Modern World History

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    • Auteur(s): Tim Harford
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Davis
    • Durée: 9 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ 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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    • June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • Auteur(s): Michael B. Oren
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
    • Durée: 17 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 évaluations
    • In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

    Prix courant: 28,03 $ 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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    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 29 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

    Prix courant: 38,97 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created
    • Auteur(s): William Bernstein
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 4 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Based upon the premise that mankind experienced virtually zero economic growth from the dawn of time until 1820, this provocative, big-picture book identifies the four conditions necessary for sustained economic progress....

    Prix courant: 16,06 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
    • Auteur(s): Charles Fountain
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Reed
    • Durée: 11 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players - including Shoeless Joe Jackson - agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds....

    Prix courant: 33,01 $ 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: 28,40 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops
    • Auteur(s): Damien Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): Nigel Carrington
    • Durée: 10 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-12-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard....

    Prix courant: 28,64 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): William L. Silber
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 23 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

    Prix courant: 33,40 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Discovery of Modern Science
    • Auteur(s): Steven Weinberg
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries, from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
    • Narrateur(s): Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
    • Durée: 6 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 évaluations
    • In their hit podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. And some of the terrifying detours along the way....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Durée: 2 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • This adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Steven Johnson's adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innovations - like clean drinking water and electricity - that changed the way people live....

    Prix courant: 18,00 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Early Modern Americas
    • Auteur(s): Kristie Patricia Flannery
    • Narrateur(s): Brigid Lohrey
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World demonstrates that piracy is key to explaining the surprising longevity of Spain's Asian empire, which survived the Age of Revolutions and endured almost to the end of the nineteenth century.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
    • Auteur(s): George Weigel
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Modern Art Came to America
    • Auteur(s): Hugh Eakin
    • Narrateur(s): Mack Sanderson
    • Durée: 15 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $ 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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