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Rise and Kill First
- The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
- By: Ronen Bergman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
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In this pause-resisting, eye-opening audiobook, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman - praised by David Remnick as 'arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter' - offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.
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Awesome book and reading.
- By Anonymous User on 25-05-2024
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Rise and Kill First
- The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2018
- Language: English
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
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Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is the President, not the CIA, who is singularly in charge.
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Dubious
- By adrian on 05-03-2020
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Human Tide
- How Population Shaped the Modern World
- By: Paul Morland
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change. Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to China's meteoric economy, to Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump - can be explained better when we appreciate the meaning of demographic change across the world.
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Way too anti Trump. Typical academic .
- By patrick martin on 06-04-2020
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The Human Tide
- How Population Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2019
- Language: English
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.
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Fantastic
- By Inge Buchanan on 24-01-2017
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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Megathreats
- Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
- By: Nouriel Roubini
- Narrated by: Kamran Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed 'Dr Doom,' until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true—when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats.
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Poor performance by reader
- By Bradley Perrett on 28-05-2023
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Megathreats
- Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
- Narrated by: Kamran Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2022
- Language: English
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- By: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Artificial intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what it means for us all.
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Overly long with a few key take aways
- By Kindle Customer on 24-12-2021
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Lost King
- The Search for Richard III
- By: Philippa Langley, Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch. On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII), went on to found one of our most famous ruling dynasties. Richard's body was displayed in undignified fashion for two days in nearby Leicester and then hurriedly buried in the church of the Greyfriars.
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Interesting story
- By Anonymous User on 27-02-2024
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The Lost King
- The Search for Richard III
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2018
- Language: English
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A Short History of the Apocalypse
- By: Frankie Boyle, Charlie Skelton
- Length: 10 hrs
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A Short History of the Apocalypse imagines a grotesque and bizarre future where society has collapsed and it is everyone for themselves. Well, maybe not so bizarre then . . . Covering subjects from gangs and government to bunkers and cannibalism, A Short History of the Apocalypse is a journey into our impending and doomed future.
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A Short History of the Apocalypse
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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Uncommon Wealth
- Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
- By: Kojo Koram
- Narrated by: Kojo Koram
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Kojo Koram traces the tale of how, after the end of the British empire, an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe, as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britain's former territories in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were trapped in poverty.
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more please
- By Nektarios Lappas on 05-10-2023
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Uncommon Wealth
- Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
- Narrated by: Kojo Koram
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2022
- Language: English
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If Then
- How One Data Company Invented the Future
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilised politics and disordered knowledge - decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past, but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
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sensationally well written history
- By Dr Neville Rochow KC on 31-05-2022
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If Then
- How One Data Company Invented the Future
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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Four Princes
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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'Never before had the world seen four such giants coexisting. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' The colourful story of the four very different men who created our modern world: Henry VIII, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent: popular history at its best from John Julius Norwich.
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wonderful!
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 21-04-2018
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Four Princes
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2018
- Language: English
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How Tyrants Fall
- And How Nations Survive
- By: Marcel Dirsus
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 10 hrs
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Meeting with a revolutionary (codename 'Satan') who risked Stasi capture to undermine an oppressive regime, an American-Gambian activist who plotted to liberate his homeland on breaks during his construction job and the unapologetic former leader of a Burundian rebel group which carried out a massacre, internationally renowned security expert and political scientist Dr Marcel Dirsus draws on extensive field research and personal interviews with coup leaders, rebels and soldiers to examine the workings and malfunctions of tyrants.
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How Tyrants Fall
- And How Nations Survive
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 18-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Great Successor
- The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
- By: Anna Fifield
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly - he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way - to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command.
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Good listen
- By Davide on 19-03-2020
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The Great Successor
- The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2019
- Language: English
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs....' So begins the first letter that nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald Dahl would continue to write weekly letters to his mother, chronicling his adventures, frustrations and opinions, from the delights of childhood to the excitements of flying as a World War II fighter pilot....
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2016
- Language: English
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The American Beast
- Essays, 2012-2022
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory, pivoting around the monumental presidential election of 2016. Acclaimed author and leading historian Jill Lepore has been documenting the twists and turns as they unfold, beginning with the run-up to Trump's election through to the chaos and confusion left in its wake. In this incisive collection of essays published in the New Yorker, Lepore writes with wit and warmth as she reflects on the issues of our time.
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The American Beast
- Essays, 2012-2022
- Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2023
- Language: English
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Beijing Rules
- China's Quest for Global Influence
- By: Bethany Allen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach are breathtaking - Chinese-sponsored reporting in national newspapers and academia; the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censorship; and of course - communications firms. But these are just the most visible examples. Bethany Allen, an internationally recognized investigator into Chinese covert power, shows Western institutions have bowed to and even enabled Beijing's coercion.
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Beijing Rules
- China's Quest for Global Influence
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2023
- Language: English
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Trust
- America's Best Chance
- By: Pete Buttigieg
- Narrated by: Pete Buttigieg
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within and among nations has been squandered, sacrificed, abused, stolen or never properly built in the first place. In a piercing exploration of the soul of the American nation involving history, philosophy and memoir, former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg explores the strong relationship between prosperity and social trust.
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Trust
- America's Best Chance
- Narrated by: Pete Buttigieg
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Think of a number between one and 10. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions, and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?). And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends.
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2018
- Language: English
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Street of Eternal Happiness
- Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
- By: Rob Schmitz
- Narrated by: Tim Flavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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A timely and engaging look at the new China told through the stories of its ordinary people. Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sleek skyline.
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Good insight into the lives of various Shanghai residents and their backgrounds
- By David Joseph on 12-01-2018
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Street of Eternal Happiness
- Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
- Narrated by: Tim Flavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2016
- Language: English
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
- The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
- By: Bradley Hope
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety.
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Fascinating but probably a bit long
- By Richard on 09-11-2023
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
- The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2022
- Language: English
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