Bestsellers
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- De: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- De philip en 04-24-24
De: Isaac Arnsdorf
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 36 h y 42 m
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- De Cynthia en 01-11-14
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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Timely and well sourced
- De D en 11-05-23
De: Vincent Bevins
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- De mike en 02-22-24
De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, y otros
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Timothy Snyder
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- De Richard Keohane en 04-08-18
De: Timothy Snyder
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- De: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- De philip en 04-24-24
De: Isaac Arnsdorf
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 36 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- De Cynthia en 01-11-14
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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Timely and well sourced
- De D en 11-05-23
De: Vincent Bevins
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- De mike en 02-22-24
De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, y otros
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Timothy Snyder
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Historia
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- De Richard Keohane en 04-08-18
De: Timothy Snyder
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 34 m
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- De Steve Pagano en 10-05-15
De: Francis Fukuyama
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 24 h y 1 m
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Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....
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Understanding our place thru Poly Sci
- De Gary en 12-29-14
De: Francis Fukuyama
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The Communist Manifesto
- De: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Narrado por: Peter Coates
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document...
De: Karl Marx, y otros
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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Fiona Hill
- Narrado por: Fiona Hill
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia....
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Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us
- De Erin en 10-08-21
De: Fiona Hill
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The Revenge of Power
- How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- De: Moisés Naím
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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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....
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The narrator does not know the names of some politicians)))
- De Philippe Bogdanoff en 08-28-22
De: Moisés Naím
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 23 h y 44 m
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Hugely disappointing book!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-16-19
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the East
- How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
- De: Yasheng Huang PhD
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....
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Thought provoking
- De Wyatt en 03-11-24
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- De: Anu Partanen
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 06-20-17
De: Anu Partanen
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Jack Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....
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Worth a listen
- De Amazon Customer en 12-06-19
De: Frank Dikötter
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Hopes and Prospects
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Brian Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky examines the dangers and prospects of our early 21st century....
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An Intellectual Wind Tunnel
- De Cellar_Door_Books en 04-23-11
De: Noam Chomsky
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The Great U.S.-China Tech War
- De: Gordon G. Chang
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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The United States and China are locked in a “cold tech war", and the winner will end up dominating the 21st century. America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents....
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Tech War
- De laurie dahlstrom en 07-28-21
De: Gordon G. Chang
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- De: Moises Naim
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....
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Another Power book
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-24
De: Moises Naim
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2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- De: Mauro F. Guillén
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....
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Anti border wall and anti Trump
- De Jim Dupuis en 12-05-20
De: Mauro F. Guillén
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Four Presidents
- Kennedy, Nixon, Biden, Trump: Leaders Who Changed History in Changing Times
- De: Douglas E Schoen
- Narrado por: Matthew Werner
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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There is a great deal to learn in studying the successes and failures of Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Biden, and Trump, four presidents whose administrations coincided with dramatic societal changes and challenges....
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Kennedy-Nixon-Trump-some Biden
- De Conkling en 05-06-24
De: Douglas E Schoen
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Winds of Change
- The Future of Democracy in Iran
- De: Reza Pahlavi
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
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Forced to become a normal citizen, the exiled son of the late Shah of Iran attempts to provide understanding and direction for his country and its people....
De: Reza Pahlavi
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The Common Law
- De: Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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This is one of the true classics in world legal literature. Written by a master of law and language...
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Horrible Narration
- De Richard en 04-12-06
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How to Be a Dictator
- An Irreverent Guide
- De: Mikal Hem, Kerri Pierce - translator
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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Who hasn't dreamed of one day ruling your own country? Along with great power comes unlimited influence, control, admiration, and often wealth....
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People are weird
- De Nik en 01-01-21
De: Mikal Hem, y otros
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Of Paradise and Power
- America and Europe in the New World Order
- De: Robert Kagan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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When historians want to find out about the ideas that motivated American foreign policy in the early years of the twenty-first century, they would do well to read this book...
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Quick and pithy listen
- De Erik Fosshage en 01-14-04
De: Robert Kagan
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13 1/2 Reasons Why Not to Be a Liberal
- And How to Enlighten Others
- De: Judd Dunning
- Narrado por: Judd Dunning
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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If you can't achieve a win-win civil discussion with a liberal, at least you can use 13 1/2 Reasons Why Not to Be a Liberal to land some clear intelligent blows....
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Great Treasure Trove of Info
- De T. Stewart en 04-29-24
De: Judd Dunning
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- De: Andrei Lankov
- Narrado por: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....
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Broad and nuanced account of North Korea
- De Neuron en 07-29-15
De: Andrei Lankov
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H-Pop
- The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
- De: Kunal Purohit
- Narrado por: Adwait Karambelkar
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it.
De: Kunal Purohit
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Taliban, Third Edition
- The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Youssif Kamal
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
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Ahmed Rashid, called “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classic....
De: Ahmed Rashid
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Democracy
- Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
- De: Condoleezza Rice
- Narrado por: Grace Angela Henry
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history....
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A Case for Democracy
- De Jean en 05-18-17
De: Condoleezza Rice
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Loved it.
- De Richard Lee en 04-10-16