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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....
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Is weird the new normal?
- By Amazon Customer on 25-08-2023
By: Joseph Henrich
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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A sad ending for a man who had achieved so much.
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 12-08-2024
By: Marc Morris
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....
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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS
- By chimene on 29-04-2017
By: Steven Pinker
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....
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Destroy Erase Improve
- By Mike on 08-01-2018
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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Absorbing, never-dull narration of our history
- By PAS on 18-03-2019
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....
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Is weird the new normal?
- By Amazon Customer on 25-08-2023
By: Joseph Henrich
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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A sad ending for a man who had achieved so much.
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 12-08-2024
By: Marc Morris
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....
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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS
- By chimene on 29-04-2017
By: Steven Pinker
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....
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Destroy Erase Improve
- By Mike on 08-01-2018
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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Absorbing, never-dull narration of our history
- By PAS on 18-03-2019
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 126 hrs and 31 mins
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Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....
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epic
- By Luke on 17-08-2017
By: Edward Gibbon
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....
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The rise and fall: Two millenniums BC.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-2023
By: Eric H. Cline
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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A warning to us all
- By Anonymous User on 20-06-2024
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
- The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
- By: Thomas Cahill
- Narrated by: Liam Neeson
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated....
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Saved by Liam Neeson
- By Sam on 23-08-2017
By: Thomas Cahill
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Salt
- A World History
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....
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A good book to dip into
- By TerrierTops on 19-03-2017
By: Mark Kurlansky
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- By: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....
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Amazing History, very original and informative
- By Miss E Keene on 27-01-2022
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....
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Irritating droning narrator. Great thesis. Book could do with further to reduce incessant replication of arguments.
- By Charlie on 24-03-2018
By: James C. Scott
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The Empires of Atlantis
- The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages
- By: Marco M. Vigato
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Establishing the historical and geological reality of Atlantis stretching all the way back to 432,000 BCE, Marco Vigato traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, revealing how civilization rose and fell several times over this lengthy span of time....
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Great summary of many people's ideas, discoveries and fact.
- By Kindle Customer on 02-12-2024
By: Marco M. Vigato
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Clashes of Kings and Emperors Claiming the Crown
- By: Michael Klein
- Narrated by: Kenneth Maxon
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer....
By: Michael Klein
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Chris , you’ve changed my life
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-2019
By: Christopher Ryan
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The Missing Lands: Uncovering Earth's Pre-Flood Civilization
- By: Freddy Silva
- Narrated by: Freddy Silva
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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From the Birthplace of the Gods in New Zealand, to the Andean home of the Shining People, and the Yucatec temple cities of the People of The Serpent, \author Freddy Silva re-examines the world’s flood traditions and discovers an interconnected web of master seafarers, astronomers and magicians...
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good coverage of the subject and thought provoling
- By shumack on 12-02-2025
By: Freddy Silva
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Human Geography for Dummies
- By: Kyle Tredinnick
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college.
By: Kyle Tredinnick
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Histories
- By: Herodotus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....
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Listen to Herodotus teach you through time.
- By John Simpson on 09-12-2019
By: Herodotus
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic, geographic, or anthropogenic as it is narrative....
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A Perfect Summary of Humankind
- By Benjamin on 08-01-2025
By: Tamim Ansary
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
By: Anne Fadiman
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After 1177 B.C.
- The Survival of Civilizations
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: John Chancer, Eric H. Cline
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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This audiobook tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever.
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Filling some major gaps between eras.
- By Daniel Balestri on 29-05-2024
By: Eric H. Cline
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The Anunnaki Chronicles
- A Zecharia Sitchin Reader
- By: Zecharia Sitchin, Janet Sitchin - editor
- Narrated by: Luke Bob Robinson
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Providing an insider's look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin's complete works as well as an in-depth overview of his theories, this collection includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series....
By: Zecharia Sitchin, and others
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Lost Britain
- An A-Z of Forgotten Landmarks and Lost Traditions
- By: David Long
- Narrated by: Kim Durham
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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The book shines a light into the hidden corners of Britain's history, exploring medieval ghost villages, former architectural masterpieces, the purported resting place of Anne Boleyn's heart....
By: David Long
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....
By: Colin Elliott
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Myths of the Asanas
- The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition
- By: Alanna Kaivalya, Arjuna van der Kooij
- Narrated by: Alanna Kaivalya
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Enhance your yoga practice with this all-new audio edition of the ultimate guide to the stories behind the most beloved poses of all time, narrated by author Alanna Kaivalya.
By: Alanna Kaivalya, and others
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The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries
- Complete Edition – Vol. 1 and 2
- By: Charles William Heckethorn
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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Unveil the hidden forces that have shaped history. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries is a groundbreaking two-volume work that explores the clandestine organizations that have operated behind the scenes for centuries.
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A Brief History of Motion
- From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
- By: Tom Standage
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Tom Standage returns with a provocative account of an overlooked form of technology - personal transportation - and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia....
By: Tom Standage
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The March of Folly
- From Troy to Vietnam
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages...
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An interesting analysis of the nature of political folly throughout history.
- By Pierz Newton-John on 14-11-2016
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Visions of Atlantis
- Reclaiming our Lost Ancient Legacy
- By: Michael Le Flem
- Narrated by: Chris Sims
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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People all around the world have grappled with the story of Atlantis for millennia, and Visions of Atlantis attempts to sort fact from fiction, providing a unique and compelling glimpse into what might have been....
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Fascinating collection of information
- By Anonymous User on 24-04-2025
By: Michael Le Flem