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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,382 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,578 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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    • A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,861 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....

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    • England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
    • By: Tim Pat Coogan
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,475 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,088 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....

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    • The Story of the Great Irish Famine
    • By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people....

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    • The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    • By: Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight....

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    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Peter Byrne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the story of three terrible famines....

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    • By: John Christopher
    • Narrated by: William Gaminara
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Christopher's classic post-apocalyptic novel follows the struggles of John Custance and his family as they make their way across an England that is rapidly descending into anarchy....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • A People's History, 1962—1976
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
    • By: Mark Bittman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bittman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • From bestselling author and pioneering journalist Mark Bittman comes an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach....

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    • A Tale of Good and Evil
    • By: Michael Malice
    • Narrated by: Michael Malice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 812 ratings
    • The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe....

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