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Neither Devil Nor Child
- How Western Attitudes Are Harming Africa
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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5 out of 5 stars
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Academic
- De Jonah en 09-30-19
De: Paul Collier, y otros
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- De: Martin Jacques
- Narrado por: Scott Peterson
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 146
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly little explained or understood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lucid explanation of global economic trends
- De David Blake en 01-04-10
De: Martin Jacques
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Hopes and Prospects
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Brian Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky examines the dangers and prospects of our early 21st century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future. Chomsky surveys the democratic wave in Latin America and the growing global solidarity movements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Intellectual Wind Tunnel
- De Cellar_Door_Books en 04-23-11
De: Noam Chomsky
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The Precipice
- Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change
- De: Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Of Incalculable Importance
- De Anonymous User en 12-15-21
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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The Darker Nations
- A People's History of the Third World
- De: Vijay Prashad, Howard Zinn - editor
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 51
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Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement - the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the 20th century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So informative!
- De krishna chaitanya en 01-03-22
De: Vijay Prashad, y otros
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Foreign Policy Begins at Home
- De: Richard Haass
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’ Foreign Policy Begins at Home. A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges. But U.S. national security depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second-class schools, and outdated immigration system
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4 out of 5 stars
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Last 4 years
- De Don en 07-22-17
De: Richard Haass
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- De: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening....
- De M. Levine en 02-25-11
De: Sheldon S. Wolin
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Blood Oil
- Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
- De: Leif Wenar
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caveat: Human beings -- Totally untrustworthy
- De lost the power cord could you send me another cord address 13 east wilmont ave somers point nj 08244 en 05-17-16
De: Leif Wenar
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The Great Delusion
- Liberal Dreams and International Realities
- De: John J. Mearsheimer
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 368
In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dense, fact filled, sober analysis and prescription
- De John Brynjolfsson en 12-15-18
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The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- De: Kevin Rudd
- Narrado por: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 217
The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectual property, intelligence satellites peer, and AI technicians plot. The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily. Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, is one of the very few people who can offer real insight into the mindsets of the leadership whose judgment will determine if a war will be fought.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Xi and the CCP Approve this Message
- De Andrizomai en 12-04-22
De: Kevin Rudd
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Ill Fares the Land
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
- De Michael en 07-15-10
De: Tony Judt
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- De: Richard Haass
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 447
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The World is designed to provide listeners of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world. It will empower them to manage the flood of daily news. Listeners will become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments. While it is impossible to predict what the next crisis will be or where it will originate, those who listen to The World will have what they need to understand its basics and the principal choices for how to respond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Primer for young adults
- De Howells en 05-24-20
De: Richard Haass
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The New Road to Serfdom
- A Letter of Warning to America
- De: Daniel Hannan
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 100
In The New Road to Serfdom, British conservative Daniel Hannan argues forcefully and passionately that Americans must not allow Barack Obama to take us down the road to EU-style social democracy. Instead, he pleads with Americans not to abandon the founding principles that made their country a beacon of liberty for the rest of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read from a brilliant man...
- De Martin en 10-30-11
De: Daniel Hannan
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 43 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,058
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through 34 nations and 60 years of political and cultural change—all in one integrated, enthralling narrative.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but not terrific listening
- De History en 10-18-11
De: Tony Judt
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Creating Freedom
- The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
- De: Raoul Martinez
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The BEST book, I've listened to in a long time
- De G. Newton en 04-16-17
De: Raoul Martinez