History Essays

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    • How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
    • Auteur(s): Glenn Stout
    • Narrateur(s): Gisela Chipe
    • Durée: 15 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Based on years of archival research that unearthed Ederle’s memory from obscurity, Young Woman and the Sea is the exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel....

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    • Essays
    • Auteur(s): Ross Gay
    • Narrateur(s): Ross Gay
    • Série: Essays Series, Livre 1
    • Durée: 8 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection.

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    • Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
    • Auteur(s): Ted Kaczynski
    • Narrateur(s): Jim D. Johnston
    • Durée: 3 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality....

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    • The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
    • Auteur(s): Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Carmen Maria Machado, Alix Dunmore
    • Durée: 7 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution....

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    • Auteur(s): Dennis Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • An Essay
    • Auteur(s): James Baldwin
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 3 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics....

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    • Auteur(s): Gore Vidal
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Cummings
    • Durée: 60 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....

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    • Selected Essays
    • Auteur(s): Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrateur(s): Wanda McCaddon
    • Durée: 12 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees....

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    • Auteur(s): Blaise Pascal
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Wickham
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Intended to be a defense of the Christian religion, Pensées is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason, and theology. Unfinished at the time of Pascal's death, the book consists of philosophical fragments on the "wretchedness" of man....

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    • Auteur(s): Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrateur(s): John Pruden
    • Durée: 34 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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    • Auteur(s): Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrateur(s): Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....

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    • A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
    • Auteur(s): William H. McNeill
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
    • Durée: 30 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....

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    • The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
    • Auteur(s): Harold Schechter
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 10 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films....

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    • Auteur(s): John Muir
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Brand
    • Durée: 6 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone and more....

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    • 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
    • Auteur(s): Virginia Woolf
    • Narrateur(s): Joan Walker
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....

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