Power History

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    • A New History of the Middle Ages
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,663 ratings
    • When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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    • Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,056 ratings
    • This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,854 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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    • Theory Practice and Implications
    • By: Michael A. McDevitt
    • Narrated by: Ian Putnam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal....

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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: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,430 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
    • By: Josie Cox
    • Narrated by: Josie Cox
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality....

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    • Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Tim Marshall
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....

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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years....

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    • By: Richard Ingalese
    • Narrated by: Nathan Minnehan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • THIS book is made up from personal notes and stenographic reports of lectures delivered in New York City during the seasons of 1900-1901-1902, with the addition of some new matter in the form of amplifications....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States....

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    • The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,399 ratings
    • In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us....

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest.

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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • By: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

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    • The History of an Obsession
    • By: Peter L. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Peter L. Bernstein tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas...

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    • The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict
    • By: Mick Ryan
    • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • War Transformed provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy and the forces that must execute that strategy. Just as previous industrial revolutions have advanced societies, the fourth industrial revolution will have a similar impact on how humans fight....

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    • Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Stalin, Book 1
    • Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
    • A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....

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