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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-01-11
- Language: English
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Tim Marshall's global best seller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores 10 regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and space.
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Much enjoyed sequel
- By F on 28-04-21
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: English
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here. In 10 chapters, using essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history.
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Step back and look at politics through a new lens
- By Unique Pseudonym on 25-07-17
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-03-17
- Language: English
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Divided
- Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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New from the number-one Sunday Times best-selling author of Prisoners of Geography. We feel more divided than ever. This riveting analysis tells you why. Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past 10 years, and they are redefining our political landscape.
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Good book undermined by obtrusive narration
- By Michael Sweeney on 30-01-19
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Divided
- Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-05-18
- Language: English
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven
- By: Josh Ruxin
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: Do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success.
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-01-14
- Language: English
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Origins
- How the Earth Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece; and today voting behaviour in the United States follows the bed of an ancient sea. The human story is the story of these forces, from plate tectonics and climate change, to atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.
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Anthropology meets geography. Fascinating.
- By "Jimmy H" on 23-04-20
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Origins
- How the Earth Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control - over finance, food, energy, information, health care, and even relationships.
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One of the most important books I have ever read
- By Jayne Newman on 16-07-21
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-09-20
- Language: English
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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Ideal team
- By Sententiae on 19-02-22
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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Tides
- The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
- By: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation.
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Beyond dull
- By Chris F on 02-10-21
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The Heartbeat of Trees
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the colour green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world. In an era of climate change, many of us fear we’ve lost our connection to nature, but Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. We just have to know where to look.
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If you love trees, this is the book for you!
- By Arwen on 15-06-21
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The Heartbeat of Trees
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- By: Camilla Cavendish
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality. In Extra Time, Camilla Cavendish embarks on a journey to understand how different countries are responding to these unprecedented challenges.
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Very relevant
- By Carolyn Tsalos on 21-05-19
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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Mudlarking
- By: Lara Maiklem
- Narrated by: Lara Maiklem
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over 15 years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, what Lara calls 'the longest archaeological site in the world'.
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Unexpectedly fascinating insight into lost London
- By oorkris on 25-08-19
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Mudlarking
- Narrated by: Lara Maiklem
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-08-19
- Language: English
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Primate Change
- By: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Narrated by: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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If you think you are you, think again. Primate Change is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition.
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Largely incorrect
- By Anonimo Nonlodico on 05-02-19
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Primate Change
- Narrated by: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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Tomorrow's People
- The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers
- By: Paul Morland
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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The great forces of population change—the balance of births, deaths and migrations—have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity. The same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through 10 illuminating indicators, Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.
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I never knew demography was important until now
- By Anonymous User on 07-08-22
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Tomorrow's People
- The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....
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good book
- By Anonymous User on 20-07-20
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American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-11-11
- Language: English
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Border Wars
- The Conflicts of Tomorrow
- By: Professor Klaus Dodds
- Narrated by: Leemore Marrett Jr
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon? In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geopolitical conflict of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of the world's best-known, most dangerous and most unexpected border conflicts from the Gaza Strip to the space race. Along the way, we'll discover just what borders truly mean in the modern world.
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Informative but one sided.
- By Tomasz Janiga on 17-05-21
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Border Wars
- The Conflicts of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Leemore Marrett Jr
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- By: Enric Sala
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
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Solid argument with some novel insight
- By Friederike C. on 12-10-21
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-10-20
- Language: English
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The North Will Rise Again
- In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands
- By: Alex Niven
- Narrated by: Dan Pye
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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The North Will Rise Again covers the colourful adventures of its inhabitants, the expansiveness and optimism that defines Northern culture, and the recurrent sense of failure and despair that is at the heart of one of the West’s most impoverished regions. By telling the story of the North in the last few decades, Alex goes in search of answers to some of the big questions at the forefront of British politics and society today.
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A Hopeful View
- By davidjh on 01-04-24
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The North Will Rise Again
- In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands
- Narrated by: Dan Pye
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- By: Arturo Escobar
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….
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An introduction to the pluriverse
- By Amazon Customer on 26-04-24
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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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