Modern China A Captivating Guide to Modern Chinese History [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C6RBPC2B | 2023 | 4 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Captivating History
Narrator: Jason Zenobia

Let's take a look at the past 120 years of Chinese history, from the country's start as a backward, struggling empire in the late 19th century to a totalitarian communist superpower. The radical transformation of China from a dynastic monarchy to a dominant global communist regime is very compelling for listeners of all ages and interests, and this audiobook tells the history of the most important developments during this period. Filled with ideological and intellectual struggles, internal divisions and civil wars, conflicts with foreign nations, and influential changes throughout the 20th century, modern Chinese history promises to be interesting to listen to.


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Mind Thief The Story of Alzheimer's [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B091MX32ZC | 2021 | 8 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 441 MB
Author: Han Yu
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Alzheimer's disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world's most common causes of death. Alzheimer's lingers for years, with patients' outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and recognize. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer's because its causes remain unknown. Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer's that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of "presenile dementia" in the early 20th century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy.


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March to the Majority The Real Story of the Republican Revolution [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BJ13VP8G | 2023 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB
Author: Newt Gingrich
Narrator: Newt Gingrich, Brian Troxell, Fleet Cooper

In March to the Majority, New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich takes listeners behind the scenes of the Republican Revolution in 1994 and the rise of the modern GOP. The story of Gingrich's rise from college professor, to architect of the Contract with America, to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is historic. There were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the road from a seemingly permanent House GOP minority to the first Republican majority in 40 years. These untold stories and inspiring lessons about the rise of modern conservatism are immensely relevant today as the United States faces profound and extraordinary challenges. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joins with former National Republican Congressional Committee Executive Director Joe Gaylord to bring alive the stories, events, and activities that led to the Contract with America and the first re-elected Republican majority since 1928. No two people are better positioned to tell this story than Gingrich and Gaylord. They were there, and they got it done. March to the Majority is not only about the past, but also about the challenges our nation faces today and offers principles for governing the American people.


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Map Addict A Bestselling Tale of An Obssession Completely Updated [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0B831Z8PD | 2023 | 13 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Mike Parker
Narrator: Mike Parker

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said...' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song.


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Mao's Army Goes to Sea The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C5B8W2CT | 2023 | 7 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Toshi Yoshihara
Narrator: Catherine Ho

From 1949 to 1950, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China's periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to develop maritime capabilities. Mao's Army Goes to Sea is a ground-breaking history of the founding of the Chinese navy and Communist China's earliest island-seizing campaigns. In this definitive account of a critical moment in China's naval history, Toshi Yoshihara shows that Chinese leaders refashioned the stratagems and tactics honed over decades of revolutionary struggle on land for nautical purposes.


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Many Things Under a Rock The Mysteries of Octopuses [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C382V7R7 | 2023 | 8 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: David Scheel
Narrator: David Scheel

Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. How can we study an animal with perfect camouflage and secretive habitats? How does a soft and boneless creature defeat sharks and eels, while thriving as a predator of the most heavily armored animals in the sea? How do octopus bodies work? And how does a solitary animal form friendships, entice mates, and outwit rivals?


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Love Across Borders Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BHXL443C | 2023 | 7 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Anna Lekas Miller
Narrator: Anna Lekas Miller

With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller spotlights couples around the world who confront frustrating immigration systems to be together-as she did to be with her husband. ​We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't have the right passport? Love Across Borders takes listeners through contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the wide-spread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he safely return to Syria. He was a man without a country. So Lekas Miller had to decide her next move: she had an American passport but deep personal ties to the Middle East, and she knew it was unfair that Salem couldn't travel freely the way she could.


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Lone Stars Rising The Fifty People Who Turned Texas into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BJ15L2CL | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Editors of Texas Monthly
Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State-and the nation-over the past half century. With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America's most innovative, culture-altering politicians, entertainers, athletes, and activists of the last five decades. In Lone Stars Rising, the editors of Texas Monthly select fifty of the most trailblazing Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State and America today. Organized by decade and featuring essays from the magazine's legendary roster of contributors, this collection includes incisive commentary on the stars whose rise from Texas to the world stage has been meteoric, as well as the lesser-known individuals who have been toiling on the sidelines, quietly and intentionally shaping the way we think and talk about the Texas that exists today. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, Lone Stars Rising is the quintessential ode to the Lone Star State in all its complexity.


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Leyte Gulf A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BY3HKVH5 | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 776 MB
Author: Mark E. Stille
Narrator: John Chancer

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics. Leyte was a huge and complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of which are broken down in detail in this book, using original sources. The plans of both sides, and how they dictated the events that followed, are also examined critically.


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Land of War A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C5S3WYR1 | 2023 | 23 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 671 MB
Author: William Nester
Narrator: David Colacci

War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legend-for instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojans-and then as fact. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before.


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