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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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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"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-20-12
- Language: English
- Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
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The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-11-06
- Language: English
- The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Sapiens
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-21-17
- Language: English
- 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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The Famine Plot
- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
- By: Tim Pat Coogan
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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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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Atrocities abound.
- By GMJ on 06-05-18
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The Famine Plot
- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-29-17
- Language: English
- 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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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrated by: Josie Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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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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Did not like narrator
- By Linda H. Andreae on 10-09-19
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- Narrated by: Josie Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-08-19
- Language: English
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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 Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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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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Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning
- By Carole T. on 08-22-12
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-21-12
- Language: English
- 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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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- By: Barbara Demick
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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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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The man who wants to be GOD
- By Gohar on 05-08-10
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-29-09
- Language: English
- 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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Tombstone
- The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
- By: Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. Journalist Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation....
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A must read if you are interested in evil
- By Pat Gifford on 06-30-21
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Tombstone
- The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. Journalist Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation....
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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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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Mike Davis on Audible!
- By Nathan D. Backlund on 09-02-17
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-30-17
- Language: English
- 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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Global Crisis
- War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- By: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
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The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....
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48 hours I'll never get back
- By J. on 06-03-23
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Global Crisis
- War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-06-22
- Language: English
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The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....
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Black Potatoes
- The Story of the Great Irish Famine
- By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A Decent Companion to Woodham-Smith's Book
- By Aaron on 11-03-11
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Black Potatoes
- The Story of the Great Irish Famine
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-08-10
- Language: English
- 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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Stuffed and Starved
- The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
- By: Raj Patel
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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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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Incredible. well written and comprehensive
- By Anonymous User on 05-06-21
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Stuffed and Starved
- The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-24-18
- Language: English
- 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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Three Famines
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines....
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A Clinical Approach to Starvation
- By Lynn on 01-03-12
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Three Famines
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-28-11
- Language: English
- This is the story of three terrible famines....
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The Death of Grass
- By: John Christopher
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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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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Excellent, frightening story
- By Linda B on 03-28-11
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The Death of Grass
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-25-11
- Language: English
- 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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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- By: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children....
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- By Jana on 04-24-20
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-30-19
- Language: English
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children....
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The Year Without Summer
- 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
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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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Good audiobook to fall asleep to
- By Ellen NB on 02-24-20
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-18-19
- Language: English
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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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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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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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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-09-23
- Language: English
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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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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Interesting portrait of North Korea marred by awful pronunciation
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-21
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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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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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- By: Mark Bittman
- Narrated by: Mark Bittman
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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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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Mostly Junk
- By Daniel Ducat on 05-22-21
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- Narrated by: Mark Bittman
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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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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The White Pill
- A Tale of Good and Evil
- By: Michael Malice
- Narrated by: Michael Malice
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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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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Do not buy the audio version.
- By Todd on 02-20-23
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The White Pill
- A Tale of Good and Evil
- Narrated by: Michael Malice
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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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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