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Pravda Ha Ha
- True Travels to the End of Europe
- ナレーター: Rory MacLean
- 再生時間: 12 時間 35 分
- カテゴリー: 旅行・観光, ヨーロッパ
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- 著者: Zachary D. Carter
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff
- 再生時間: 22 時間 50 分
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat.
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- 著者: Jonathan Kaufman
- ナレーター: Joel Richards
- 再生時間: 9 時間 57 分
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Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how two rival families participated in an economic boom that opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil at their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- 著者: Declan Walsh
- ナレーター: Roger Clark
- 再生時間: 11 時間 13 分
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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Coffeeland
- One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
- 著者: Augustine Sedgewick
- ナレーター: Jason Culp
- 再生時間: 14 時間 56 分
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Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 500-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
- When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
- 著者: Peter Fritzsche
- ナレーター: Jim Seybert
- 再生時間: 14 時間 29 分
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Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided republic into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche offers a probing account of the pivotal moments when the majority of Germans seemed, all at once, to join the Nazis to construct the Third Reich.
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A Bookshop in Berlin
- The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
- 著者: Françoise Frenkel, Patrick Modiano - foreword
- ナレーター: Jilly Bond
- 再生時間: 6 時間 26 分
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin’s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise’s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed.
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- 著者: Zachary D. Carter
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff
- 再生時間: 22 時間 50 分
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat.
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- 著者: Jonathan Kaufman
- ナレーター: Joel Richards
- 再生時間: 9 時間 57 分
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Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how two rival families participated in an economic boom that opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil at their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- 著者: Declan Walsh
- ナレーター: Roger Clark
- 再生時間: 11 時間 13 分
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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Coffeeland
- One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
- 著者: Augustine Sedgewick
- ナレーター: Jason Culp
- 再生時間: 14 時間 56 分
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Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 500-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
- When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
- 著者: Peter Fritzsche
- ナレーター: Jim Seybert
- 再生時間: 14 時間 29 分
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Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided republic into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche offers a probing account of the pivotal moments when the majority of Germans seemed, all at once, to join the Nazis to construct the Third Reich.
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A Bookshop in Berlin
- The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
- 著者: Françoise Frenkel, Patrick Modiano - foreword
- ナレーター: Jilly Bond
- 再生時間: 6 時間 26 分
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin’s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise’s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed.
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The Scourge of War
- The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
- 著者: Brian Holden Reid
- ナレーター: Paul Heitsch
- 再生時間: 24 時間 53 分
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In The Scourge of War, preeminent military historian Brian Holden Reid offers a deeply researched life-and-times account of William Tecumseh Sherman. By examining his childhood and education, his business ventures in California, his antebellum leadership of a military college in Louisiana, and numerous career false starts, Holden Reid shows how unlikely his exceptional Civil War career would seem.
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1774
- The Long Year of Revolution
- 著者: Mary Beth Norton
- ナレーター: Kimberly Farr
- 再生時間: 16 時間 26 分
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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Inge's War
- A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival Under Hitler
- 著者: Svenja O’Donnell
- ナレーター: Kristin Atherton
- 再生時間: 9 時間 22 分
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Svenja’s beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew was that she had grown up in a city that no longer exists on any map: Königsberg in East Prussia, a footnote in history, a place that almost no one has heard of today. But when Svenja impulsively visits this windswept Baltic city, something unlocks in Inge and finally, she begins to tell her story. It begins in the secret jazz bars of Hitler’s Berlin. It is a story of passionate first love, betrayal, terror, flight, starvation and violence.
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Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- 著者: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- ナレーター: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, 、その他
- 再生時間: 22 時間 58 分
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When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul". Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
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Billion Dollar Loser
- The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
- 著者: Reeves Wiedeman
- ナレーター: Will Collyer
- 再生時間: 10 時間 51 分
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With incredible access and piercing insight, New York magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman tells the full inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, who together came to represent one of the most audacious, and improbable, rise and falls in American business.
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James Monroe
- A Life
- 著者: Tim McGrath
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 28 時間 54 分
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: Soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform 13 colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic.
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
- The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
- 著者: Jonathan C. Slaght
- ナレーター: Jonathan C. Slaght
- 再生時間: 8 時間 43 分
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Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. It is also home to one of nature's rarest birds, the Blakiston's fish owl. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght's life beyond measure. This is the story of Slaght's quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- 著者: Joan Didion
- ナレーター: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- 再生時間: 4 時間 5 分
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers come a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These 12 pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure.
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Antifa
- The Anti-Fascist Handbook
- 著者: Mark Bray
- ナレーター: Keith Szarabajka
- 再生時間: 7 時間 37 分
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As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism - also known as "antifa." Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and '30s, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amid opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a detailed survey of the full history of anti-fascism from its origins to the present day - the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English.
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor
- A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
- 著者: Thomas C. Foster
- ナレーター: David de Vries
- 再生時間: 9 時間 36 分
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The New York Times best-selling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
- A Novel
- 著者: Marie Benedict
- ナレーター: Nicola Barber
- 再生時間: 7 時間 22 分
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In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.
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Abe
- Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- 著者: David S. Reynolds
- ナレーター: Leon Nixon
- 再生時間: 33 時間 33 分
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Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life will always be part of our American education.
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"This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to – across the span of his books – a great and continuing work of literature." (Jan Morris)
"No one writes quite like Rory MacLean." (Robert Macfarlane)
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Bloomsbury presents Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean, read by Rory MacLean.
"A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller writer of our time." (John le Carré)
In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe.
Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine’s bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a nonexistent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev.
As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists - both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists - have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
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- 2020/01/25
The Opposite of good travel-writing
I recall enjoying the same author's "Stalin's Nose", when I was a teenager. I have grown up since 1995; it is a shame that this petulant, self-satisfied writer has not. A good travel book shows an author learning from his experience: this book, however, starts with insufferable moral and political lecturing , and imposes this trite hectoring on the reader throughout the book. Neither the author nor the reader learns anything.