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake focuses on the unintended consequences of innovations in technology. With sections on economy & finance, world affairs, energy & environment, and health & society, this take on current events allows listeners to delve into hard-to-explain topics with ease. Read more
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The Sins of the Father - Abridged
By: Ronald Kessler
Narrated by: Frank Langella
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the New York Times bestselling author of 20 books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA comes the detailed account of the life and times of the ambitious, powerful, masterfully manipulative Joseph Patrick Kennedy.
For all his wealth and power, Joe Kennedy was not a happy man. He also had no shame. What he cared about was having power.... Read more
Los sueños de mi padre
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
En estas memorias líricas y absorbentes, publicadas originalmente en 1995, el hijo de un africano negro y una estadounidense blanca busca su camino como afroamericano. Las memorias que Obama relata en Los sueños de mi padre comienzan en Nueva York, donde se entera de que su padre ha fallecido en un accidente automovilístico. La inesperada... Read more
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Punishment Without Crime
By: Alexandra Natapoff
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals.
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff... Read more
Gandhi Before India
By: Ramachandra Guha
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 23 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as "Indian democracy's preeminent chronicler"—takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of... Read more
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Confederate Reckoning
By: Stephanie McCurry
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national... Read more
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Spreading My Wings
By: Diana Barnato Walker
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II.
Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned... Read more
Vietnam
By: Jim "Doc" Purtell
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1967, Jim Purtell left his small Midwestern town to join the US Army. He did so at a time when the country was pro-Vietnam and serving seemed an honorable thing to do. Little did he know that the tide would turn a mere six months later as drastically as it did.
Vietnam—There & Back: A Combat Medic's Chronicle is a candid account of the... Read more
China in the 21st Century
By: Maura Elizabeth Cunningham & Jeffrey N. Wasser...
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower.... Read more
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Political Realignment
By: Russell J. Dalton
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why. The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit, and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process.
Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural... Read more
Haig's Enemy
By: Jonathan Boff
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years.... Read more
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The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition
By: Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai & Robert Mark
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 21 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Written for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for:
● Measuring and transferring credit risk
● Increasing risk-management transparency
● Implementing an... Read more
Taxing Wars
By: Sarah Kreps
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Sarah Kreps chronicles the entire history of how America has paid for its wars—and how its methods have changed. Early on, the United States imposed war taxes that both demanded sacrifices from all Americans and served as reminders of their participation. Indeed, thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Adam Smith argued that these reminders were exactly... Read more
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A Peace to End All Peace
By: David Fromkin
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 23 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the... Read more
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Hannibal
By: Patrick N. Hunt
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.
Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world. His father, Hamilcar, was also a great strategist and... Read more
The Dragon's Gift
By: Deborah Brautigam
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation... Read more
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Battalion Commanders at War
By: Steven Thomas Barry
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Most histories of the US Army in World War II view the Mediterranean Theater of Operations primarily as a deadly training ground for very green forces, where lessons learned on the beaches of Oran, in the hills of the Kasserine Pass area, and at the collapse of the Tunis bridgehead all contributed to later success in Western Europe. Steven... Read more
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Shores Beyond Shores
By: Irene Butter
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
As her Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany.
By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp.... Read more
Inside the Clinton White House
By: Russell L. Riley
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
President Bill Clinton led a remarkably productive White House that nearly ended in catastrophic failure. Yet because of the office's traditional climate of confidentiality, many details of his behind-the-scenes activities—including successes and failures—have remained absent from the written record, until now. How did the administration manage... Read more
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Soldier, Priest, and God
By: F. S. Naiden
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Whatever we may think of Alexander—whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath—most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. In Egypt, he performed the ceremonies needed to be pharaoh, and thus became a god as well... Read more
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German Champion - Abridged
By: Sebastian Vollmer & Dominik Hechler
Narrated by: David Zimmerschmied
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Wie schafft man es als deutscher American-Football-Spieler in die NFL? Die beeindruckende Geschichte von Sebastian Vollmer zeigt: Talent ist nur eine Voraussetzung. Genauso wichtig sind unbändiger Wille, Training und Liebe zum Sport. Damit lassen sich Hindernisse überwinden – wovon es in Vollmers Karriere einige gab: Sein erster Coach nannte ihn... Read more
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Der unterlegene Mensch - Abridged
By: Armin Grunwald
Narrated by: Christian Jungwirth
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alle reden von Digitalisierung. Wunderbare Zukunftsperspektiven werden entworfen. Komfort und Wohlstand, mehr Gesundheit und möglicherweise die digitale Unsterblichkeit warten auf uns. Diese neuen Annehmlichkeiten sind aber nur die eine Seite der Medaille. Zunehmende Abhängigkeit von digitalen Technologien, das Risiko totaler Überwachung,... Read more
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