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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- By: Martin Jacques
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly little explained or understood.
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Very disappointing
- By Russell on 08-09-10
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-12-09
- Language: English
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47 Ronin
- By: John Allyn Jr., Stephen Turnbull - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan.
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A Great Story
- By JOD on 27-05-24
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47 Ronin
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-11-13
- Language: English
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- By: Fredrik Logevall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several...
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Excellent
- By Simon on 30-12-18
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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History of Thailand
- A Captivating Guide to the Thai People and Their History
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Thailand has seen its fair share of struggles. Today, the Thai government struggles to find its place in the world, oscillating between democracy and authoritarian regimes. Even though its name translates to “Land of the Free”, it seems the country has some trouble living up to that name. This captivating guide to the Thai people and their history details the interesting events that led the country to where it is today.
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Great story but need a new reader!
- By Michal Zielinski on 04-01-25
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History of Thailand
- A Captivating Guide to the Thai People and Their History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-04-21
- Language: English
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- By: Martha Sherrill
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Overall12
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In the snow country of Japan during World War II, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property. By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of the breed becomes Morie's passion and life. Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever changed.
In beautiful prose that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres conformity, and what it means to live.
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Great Book
- By R. Smith on 16-04-17
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-05-08
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- By: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance37
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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True 5 stars
- By T. Hodge on 01-04-22
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: English
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Musashi Distilled: Life Lessons from Japan’s Greatest Swordsman.
- Stories of Mindset, Strategy, Overthinking and Personal Growth
- By: Eternal Knowledge Books
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In 17th century Japan, a masterless samurai with nothing but his sword and unwavering resolve defeated over sixty opponents in life-or-death duels. He died undefeated.
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Best audiobook
- By S. J. Watson on 10-05-26
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Musashi Distilled: Life Lessons from Japan’s Greatest Swordsman.
- Stories of Mindset, Strategy, Overthinking and Personal Growth
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-03-26
- Language: English
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Travels with Herodotus
- By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes.
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Totally original
- By Anonymous on 07-08-25
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Travels with Herodotus
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.
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Animal Farm but for real
- By Mark Cousins on 25-11-23
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Yoga as Embodied Resistance
- A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History
- By: Anjali Rao, Thenmozhi Soundararajan - introduction
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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What does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power? This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga...
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Yoga as Embodied Resistance
- A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- By: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall325
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Performance293
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds, paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice.
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acknowledgement of facts..?
- By Shannon on 17-07-15
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-05-12
- Language: English
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- By: Tania Branigan
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance27
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More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.
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Important book on understanding China
- By J. Drew on 14-04-23
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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Japanese Mythology Collection
- Japanese Fairy Tales and Aino Folk-Tales (Annotated) with a Historical Introduction
- By: Iwaya Sazanami, Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover fascinating ancient Japanese fairy tales as well as the folk tales of the Ainu/Aino. The first book in this collection, titled Japanese Fairy Tales, was written by Iwaya Sazanami and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, a 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. The second book in this collection is a rare one that is not usually available in audio format: Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Chamberlain, one of the most prominent British Japanologists active in Japan during the latter half of the 19th century.
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Great stories and a fine story telling narrator
- By Mr. Steve Cavanagh on 23-04-24
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Japanese Mythology Collection
- Japanese Fairy Tales and Aino Folk-Tales (Annotated) with a Historical Introduction
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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MiG Alley
- The US Air Force in Korea, 1950-53
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance24
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Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, amongst other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. From that point onwards, a very different story began to emerge.
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New learnings
- By Shakin' Stevens on 11-06-24
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MiG Alley
- The US Air Force in Korea, 1950-53
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- By: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal act of submission not only swathes of the richest land in India but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond.
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excellent book, pronunciations a bit iffy
- By John Smith on 26-10-17
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
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fascinating period expertly told
- By Little Chandler on 28-11-24
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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India
- 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
- By: Audrey Truschke
- Narrated by: Audrey Truschke
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India—which includes today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan—and the people who have lived there.
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Excellent real history of South Asia
- By Mr. X. Dijo on 10-07-25
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India
- 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
- Narrated by: Audrey Truschke
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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See You Again in Pyongyang
- A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
- By: Travis Jeppesen
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...
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Everyone should listen.
- By Oliver Green on 19-10-22
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See You Again in Pyongyang
- A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 29-05-18
- Language: English
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Shinto
- The Kami Way
- By: Sokyo Ono Ph.D., William P. Woodard - contributor
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. Relatively unknown among the religions of the world, Shinto: The Kami Way provides an enlightening window into this Japanese faith.
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Shinto
- The Kami Way
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-04-25
- Language: English
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The Great Heist
- China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
- By: David R. Shedd, Andrew Badger
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history—reshaping the global balance of power and redrawing the geopolitical map for decades to come The Great Heist exposes...
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The Great Heist
- China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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