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Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed. For the first time, Erdogan Rising tells the inside story of how a democracy on the fringe of Europe has succumbed to dictatorship. Hannah Lucinda Smith, Turkey correspondent with The Times of London, has witnessed all that has befallen Turkey and the wider region since the onset of the Arab Spring.
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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey
- De Saul M en 09-18-20
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The Germans and Europe
- A Personal Frontline History
- De: Peter Millar
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent. Focussing on nine cities (only six of which are in the Germany of today), he takes us on a zigzag ride back through time via the fall of the Berlin Wall through the horrors of two world wars and the patchwork states of the Middle Ages to the splendour of Charlemagne and the fall of Rome.
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One of the best books I have listened to on here
- De Shaun en 05-17-18
De: Peter Millar
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Socialism Sucks
- Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
- De: Robert Lawson, Benjamin Powell
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.
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I learned more than I anticipated in a 4 + hr book
- De J D Rossi en 08-06-19
De: Robert Lawson, y otros
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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Anti religious/anti catholic hit piece
- De Daniel Calvert en 05-04-21
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- De: Daniel Tudor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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Amazing book
- De Antoine en 12-14-18
De: Daniel Tudor
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The Italians
- De: John Hooper
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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John Hooper's marvelously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind and often belie the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism, and the reason Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger yet none for a hangover.
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Mi piace molto!
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-30-16
De: John Hooper
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How Iceland Changed the World
- The Big History of a Small Island
- De: Egill Bjarnason
- Narrado por: Einar Gunn
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead, it became a nation whose diplomats and musicians, sailors and soldiers, volcanoes and flowers, quietly altered the globe forever. How Iceland Changed the World takes readers on a tour of history, showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel.
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Brilliant
- De Ian D. Jones en 06-01-21
De: Egill Bjarnason
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MBS
- The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
- De: Ben Hubbard
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society of the richest country in the Middle East - and gather as much power as possible into his own hands. Since his father, King Salman, ascended to the throne in 2015, Mohammed bin Salman has leveraged his influence to restructure the kingdom’s economy, loosen its strict Islamic social codes, and confront its enemies around the region, especially Iran.
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Suffers from 'Objective Journalism' Syndrome
- De Anonymous User en 05-09-20
De: Ben Hubbard
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The Great Successor
- The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
- De: Anna Fifield
- Narrado por: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim's past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball fanatic could hold together a country that should have fallen apart years ago. But Kim Jong Un has not just survived, he has thrived.
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Great book
- De WPD en 06-26-19
De: Anna Fifield
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Between Two Fires
- Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
- De: Joshua Yaffa
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces listeners to some of the country’s most remarkable figures - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks an individual path of compromise.
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Stimulating
- De Amazon Customer en 03-16-20
De: Joshua Yaffa
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This Land Is Our Land
- An Immigrant's Manifesto
- De: Suketu Mehta
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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A timely argument for why the US and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention and a literary polemic of the highest order.
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Greatly informative. wonderful narrated
- De ADEDZWA Dooyum Sartor en 06-29-19
De: Suketu Mehta
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The Chancellor
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West. In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Merkel’s unlikely ascent.
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What a remarkable leader in these trying times!
- De Doug Easterling en 11-30-21
De: Kati Marton
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Israel - Culture Smart!
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Reads like an encyclopedia entry. Or like an alien reporting back on what they saw by looking down from outer space. This is a laundry list of facts that don’t convey much of a sense of what the country is actually like. I came away wondering if the authors had ever been to Israel. The publisher did not even bother to hire a narrator who knows how to pronounce Hebrew words.
I’d instead recommend Start-up Nation and a book by Noa Tishby called Israel.
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