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    • A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
    • By: Gerald Posner
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church....

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    • The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
    • By: Adam LeBor
    • Narrated by: John Mawson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-25
    • Language: English
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    • Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution.

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    • A History of the World in Seven Deals
    • By: Paolo Zannoni
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the centre of Mediaeval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of financial crisis, it was here that the foundations of modern banking were born.

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    • How Central Bankers Rigged the World
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

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    • How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Steven Kotler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,651 ratings
    • Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....

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    • The Story of the Russian Revolution
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

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    • History's Unknown Chapters
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Giles Milton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton - one of today's most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historians....

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    • Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
    • By: Jay Solomon
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
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    • From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States - in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower....

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    • The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
    • By: Simon Parkin
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning journalist Simon Parkin tells the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger?

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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • By: William L. Silber
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

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    • Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
    • By: Jordan Goodman
    • Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth....

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    • Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
    • By: Neil Irwin
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars....

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    • The History of Banking and How the World of Finance Became What It Is Today
    • By: K. Connors
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Cover
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-17
    • Language: English
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    • Have you ever wondered who started banking and for what reason? Or where money came from and how it's regulated? Ever wonder how banks are able to lend out billions of dollars at a time....

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    • Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
    • By: John Allison
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no....

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    • Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-16
    • Language: English
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    • In this highly original, gripping book, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War....

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    • The First Dreadnought Engagement, January 1915
    • By: Tobias R. Philbin, Tobias Philbin
    • Narrated by: Claton Butcher
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-14
    • Language: English
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    • Tobias Philbin's Battle of Dogger Bank provides a keen analytical description of the battle and its place in the naval history of World War I....

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    • Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre
    • By: Georgina Banks
    • Narrated by: Georgina Banks, Jane Harber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
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    • Back to Bangka is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime - in their vulnerability and profound strength....

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