Popular History

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    • A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    • Auteur(s): Kelefa Sanneh
    • Narrateur(s): Kelefa Sanneh
    • Durée: 18 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past 50 years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • Auteur(s): Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
    • Durée: 12 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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 8 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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    • Auteur(s): Jack Halberstam
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Alternative History of Popular Music
    • Auteur(s): Jamie Collinson
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
    • Durée: 13 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Coming from a writer with twenty years' music industry experience, The Rejects is a sympathetic study of some of music's most fascinating characters, and what happens when the dream comes crashing to an end. The result is a compelling alternative history of popular music.

    Prix courant: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America, 1927
    • Auteur(s): Bill Bryson
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Bryson
    • Durée: 17 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 évaluations
    • One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
    • Auteur(s): David Hajdu
    • Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
    • Durée: 11 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books....

    Prix courant: 23,10$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • Auteur(s): David Aaronovitch
    • Narrateur(s): James Langton
    • Durée: 14 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
    • Auteur(s): Jason Schreier
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Chase
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 évaluations
    • From the best-selling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart - and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • Auteur(s): Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 15 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Natural History of Four Meals
    • Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 15 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-01-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 217 évaluations
    • "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • Auteur(s): Samantha Barbas
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Mertz
    • Narrateur(s): Lorna Raver
    • Durée: 12 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-12-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Barbara Mertz combines her doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • Auteur(s): Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Boston
    • Durée: 16 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • Auteur(s): Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 12 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 évaluations
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • Auteur(s): Tom Wolfe
    • Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
    • Durée: 13 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 évaluations
    • Tom Wolfe's classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s, ushered in an era of New Journalism and defined a generation....

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