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The Struggle for Catalonia
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- De Anonymous User en 07-13-20
De: Michael Booth
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The Hidden History of Burma
- Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
- De: Thant Myint-U
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects all of the elements that came together to challenge the incipient democracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive Account on Burma’s recent problems
- De Anonymous User en 11-18-19
De: Thant Myint-U
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The Italians
- De: John Hooper
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Mi piace molto!
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-30-16
De: John Hooper
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The Chancellor
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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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5 out of 5 stars
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What a remarkable leader in these trying times!
- De Doug Easterling en 11-30-21
De: Kati Marton
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The Party
- The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
- De: Richard McGregor
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China's economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the US; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China's secretive political machine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The content is good but the narrator is terrible
- De Kit en 02-24-20
De: Richard McGregor
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Hitler's True Believers
- How Ordinary People Became Nazis
- De: Robert Gellately
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodgepodge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
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Heaven on Earth
- The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
- De: Joshua Muravchik
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 63
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A biased yet informative masterpiece
- De CodyPeacock12349 en 04-04-21
De: Joshua Muravchik
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Stimulating
- De Amazon Customer en 03-16-20
De: Joshua Yaffa
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 990
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 988
In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 08-03-20
De: Vincent Bevins
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The Invention of Russia
- From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
- De: Arkady Ostrovsky
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 179
The end of Communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad Story of Russia's Abandonment of Liberalism
- De Amazon Customer en 10-03-16
De: Arkady Ostrovsky
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The Invention of China
- De: Bill Hayton
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals.
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1 out of 5 stars
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trash
- De Maciel en 11-21-22
De: Bill Hayton
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- De: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrado por: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey
- De Saul M en 09-18-20
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- De: Nadav Eyal
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt, or simply unresponsive to urgent needs.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good observations, very politically biased.
- De P. Bradley en 11-29-23
De: Nadav Eyal
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America and Iran
- A History, 1720 to the Present
- De: John Ghazvinian
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams - and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Distortions Galore
- De Chuck S. en 03-15-21
De: John Ghazvinian
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Fascism
- A Warning
- De: Madeleine Albright
- Narrado por: Madeleine Albright
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,502
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,995
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,958
At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, believed that democracy had triumphed politically once and for all. Yet nearly 30 years later, the direction of history no longer seems certain. A repressive and destructive force has begun to reemerge on the global stage - sweeping across Europe, parts of Asia, and the United States - that to Albright, looks very much like fascism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warning!
- De JAL en 04-19-18
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Case for Democracy
- De Jean en 05-18-17
De: Condoleezza Rice