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Charles Babbage
- The Life and Legacy of the Father of Modern Computers
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In the last 50 years, life has been simplified by the awe-inspiring advancements that have been achieved in the world of computer science and technology. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unveiled the Apple I, the first-ever computer that operated on a single-circuit board, just five years after a team of IBM engineers introduced the “floppy disk,” which revolutionized data-sharing.
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Interesting book poorly performed
- By Patrick on 22-05-23
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Charles Babbage
- The Life and Legacy of the Father of Modern Computers
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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White Shoe
- How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
- By: John Oller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with big business and Wall Street the center of the financial world.
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White Shoe
- How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- By: James Bradley
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they - good Christians all - profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways.
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for a Chinese like me, this book is insightful.
- By Anonymous User on 01-09-19
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-04-15
- Language: English
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The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter
- William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
- By: Adam Courtenay
- Narrated by: John Derum
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for 32 years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive.
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The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter
- William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
- Narrated by: John Derum
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-05-20
- Language: English
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Zanzibar
- The History of the International Trade Center off the Coast of Africa
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Situated about 25 miles off the Tanzanian coast, Zanzibar, with its sultans and spices, merchants and mosques, dhows and doorways of richly carved timber, has captured the imagination of travelers and writers for hundreds of years. It has long evoked a romantic mystique, calling up images of an island paradise in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Its gleaming Muslim Swahili town, built of white coralline limestone, can trace approximately 1,000 years of maritime trading.
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Zanzibar
- The History of the International Trade Center off the Coast of Africa
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-10-16
- Language: English
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Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
- The History of the World's Most Notorious Volcanic Explosions
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dale Smelko
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Perhaps the most famous and most destructive eruption in modern history was the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Even without the instantaneous forms of communication that are now available, the world watched in wonder for new updates about a tiny South Pacific island. And though few of them would ever go there, Krakatoa remained a source of fascination for the much of the world for the next 50 years.
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dreadful voice
- By Patrick Redmond on 29-02-24
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The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
- The History of the World's Most Notorious Volcanic Explosions
- Narrated by: Dale Smelko
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-04-15
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau
- By: Julie Ferry
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In 1895, nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles. For the English gentlemen the girls married it was a way to secure their estates. For the girls who came from new money, marriage was a means to obtaining social prestige. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau tells the stories of these nine heiresses and the remarkable women who made it happen - the unofficial marriage brokers Lady Minnie-Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Duchess of Manchester.
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Not what it promises.
- By Kath on 10-12-21
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The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-17
- Language: English
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The Fall of the House of Wilde
- Oscar Wilde and His Family
- By: Emer O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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The Fall of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times and in the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive account, this is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose own fall from grace in a trial as public as his father's marked the end of fin de siècle decadence.
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Intelligent and thought provoking.
- By Campesque on 29-01-18
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The Fall of the House of Wilde
- Oscar Wilde and His Family
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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Smell Detectives
- An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
- By: Melanie A. Kiechle
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth.
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Smell Detectives
- An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-11-17
- Language: English
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Ripper Hunter
- By: M. J. Trow
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloody murders that repelled - and fascinated - contemporaries and has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M. J. Trow’s compelling biography of this preeminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions.
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Enlightening.
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-23
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Ripper Hunter
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-06-13
- Language: English
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
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The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
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Very interesting
- By Anonymous User on 29-03-23
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-05-11
- Language: English
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
- How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Throughout much of the 19th century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago.
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Well argued, balanced and informative.
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-22
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
- How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to His Family and Friends
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: James Geagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of all time. He was a unique and brilliant man, whose life and energy comes through in his letters which he wrote to his close friends and family. These letters have become a classic and, along with his novels, have been translated into 170 languages.
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Outstanding
- By Pulse on 30-05-23
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Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to His Family and Friends
- Narrated by: James Geagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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The Star Drive
- The True Story of a Genius, an Engine and Our Future
- By: Phillip Hills
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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In May 2018, NASA called a press conference to announce the successful test-run of their tiny nuclear reactor KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology). This revolutionary technology, which runs on heat alone, may have profound consequences for the future of mankind, enabling us to maintain permanent bases on the Moon, on Mars, and other planets, and eventually power a starship. On earth too it could have enormous benefits as a new way to generate power at a time when climate change is threatening our very existence.
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The Star Drive
- The True Story of a Genius, an Engine and Our Future
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-03-22
- Language: English
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Le soleil d'Austerlitz
- Napoléon 2
- By: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Napoléon a trente ans en ce mois de noembre 1799. Il est Premier consul. Dans cinq ans, il sera Empereur des Français. "Joseph, si notre père nous voyait", murmurera-t-il à son frère aîné lors du sacre. Un an encore et il s'écriera : "Soldats, je suis content de vous !" Voilà la course légendaire. À la suivre jour après jour, on mesure la tension, la lucidité, la volonté, l'énergie, le génie, qu'il a fallu à Napoléon pour franchir les obstacles. Cadoudal le royaliste veut le tuer. L'Angleterre, l'Autriche, la Russie veulent l'abattre. Il faut l'emporter, sinon tout s'effondre.
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Le soleil d'Austerlitz
- Napoléon 2
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Series: Napoléon, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 20-05-16
- Language: French
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Stürmischer Beginn
- Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts 1
- By: Golo Mann
- Narrated by: Achim Höppner
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Unruhige Jahre sind es, die am Beginn der modernen deutschen Geschichte stehen selbst wenn die Unruhe zunächst von außen kommt. Die Französische Revolution, dann Napoleon mit seinen Feldzügen verändern die europäische und auch die deutsche Landkarte.
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Stürmischer Beginn
- Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts 1
- Narrated by: Achim Höppner
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-10-07
- Language: German
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Van Gogh
- A Power Seething (Icons)
- By: Julian Bell
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.
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Beautifully empathic
- By Tim Patrick on 30-01-24
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Van Gogh
- A Power Seething (Icons)
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Icons
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-01-15
- Language: English
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The Real-Life World's Most Interesting Men
- Victorian Explorers Francis Burton and Richard M. Stanley: History 1-Hour Reads, Book 3
- By: Michael Rank
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Everybody imagines the world's most interesting man to be a fictional, gray-haired lothario who drinks Mexican beer and boasts of his legendary exploits. But what if a man like this really lived? It turns out he did, and there were two of them--both Victorian explorers.
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The Real-Life World's Most Interesting Men
- Victorian Explorers Francis Burton and Richard M. Stanley: History 1-Hour Reads, Book 3
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 22-01-15
- Language: English
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- By: Victoria Johnson
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. In melodic prose, historian Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack's tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact. The result is a lush portrait of the man who gave voice to a new, deeply American understanding of the powers and perils of nature.
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-07-18
- Language: English
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