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The Japanese Empire
- Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
- By: S. C. M. Paine
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland...
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The Japanese Empire
- Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-07-26
- Language: English
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- By: Martha Sherrill
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In the snow country of Japan during World War II, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property. By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of the breed becomes Morie's passion and life. Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever changed.
In beautiful prose that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres conformity, and what it means to live.
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Great Book
- By R. Smith on 16-04-17
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-05-08
- Language: English
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The Courage to Die
- A North Korean Woman’s Escape and Rebirth in Freedom
- By: Eunhee Park
- Narrated by: Kitty Jay
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Courage to Die is the powerful true story of Eunhee Park, the child of divorced parents and a mother lost to mental illness, who endured years of hunger and indoctrination in a North Korean orphanage where survival meant silence. Raised by her disabled grandfather and strong-willed grandmother, Eunhee faced abandonment, loss, and the rigid control of a totalitarian regime. To escape the regime, she crossed China in a perilous journey that exposed her to sexual abuse, hunger, exhaustion, and the constant threat of death.
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The Courage to Die
- A North Korean Woman’s Escape and Rebirth in Freedom
- Narrated by: Kitty Jay
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-03-26
- Language: English
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Coolie Woman
- The Odyssey of Indenture
- By: Gaiutra Bahadur
- Narrated by: Gaiutra Bahadur
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages-traumatic "middle passages"—only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and sexual exploitation. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next-that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
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Awful narration - borderline unlistenable
- By Fawn on 17-05-26
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Coolie Woman
- The Odyssey of Indenture
- Narrated by: Gaiutra Bahadur
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- By: Mark Singleton
- Narrated by: Benjamin Crow
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world - practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls - that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions today.
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Dull, long-winded, superficial
- By Tout en chantant on 23-12-22
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- Narrated by: Benjamin Crow
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-02-22
- Language: English
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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
- The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
- By: Larisa Brown
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Bloomsbury presents The Gardener of Lashkar Gah by Larisa Brown, read by Olivia Dowd. "Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" — John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" — The Times From the...
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 05-02-24
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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
- The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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A Past Unearthed
- Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1
- By: Jin Yong, Gigi Chang - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Loh York
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Western fantasy has JRR Tolkien, but we Asian fantasy authors have Jin Yong's stories in our DNA. The debt we owe him is immeasurable"...
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What a whirlwind of a story!
- By Kate K on 31-05-24
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A Past Unearthed
- Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1
- Narrated by: Daniel Loh York
- Series: Return of the Condor Heroes, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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The Great Mughals and Their India
- By: Dirk Collier
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world—the Mughal—from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan the magnificent Mughal legacy is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, moviemakers, artists and ordinary mortals alike. Here is a fascinating and riveting saga that brings alive a spectacular bygone era—authentically and convincingly.
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An historical novelist's research notes.
- By Kristos on 15-01-26
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The Great Mughals and Their India
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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The Invention of China
- By: Bill Hayton
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals.
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Best book about China, dreadful pronunciation
- By Max on 09-02-22
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The Invention of China
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The Sikh Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Origins, Battles, and Legacy of the 19th-Century Anglo-Sikh Conflicts
- Exploring India’s Past
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, the astonishing chronicle of the Sikh Empire unfolds, revealing a story of valor, resilience, and the fierce clash of empires. This audiobook is a portal to a bygone era, where the Sikh Army, hailed as the most formidable Indian force the British ever encountered, carved a 200,000-square-mile empire in the heart of the Punjab.
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Well presented history
- By Nick H. on 21-11-24
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The Sikh Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Origins, Battles, and Legacy of the 19th-Century Anglo-Sikh Conflicts
- Exploring India’s Past
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-05-24
- Language: English
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The Afghan Wars: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Britain has invaded Afghanistan twice before in the nineteenth century. Both times tenacious Afghan fighters defended their country to humiliating British defeats. The Soviet Union also discovered what a tough enemy the Afghans are after...
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Fascinating and tragic
- By TheNameless on 19-04-19
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The Afghan Wars: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-08-12
- Language: English
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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The national security expert who predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine argues that Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan—with dire global stakes if he is not deterred “An excellent source.” —Economist We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with...
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Alarming and convincing
- By Alex H on 09-05-24
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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Incarnations
- India in 50 Lives
- By: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrated by: Sunil Khilnani
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today.
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Incarnations
- India in 50 Lives
- Narrated by: Sunil Khilnani
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
- Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
- By: John A. Nagl, General Peter J. Schoomaker
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the conflict in Iraq—considers the now crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared.
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Reading of a scientific research study
- By Schmidt on 26-03-22
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
- Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-05-12
- Language: English
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The Way of the Samurai
- By: Inazo O. Nitobe
- Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks, long blades and elaborate armor. However, this classic text by Inazo Nitobe reveals the greater depths to samurai culture - they were not simply warriors but an aristocratic class who practiced literary and military arts in equal measure. Essential to this way of life was the samurai's moral code and the quality of bushido, roughly translated as chivalry.
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The Way of the Samurai
- Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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The World and All That It Holds
- By: Aleksandar Hemon
- Narrated by: Aleksander Mikic
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon’s masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas The epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself. As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914...
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A rather weird realist fable of tenderness in a rough world
- By Angus Jenkinson on 01-10-24
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The World and All That It Holds
- Narrated by: Aleksander Mikic
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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Policing in Japan
- 10 Facts About the Kōban System
- By: Barnaby Sorrens
- Narrated by: TienLoc Huynh
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Policing in Japan: 10 Facts About the Kōban System by Barnaby Sorrens offers a revealing, in-depth look into one of the most unique and quietly effective law enforcement models in the world. At the heart of Japan’s remarkably low crime rates lies an institution both humble in appearance and profound in purpose: the Kōban, or police box. Far from the outdated booths one might imagine, these neighbourhood fixtures are fully functioning police posts embedded directly into daily community life.
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A Fascinating Look at Japanese Policing
- By Jose Seifert on 25-03-26
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Policing in Japan
- 10 Facts About the Kōban System
- Narrated by: TienLoc Huynh
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-09-25
- Language: English
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The History of China
- A Concise Introduction to Chinese History, Culture, Dynasties, Mythology, Great Achievements & More of the Oldest Living Civilization
- By: History Brought Alive
- Narrated by: R. E. Harter
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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While there are many books that explore China’s history, public knowledge is still lacking. Many people can name more than one Roman Emperor, but how many can name a Chinese Emperor?
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Myths in a bundle
- By Tony K. Abston on 25-11-22
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The History of China
- A Concise Introduction to Chinese History, Culture, Dynasties, Mythology, Great Achievements & More of the Oldest Living Civilization
- Narrated by: R. E. Harter
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion
- By: Constance Kassor, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Constance Kassor
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion, Professor Constance Kassor, will show you the real, multi-dimensional Tibet and its people who live on the “Roof of the World,” the highest and largest plateau on Earth. In 24 fascinating lectures, you will learn how Tibet’s history was shaped by kings and kingdoms, power struggles, religion, traditions, wars, peace, and the lifestyles that developed in response to living on the world’s highest plateau.
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Lots of potential
- By Slo Mo on 18-02-24
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Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion
- Narrated by: Constance Kassor
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-05-23
- Language: English
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Valley of the Shadow
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- By: Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after World War II, the French established a huge air-land base in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) began massing its forces against the base in late 1953, French commanders seized the opportunity to draw their elusive enemy into a decisive set-piece battle. Defending a series of fortified positions which were reliant upon a single airstrip for reinforcement and resupply, the French troops quickly discovered that they had underestimated their enemy.
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shadow of the valley
- By JP on 25-06-19
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Valley of the Shadow
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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