The Darwin Variant by Kenneth JohnsonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 416 MBOverview: Kenneth Johnson plunges listeners into a day-after-tomorrow thriller about an imminent global catastrophe and explores how ordinary people respond to extraordinary circumstances. When the icy shards of a rogue comet fall to Earth, they bring an unknown virus that accelerates evolution to extremes. Suddenly, infected […]
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 by John DarwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2 MBOverview: The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ‘has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire’ and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. […]
After Tamerlane by John DarwinRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 4.6 MBOverview: Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building created the world we know today. From […]
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John DarwinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 559 MBOverview: Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building […]
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John DarwinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 515.5 MBOverview: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of “massive erudition” and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain’s imperium-a work […]