Modern World History

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    • Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
    • Auteur(s): Duncan Hamilton
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWII....

    Prix courant: 33,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Paul Fussell
    • Narrateur(s): James Anderson Foster
    • Durée: 15 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Universally acclaimed on publication in 1970, today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
    • Auteur(s): Karen Bowman
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Duerden
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions and outlandish outfits adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America and Our Imperiled World
    • Auteur(s): Robert Kagan
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
    • Durée: 5 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward....

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Linda Colley
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Ericksen
    • Durée: 17 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A People's History of Modern India
    • Auteur(s): Suchitra Vijayan
    • Narrateur(s): Sunny Patel
    • Durée: 8 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Giles Milton
    • Narrateur(s): Giles Milton
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Jews Made the Art World Modern
    • Auteur(s): Charles Dellheim
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 31 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place.

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Year that Made Modern Canada
    • Auteur(s): Ken Cuthbertson
    • Narrateur(s): David Pevsnar
    • Durée: 13 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • It was a watershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course into the future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities....

    Prix courant: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
    • Auteur(s): Tom Zoellner
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Modern Library Chronicles
    • Auteur(s): Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
    • Narrateur(s): John McDonough
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank Gonzalez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Play Made the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change....

    Prix courant: 32,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
    • Auteur(s): Shimon Peres
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In this, his final work, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness....

    Prix courant: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Scott L. Montgomery, Daniel Chirot
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen McLaughlin
    • Durée: 20 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
    • Auteur(s): Jay Winik
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
    • Durée: 31 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....

    Prix courant: 58,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Computers Misunderstand the World
    • Auteur(s): Meredith Broussard
    • Narrateur(s): Andrea Emmes
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Whitby
    • Narrateur(s): David Piggott
    • Durée: 11 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
    • Auteur(s): Lizzie O'Shea
    • Narrateur(s): Cat Gould
    • Durée: 11 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art, and poetry in our technological present.....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Deirdre N. McCloskey
    • Narrateur(s): Marguerite Gavin
    • Durée: 20 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians....

    Prix courant: 55,66$ ou 1 crédit

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