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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
By: Yuen Yuen Ang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."
Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear... Read more
The Art of War
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: Phil Chenevert
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Art of War" is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare and it is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at... Read more
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China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power
By: Michael A. McDevitt
Narrated by: Ian Putnam
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class"... Read more
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The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: Paul Adams
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but... Read more
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Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Cori Samuel
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A caustic criticism of nearly every philosophic predecessor and a challenge of traditionally held views on right and wrong, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil paved the way for modern philosophical thought. Through nearly three hundred transformative aphorisms, Nietzsche presents a worldview in which neither truth nor morality are... Read more
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Identity and Violence
By: Amartya Sen
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer
In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by... Read more
The First Thanksgiving
By: Robert Tracy McKenzie
Narrated by: N. Rezin Crawford
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreword Book of the Year Award Finalist
The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make?
Through the captivating story of the birth of this... Read more
Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world... Read more
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Botticelli's Secret
By: Joseph Luzzi
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced itSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to... Read more
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The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
By: Randy E. Barnett & Evan D. Bernick
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the... Read more
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The Sacred Pipe
By: Joseph Epes Brown
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice.
Black Elk was the only qualified priest of the older Oglala Sioux still living when The Sacred Pipe was written. This is his book: he gave it orally to Joseph Epes Brown during the latter's eight month's... Read more
Euromissiles
By: Susan Colbourn
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in... Read more
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Postcards from Absurdistan
By: Derek Sayer
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 27 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a... Read more
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Great Short Books
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Leon Nixon
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).
Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer” (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging... Read more
Pride of a Nation
By: Gwendolyn Oxenham
Narrated by: Gwendolyn Oxenham & Julie Foudy
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The first official history of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, celebrating nearly four decades of the team's athletic excellence and cultural impact
Telling the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team's story in expert prose, Pride of a Nation is a lavish tribute to one of the most beloved teams in sports, revisiting their historic four World Cup... Read more
Skyway
By: Bill DeYoung
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge.... Read more
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Tyrone Power: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood’s Most Famous Swashbucklers
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Steve Knupp
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hollywood has never lacked leading men who could captivate viewers with dramatic performances that depict them as suave romantics or dashing heroes, especially during the Golden Age of Hollywood, when stars like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant graced screens. But in the mid-20th century, one of the most popular stars was a man who’s... Read more
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The Christian Doctrine of Hell
By: Joseph Wheeler
Narrated by: Oberon Michaels
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Christian Doctrine of HellBy Joseph WheelerNarrated by Oberon MichaelsIt is often popularly considered that the Twenty-First Century marked the emergence of a truly aggressive anti-theist movement. The rise of the "New Atheism", spearheaded by figures like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins, has been seen as a fresh attack... Read more
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George Balanchine: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Choreographers
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma by the late 1940s, and what was once the property of Bavarian princes became the singing... Read more
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Handsome Lake: The Life and Legacy of the Iroquois Prophet
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people knew themselves by, but a word applied to them by their enemies the Huron, who called them “Iroquo” (rattlesnake) as an insult. The French later added the suffix “ois.” Moreover, the Iroquois are not even a single tribe but a confederation of several different... Read more
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Letzte Fahrt
By: Robert Falcon Scott
Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Terra Nova Expedition war eine Expedition in die Antarktis, die zwischen 1910 und 1913 stattfand. Unter der Leitung von Kapitän Robert Falcon Scott hatte die Expedition verschiedene wissenschaftliche und geografische Ziele. Scott wollte die wissenschaftliche Arbeit fortsetzen, die er bereits während seiner Discovery Expedition von 1901 bis... Read more
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Der Gallische Krieg
By: Julius Caesar & Viktor Stegemann
Narrated by: Jan Peter Richter
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Julius Caesar beschrieb die Gallischen Kriege in seinem Buch “Commentarii de Bello Gallico”. Dem Hörbuch liegt die Übersetzung von Viktor Stegemann zu Grunde. “Der Gallische Krieg” ist die Hauptquelle für den großen Konflikt zwischen den Römern und den verschiedenen Völkern Galliens, aber moderne Historiker halten es für anfällig für... Read more
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De Spaanse Armada
By: Onbekende Schrijver
Narrated by: Saskia Barink
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Het waargebeurde verhaal, De Spaanse Armada, speelde zich af in Engeland.Een grote Spaanse vloot voer richting Engeland om ze te veroveren. Maar de Engelse generaal had een slim planWij vinden dit verhaal het meest geschikt voor kinderen van 9 jaar en 10 jaar.Het verhaal is geschikt voor groep 7 en groep 8. Read more
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GuíaBurros: Europa en su cenit
By: Eduardo Montagut
Narrated by: María José Bosch
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, en Europa occidental y central, se vivió la Segunda Revolución Industrial que trajo consigo el triunfo del capitalismo, pero también la superación del liberalismo económico clásico frente a un mayor proteccionismo o nacionalismo económico y que devino en una internacionalización de la economía. Este hecho... Read more
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