Sociology History

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    • Principles of Economic Life
    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ 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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    • A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
    • Auteur(s): Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Stanley Tucci
    • Durée: 5 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Other Side of the River, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America's racial divisions....

    Prix courant: 14,55$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • Auteur(s): Dennis Romano
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 30 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
    • Auteur(s): Aja Raden
    • Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
    • Durée: 10 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? Listen to find out....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
    • Auteur(s): Sheima Benembarek, Mona Eltahawy
    • Narrateur(s): Sheima Benembarek, Mona Eltahawy
    • Durée: 5 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In the Muslim world, sex is permissible (or halal) only within the confines of marriage. Outside of wedlock, the act is considered haram, a sin of the faith. Girls are taught to protect their virginity; their mothers, if not forgoing “the talk” altogether....

    Prix courant: 24,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
    • Auteur(s): P. W. Singer
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 20 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-10-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield....

    Prix courant: 32,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
    • Auteur(s): Moisés Naím
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Herron
    • Durée: 11 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Moisés Naím’s The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
    • Auteur(s): Marcus Rediker
    • Narrateur(s): Cornell Womack
    • Durée: 7 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....

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    • The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
    • Auteur(s): Danny Dorling
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 12 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, increases in life expectancy....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • Auteur(s): Paul Starr
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 24 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
    • Auteur(s): Arthur Goldwag
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Montecalvo
    • Durée: 7 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
    • Auteur(s): David McWilliams
    • Narrateur(s): David McWilliams
    • Durée: 11 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Richard Sennett
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 11 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • Auteur(s): Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
    • Auteur(s): Leila Ahmed, Kecia Ali - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani
    • Durée: 14 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This classic pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history has been republished for a new generation....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Durée: 5 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
    • Auteur(s): Peter Dale Scott
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 16 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • Auteur(s): Annette Lareau
    • Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
    • Durée: 14 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

    Prix courant: 25,05$ ou 1 crédit

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