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The end of Communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad Story of Russia's Abandonment of Liberalism
- De Amazon Customer en 10-03-16
De: Arkady Ostrovsky
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Goliath
- Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
- De: Max Blumenthal
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 22 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
In Goliath, New York Times best-selling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth is rarely pretty
- De William en 10-15-13
De: Max Blumenthal
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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- De: Garry Kasparov
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 982
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 880
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A polemic against Putin
- De David en 05-27-16
De: Garry Kasparov
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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
- De: Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
- Narrado por: Fergus Nicoll
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists. Yassin-Kassab and Al-Shami expertly interweave these stories with an incisive analysis of the militarization of the uprising, the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of Syria’s government in exacerbating the brutalization of the conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitive Account of the Syrian Revolution
- De Theo Horesh en 06-07-18
De: Robin Yassin-Kassab, y otros
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Capitalism
- A Ghost Story
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Vaishali Sharma
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Courageous Reporting
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Arundhati Roy
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1968
- The Year That Rocked the World
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't let this reader near a foreign word
- De Eugene en 05-22-04
De: Mark Kurlansky
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- De: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,040
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,788
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,771
The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- De A. M. en 03-07-16
De: Steven Lee Myers
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Hard Choices
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrado por: Kathleen Chalfant, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Duración: 26 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,463
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,263
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,258
Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Senior Stateswoman in need of Editor
- De Cynthia en 07-20-14
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 914
Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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A Covert Action
- Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
- De: Seth G. Jones
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched a sophisticated intelligence campaign supporting dissident groups. With President Ronald Reagan's support, American funds bankrolled clandestine newspapers, broadcasting, and information warfare. This initiative, code-named QRHELPFUL, proved vital in establishing a free and democratic Poland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A passionate true story
- De Chris Cembrzynski en 02-15-19
De: Seth G. Jones
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The Exception to the Rulers
- Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them
- De: Amy Goodman, David Goodman
- Narrado por: Amy Goodman
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In The Exception to the Rulers, award-winning journalists Amy and David Goodman expose the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite, an elite bolstered by large media conglomerates. Her goal is “to go where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority.” This audiobook includes numerous archival audio excerpts, including statements from filmmaker Michael Moore, civil liberties victims describing their harrowing ordeals in the United States after 9/11, and more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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lacks balance
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-23
De: Amy Goodman, y otros
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Preachers of Hate
- Islam and the War on America
- De: Kenneth Timmerman
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The "new" anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make sense of the Arab world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an EXCELLENT.... EYE OPENING read!
- De Jon en 11-23-03
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Most Comprehensive Work on Rwanda
- De Greg en 07-30-10
De: Stephen Kinzer
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ISIS: The State of Terror
- De: Jessica Stern, J. M. Berger
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 245
The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda. Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger, two of America’s leading experts on terrorism, dissect the new model for violent extremism that ISIS has leveraged into an empire of death in Iraq and Syria, and an international network that is rapidly expanding in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope the current administration is reading this
- De Jonathan Love en 04-01-15
De: Jessica Stern, y otros
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The Fight of Our Lives
- My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
- De: Iuliia Mendel
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya, Iuliia Mendel
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52
In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy’s former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press inquiries after the infamous phone calls between Donald Trump and Zelenskyy that led to Trump’s first impeachment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just Great!
- De Jim Kirby en 09-20-22
De: Iuliia Mendel
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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Democracy
- Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
- De: Condoleezza Rice
- Narrado por: Grace Angela Henry
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Case for Democracy
- De Jean en 05-18-17
De: Condoleezza Rice