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  • Why Nations Fail Audiobook By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson cover art

    • Why Nations Fail

    • 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 4,395 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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  • Mao Audiobook By Jung Chang, Jon Halliday cover art

    • Mao

    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,587 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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  • Homo Deus Audiobook By Yuval Noah Harari cover art

    • Homo Deus

    • A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,929 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....

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  • The Famine Plot Audiobook By Tim Pat Coogan cover art

    • The Famine Plot

    • England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
    • By: Tim Pat Coogan
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....

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  • Late Victorian Holocausts Audiobook By Mike Davis cover art

    • Late Victorian Holocausts

    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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  • The Graves Are Walking Audiobook By John Kelly cover art

    • The Graves Are Walking

    • The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....

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  • Tombstone Audiobook By Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, Guo Jian - tran

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  • The Girl with Seven Names Audiobook By Hyeonseo Lee, David John cover art

    • The Girl with Seven Names

    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,493 ratings

    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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  • Global Crisis Audiobook By Geoffrey Parker cover art

    • Global Crisis

    • War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....

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  • The Hard Road Out Audiobook By Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator cover art

    • The Hard Road Out

    • One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
    • By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....

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  • Nothing to Envy Audiobook By Barbara Demick cover art

    • Nothing to Envy

    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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  • Stuffed and Starved Audiobook By Raj Patel cover art

    • Stuffed and Starved

    • The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    • By: Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight....

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  • The Year Without Summer Audiobook By William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman cover art

    • The Year Without Summer

    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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  • The Cultural Revolution Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • The Cultural Revolution

    • A People's History, 1962—1976
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....

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  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Audiobook By Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor co

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  • Black Potatoes Audiobook By Susan Campbell Bartoletti cover art

    • Black Potatoes

    • The Story of the Great Irish Famine
    • By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people....

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  • Mao's Great Famine Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • Mao's Great Famine

    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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  • Voyage of Mercy Audiobook By Stephen Puleo cover art

    • Voyage of Mercy

    • The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
    • By: Stephen Puleo
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world....

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  • The World of Sugar Audiobook By Ulbe Bosma cover art

    • The World of Sugar

    • How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
    • By: Ulbe Bosma
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere....

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  • China After Mao Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • China After Mao

    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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