Global History

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    • Auteur(s): Marcia Amidon Lusted
    • Narrateur(s): Colin Draun
    • Durée: 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Many popular modern board games were invented in the United States. But some of our favorite games came from other countries and have deep historic roots.

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    • Auteur(s): Marcia Amidon Lusted
    • Narrateur(s): Colin Draun
    • Durée: 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dueling once was used as a way to settle disputes or to defend honor. Some are more well-known than others—explore three of them here!

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Auteur(s): Jared Diamond
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Murney
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In his million-copy best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world....

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    • Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
    • Auteur(s): Arash Azizi
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 10 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region....

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    • A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust
    • Auteur(s): Stuart McCook
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas R. Pratt
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The global coffee industry rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust....

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    • Auteur(s): Nick Srnicek
    • Narrateur(s): Jamie Renell
    • Durée: 2 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on....

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    • Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
    • Auteur(s): Joel Kotkin
    • Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order....

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    • America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
    • Auteur(s): John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....

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    • How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
    • Auteur(s): Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
    • Narrateur(s): Will Damron
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force....

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    • Auteur(s): Ryan Gingeras
    • Durée: 12 h
    • Date de publication: 2026-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Everybody knows they exist: the Cosa Nostra, the Medellin Cartel, New York’s Five Families, China’s tongs. This book asks the question: how have mafias helped define the modern world?

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    • Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Booker
    • Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
    • Durée: 16 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history....

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    • Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
    • Auteur(s): Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 15 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is a story about people and politics - all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon....

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    • How It Really Works and Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): Jeremy J. Baumberg
    • Narrateur(s): Rory Barnett
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Secret Life of Science is a dispatch from the frontlines of modern science. It paints a startling picture of a complex scientific ecosystem that has become the most competitive free-market environment on the planet....

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    • Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare
    • Auteur(s): Steven Feldstein
    • Durée: 9 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2026-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Bytes and Bullets is an analytically rich account of how technology is upending global competition.

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    • A Global and Historical Comparison
    • Auteur(s): Ahmet T. Kuru
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Barber
    • Durée: 10 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socioeconomic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations that point to Islam as the cause of this disparity....

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    • Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Vu
    • Durée: 11 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • Auteur(s): William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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