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What if weve been lied to about the origins of the opioid epidemic? The modern opioid crisis did not begin with OxyContin, or even with the heroin epidemics of the twentieth century. Its roots reach back to the Age of Discovery, when European merchants broke into the largest consumer market the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What do you do when the person you trust most fails you? In 228 AD, Zhuge Liang, the most celebrated strategist in Chinese history, launched a bold campaign against a far stronger enemy. Victory depended on one small mountain pass called Jieting...

Brahman is real; the world is an error; the self is nothing other than Brahman. The verse that has summarized Advaita Vedanta for the better part of a thousand years is anonymous. Shankara never wrote it. And it may have cost him more sympathetic readers than any of his opponents ever managed to...

Bloomsbury presents Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain’s empire in the East, by Mark Stille, read by Kris Dyer. The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but...

The withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has left a lasting impact on both Afghanistan's future and on Asian geopolitics. It has also brought China into focus. This book traces the emergence of China as a key player in Afghanistan and the evolution of China's Afghan policy especially...

Ancient Automation: The First Machines of Civilization Book 2 Long before computers, electricity, or modern factories, humanity was already building machines that could measure, regulate, calculate, and perform work. Ancient Automation: The First Machines of Civilization, Book 2 of The History...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Soldiers in Merchants’ Clothing: The Threat Winners Miss When is a leader most likely to fall? Not when things are going badly, but when everything is going right. In 219 AD, the legendary general Guan Yu won the greatest victory of his life. His...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 219 AD, Guan Yu was the most celebrated general in China. He had just drowned seven enemy armies in a single night, and his rivals were talking about abandoning their capital. A few months later, he was trapped in a small, starving town, waiting for...

Speaking of History brings India’s past into sharp, urgent focus. In these wide-ranging conversations, Romila Thapar, the distinguished historian, joins Namit Arora, incisive writer and social critic, to explore how history is written, remembered and fought over.Together, they pull back the...