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The Anxiety Epidemic
- The Causes of our Modern Day Anxieties
- Di: Graham Davey
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore
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Are we living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, or has this always been a problem throughout history? We only need look around us to see anxieties: in the family home, the workplace, on social media, and especially in the news. It's true that everyone feels anxious at some time in their lives, but we're told we're all feeling more anxious than we've ever been before - and for longer than we've ever done before. It's even reported that anxiety is a modern epidemic significant enough to challenge the dominance of depression as the most common mental health problem.
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The Anxiety Epidemic
- The Causes of our Modern Day Anxieties
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore
- Data di pubblicazione: 08/11/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
- Di: Robert Hutton
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 12 min
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This is the incredible tale of Operation Fifth Column, a Second World War MI5 operation so secret that its existence was revealed by the National Archives for the first time only in 2014. Throughout the war and even for a couple of years afterwards, 'Agent Jack' - in reality, a bank clerk named Eric Roberts - acted as a Gestapo agent to whom hundreds of British-based Nazi sympathisers and informers passed their secrets, thinking that he was sending them back to Germany.
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 12 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/09/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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China's Great Wall of Debt
- Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
- Di: Dinny McMahon
- Letto da: Dinny McMahon, Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 43 min
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China's Great Wall of Debt is a penetrating examination of the country's opaque financial system and the complex factors - demographic shifts, urbanisation, industrialisation, a pervasive over-reliance on debt-fuelled investments - that have brought the country to the brink of crisis. Anchored by stories of China's cities and its people, from factory workers and displaced farmers to government officials and entrepreneurs, the narrative will take readers inside the country's ghost cities, zombie companies, start-ups, and regulatory institutions as McMahon explains how things got so bad, why fixing the problems is so hard, and what the economic outlook means for China and for the rest of us.
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China's Great Wall of Debt
- Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
- Letto da: Dinny McMahon, Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 43 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/06/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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Elemental
- How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
- Di: Tim James
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 5 ore e 12 min
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In 2016, with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson - to make a total of 118 elements, the periodic table was finally complete, rendering any pre-existing books on the subject obsolete. Tim James, the secondary-school science teacher we all wish we'd had, provides an accessible and wonderfully entertaining 'biography of chemistry' that uses stories to explain the positions and patterns of elements in the periodic table.
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Elemental
- How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 5 ore e 12 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 05/07/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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Sugar
- The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
- Di: James Walvin
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 48 min
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Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the preserve of the rich. But with the rise of the European sugar colonies in the Americas in the 17th century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and hugely popular - an everyday necessity. As recently as the 1970s, very few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem; yet today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco, and the cause of a global obesity epidemic. While sugar consumption remains higher than ever.
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Sugar
- The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 48 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 13/07/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of Italy
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 16 min
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Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain made consolidation of political control all the more difficult.
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A Brief History of Italy
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 16 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 05/07/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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The End of Alchemy
- Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
- Di: Mervyn King
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore e 49 min
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The past 20 years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year, what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong.
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The End of Alchemy
- Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 13 ore e 49 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 12/05/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica
- A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972
- Di: Roger Bennett, Michael Davies
- Letto da: Roger Bennett, Michael Davies
- Durata: 3 ore e 57 min
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Soccer has been America's Sport of the Future since 1972. Propelled by the rise of the World Cup, Premier League, the glory of the United States Women's National Team, Lionel Messi's DemiGod-esque talent and repeat exposure to Cristiano Ronaldo's preening abs, that Future has finally arrived...
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Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica
- A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972
- Letto da: Roger Bennett, Michael Davies
- Durata: 3 ore e 57 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/05/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Great War
- 1914-1918
- Di: Peter Hart
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 22 ore e 56 min
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The Great War was the first truly global conflict and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, critically acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting-edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers.
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The Great War
- 1914-1918
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 22 ore e 56 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 24/06/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- Di: Mark Solms
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 7 min
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Why does it feel like something to be alive? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, Mark Solms, who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming, has arrived at his answer. More than just a philosophical argument, the Free Energy theory will profoundly change how you understand your own existence.
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 7 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/02/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Something Doesn’t Add Up
- Surviving Statistics in a Post-Truth World
- Di: Paul Goodwin
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 44 min
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Wry, witty and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so painlessly that you hardly need to think about numbers at all. He demonstrates how statistics that are meant to make life simpler often make it simpler than it actually is, but also reveals some of the ways we can use maths to make better decisions. Along the way we learn about fitness tracking, the history of IQ testing, China's social credit system, Effective Altruism, and how someone should have noticed that Harold Shipman was killing his patients years before they actually did.
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Something Doesn’t Add Up
- Surviving Statistics in a Post-Truth World
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 44 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/02/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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Above the Trenches
- The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- Di: Ian Mackersey
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 11 min
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The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander in chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues.
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Above the Trenches
- The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 11 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/11/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby
- W&N Military
- Di: Alex Bowlby
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 9 min
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A classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby, who came through the North Africa campaign only to have to battle in bitter fighting against a stubborn and skilled German defence in Italy. It is a truly authentic account of what it was like to fight your way through one of the most gruelling and dangerous campaigns of the Second World War, where so often the hunters became the hunted.
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The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby
- W&N Military
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 9 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 25/11/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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From the Ground Up
- Stories from the Men and Women Who Built, Serviced and Flew Aircraft in WWII
- Di: Edward Smithies
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 46 min
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When we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews. But what was it like for the men and women working as ground crew and in the aircraft factories who also played a crucial role in defeating Hitler? What was it like making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up in the tide of great events? Or were they simply doing their demanding and often dangerous duty?
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From the Ground Up
- Stories from the Men and Women Who Built, Serviced and Flew Aircraft in WWII
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 46 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 14/10/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Meditations (Special Edition)
- Di: Evi O Studio, Marcus Aurelius
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 4 ore e 35 min
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How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today 'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN 'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful reminder of how we could live a more...
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Meditations (Special Edition)
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 4 ore e 35 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/08/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Reach for the Sky
- Di: Paul Brickhill
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 5 min
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From the bestselling author of The Great Escape, discover the inspiring story of Britain's most courageous flyer: the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did, he represented the RAF in...
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Reach for the Sky
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 5 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/09/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Great Escape
- Di: Paul Brickhill
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 58 min
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One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year, they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards.
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The Great Escape
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 58 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/09/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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For the Sake of Argument
- Di: Christopher Hitchens
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 19 ore e 30 min
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The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in 1993, the writings in For the Sake of Argument range from the political squalor of Washington to the twilight of Stalinism in Prague, from the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War to the embattled barrios of Central America.
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For the Sake of Argument
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 19 ore e 30 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/06/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- Di: Victor Klemperer
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 27 ore e 4 min
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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES 'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book'...
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 27 ore e 4 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/02/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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Bomber Boys
- The RAF Offensive of 1943
- Di: Kevin Wilson
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 17 ore e 44 min
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In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campaign against Germany, the likes of which had never before been seen. Over the next 12 months, tens of thousands of aircrews flew across the North Sea to drop their bombs on German cities. They were opposed not only by the full force of the Luftwaffe but by a nightmare of flak, treacherously icy conditions and constant mechanical malfunction. Most of these crews never finished their tour of operations but were either shot down and killed or taken prisoner by an increasingly hostile enemy.
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Bomber Boys
- The RAF Offensive of 1943
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 17 ore e 44 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/10/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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