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人間による過酷な自然の支配か、それとも気候変動への敗北か。アメリカ西部の砂漠を潤す巨大ダム建設の壮絶な闘いと、水利権をめぐる激しい対立を描き出した、壮大で緊迫感に満ちた歴史ノンフィクションです。日々...

当全民炒股的投机狂热遭遇信用收缩，一场改写金融史的毁灭性崩盘便在繁荣的巅峰轰然降临，瞬间击穿无数家庭的财富安全感。踏入充满爵士乐与消费狂热的喧嚣时代，见证技术进步催生的盲目自信如何演变为致命的借贷狂...

当扩张的狂潮席卷北美大陆，一段以原住民为核心的血泪抵抗与土地争夺史，彻底颠覆了我们对这片新大陆建构过程的传统认知。如果你厌倦了胜利者书写的单调视角，渴望在通勤路上或独处的沉思时刻寻找真实、充满张力的...

在危机四伏的古墨西哥谷地，一个流浪的弱小部落凭藉严酷的地缘战略与冷酷结盟，逆袭成为统治中美洲的庞大古代帝国。这不是一场由神明眷顾而命中注定的崛起传奇，而是在资源天花板与强敌环伺的绝境中，依靠极致生存...

勝者によって語られてきたアメリカ史のベールを剥ぎ、多様で豊かな先住民の視点から建国の記憶と隠された真実を鮮やかに描き直す、知的好奇心を揺さぶる歴史ノンフィクション。日常の通勤時間や静かな夜のひととき...

早撃ちガンマンやならず者が闊歩したアメリカ西部開拓時代の神話と真実の境界線を突き崩し、約二時間で西部劇の裏に隠されたリアルな歴史を再構築する没入型ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤や静かな夜のリラックスタ...

アメリカ史の深淵に潜む壮絶な文化の衝突と、生き残りをかけた先住民たちの複雑な闘争の歴史を、知的な通勤時間や静かな夜の思索にふさわしい圧倒的な没入感とともに鮮明に描き出します。単なる戦いの年表ではなく...

一攫千金の夢がもたらした熱狂と、その裏で引き起こされた容赦ない社会の激変という、アメリカ西海岸開拓史の最もドラマチックな転換点を追体験する歴史ドキュメンタリーです。静かな辺境の地が、わずか数年で欲望...

忘れ去られがちなアメリカ中西部の地域史を深く掘り下げ、過酷な自然環境と石炭産業が織りなす生々しい人間ドラマを鮮やかに蘇らせる歴史ノンフィクションです。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや、思索にふける毎日の...

北米大陸最大の失われた古代都市が土に還るまでの数奇な運命をたどる歴史ノンフィクションで、忘れ去られた先住民の巨大文明をあなたの耳元へ鮮やかに蘇らせます。毎日の通勤時間や一日の終わりの静かなリラックス...

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certain disaster. This gripping book chronicles the extraordinary men of the U.S. Life-Saving...

'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century...

Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine ...

Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad,Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine). An...

A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the...

SUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous...

Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to...

One of the best books ever written about Lincoln by Dale Carnegie. Chronicles the inner life and struggles of Abraham Lincoln, how he led a life of poverty, how he went from pauper to become president, how he emerged from obscurity and became the Republican nominee at the 1860 Chicago convention, how he loved to tell humorous stories, and that he was an avid reader of Shakespeare. 

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s. While the anecdote about Audible staffers stumbling out of an anonymous casino might be in doubt, one thing’s for sure – this fun listen is the bee’s knees.