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Afghanistan: In A Nutshell
by Timothy Albone
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($11.98)
Published:
June 2009
In a Nutshell', the new audiobook series from Naxos AudioBooks, continues with a fascinating history of Afghanistan.
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An Edible History of Humanity
by Tom Standage
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
June 2009
Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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K Blows Top
by Peter Carlson
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
June 2009
This hilarious account of Khrushchevs 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America.
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Tibet: In A Nutshell
by Jonathan Gregson
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($11.98)
Published:
June 2009
Part of China for many years, yet with a clearly distinctive culture (with the central devotion of its people being to Buddhism and the Dalai Lama), Tibet has a unique character in the panoply of world nations.
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by Tamim Ansary
Formats: Audio Download ($27.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world sees the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.
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The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution
by Amir Taheri
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($99.00) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
In this timely new offering, Amir Taheri dissects the regime that has hijacked a nation for global holy war against the United States, revealing Irans terror links, its nuclear capabilities, and how it can be defeated.
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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
by Julie Greene
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
February 2009
The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal's construction…
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East
by Patrick Tyler
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($49.49) | MP3 CD ($35.99)
Published:
January 2009
The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war.
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($85.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
December 2008
This New York Times bestseller makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus.
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The Ascent of Money
by Niall Ferguson
Formats: Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
December 2008
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
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Defiance
by Nechama Tec
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($72.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
December 2008
The true story of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II, this book is the base of a movie starring Daniel Craig that was released December 12, 2008.
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Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
by Michael Lewis
Formats: Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
December 2008
Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and the current sub-prime mortgage disaster.
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