The World in Books
52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
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A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion—chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History.
From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading—and a fantastic introduction to some of the most thought-provoking, profound, and interesting nonfiction works of all time. From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to bell hooks’s All About Love, as well as such recent classics as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists, Davis’s guide suggests a world of nonfiction books and explains just why they’re so historically meaningful and culturally relevant today.
The perfect guide for the modern-day listener, these fifty-two selections provide an ideal way to explore some of the most enduring, influential books ever published, introducing us anew to world-shaping historical figures, events, and ideas.
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- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures—against all odds. But now everything that Will Dobbins, Dov Silverberg, and Hans Hessler fought for is at risk as their descendants clash for control of the corporation they founded together. In an attempt to remake its tattered corporate image, the firm hires event planner Hadley Jacks and her sister Kitzie to organize a reunion for the families on St. Simons Island, Georgia, the place that changed all three men’s lives forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Immersive and intriguing!
- De Myra H en 10-18-24
De: Joy Jordan-Lake
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Quarterlife
- A Novel
- De: Devika Rege
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. When the Bharat Party comes to power after a divisive election, Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant, is lured home to Mumbai. With him is Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to embody her ideals through a teaching fellowship in a Muslim-majority slum. Meanwhile, Naren's charismatic brother Rohit, an amateur filmmaker, sets out to explore his roots and befriends the fiery young men of the Hindu nationalist machine.
De: Devika Rege
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Paper Boat
- New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margaret Atwood
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own.
De: Margaret Atwood
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Don't Know Much About the Civil War
- Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Dick Estell
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Civil War book
- De Steven en 08-04-12
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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Wild Chocolate
- Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
- De: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Sam Rushton
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Chasing chocolate down the supply chain and back through history, Jacobsen travels the rainforests of the Amazon and Central America to find the chocolate makers, activists, and indigenous leaders who are bucking the system that long ago abandoned wild and heirloom cacao in favor of high-yield, low-flavor varietals preferred by Big Chocolate.
De: Rowan Jacobsen
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Errors
- De The Product Owner en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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The Blood Telegram
- Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
- De: Gary J. Bass
- Narrado por: Dennis Heath
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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This magnificent history provides the first full account of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s secret support for Pakistan in 1971 as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh—which led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left major strategic consequences for the world today.
De: Gary J. Bass
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Strongman
- The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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What makes a country fall to a dictator? How are authoritarian leaders - strongmen - capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again? By profiling five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein - Kenneth C. Davis seeks to answer these questions, examining the forces in these strongmen's personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they'd become.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute must read
- De Full of Regret... en 02-03-21
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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Slaveroad
- An Autobiography
- De: John Edgar Wideman
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists.
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My Darlings
- De: Marie Still
- Narrado por: Kelli Tager, Zura Johnson, Megan Tusing, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Stay-at-home mom Eloise Williams is PTO president and a respected local philanthropist who sits on the boards of many distinguished charities. In addition to being a doting wife and mother, she is also a serial killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not your typical housewife. Loved this one!
- De Christine en 10-08-24
De: Marie Still
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80/20 Daily
- Your Day-by-Day Guide to Happier, Healthier, Wealthier, and More Successful Living Using the 8020 Principle
- De: Richard Koch
- Narrado por: James Quinn
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch's most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year's worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you to identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it - and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.
De: Richard Koch
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