Public History

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    • The American Military Adventure in Iraq
    • Auteur(s): Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrateur(s): James Lurie
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Fiasco is a masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants....

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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

    Prix courant: 22,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
    • Auteur(s): Dick Couch
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Foley
    • Durée: 14 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Surplus Manifesto
    • Auteur(s): Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Welborn
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
    • Auteur(s): Kate Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Christina Delaine
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied facts....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • Auteur(s): Ben Austen
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

    Prix courant: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Durée: 8 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • Auteur(s): Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 11 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Richard Florida
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 8 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

    Prix courant: 32,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Burnip
    • Durée: 24 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively, but also to understand the political context in which they are operating....

    Prix courant: 43,79$ 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

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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 12 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • Auteur(s): William A. Galston
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
    • Durée: 5 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
    • Auteur(s): Ben Kesling
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Kesling
    • Durée: 12 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division....

    Prix courant: 23,03$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 26 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • Auteur(s): Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrateur(s): David de Vries
    • Durée: 24 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Thomas G. West
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
    • Durée: 16 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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