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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: 20-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
    • By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....

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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: 30-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
    • By: Michael Malice
    • Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il....

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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: 06-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • 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: 24-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....

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    • By: John Christopher
    • Narrated by: William Gaminara
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • 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: 18-09-2019
    • 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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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 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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    • By: Rachel Grant
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Series: Flashpoint, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • When a food storage depot in famine-struck South Sudan is torched, American aid worker Brie Stewart flees, only to land in a market where she's the next item up for auction....

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    • A Tale of Good and Evil
    • By: Michael Malice
    • Narrated by: Michael Malice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe....

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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: 17-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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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: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • 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: 14-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism....

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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: 13-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 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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    • The Real Story of China in Africa
    • By: Deborah Brautigam
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas....

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    • A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....

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