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  • What Is Free Speech?

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    “A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The GuardianA leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, with enormous consequences for our society today.Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    What Is Free Speech?

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    Narrated by Matthew Spencer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 3 min

    Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create political unrest. Given the obvious dangers of outspokenness, regulating speech and print was universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government. Only in the early 1700s did this old way begin to break down. In a brief span of ... Read more

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    How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century

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    'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' GuardianBritain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it ... Read more

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    The Edges of the World

    At the margins of life, lands and history

    by Charles Foster ...
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    Unabridged

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    Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this because the centre tells us it is so, but it's a lie. It is only at the edges that we think, innovate and thrive.This book travels to the frontiers of human culture and ... Read more

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    Library of Ancient Wisdom, The

    Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

    by Selena Wisnom ...
    Narrated by Catherine Bailey ...

    Unabridged

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    A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

    Histories, Dreams and Distortions

    by Lucy Hughes-Hallett ...
    'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that... ... Read more

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    Outsider

    A Memoir of Survival, Family Secrets and the Search to Belong

    by Paul Cullen ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    'A remarkable story, a real page-turner' JOE DUFFY'Powerfully written ... a gripping narrative' FINTAN O'TOOLEThe remarkable story of one man's journey from the edge of death to the heart of a hidden past.Adopted at age three, Paul Cullen always felt like an outsider. After a near-fatal fall from Germany's highest peak in 2017 left him broken - physically and emotionally - he faced ... ... Read more

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    Jack Maggs

    by Peter Carey ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 26 min

    With scars on his back and silver in his pocket, the huge figure of Jack Maggs strides across the rich landscape of 19th century London. As this enigmatic man moves through its streets and houses, his single-minded quest to find his son will engender love, deceit, and vengeance in the lives around him. Risking execution if he is discovered, ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned to England from ... Read more

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  • Dark Laboratory

    On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

    by Tao Leigh Goffe ...
    **A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.“Goffe’s ear is tuned to songs of resistance, to what it looks like to make life amid (and after) colonial subjugation…noble and necessary.”—The New York Times Book ... Read more

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    Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Steadfast

    by Douglas Hurd ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Clyde ...

    Unabridged

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    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Elizabeth II: The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd, read by Jeremy Clyde.Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of time in her company, and is also a distinguished historian, portrays her more ... Read more

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    The Bed Trick

    Sex and Deception on Trial

    by Izabella Scott ...
    Narrated by Lizzie Schenk ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    A riveting, brilliant account of a court case in which a woman accused her best friend of impersonating a man during sex, and won—a study of desire, performance, truth, and the stories we tell about ourselves in public, online, in love, and in law.A woman falls in love with a man. His name is Kye Fortune. They meet online and begin spending time together every weekend, in hotel rooms or at her ... Read more

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    Life Is Rosi

    Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23

    by Jess Robinson ...
    Narrated by Jess Robinson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Deeply moving… fascinating' The Mail on Sunday'I loved every word of it. Funny, fascinating, infuriating and so ... Read more

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