Modern World History

Liste de produits
    • A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd Edition (World Social Change)
    • Auteur(s): Robert B. Marks
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Sears
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Population Shaped the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Paul Morland
    • Narrateur(s): Zeb Soanes
    • Durée: 10 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
    • Auteur(s): Thant Myint-U
    • Narrateur(s): Assaf Cohen
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U offers an insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • Auteur(s): Howard W. French
    • Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
    • Durée: 16 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
    • Auteur(s): John Ibbitson
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Wilcock
    • Durée: 17 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age (Story of the World)
    • Auteur(s): Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Weiss
    • Série: The Story of the World, Livre Volume 4
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Spend an entire year investigating the fascinating story of the modern world, from the American Civil War through the end of the twentieth century—from Europe and the Middle East through India, China, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, and both North and South America....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • Auteur(s): Elting E. Morison
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 8 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

    Prix courant: 33,39$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,39$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Jonathan D. Spence
    • Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
    • Durée: 36 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 4 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Insects and the Making of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Edward D. Melillo
    • Narrateur(s): Kaleo Griffith
    • Durée: 6 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • An insightful, entertaining dive into the fruitful, centuries-long relationship between humans and insects, revealing the fascinating and surprising array of ways humans depend on these minute, six-legged pests....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Joshua B. Freeman
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
    • Durée: 13 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    • Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): David Van Reybrouck
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Gardner
    • Durée: 22 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.

    Prix courant: 30,70$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • Auteur(s): W. Scott Poole
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Eiden
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Richard Cockett
    • Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
    • Durée: 14 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 10 Lessons to Reconnect and Thrive in the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Dr Tim Sharp
    • Narrateur(s): Dr Tim Sharp
    • Durée: 3 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Most people think about technology as something we created to serve us, but we may well be getting to the point where we are the ones who're serving an ever more sophisticated technology. Dr Sharp outlines strategies and tools to build your confidence to cope with the modern world.

    Prix courant: 13,45$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 13,45$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
    • Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Durée: 14 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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