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Mark Leonard

Narrated by

Michael Langan

We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next—from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions—the old rules of global order are collapsing.Mark Leonard reveals how geopolitics is being rewritten in an age of "Un-Order," where no one agrees on the rules, and even the concept of order itself is up for debate. Drawing on ye...

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Llewelyn Morgan

Narrated by

Michael Langan

Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the traditions of ancient literature.Llewellyn Morgan guides the listener through the dizzying vagaries of Horace's biography, which reflects the political and social instability of the period. His poetry, and the...

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Samir Okasha

Narrated by

Michael Langan

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has increasingly impinged on traditional philosophical questions, such as free will, essentialism, and nature vs nurture.In this Very Short Introduction Samir Okasha outlines the core issues with which contemporary...

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Nicholas J. Higham

Narrated by

Michael Langan

An engaging, wide-ranging exploration of the end of Roman Britain and the beginnings of EnglandIn 410 CE, Roman rule of Britain collapsed, bringing a centuries-long occupation to an end. A century later, Britain was dividing into two areas with contrasting cultures, an expansive "Anglo-Saxon" south and east, and a shrinking Celtic west and north. How did this transition happen? And why did the customs of the Germanic incomers prevail in England, unlike elsewhere in...

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Shami Stovall

Narrated by

Michael Langan

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Astra Academy

Death Lord Umbriel. The Oblivion Gate. The final showdown in the abyssal hells . . .Gray Lexly and the rest of his class are tasked with the impossible. They must train themselves to dive into the deepest levels of the abyssal hells and face off against the last two remaining Death Lords who plot to invade the realm of the living.Fortunately, Gray and his classmates will have help from the god-arcanists of old. Together, they form a strike force to defeat t...

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Barry Buzan, Robert Falkner

Narrated by

Michael Langan

The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as a primary institution in international relations over the past two centuries. It develops a new approach to understanding the relationship between the market and other social and political institutions of global international society. Buzan and Falkner view the market as a political ideology in support of a liberal system of governance...

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Simon Mills

Narrated by

Michael Langan

A revelatory and wide-ranging exploration of HMS Britannic—her life at sea and on the seabed—by the owner of her wreck.Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way. But war intervened and in 1915 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship. Just one year later, while on her way to collect troops wounded in the Balkans campaign...

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Anthony Pagden

Narrated by

Michael Langan

Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law, and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future?None of the major challenges that confront humanity today—from climate change to disease, from terrorism to mass migration—can be handled effectively by single nation-states, no matter how powerful. The world is no longer...

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Ashley Jackson, Andrew Stewart

Narrated by

Michael Langan

History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was on the slide. But no one knew this in 1945—the leading politicians, the top civil servants, and the most knowledgeable experts, all expected the British Empire to remain intact long into the future.How do we account...

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Jean-Pierre Filiu

Narrated by

Michael Langan

Translated by

Cynthia Schoch, Trista Selous

Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land's people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattered by Israel's all-out war.When the historian returned to Gaza, he arrived under circumstances unimaginably different from his many past visits since 1980: only a limited number of convoys wer...

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Christopher Nobes

Narrated by

Michael Langan

If you read the "business pages" of a newspaper or if you listen to the financial news on television or radio, you will often hear terms such as "liability", "balance sheet," or "earnings." These terms turn up in non-financial contexts as well: "he was more of a liability than an asset." If you invest in shares, manage your family's personal finances, or sit on a committee of the property company which owns your apartment, you will receive financial statements. If you are a manager in a co...

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Peter Chapman

Narrated by

Michael Langan

In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.