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A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking
- From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics
- Di: James M. Russell
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 21 min
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Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested listener, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-provoking classics on psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy. Books about self-improvement as well as historically interesting accounts of how the mind works can also be found.
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A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking
- From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 21 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 09/04/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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Six Weeks
- The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War
- Di: John Lewis-Stempel
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore e 40 min
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The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks. During the Great War, many boys went straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world - that of junior officer on the Western Front. Although desperately aware of how many of their predecessors had fallen before them, nearly all stepped forward, unflinchingly, to do their duty. The average life expectancy of a subaltern in the trenches was a mere six weeks.
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Six Weeks
- The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore e 40 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/05/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Forgotten Soldier
- Di: Guy Sajer
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 22 ore e 49 min
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An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he...
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The Forgotten Soldier
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 22 ore e 49 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 20/02/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Kappillan of Malta
- Di: Nicholas Monsarrat
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 23 ore e 55 min
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'One of the most memorable characters of post-war fiction' Daily Express A classic novel set in the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel Sea Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a Kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to...
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The Kappillan of Malta
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 23 ore e 55 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 09/04/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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Basic Blockchain
- What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live
- Di: David Shrier
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 4 ore e 7 min
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A revolution is under way across the globe, yet very few people understand it. Basic Blockchain explains everything you need to know to understand the technology that will soon disrupt and revolutionise everything from financial and health services to the property market and how we vote.
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Basic Blockchain
- What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 4 ore e 7 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 09/01/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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These Are Not Gentle People
- Di: Andrew Harding
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 48 min
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At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of 40 men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce, bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable treachery. These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night and of what happened next.
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These Are Not Gentle People
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 48 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/10/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock
- Britain and the Great War
- Di: Gordon Corrigan
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 18 ore e 1 min
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The popular view of the First World War remains that of Blackadder: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognise the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels.
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock
- Britain and the Great War
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 18 ore e 1 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/12/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Achtung Panzer!
- Di: Heinz Guderian
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 46 min
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This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...
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Achtung Panzer!
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 46 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/01/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Silver Spitfire
- The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in His Own Words
- Di: Tom Neil
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 45 min
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A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots. Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal, it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire. Alongside his US comrades, he took the silver Spitfire into battle until, with the war's end, he was forced to make a difficult decision.
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The Silver Spitfire
- The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in His Own Words
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 45 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/11/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Aces Falling
- War Above the Trenches, 1918
- Di: Peter Hart
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 17 min
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At the beginning of 1918, the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control of the air. This audiobook charts the rise and fall of the WWI aces in the context of the vast battles that were taking place in 1918. It shows the vital importance of reconnaissance, and how large formations of aircraft became the norm - bringing an end to the era of the old, heroic 'lone wolves'.
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Aces Falling
- War Above the Trenches, 1918
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 17 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/11/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Tank Action
- An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
- Di: Captain David Render, Stuart Tootal
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 36 min
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In 1944, David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long. However, in the following weeks of ferocious fighting in which more than 90 per cent of his fellow tank commanders became casualties, his ability to emerge unscathed from countless combat engagements earned him the nickname of the 'Inevitable Mr Render'.
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Tank Action
- An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 36 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 12/09/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Ill Met by Moonlight
- Di: W. Stanley Moss
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 6 ore e 47 min
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Ill Met by Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British officer who, along with Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, sets out in Nazi-occupied Crete to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopool Division, and, narrowly escaping the German manhunt, bring him off the island - a vital prisoner for British intelligence.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 6 ore e 47 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 29/08/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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ManFood
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Improving Your Health and Energy in Your 40s and Beyond
- Di: Ian Marber
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 11 min
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ManFood is the definitive guide, tailored for men, on how to enhance their health easily and practically through their nutritional choices. If there was a way to eat that meant you could slow ageing, lose weight and prevent illness, wouldn't you do it? Genetics and family history combine with our lifestyles and contribute to overall health, and the results show that men have significantly increased chances of experiencing various diseases.
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ManFood
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Improving Your Health and Energy in Your 40s and Beyond
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 7 ore e 11 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/05/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky
- A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
- Di: Robert Carmichael
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 42 min
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During the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule of terror, two million people, or one in every four, Cambodians, died. In describing one family's decades-long quest to learn their husband's and father's fate and the war crimes trial of Comrade Duch (pronounced 'Doyk'), who ran the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, When the Clouds Fell from the Sky illuminates the tragedy of a nation.
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky
- A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 42 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/08/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of Spain
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 45 min
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Despite being relatively brief, this very listenable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is accessible, supported by supplemental information, and is perfect for travellers to Spain.
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A Brief History of Spain
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 45 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 13/06/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Invasive Aliens
- The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here
- Di: Dan Eatherley
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 56 min
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‘The story of “invasive species” is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve … Fascinating’ Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands of years of arrivals and escapes, as well as defences...
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Invasive Aliens
- The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 56 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/07/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Making of Poetry
- Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
- Di: Adam Nicolson
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 14 min
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 Wordsworth and Coleridge as you’ve never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The...
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The Making of Poetry
- Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 14 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/05/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Riding in the Zone Rouge
- The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 – Cycling's Toughest-Ever Stage Race
- Di: Tom Isitt
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 19 min
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The Circuit des Champs de Bataille (the Tour of the Battlefields) was held in 1919, less than six months after the end of the First World War. It covered 2,000 kilometres and was raced in appalling conditions across the battlefields of the Western Front, otherwise known as the Zone Rouge. The race was so tough that only 21 riders finished, and it was never staged again. With one of the most demanding routes ever to feature in a bicycle race, and plagued by appalling weather conditions, the Circuit des Champs de Bataille was beyond gruelling, but today its story is largely forgotten.
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Riding in the Zone Rouge
- The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 – Cycling's Toughest-Ever Stage Race
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 19 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 21/03/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Angels in the Trenches
- Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War
- Di: Leo Ruickbie
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 54 min
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After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309.
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Angels in the Trenches
- Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 54 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 31/01/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Nurturing Young Minds
- Mental Wellbeing in the Digital Age
- Di: Ramesh Manocha
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 53 min
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Being a teenager has never been easy, but the digital age has brought with it unique challenges for young people and the adults in their lives. Nurturing Young Minds: Mental Wellbeing in the Digital Age collects expert advice on how to tackle the terrors of the 21st century and is a companion to Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds. A comprehensive and easily accessible guide for parents, teachers, counsellors and health care professionals, this book contains important advice about managing online behaviour, computer game addiction and cyberbullying and more.
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Nurturing Young Minds
- Mental Wellbeing in the Digital Age
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 53 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 13/09/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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