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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present, and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests.
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Get to the History
- By J Ro on 09-11-2024
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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.
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The best general history of Japan in any language
- By Anonymous User on 19-06-2024
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2018
- Language: English
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The Scots
- A Genetic Journey
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies, and this book traces the ancient story of Scotland from that scientific viewpoint. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting history in spectacular fashion. In Scotland: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where Scots are from, where they have journeyed, and who they are - and in so doing, vividly colors in a DNA map of Scotland.
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Excellent
- By Susan Jane on 05-02-2023
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The Scots
- A Genetic Journey
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2022
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Korea
- Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
- By: Michael J. Seth
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum. Geographically isolated, the country was heavily influenced by powerful China and was often used as a bridge to the mainland by Japan. Calling themselves as "a shrimp among whales", Koreans borrowed elements of government, culture, and religion, all the while fiercely fighting to maintain independence.
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A Brief History of Korea
- Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2019
- Language: English
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- By: Stephen L. Sass
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.
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History makes everything more interesting
- By Sarah Green on 24-08-2023
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2013
- Language: English
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.
The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans - creating the modern Middle East along the way - and on to the present struggles in Iraq.
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Interesting
- By Tomas on 23-03-2018
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2008
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World
- Brief Histories Series
- By: Tom Phillips
- Narrated by: Tom Phillips
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f--king nigh. Across thousands of years, we'll meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth. We'll journey back to the 'worst period to be alive', as the world reeled from a simultaneous pandemic and climate crisis. And we'll look to the future to ask the unnerving question: how might it all end?
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A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World
- Brief Histories Series
- Narrated by: Tom Phillips
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2025
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2015
- Language: English
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our boldest plans. Our psychological biases have been at the root of terrible decisions in both war and peacetime. This extraordinary contradiction is the essence of what it means to be human - the sum total of our frailties and our faculties.
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well spoken, good content
- By Fion on 23-04-2024
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2023
- Language: English
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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- By: Arturo Escobar
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….
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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Savitri D, Jacques Servin
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future--to imagine a social order based on humans' fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time-- inequality, technology, the identity of "the West," democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest--he challenges the old assumptions about political life.
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
- Narrated by: Savitri D, Jacques Servin
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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Culture
- A New World History
- By: Martin Puchner
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how contact between different peoples has driven artistic innovation in every era - whilst cultural policing and purism have more often undermined the very societies they tried to protect.
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Outstanding
- By S.Attenborough on 23-11-2024
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Culture
- A New World History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2023
- Language: English
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Afghanistan
- A Cultural and Political History
- By: Thomas Barfield
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
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Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces listeners to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.
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A good read
- By Julian Manning on 22-11-2020
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Afghanistan
- A Cultural and Political History
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2012
- Language: English
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History for Tomorrow
- Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
- By: Roman Krznaric
- Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Here, leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric unearths fascinating insights and inspiration from the last 1000 years of world history that could help us confront the most urgent challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. From bridging the inequality gap and keeping AI under control, to reviving our faith in democracy and avoiding ecological collapse, History for Tomorrow shows that history is not simply a means of understanding the past but a way of reimagining our relationship with the future.
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essential reading for radical change makers of today and tomorrow.
- By louisa on 24-11-2024
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History for Tomorrow
- Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2024
- Language: English
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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 (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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History from humane perspective and context.
- By Mynul Chowdhuri on 05-05-2025
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- By: Harvey Whitehouse
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation. Unveiling a visionary new way of studying human history - one that stunningly weaves together experimental psychology, anthropology and quantitative social science - Harvey Whitehouse uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism.
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An interesting and engaging read
- By Amazon Customer on 16-03-2025
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2024
- Language: English
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth
- By: Michael Spitzer
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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One hundred and sixty-five million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. Sixty-six million years ago was the first melody. Forty thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story.
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Actually a misanthropic diatribe on Western music,
- By Luke on 06-01-2023
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Silk Road
- A New History
- By: Valerie Hansen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archaeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China.
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The Silk Road
- A New History
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2018
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Jason Goodwin
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2018
- Language: English
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- By: David J. Meltzer
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 11 hrs
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 15-09-2011
- Language: English
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