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Peak Human
- What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
- By: Johan Norberg
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended, whether it be because of external pressures or internal fracturing; too much hubris or too little wariness.
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Outstanding book
- By E. Stamatakis on 08-03-2026
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Peak Human
- What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2025
- Language: English
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Stoicism Is Not What You Think
- By: John Sellars
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. We all know what it means to be ‘stoical’: to have a stiff upper lip, to hide or suppress one’s emotions, to be indifferent to the outside world. Many people might reasonably think that this doesn’t sound like a good way to live. Who would want to feel nothing?...
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Stoicism Is Not What You Think
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 01-10-2026
- Language: English
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The Future of Dinosaurs
- What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know
- By: David Hone
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early 1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of these animals, and in the past 20 years, we have made more discoveries than in the previous 200. There have been extraordinary advances in palaeontological methods, and ever more dinosaur fossils promise a landslide of new data and huge leaps forward in our understanding of these incredible animals.
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great read covering scientific tactics throughout the ages
- By Jemma l. on 25-04-2025
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The Future of Dinosaurs
- What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2022
- Language: English
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What If...? Vol 3
- The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- By: Robert Cowley, Robert Cowley - editor
- Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
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Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our...
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What If...? Vol 3
- The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
- Series: What If?, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2001
- Language: English
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Plato's Apology
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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What’s the big idea? To Socrates, living according to his values was more important than life itself. Plato’s Apology is in three parts: Socrates’ personal defense in his trial for impiety and corrupting the young, his plea before being sentenced, and his address to the jurors after he was condemned to death. This book includes an introduction, telling who Socrates was and how he came to be on trial for his life before his fellow Athenians.
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Plato's Apology
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2022
- Language: English
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What Is Ancient History?
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity's pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided the shared foundation of our world and continues to shape our lives today.
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What Is Ancient History?
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Wandering Mind
- What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
- By: Jamie Kreiner
- Narrated by: Jamie Kreiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily.
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The Wandering Mind
- What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
- Narrated by: Jamie Kreiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2023
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Matt Zwolinski, Miranda Perry Fleischer
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The motivating idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is radically simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But does this simple idea have the potential to radically transform our society? This book provides the average citizen with all the information they need to understand current debates about the UBI. It recounts the history of the idea, from its origins in the writings of eighteenth century radical intellectuals to contemporary discussions centered on unemployment caused by technological advances such as artificial intelligence.
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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2023
- Language: English
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Epictetus
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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What’s the big idea? Former slave Epictetus argues that since we cannot control the external world, true freedom comes from the reasoned control of one’s own desires and passions. This is the core of Stoic thought that Epictetus taught in Western Greece about AD 100. Stoicism became the dominant moral philosophy of the Hellenistic and Roman world, and Epictetus became its dominant and most respected teacher. Though Epictetus wrote nothing that has survived, writer Arrian attended his lectures and took those notes that preserved Epictetus’ teachings.
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2022
- Language: English
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What the Greeks Did for Us
- By: Tony Spawforth
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks' spell. But how did ancient Greece spread its influence so far and wide? And how has this influence changed us?
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What the Greeks Did for Us
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2023
- Language: English
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American Odyssey
- What an Ancient Story Reveals About Our Divided Souls
- By: Patrick J. Deneen
- Length: Not Yet Known
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As the celebrated political philosopher Patrick Deneen explains in this eye-opening book, the Odyssey is also the most American of ancient texts. Like Odysseus, Americans have two fundamental impulses: we are a people simultaneously animated by commitments to being at home and leaving home. Deneen shows us that the deep ambivalence at the heart of the Odyssey is also our own—as some of our greatest books and films attest, from Huckleberry Finn to The Wizard of Oz to Field of Dreams.
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American Odyssey
- What an Ancient Story Reveals About Our Divided Souls
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 21-07-2026
- Language: English
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What If Carthage Won the Punic Wars?
- An Alternative History of the Conflict Between Rome and Carthage
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Rome and Carthage rarely could maintain peace after the end of the fourth century BCE. As the two most powerful civilizations in the western Mediterranean region, they were destined to clash, curse or not. Roman historians placed the foundation of Carthage at approximately 814 BCE, several decades before Rome.
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What If Carthage Won the Punic Wars?
- An Alternative History of the Conflict Between Rome and Carthage
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2020
- Language: English
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What an Artist Dies in Me
- The Rise and Spiral of Nero Caesar
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Sylvia Rausch
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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He was Rome’s golden boy — beautiful, brilliant, beloved. A poet, a singer, a dreamer on the throne. But behind the lyre and the laurel, there was rot. This is not the story of an emperor. It’s the story of a boy raised to perform, handed absolute power, and slowly, irrevocably swallowed by his own illusion. Nero Caesar didn’t rule an empire. He directed one — turning politics into theater, cruelty into ritual, and Rome itself into a stage built to burn.
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What an Artist Dies in Me
- The Rise and Spiral of Nero Caesar
- Narrated by: Sylvia Rausch
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2025
- Language: English
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Myths & Marvels
- A Young Hero’s Guide to Gods, Monsters, and Legendary Adventures — And What We Can Learn from Them Today
- By: A. E. Kosta
- Narrated by: Adam M.
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Do you want to step into a world where gods command the skies, heroes defy the odds, and legends live forever? Ever wondered how the great Zeus claimed his throne or why Achilles was inexorable? It all begins here.
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Myths & Marvels
- A Young Hero’s Guide to Gods, Monsters, and Legendary Adventures — And What We Can Learn from Them Today
- Narrated by: Adam M.
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2025
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters
- What's the Big Idea
- By: Lucius Seneca, Seneca the Younger
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In this selection of letters to a friend and an essay addressed to the Roman Emperor Nero, Roman statesman Seneca argues that the stoic life of virtue, courage, justice and temperance need not prevent a life lived with joy, and was within the reach of any man determined to behave ethically and with moderation.
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Seneca’s Letters
- What's the Big Idea
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2025
- Language: English
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What If Alexander the Great Had Lived?
- An Alternative History of the Macedonian King and His Empire (Charles River Editors' Alternative History Series)
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BCE), the Macedonian king who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia by the age of 30.
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What If Alexander the Great Had Lived?
- An Alternative History of the Macedonian King and His Empire (Charles River Editors' Alternative History Series)
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Series: Charles River Editors' Alternative History Series, Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2020
- Language: English
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Nouvelle-France [New France]
- Ce qu'on aurait dû vous enseigner [What We Should Have Taught You]
- By: Gilles Proulx
- Narrated by: Gilles Proulx
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui.
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Nouvelle-France [New France]
- Ce qu'on aurait dû vous enseigner [What We Should Have Taught You]
- Narrated by: Gilles Proulx
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2020
- Language: French
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Secrets of Mesoamerica
- What Did the Aztec, Maya, and Olmec Really Know?
- By: Alda Dagny
- Narrated by: Heather Livesey
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Introducing Secrets of Mesoamerica, a must-listen for anyone who wants to know everything there is to learn about the rich history of this significant era of our history. With all of the commodities and knowledge available today, it is almost impossible to fathom how civilizations survived before us. But not only did the Mesoamericans survive, they also thrived.
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Secrets of Mesoamerica
- What Did the Aztec, Maya, and Olmec Really Know?
- Narrated by: Heather Livesey
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2023
- Language: English
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Roman Empire: The Ins and Outs of What Roman History Is All About
- By: Ron Carver
- Narrated by: Brandon Woodall
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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This guide deals with the dealings of the Romans 2,000 years ago. You'll learn more about their habits, their wars, the success of their empire, the first emperor, Augustus, Pompeii and its purpose, the eruption there, the Vestal Virgins and their tasks in society. In short, this is the perfect guide to get acquainted with how Romans lives. Start listening now.
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Roman Empire: The Ins and Outs of What Roman History Is All About
- Narrated by: Brandon Woodall
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2020
- Language: English
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Plato's Crito
- What's the Big Idea
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Plato's Crito is a dialogue between an imprisoned Socrates and Crito, a wealthy Athenian who has formulated and financed a plan for Socrates to escape and live in exile.
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Plato's Crito
- What's the Big Idea
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2023
- Language: English
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