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  • Why Nations Fail cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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  • The Great Famine: A History from Beginning to End cover art

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    • The Death of Grass

    • By: John Christopher
    • Narrated by: William Gaminara
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 395 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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    • Churchill's Secret War

    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....

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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
    • Release date: 30-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 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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    • Famine

    • The Four Horsemen, Book 3
    • By: Laura Thalassa
    • Narrated by: Susannah Jones, Jay Ben Markson
    • Series: The Four Horsemen [Thalassa], Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings

    • In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will....

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  • A Brief History of Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice cover art

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    • The Doomsday Machine

    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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    • China After Mao

    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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    • Lights, Camera, Jemuru

    • Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia
    • By: Bob Maddams
    • Narrated by: David Seys
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school....

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    • The Hard Road Out

    • One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
    • By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....

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    • Stalin

    • New Biography of a Dictator
    • By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

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    • The Road Taken

    • An Autobiography
    • By: Michael Buerk
    • Narrated by: Michael Buerk
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, and Lockerbie....

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    • The Corporation That Changed the World

    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • Tambora

    • The Eruption That Changed the World
    • By: Gillen D'Arcy Wood
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years....

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    • Midst Toil and Tribulation

    • Safehold, Book 6
    • By: David Weber
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Series: Safehold, Book 6
    • Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings

    • Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church—egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes....

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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
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • The Great Warming

    • Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A breakout best seller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara....

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