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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • By: John Christopher
    • Narrated by: William Gaminara
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • Christopher's classic post-apocalyptic novel follows the struggles of John Custance and his family as they make their way across an England that is rapidly descending into anarchy....

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    • Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia
    • By: Bob Maddams
    • Narrated by: David Seys
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-16
    • Language: English
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    • This is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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    • The Four Horsemen, Book 3
    • By: Laura Thalassa
    • Narrated by: Susannah Jones, Jay Ben Markson
    • Series: The Four Horsemen [Thalassa], Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will....

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    • New Biography of a Dictator
    • By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Michael Buerk
    • Narrated by: Michael Buerk
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-05
    • Language: English
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    • Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, and Lockerbie....

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    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • Understanding the Roman Empire, American Empire, British Empire, & Much More
    • By: Robert Dean
    • Narrated by: Sam Bubis
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • War. Famine. Conquest. Death. Explore the rise and fall of history’s greatest empires. This is a thrilling study of empires whose leaders lost sight of their civic obligations, leading to revolts, social disruption, and inescapable destruction....

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    • Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A breakout best seller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara....

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    • Daughters of the Promised Land, Book 3
    • By: Jill Eileen Smith
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Series: Daughters of the Promised Land, Book 3
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • When famine visits Bethlehem, Boaz holds out hope for rain while his relative Elimelech moves his wife, Naomi, and their sons to Moab....

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    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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