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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. “Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the...

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

Ole Nikolajsen hedder den midaldrende, let blakkede journalist, der har slidt sig fra den jyske hede til det mondæne København. Da han møder sin modsætning, den forfinede og kompromisløst ærlige Karl-Werner Bühler, tvinges han ind i en nervepirrende spionsag, der fører helt tilbage til...

I trebindsværket ”Verden i flammer” følger man ligesom i den foregående trilogi, ”Europa i flammer”, familien Henry: Kommandørkaptajnen Victor, kaldet Pug, hans kone, Rhoda, og sønnerne Warren og Byron, den første bataljonschef, den anden sekondløjtnant og gift med den jødiske...

I "Navn ukendt" (1965), Finn Søeborgs mest gakkede roman, møder vi manden, der mirakuløst overlever et flystyrt. Da han vågner har han mistet sin hukommelse, og han hvirvles, nu identitetsløs, ind i en række absurde forviklinger, der involverer militæret, det hemmelige politi, kongen og...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Drift off to sleep while your mind wanders through the strangest, most surprising true stories behind everyday objects and inventions. From the accidental discovery of super glue to the Norwegian myth of the paper clip, from Queen Victoria's white...

'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would happily call off the bombers in exchange for a...

Eine erzählerische Zeitreise in den Alltag der NS-Diktatur

What happens when two mortal enemies decide to collaborate? In August 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin shocked the world by signing a pact that defied ideology, morality, and reason. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, sworn adversaries, agreed to divide Eastern Europe, silence their armies...

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War - from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers.

強大な帝国に翻弄されながらも独自の文化を紡ぎ続けた生存戦略と、絶えず揺れ動く東欧史のダイナミズムを解き明かす重厚な歴史ドキュメントです。通勤中や家事の合間に耳を傾ければ、千年以上にわたる激動の時代を...

激動の英領インド分割という歴史的転換点において、巨大な大陸がいかにして引き裂かれ、新しい祖国が誕生したのか——複雑な政治交渉と多様な社会が織りなす壮大な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や知的な探...

三千年にわたる民族の離散と再生、そして現在も続く中東紛争の起源を、古代オリエントの砂漠から現代の地政学まで圧倒的なスケールで解き明かす歴史体験です。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を燃やす学習の時間に、複...

冷戦時代の分断された世界を舞台に、国家の威信をかけた月面着陸競争の影で繰り広げられたソ連の巨大宇宙計画の軌跡を丹念にたどる歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに思索に耽りたい夜に、技術と政...

第一次世界大戦後の社会不安から独裁体制の台頭まで、一見無関係な歴史的要因が第二次世界大戦という巨大な悲劇へとつながる「選択の連鎖」を解き明かす歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動中や静かに思考を深めたい...

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, the most confident civilization in human history collided with the one thing it refused to believe in: its own limits. What does it mean to build something "unsinkable" — and what happens to the world when it sinks anyway? How many of the 1,500 who died that night were killed not by the iceberg, but by the arrogance that came before it?

王権の栄華と錬金術の神秘、そして市民による血塗られた革命が交錯する千年のヨーロッパ史を、日々の通勤時間でも深い没入感とともに味わえる濃密な都市の伝記として鮮やかに紐解きます。壮大な帝国の都であり、激...

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.