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The Light of Asia
- A History of Western Fascination with the East
- Narrado por: Christopher Harding
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From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part in outrageous tales of monsters and giants, of silk and spices trans-shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the 20th century much of Asia may have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its intellectual, artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back.
The Light of Asia is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of this vexed, confused but centrally important relationship. From Marco Polo onwards Asia has been both a source of genuine fascination and equally genuine failures of comprehension. China, India and Japan were all acknowledged to be both great civilizations and in crude ways superseded by the West. Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it.
De: John Eglin
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Empireworld
- How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
- De: Sathnam Sanghera
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to the shaping international law. Even today, 1 in 3 people drive on the left hand side of the road, an artifact of the British empire. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it are two very different things. Empireworld explores the ways in which British Empire has come to shape the modern world.
De: Sathnam Sanghera
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The War Below
- Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
- De: Ernest Scheyder
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of necessary materials, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder.
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Stuck in Neutral - Environmentalists vs Green Energy Transition
- De Amazon Customer en 02-14-24
De: Ernest Scheyder
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Comic Book Nation
- The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
- De: Bradford W. Wright
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- De: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Vladimir Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad.
De: Martin Sixsmith, y otros
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Big Wonderful Thing
- De: Stephen Harrigan
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 28 h y 54 m
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The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.
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Guidall is in top form with very good material
- De Elizabeth en 12-22-19
De: Stephen Harrigan
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Pure Invention
- How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- De: Matt Alt
- Narrado por: Matt Alt
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives.
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great book ruined by ending
- De Grant Holder en 06-07-22
De: Matt Alt
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000-Year History
- De: Josephine Quinn
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 18 h
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In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the “civilizational thinking” regarding the origins of Western culture—that is, the idea that civilizations arose separately and distinctly from one another. Rather, she locates the roots of the modern West in everything from the law codes of Babylon, Assyrian irrigation, and the Phoenician art of sail to Indian literature, Arabic scholarship, and the metalworking riders of the Steppe, to name just a few examples.
De: Josephine Quinn
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Empireland
- How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
- De: Sathnam Sanghera, Marlon James - foreword
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala, Marlon James
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism. Empire—whether British or otherwise—informs nearly everything we do.
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Valuable Work and a Good Listen
- De Paul in Towson, MD en 05-16-23
De: Sathnam Sanghera, y otros
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American Zion
- A New History of Mormonism
- De: Benjamin E. Park
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called "burned-over district" of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith's would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in American history. In American Zion Benjamin E. Park presents a fresh, sweeping account of the Latter-day Saints.
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Lots of commentary and broad non-Mormon historical generalities, thin on detailed Mormon history.
- De anonymous en 02-13-24
De: Benjamin E. Park
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The Counterfeit Countess
- The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
- De: Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir.
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Very different Holocaust story
- De Michell Rene en 03-29-24
De: Elizabeth B. White, y otros
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Unputdownable and precious
Just finished listening to this mesmerizing and absolutely magnificent book. He is the only English narrator with authentic Japanese pronunciation, so this sounds perfectly natural. The author is getting better and better with each book. I hope his books are swiftly translated into Japanese and audiobooks are made available in the Japanese language, too. Then, they will be invaluable resources for people studying about Japan or the Japanese language. On the other hand, Japanese people may use them as resources for studying the English language. This book is well-researched and the narrative is fascinating. I was up all night listening to this on the day it was released. Thank you, Audible, for this great audiobook.
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