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The Essential John Stuart Mill (Essential Scholars)
By: Sandra J. Peart
Narrated by: Satauna Howery
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he spent many of his later years, on May 7, 1873.Mill had a very extraordinary, strenuous education, overseen by his ambitious father James, who believed that one becomes improved via education and, once educated, that is the end of the matter. John... Read more
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Jewels
By: Victoria Finlay
Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and... Read more
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 12
By: Edward Channing, PhD
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Jeffersonian System, 1801–1811 by Edward Channing, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard UniversityNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 12 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard... Read more
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Finding Jackie
By: Oline Eaton
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours.Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an... Read more
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Wovoka: The Life and Legacy of the Prophet of the Ghost Dance Movement
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes, in western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859 and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the... Read more
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The Essential Hayek (Essential Scholars)
By: Donald J. Boudreaux
Narrated by: Satauna Howery & Michael Lenz
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Nobel laureate economist F.A.Hayek first revolutionized economists' understanding of markets, and then profoundly challenged the public's understanding of government. Hayek is one of only a few social scientists over the past 200 years who thoroughly rethought the relationship between individual people and both the market and the state. While... Read more
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Generación idiota
By: Agustin Laje
Narrated by: Antonio Raluy Zierold
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Generación idiota nos ofrece una inmersión profunda en la desaparición de la sociedad intergeneracional y el auge de la mentalidad adolescente, que ha causado un gran daño a la política y a la sociedad.En la continuación de su best seller internacional La batalla cultural, el afamado escritor, politólogo y conferencista Agustín Laje... Read more
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Making the Imperial Nation
By: Gabriel Glickman
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were... Read more
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Lord Snowdon
By: Helen Cathcart
Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Antony Armstrong-Jones, photographer, designer and film-maker, gained worldwide attention when he married Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret in 1960—the first non-aristocrat to marry into the Royal Family for 400 years.
How did a "commoner" come to marry a princess, a woman whom he had long admired from afar?
In fact,... Read more
The Need for an Evolutionary Movement in Politics
By: Stephen Dinan
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Dinan encourages us to ground ourselves in the deeper values that unite us such as liberty, equality, and justice for all - which are bedrock principles of the United States. He says we must take on the spirit of nonviolent evolutionaries as we hold a vision of possibility rather than one of opposition. Read more
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Dammed
By: Brittany Luby
Narrated by: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more
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The Division of the Roman Empire: The History of the Conflicts that Split the Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire in the 4th Century
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Steve Knupp
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Rome’s Imperial Crisis has been difficult for historians to summarize, which is why, despite being one of the most intriguing periods in Roman history, it is often overlooked by people who have chosen to focus on the more cohesive periods before and after it. Even though he is best remembered for his religious reforms and what his (mostly... Read more
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Davy Crockett Speaks
By: David Crockett
Narrated by: Chris Wright
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The subject of stage plays, books, movies and one of the most popular television series of all time (with a theme song that millions of Americans can instantly sing along with from the very first word), he really was the King of the Wild Frontier. And he was so much more. Davy Crockett remains one of the most iconic Americans of any era. But who... Read more
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Operation Typhoon: The History of the Fight for Moscow between the Nazis and Soviets
By: Phaistos Publishers
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
After the Fall of France and the unsatisfactory Battle of Britain came to a close, Hitler turned to the east and issued Führer Directive 21, his secret order for the invasion of the Soviet Union, on 18 December 1940. Prior to this the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement, had enabled the two countries to divide the spoils after... Read more
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Race in the Crucible of War
By: Gerald F. Goodwin
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable.
In Race... Read more
The Essential Austrian Economics (Essential Scholars)
By: Christopher J. Coyne & Peter J. Boettke
Narrated by: Charity Spencer
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The origin of the Austrian School of economics is the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics in 1871. Menger, William Stanley Jevons, and Léon Walras are considered the co-founders of the “marginal revolution” in economics, a shift to the marginal utility theory of value from the labour theory of value. The revolutionists argued... Read more
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British Cinema
By: Charles Barr
Narrated by: Kevin E. Green
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the twentieth century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial—often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers.
In this Very Short Introduction,... Read more
Entre Este y Oeste
By: Anne Applebaum
Narrated by: Indhira Serrano
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Una lectura imprescindible para descifrar los orígenes de la guerra en Ucrania y la frágil situación de Europa del Este. En el otoño de 1991, en plena desintegración del imperio soviético, Anne Applebaum -ganadora del Premio Pulitzer por Gulag. Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos- emprendió un viaje desde el Báltico hasta el mar... Read more
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Benjamin Franklin
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
As Ben experimented, people peppered him with questions about electricity. Distracted, Ben was still holding the ends of two bare wires when the other ends touched the Leyden jars. A massive charge knocked him to the ground. When he clambered to his feet, he had to admit that his guests appeared to have enjoyed watching him get... Read more
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Christopher Columbus
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
It was completely dark. The only things visible now were the two small beacon fires on the Pinta and the Nina. Christopher was glad the two fires calmed his, too. Their glow reminded him that the Santa Maria was not alone on the vast, uncharted Ocean Sea. The three ships would sail together into the unknown.
Buoyant and determined, and having at... Read more
Meditaciones de cine
By: Quentin Tarantino
Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Llega el esperado y ansiado primer libro de no ficción de Quentin Tarantino. Su libro más personal: un viaje íntimo por sus películas favoritas, relatado con una voz inconfundible. «La crítica cinematográfica de Tarantino [es] tan rotunda, inteligente y asombrosa como sus películas». The New York Times«Se antoja difícil que haya un mejor libro... Read more
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The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
Narrated by: Michael Lenz
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as economics, and he is widely credited as the founding father of what is now known as capitalism. Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is often cited as the beginning of both economics and capitalism, and its... Read more
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John Newton
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
John Newton's life was in a downward spiral. Impressed into the Royal Navy, John clashed with his fellow seamen and even became a servant alongside slaves in West Africa. When he found himself on a sinking ship, he called out to God for help. John began his conversion to Christianity while he captained a slave ship. Eventually he gave up his... Read more
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Yoruba Mythology: Captivating Myths and Legends of the Yoruba and Other West African Peoples
By: Matt Clayton
Narrated by: Michael Reaves
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you like stories about kings and queens, spirits and monsters, or tricksters and villains?If so, this book is for you. Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and cunning, virtue and vice, and fortunes found and lost. Some of these stories draw upon actual historical... Read more
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