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- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces listeners to some of the country’s most remarkable figures - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks an individual path of compromise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stimulating
- De Amazon Customer en 03-16-20
De: Joshua Yaffa
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Thomas L. Friedman
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 479
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 355
In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is an abridged version
- De Theodore en 03-31-14
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Never Alone
- Prison, Politics, and My People
- De: Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy
- Narrado por: Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy, Peter Lownds
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted of treason against the state. Never Alone reveals how Sharansky's years in prison, many spent in harsh solitary confinement, prepared him for a very public life after his release. As an Israeli politician and the head of the Jewish Agency, Sharansky brought extraordinary moral clarity and uncompromising, often uncomfortable, honesty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Danna Azrieli en 02-06-21
De: Natan Sharansky, y otros
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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Notes on a Foreign Country
- An American Abroad in a Post-American World
- De: Suzy Hansen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST-READ for all Truth-Seeking American wh
- De Parveen Mehdi-Newton en 12-08-17
De: Suzy Hansen
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- De: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines. In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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#GetWoke #TakeAction
- De Jessie Bindy en 04-06-17
De: Edouard Kayihura, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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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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The Last Jews in Berlin
- De: Leonard Gross
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately 160,000 Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than 5,000 remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to 1,000. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps. In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the real-life stories of a dozen Jewish men and women who spent the final 27 months of World War II underground, hiding in plain sight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Too many characters at once.
- De Andrew Miller en 12-21-23
De: Leonard Gross
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The Education of an Idealist
- A Memoir
- De: Samantha Power
- Narrado por: Samantha Power
- Duración: 21 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,054
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,039
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sam's Power: Privilege in U.S. Politics
- De RelizzScholar27 en 11-09-19
De: Samantha Power
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
- The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
- De: Bradley Hope
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo—to instead live boldly by his principles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal true story
- De NYCdogmomma en 11-13-22
De: Bradley Hope
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
- When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
- De: Peter Fritzsche
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided republic into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche offers a probing account of the pivotal moments when the majority of Germans seemed, all at once, to join the Nazis to construct the Third Reich.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Whoa! This Is Too Tense To Be A Horror Novel!
- De Ted en 07-02-20
De: Peter Fritzsche
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The People's Republic of Amnesia
- Tiananmen Revisited
- De: Louisa Lim
- Narrado por: Louisa Lim
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4 changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4 by rewriting its own history. Lim reveals new details about those fateful days, including how one of the country's most senior politicians lost a family member to an army bullet, as well as the inside story of the young soldiers sent to clear Tiananmen Square.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book and recording
- De Robert Peters en 06-14-16
De: Louisa Lim
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The Assassins' Gate
- America in Iraq
- De: George Packer
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
The Assassins' Gate, so dubbed by American soldiers, is the entrance to the American zone in the city of Baghdad. In 2003, the United States blazed into Iraq to depose dictator Saddam Hussein. But after three years and unknown thousands killed, that country faces an escalating civil war and an uncertain fate. How did it get to this point?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly Recommended
- De Drapeau en 02-01-07
De: George Packer
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Until We Are Free
- My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
- De: Shirin Ebadi
- Narrado por: Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book of Trurth
- De Babak en 07-27-17
De: Shirin Ebadi
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The Art of Resistance
- My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
- De: Justus Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 92
In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, 16-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Rosenberg, Please focus
- De Jess en 03-20-22
De: Justus Rosenberg
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 216
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind blowing
- De WILLIAM en 11-27-19
De: Howard Zinn