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Happy City
- Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- By: Charles Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl?
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Great book-terrible narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 02-04-19
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Happy City
- Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-08-15
- Language: English
- After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time....
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The New Localism
- How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
- By: Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.
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Interesting subject ruined by terrible VO
- By Marshall Hines on 01-07-19
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The New Localism
- How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-11-18
- Language: English
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In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....
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Life As A Small Town City Manager
- A Primer on Local Government Politics
- By: Carl Stephani, Marilyn Stephani
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager job. The job got complicated from the first day and developed into more and more complexity.
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Life As A Small Town City Manager
- A Primer on Local Government Politics
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-29-24
- Language: English
- This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager ...
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- By: Samuel Stein
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms 60 percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and developer.
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Informative
- By Danica on 12-10-24
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined....
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Uncommon Grounds
- The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
- By: Mark Pendergrast
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
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Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs.
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Décent overarching review of coffee history digressing into its American commercialization
- By seajaywood on 05-23-19
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Uncommon Grounds
- The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-14-18
- Language: English
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Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....
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Why Cities Lose
- The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
- By: Jonathan A. Rodden
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography.
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great book
- By Evan Romel on 10-17-24
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Why Cities Lose
- The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-07-20
- Language: English
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Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....
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The New Urban Crisis
- How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
- By: Richard Florida
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality.
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Audiobook review: Maps, figures, charts, etc?
- By on vacation on 06-18-17
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The New Urban Crisis
- How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
- In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....
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The Debutante
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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Interesting but not compelling
- By Gail Jester on 04-15-23
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The Debutante
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-13-23
- Language: English
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This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....
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Portal
- San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
- By: John King
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco" more than its soaring clock tower. But as acclaimed architectural critic John King recounts, the rise of the automobile and double-deck freeways severed the city from its beloved structure. King's narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry Building, introducing colorful figures who fought to preserve its character.
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Learned so much
- By Terra Field on 02-22-24
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Portal
- San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building....
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren’t so sure it’s a good idea.
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The first half is really good
- By James on 07-12-24
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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A strong story
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s....
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Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- By: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable.
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Thanks for writing this book!!
- By G. A. Rivera on 08-14-21
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This City Is Killing Me
- Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
- By: Jonathan Foiles
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together. Through case studies, Jonathan Foiles opens up his therapy door to allow us to overhear the stories of individual poor Chicagoans. Through statistics and the example of Chicago, he teaches us how policy decisions have contributed to these individuals’ suffering.
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Loved it!
- By Britt Paige on 10-17-23
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This City Is Killing Me
- Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together....
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San Francisco Is Burning
- The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
- By: Dennis Smith
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. This watershed event in American history has never before been told with the richness of historical detail and insight that our foremost historian of fire, Dennis Smith, brings to it in San Francisco Is Burning. Smith cinematically recounts this terrible tragedy through the stories of the people who lived through those terrible days...
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Lessons from history
- By Robert on 03-02-07
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San Francisco Is Burning
- The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-30-05
- Language: English
- From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir of professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory....
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Common Ground
- A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
- By: J. Anthony Lukas
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."
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Don’t Bother
- By LoftyQuilts on 07-09-21
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Common Ground
- A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-02-18
- Language: English
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families....
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.
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An excellent book about the problem with the progressive movement
- By Amazon Customer on 10-18-21
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse....
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- By: P. E. Moskowitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. P. E. Moskowitz’s How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-12-25
- Language: English
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Taking listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities and how we can get it back.
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Because We Say So
- City Lights Open Media Series
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Because We Say So presents more than 30 concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counternarrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis.
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An antidote against American ignorance
- By jksc2011 on 05-08-16
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Because We Say So
- City Lights Open Media Series
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-03-16
- Language: English
- Because We Say So presents more than 30 concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power....
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- By: Deb Chachra
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.
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Mistitled
- By Eric on 01-09-24
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....
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Lisbon
- War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939–1945
- By: Neill Lochery
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated. Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality but in reality was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval, wars between the Allies and the Nazis. The story is not, however, a conventional tale of World War II in that barely a shot was fired or a bomb dropped. Instead, it is a gripping tale of intrigue, betrayal, opportunism, and double-dealing....
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Expostiion of Little Known Story
- By Lynn on 06-16-12
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Lisbon
- War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939–1945
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-01-11
- Language: English
- Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated....
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