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 1,652 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 1,246 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 24,812 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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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 685 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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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 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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    • 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 15,020 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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    • 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 4,412 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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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    • America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
    • By: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 27 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 314 ratings
    • From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines, the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East....

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    • A Traveler's Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch
    • By: Kristen J. Sollee
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollee - a second-generation witch herself - explores the witch as a figure of female power and persecution....

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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 1,537 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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    • 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 70 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 Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world....

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    • A History of Its Rise to Power
    • By: Thomas Reppetto
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street....

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