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  • The Age of the Strongman

    How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    **Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday TimesFrom Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world.**The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Zero-Sum Future

    American Power in an Age of Anxiety

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    With a new foreword on the revolutions in the Arab world and the euro crisis, one of the world’s most influential commentators on international affairs offers a stark warning about a gathering global political crisis.From one of the world’s most influential commentators on international affairs, chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, comes a stark warning about a gathering global ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Easternization

    Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    ****NAMED NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017""**From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East.**Easternization is the defining trend of our age — the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Age of the Strongman

    How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    Narrated by Gideon Rachman, John Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    The author of Easternization, an award-winning journalist, offers an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the globe, charting the most urgent political story of our era.We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Long Road from Jarrow

    A journey through Britain then and now

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    Narrated by Stuart Maconie ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow, written and read by Stuart Maconie.In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic ... Read more

    $16.11 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Jewel Box

    How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules

    by Tim Blackburn ...
    Narrated by Graham Mack ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    A plastic box with a lightbulb attached may seem like an odd birthday present. But for ecologist Tim Blackburn, a moth trap is a captivating window into the world beyond the roof terrace of his London flat. Whether gaudy or drab, rare or common, each moth ensnared by the trap is a treasure with a story to tell. In The Jewel Box, Blackburn introduces these mysterious visitors, revealing how the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Black England

    A Forgotten Georgian History

    by Gretchen Gerzina ...
    Narrated by Debra Michaels ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain.Georgian England had a large and distinctive black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Their dramatic, often moving story is told in this audiobook.The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Even in Shakespeare ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Our Universe

    An Astronomer’s Guide

    by Jo Dunkley ...
    Narrated by Jo Dunkley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few of us understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is really out there? How did it all begin? Where are we going?Jo Dunkley begins in Earth's neighborhood, explaining the nature of the Solar System, the stars in our night sky, and the Milky Way. She then moves out past nearby ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Don't Believe a Word

    The Surprising Truth About Language

    by David Shariatmadari ...
    Narrated by Damian Lynch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function.Everyone likes to think they know a bit about language: There are some words that you simply can't translate into English. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. A dialect is inferior to a language.The problem is, none of these statements are true. In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rooted

    Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

    by Sarah Langford ...
    Narrated by Sarah Langford ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farmingSarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and work in the city as a barrister. But when she found herself moving to the countryside, back to an agricultural life she had left behind, she saw farmers dealing with very different problems to those faced by her grandfather, who had fed a starving ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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    Blue Murder

    The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024

    by Ben Riley-Smith ...
    Narrated by Ben Riley-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR'HAD ME OPEN-MOUTHED WITH AMAZEMENT' ED BALLS'ESSENTIAL' JON SOPEL'A GRIPPINGLY WRITTEN, DETAILED BOOK THAT ANSWERS SO MANY QUESTIONS' ISABEL HARDMAN'SUPERB' EVAN DAVISThe explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction; f****ully updated to include the general election.</st... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    A Brief History of Black Holes

    And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

    by Dr Becky Smethurst ...
    Narrated by Dr Becky Smethurst ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    This audio edition is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the author, Dr Becky Smethurst.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst ... Read more

    $17.44 USD