Showing results for "Was" in Politics & Government
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Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney
- By: John Sweeney
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Lucy Letby is Britain's worst female serial killer in modern times. Or is she? Join John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith as they reassess the safety of Letby's convictions. On the day she was first convicted, veteran journalist John Sweeney tweeted: "Lucy Letby may well be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, that the Crown has taken a cluster of accidental and natural deaths and pointed the finger at Letby. There is no compelling evidence of a single murder. The law, sometimes, gets it wrong. Follow John on Twitter - @johnsweeneyroar / @edwardabelsmith Please support this independent ...
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Brilliant
- By miss c f blackman on 03-04-22
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I Am Malala
- The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
- By: Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
- Narrated by: Archie Panjabi
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall935
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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* 'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling 'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDEPENDENT 'She has the heart and courage of a...
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An amazing true life wonder
- By Barbara on 04-07-14
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I Am Malala
- The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
- Narrated by: Archie Panjabi
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Why Marx Was Right
- 2nd Edition
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance160
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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are.
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More apologetics than convincing argument
- By Master Ewan J. Johnstone on 28-03-19
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Why Marx Was Right
- 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Elizabethans
- How Modern Britain Was Forged
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance71
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The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain’s Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr Britain changed fundamentally during the Queen’s long...
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Modern British history read by HAL 9000
- By Amazon Customer on 08-10-20
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Elizabethans
- How Modern Britain Was Forged
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Hitler
- Only the World Was Enough
- By: Brendan Simms
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance54
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Brought to you by Penguin. Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of...
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Nuanced and enlightening
- By Julle on 01-03-20
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Hitler
- Only the World Was Enough
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for...
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Lincoln with an overtly religious spin
- By Amazon Customer on 03-11-22
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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The Man Who Was Saturday
- The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave
- By: Patrick Bishop
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance26
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SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures...
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Enjoyable but frustratingly light
- By Tommy on 07-05-19
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The Man Who Was Saturday
- The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
- The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
- By: Tim Tate
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance36
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Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski, and he remains one of the most important yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.
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It's the little things
- By Bunter on 10-10-21
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The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
- The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- By: Matthew Engel
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly—except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly presides. How did we get from there to here in a single reign? To cancel culture, anti-vaxxers and Twitter feeds? Matthew Engel tells the story—starting with the years from Churchill to Thatcher—with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
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Wonderful review of Britain from 50s to 70s
- By Julia Mann on 18-10-24
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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The Scientist Who Wasn't There
- A true story of staggering deception
- By: Joanne Briggs
- Narrated by: Joanne Briggs
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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'A page-turner with a mystery to solve, and a meditation on what it means for a child to know their parents' - Cathy Rentzenbrink 'An exceptional, entirely unpredictable, real-life thriller' - Michael Mansfield 'An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science'...
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Absolutely compelling
- By Darren Howe on 28-06-26
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The Scientist Who Wasn't There
- A true story of staggering deception
- Narrated by: Joanne Briggs
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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It Was All a Lie
- How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
- By: Stuart Stevens
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance27
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today “A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the...
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An honest self-appraisal that needs listening to
- By Mr A Bowater on 24-11-20
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It Was All a Lie
- How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Guns, Girls, and Greed
- I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq
- By: Morgan Lerette
- Narrated by: Jay Mohr
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Lerette, a private contractor employed by the notorious Blackwater in the early days of the Iraq War, pulls no punches in calling out the incompetence of both the US military and the Department of State during the collapse of Iraq. You can decide if the insertion of private contractors in Iraq assisted or detracted from the war effort and if the costs in blood and treasure were worth the carnage.
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Great book.
- By Christopher Crosland on 05-11-24
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Guns, Girls, and Greed
- I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq
- Narrated by: Jay Mohr
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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The Christian Past That Wasn't
- Debunking the Christian Nationalist Myths That Hijack History
- By: Warren Throckmorton
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this lively book, Warren Throckmorton, coauthor of Getting Jefferson Right, investigates the gloss that Christian nationalist storytellers put on history and equips listeners to debunk seven myths that they propagate. Working in the tradition of muckraking journalists, Throckmorton picks a...
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The Christian Past That Wasn't
- Debunking the Christian Nationalist Myths That Hijack History
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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Du bist nicht allein
- Das Mehrheitsparadox oder was passiert, wenn die Mitte der Gesellschaft das Gefühl hat, am Rand zu stehen
- By: Jan Fleischhauer
- Narrated by: Jan Fleischhauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In diesem Hörbuch beschreibt Jan Fleischhauer ein neues Phänomen, das für unsere Demokratie brandgefährlich ist: Wenn die Mehrheit der Gesellschaft das Gefühl hat, in der Politik und den Medien nicht mehr repräsentiert zu werden. Es ist das Mehrheitsparadox: Der Einzelne denkt, er sei mit seiner Meinung allein, und stellt dann überrascht fest, dass die meisten so denken wie er. Sie schweigen – aus Angst, lächerlich gemacht zu werden.
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Du bist nicht allein
- Das Mehrheitsparadox oder was passiert, wenn die Mitte der Gesellschaft das Gefühl hat, am Rand zu stehen
- Narrated by: Jan Fleischhauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-05-26
- Language: German
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Wie Demokratien sterben: Und was wir dagegen tun können
- By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In ihrem mehrfach preisgekrönten Bestseller zeigen die beiden Politologen Steven Levitsky und Daniel Ziblatt, woran wir erkennen, dass demokratische Institutionen und Prozesse ausgehöhlt werden. Und sie sagen, wie wir diese Entwicklung stoppen können. Denn mit gezielter Gegenwehr lässt sich die Demokratie retten – auch vom Sterbebett.
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Wie Demokratien sterben: Und was wir dagegen tun können
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-05-26
- Language: German
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The Nation That Never Was
- Reconstructing America's Story
- By: Kermit Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Kermit Roosevelt III
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order.
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Feedback from a strict but kindly professor
- By Leila A on 31-01-24
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The Nation That Never Was
- Reconstructing America's Story
- Narrated by: Kermit Roosevelt III
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-06-22
- Language: English
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I Was Never Here
- My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffees, Code Names, and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism
- By: Andrew Kirsch
- Narrated by: Andrew Kirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Andrew Kirsch didn’t grow up watching spy movies, or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond. He was hardly aware that Canada even had its own intelligence service—let alone knew what its officers did. But when a terrorist attack occurred near the office of his financial services job, all of a sudden fighting terrorism meant a lot more to him than the markets. Within 18 months he had landed a job with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)—where he spent the next decade of his life.
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I Was Never Here
- My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffees, Code Names, and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism
- Narrated by: Andrew Kirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
- And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
- By: Alyssa Mastromonaco
- Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval Office, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion - meeting the queen at Buckingham Palace, bursting in on secret climate talks or nailing a campaign speech in a hailstorm - there were dozens of less-than-perfect moments when it was up to Alyssa to save the day.
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Maybe Alyssa thought this was a good idea.....
- By Duncan Mackechnie on 30-08-17
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
- And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
- Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-08-17
- Language: English
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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
- By: David Bentley Hart
- Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God’s power or God’s nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God - if such exists - allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea, David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering.
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A complex read
- By John on 03-01-25
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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
- Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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