Modern Politics

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 634 ratings
    • Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Tanner
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • With his well known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Peter Singer
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy....

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    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring....

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    • The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
    • By: David Hatcher Childress
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the amazing world of ancient technology, from computers in antiquity to the flying machines of the gods....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Gary Gutting
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Gary Gutting presents a wide-ranging but nonsystematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: Michael Inwood
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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    • By: Matt Johnson
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Series: Robert Finlay, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Robert Finlay is looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life. But fate has other plans. Finlay's traumatic past is about to return to haunt him....

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    • What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
    • By: Daniel W. Drezner
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What's more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protesters who compare the president to a child....

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    • Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
    • By: Wade Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures....

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    • By: Mary Midgley
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful audiobook, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract....

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