Popular History

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    • The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
    • Auteur(s): Paul Baker
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Baker
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. Paul Baker's highly anticipated reappraisal of camp surveys its touchstones across history and the changing ways that it has been understood....

    Prix courant: 26,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Understanding Mental Illness Through Film
    • Auteur(s): James Charney MD
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 14 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Psychiatrist and long-time cinephile James Charney explores how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Profiles in Popular Music
    • Auteur(s): David Remnick
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Godfrey, David Remnick
    • Durée: 9 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie McTell,” have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
    • Auteur(s): Joel Best
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong....

    Prix courant: 26,40 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
    • Auteur(s): Allison Yarrow
    • Narrateur(s): Allison Yarrow
    • Durée: 11 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • To understand how we got here, we have rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
    • Auteur(s): Barry Glassner
    • Narrateur(s): William Dufris, Michael Moore - introduction
    • Durée: 10 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. But are we living in exceptionally perilous times....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!
    • Auteur(s): Mark Brake, Jon Chase
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Discover the science behind the most popular sci-fi franchise of all time....

    Prix courant: 26,82 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Surgery
    • Auteur(s): Richard Hollingham
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina
    • Auteur(s): Mariana Luzzi, Ariel Wilkis
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Udall
    • Durée: 11 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Originally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis's acclaimed book traces the history of the economic, social, and political relevance of the dollar in Argentina and its popularization over the years....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
    • Auteur(s): Peter Rubin
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A Wired senior editor and VR expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection....

    Prix courant: 24,46 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
    • Auteur(s): Aaron Bobrow-Strain
    • Narrateur(s): Kris Koscheski
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2013-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to look like....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
    • Narrateur(s): Grady Hendrix
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Siva Vaidhyanathan
    • Narrateur(s): Jack Garrett
    • Durée: 10 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (Popular Patristics) (Popular Patristics Series, Book 55)
    • Auteur(s): Melito of Sardis
    • Narrateur(s): Phillip Ritchey
    • Durée: 2 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews observed Passover....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America
    • Auteur(s): Chris Palmer
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin R. Free
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • More than thirty years have passed since The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on NBC but unlike other family sitcoms of its era, it has remained culturally relevant and beloved by new generations of fans....

    Prix courant: 19,99 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
    • Auteur(s): W. David Marx
    • Durée: 13 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-11-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture—from music and fashion to art, film, TV, and beyond.

    Prix courant: 30,86 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
    • Auteur(s): Mark Bauerlein
    • Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Let's take stock of young America.....

    Prix courant: 37,04 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of the Scouting Movement and Its Most Popular Organizations
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Gallagher
    • Durée: 2 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Given the prominence of scouting culture in the United States, many assume that the movement is rooted in North America. On the contrary, the movement was initiated in and spread forth from the United Kingdom, more specifically in England....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
    • Auteur(s): Kevin Starr
    • Narrateur(s): Elijah Alexander
    • Durée: 29 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years....

    Prix courant: 52,86 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Concise History
    • Auteur(s): Michael Wert
    • Narrateur(s): P.J. Ochlan
    • Durée: 3 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late 17th century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy....

    Prix courant: 12,24 $ ou 1 crédit

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