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Thomas Nail
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Despite - and perhaps because of - increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the 21st century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life.
Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework "kinopolitics" to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of "critical limology", that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.
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"An ambitious, rich and suggestive work that has much to offer political theories of migration." (LSE Review of Books)
"This book is genuinely new and profound...a model of the best that philosophy can do." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating story of a messy region
- De A. T. Howarth en 07-30-20
De: Charles King
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Battlefield America
- The War on the American People
- De: John W. Whitehead, Ron Paul - foreword
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry in the Constitution. Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the military, towns and cities have become battlefields.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic.
- De jack en 07-02-15
De: John W. Whitehead, y otros
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Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
- De: Wendy Lower
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine, the "jewel" of the Nazi empire. In this unprecedented attempt at Nazi empire building, violence, racism, antisemitism, and militarism pervaded all aspects of everyday life. Lower argues that it was in the eastern outposts of the Reich, such as Ukraine, that the regime's core beliefs, aims, and practices were revealed.
De: Wendy Lower
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Tropic of Chaos
- Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
- De: Christian Parenti
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe - the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's mid-latitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute must-read topic!
- De Kevin en 07-07-14
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God's Jury
- The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Cullen Murphy
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826-the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A balanced review based on new material
- De Sean en 05-15-12
De: Cullen Murphy
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Two Cheers for Anarchism
- Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing - one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Three cheeers for Two cheers for Anarchism
- De doodoo en 01-16-16
De: James C. Scott
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The Revenge of Geography
- What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 758
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 657
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 656
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful to listen to
- De Bookworm en 12-27-13
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Why?
- Explaining the Holocaust
- De: Peter Hayes
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 123
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the 20th century still seems elusive even 70 years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions - yet none of them are fully convincing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book! A must read
- De Pierre en 11-13-21
De: Peter Hayes
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Tim Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Humans are venturing up and out, and we’re taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It’s no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading the way. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics and the world order as we know it. In this must-listen work, bestselling author Tim Marshall navigates the new astropolitical reality to show how we got here and where we’re heading.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Overview of Astro Politics
- De Gary en 04-18-24
De: Tim Marshall
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Kelli Sladick en 06-19-18
De: Mark Galeotti
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A Brief History of the Future
- A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
- De: Jacques Attali
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 116
What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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feels like a popular mechanics article
- De Robin en 07-11-17
De: Jacques Attali
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Millennium
- From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad ending - literally
- De John Gordon en 12-14-16
De: Ian Mortimer
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Counterinsurgency
- De: David J. Kilcullen
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today's worst trouble spots - including Iraq and Afghanistan - and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency, indispensable for all those interested in making sense of our world in an age of terror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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CounterInsurgency Insights
- De JenFox en 12-21-21
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 415
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 309
At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
- De Douglas en 02-06-14
De: Robert Wright