Modern Politics

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    • By: Mary Midgley
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful audiobook, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract....

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    • What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
    • By: Daniel W. Drezner
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What's more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protesters who compare the president to a child....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
    • By: Donald Robertson
    • Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Socrates is the most famous ancient philosopher and the father of the entire Western philosophical tradition. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet his work has largely been left to gather dust in academia – until now.

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 848 ratings
    • Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: Michael Inwood
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • By: Matt Johnson
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Series: Robert Finlay, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Robert Finlay is looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life. But fate has other plans. Finlay's traumatic past is about to return to haunt him....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ansgar Allen
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly - "I hate to be a cynic, but...." - before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
    • By: Henry Jay Przybylo MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination....

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