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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it....

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • A History
    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 32 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking....

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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: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,917 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

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    • June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • By: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
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    • In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

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    • Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
    • By: Hannah McElhinney
    • Narrated by: Rudy Jean Rigg
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • By: China Miéville
    • Narrated by: China Miéville
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • Between the Extremes
    • By: Nick Clegg
    • Narrated by: Nick Clegg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • Nick Clegg knows the volatile state of modern politics better than anyone else....

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