Primera página
By: Juan Luis Cebrián
Narrated by: Eugenio Gómez
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Primera página son las memorias de Juan Luis Cebrián, primer director de El País, pero también el apasionante relato de los convulsos años que llevaron a España de una sangrienta y rancia dictadura a la democracia, contado por un testigo imprescindible. Nacido en Madrid en 1944, en una familia de periodistas, Juan Luis Cebrían pronto empezó a... Read more
View audiobookMax Hastings On War
By: Max Hastings
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From Max Hastings comes a collection of talks and lectures exploring the wars of the 20th century with the verve, insight and originality that has made him a number one bestselling historian. What is war like to live through, for civilian victims, especially women, as well as soldiers, sailors and... Read more
View audiobookMr Horniman's Walrus
By: Clare Paterson
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr Horniman's Walrus tells the story of the rise and fall of three generations of a remarkable and dysfunctional Victorian family - the Hornimans - exploring the lives and loves behind their extraordinary and varied legacies.Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of the... Read more
View audiobookCrónica de la eternidad (Vida de Hernán Cortés 2)
By: Christian Duverger
Narrated by: José Manuel Rincón
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
«Sustentado por una apreciable información documental, el asombroso libro de Christian Duvergerrinde a Cortés escritor un merecido homenaje.» Bartolomé Bennassar Se cumplen cinco siglos de la Conquista de México, y a lo largo de este tiempo Hernán Cortés ha desempeñado un claro papel en el imaginario colectivo de la nación: el de villano. Sin... Read more
View audiobookCulturas Del Mundo
By: Onofre Quezada
Narrated by: Anonimo
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Las distintas culturas que hay alrededor del mundo son lo que nos da a los humanos el privilegio de tener una identidad cultural.La cultura que es un conjunto que incluye el conocimiento, el arte, las creencias, la ley, la moral, las costumbres y los hábitos que un grupo de personas desempeñan, y por ello el respeto a la diversidad cultural es... Read more
View audiobookLiberty in America Past, Present and Future
By: Willeam Choby
Narrated by: Rick Font
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In Liberty in America: Past, Present, and Future, renowned dentist and healthy policy expert, Dr. Bill Choby, presents how America, as the empire of liberty, has achieved freedom through the Godliness and goodness of its citizens.Providing an essential insight into America's past, it demonstrates how the country's great forefathers fought... Read more
View audiobookTotentanz – 1923 und seine Folgen (ungekürzt)
By: Jutta Hoffritz
Narrated by: Stephan Schad
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Mark fällt. Die Preise steigen. Zwischen Rausch, Revolution und Radikalisierung – Chronik eines Jahres 1923 wird zum politischen und ökonomischen Wendejahr für Deutschland. Zwischen schwindelerregenden Brotpreisen, eskapistischen Tanzabenden, der folgenreichen Ruhrbesetzung und der Einführung der Rentenmark begleitet Jutta Hoffritz vier... Read more
View audiobookNever Be Alone Again
By: Lina Abascal
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Whether you called it electro, indie dance, or were too busy scouring the internet for MP3s to care about a genre name, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor connects the disparate parts of an under-documented era in the first book focused on the musical and cultural phenomenon called bloghouse.
For a brief... Read more
The New Royals
By: Katie Nicholl
Narrated by: Heather Price
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Vanity FairRoyals correspondent and bestselling author ofWilliam and HarryandKateexplores the remarkable life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, with new chapters to include the last few months of her reign, and the rise of King Charles III. For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was... Read more
View audiobookY al final, la guerra
By: Lorenzo Silva & Luis Miguel Francisco
Narrated by: Miguel Coll
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Nayaf, 4 de abril de 2004. 12 horas. La base Al-Ándalus sufre el ataque de los milicianos del Ejército del Mahdi. Más de dos centenares de soldados españoles encuadrados enla División Mecanizadadeben movilizarse azarosamente, tomar posiciones y abrir fuego en un combate que durará horas y que supondrá el fin de la labor reconstructora de España... Read more
View audiobookA Woman's Game
By: Suzanne Wrack
Narrated by: Jennifer Ness
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer
Women's soccer is a game that has often been relegated to the margins in a world fixated on gender differences above passion and talent. It is a game that could attract 50,000 fans to a stadium in the 1920s, was later banned by England's Football Association... Read more
Female Genius
By: Mary Sarah Bilder
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In this provocative biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the Age of the Constitution to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor. This pathbreaking female educator delivered a University of Pennsylvania lecture... Read more
View audiobookWorship in the Early Church
By: Catherine Gunsalus González & Justo L González
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
While many histories of Christian worship exist, this project undertakes a task both more focused and more urgent. Rather than survey the whole history of the Christian church, it focuses on the formative period between the first and fifth centuries CE, when so many of the understandings and patterns of Christian worship came to be. And rather... Read more
View audiobookTeaching White Supremacy
By: Donald Yacovone
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.
“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,... Read more
Southern Beauty
By: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood,... Read more
View audiobookA Fort of Nine Towers
By: Qais Akbar Omar
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-three years ago—after the Soviets left and before the Taliban came to power—Kabul was a garden where seven-year-old Qais Akbar Omar flew kites from the roof of his grandfather's house. Then came the hollow sounds of rocket fire as the Mujahedin, self-proclaimed holy warriors, took over Afghanistan, and the country erupted in civil war.... Read more
View audiobookJohn Hancock
By: Harlow Giles Unger
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship and a grand retirement estate in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion. How, then, did this Tory... Read more
View audiobookOn Operations
By: B. A. Friedman
Narrated by: Derek Dysart
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational... Read more
View audiobookMarcia su Roma e dintorni
By: emilio lussu
Narrated by: Mario Pietramala
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Quando Mussolini tiene il primo discorso alla Camera da Capo del Consiglio, dopo la Marcia su Roma (è il 16 novembre 1922, la Marcia ha avuto luogo tra il 28 e il 31 del mese precedente), Emilio Lussu, deputato del Partito Sardo d'Azione, è in ospedale a Cagliari, vittima di un'aggressione fascista, ma riesce ugualmente a fornirne un resoconto... Read more
View audiobookOn Politics
By: Alan Ryan
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 46 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.
Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and... Read more
The Quest for Character
By: Massimo Pigliucci
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed spectacularly. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city... Read more
View audiobookKearny's March
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California.At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion: James K. Polk had lately won the presidency by threatening England over the borders in Oregon, while Congress had just voted, in defiance of the Mexican government,... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of William
By: Paul Collins
Narrated by: Tim Getman
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the world’s most obsessively pursued bookOne book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare’s... Read more
View audiobookMaking Space for Justice
By: Michele Moody-Adams
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today, progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in political action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the meaning of justice and about how the demands of justice can... Read more
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