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    • How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
    • Auteur(s): Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
    • Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
    • Durée: 7 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Politics of Catastrophe
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Narrateur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Durée: 16 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 évaluations
    • Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
    • Auteur(s): Christian Brose
    • Narrateur(s): Christian Brose
    • Durée: 9 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Unmooring of American Military Power
    • Auteur(s): Rachel Maddow
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Maddow
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 évaluations
    • Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life After Warming
    • Auteur(s): David Wallace-Wells
    • Narrateur(s): David Wallace-Wells
    • Durée: 9 h
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 évaluations
    • An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
    • Auteur(s): Mei Fong
    • Narrateur(s): Janet Song
    • Durée: 7 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Cooper
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

    Prix courant: 27,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • Auteur(s): Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 14 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
    • Auteur(s): Joy Buolamwini
    • Narrateur(s): Joy Buolamwini
    • Durée: 9 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
    • Auteur(s): Emily Midorikawa
    • Narrateur(s): Rachael Beresford
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and influence, as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • Auteur(s): Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 20 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 évaluations
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

    Prix courant: 43,70$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 43,70$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
    • Auteur(s): George Monbiot
    • Narrateur(s): George Monbiot
    • Durée: 5 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose....

    Prix courant: 21,48$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,48$ ou 1 crédit

    • Atheists in American Public Life
    • Auteur(s): R. Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Boston
    • Durée: 9 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • God is everywhere in American public life: on our currency, in the Pledge of Allegiance, and in the national motto. R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick explore both God's omnipresence and the dramatic rise in nonbelievers that has led to an "atheist awakening" intent on holding the country to its secular principles....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    Prix réduit: 14,09$ ou 1 crédit

    • How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • Auteur(s): Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrateur(s): Christina Delaine
    • Durée: 6 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Thomas Piketty
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books....

    Prix courant: 20,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • Auteur(s): Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Caudwell
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

    Prix courant: 27,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Edmund Morris
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Marosz
    • Série: Theodore Roosevelt, Livre 2
    • Durée: 25 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
    • Auteur(s): Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 4 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 évaluations
    • Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit