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    • Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers
    • By: Robert Lighthizer
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 66 ratings
    • America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For...

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 1,426 ratings
    • “Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

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    • Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 6,497 ratings
    • 2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America...

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 1,402 ratings
    • “Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time "An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global...

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    • A Chinese Education
    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: Peter Hessler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 97 ratings
    • An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience...

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    • The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
    • By: Joseph Sassoon
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 52 ratings
    • A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately...

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 52 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil...

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    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • China, with over one billion people, is the most populated country in the world. China’s most famous tourist attraction is the Great Wall, which runs across about 5,000 miles of northern China. Rich with Chinese culture, this title explores Chinese food, holidays, and daily life.

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    • China's Quest to Engineer the Future
    • By: Dan Wang
    • Narrated by: Kevin Shen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-25
    • Language: English
    • 74 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...

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    • One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction
    • By: Erica Garza
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 315 ratings
    • “Erica Garza has written a riveting, can’t-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore…In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse…Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read” (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed...

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Zheng Xi Yong, Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 34 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 593 ratings
    • The “unparalleled master of the historical saga" (Newsweek) and internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in China: The Novel In China: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd brings his renowned talents to the Middle Kingdom...

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    • A History
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 236 ratings
    • Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's...

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 36 ratings
    • Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese. Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations...

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    • The Cyberweapons Arms Race
    • By: Nicole Perlroth
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 1,602 ratings
    • Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations) “Part John le...

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    • By: Eric Engle
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • Discover the Epic Story of China: A Concise History from Ancient Dynasties to Modern Superpower! Quickly learn the fundamental facts of China with ...

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    • How crime organises the world
    • By: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 12 ratings
    • Crime doesn't just pay, it tells. What we choose to ban, penalise or prosecute says something about us; and how far the mobsters and mafias are still able to ply their trades says something about us, too. Homo Criminalis tells a thrilling tale of the world's changing values, the rise of the...

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    • Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2025
    • By: Eva Dou
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 8 ratings
    • The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world 'Authoritative... a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today' Financial Times 'Explosive' Sunday Times 'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang 'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS 'Essential reading'...

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    • Russia, China, and the Next World War
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 156 ratings
    • Instant New York Times Bestseller A Politico Top 10 Most Anticipated Book of 2024 A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee...

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    • Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021
    • By: Nicole Perlroth
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 182 ratings
    • Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan. WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying exposé' The Times 'Part...

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