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Why the West Rules - For Now
- The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
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With flair and authority, historian and archaeologist Ian Morris draws uniquely on 15,000 years of history to offer fresh insights on what the future will bring. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why The West Rules - For Now is a gripping and truly original history of the world.
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Why the West Rules - For Now
- The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- Language: English
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Lives of the Stoics
- The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
- By: Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today's chaotic world. But who were the Stoics? In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practised it.
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Get a professional narrator...
- By Tim on 25-04-2021
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Lives of the Stoics
- The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Great War
- 1914-1918
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great War was the first truly global conflict and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, critically acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting-edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers.
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At first read I didn't enjoy it, however.
- By Anonymous User on 17-01-2023
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The Great War
- 1914-1918
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2021
- Language: English
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Pompeii
- The Life of a Roman Town
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought, or the hygiene of the baths that must have been hotbeds of germs, or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one, or the massive death count, maybe less than 10 per cent of the population.
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Outstanding
- By Patrick on 25-09-2023
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Pompeii
- The Life of a Roman Town
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance
- By: Rashid I. Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid I. Khalidi
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project.
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Brilliant reading. Eye opening version from the other side for once.
- By Owen HARRIS on 23-03-2024
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid I. Khalidi
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2023
- Language: English
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Geography Is Destiny
- Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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Geography Is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic and rise of the Pacific Rim. Applying the latest archaeological evidence, Ian Morris explores how geography, migration, government and new technologies interacted to produce regional inequalities that still affect us today.
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Geography Is Destiny
- Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2022
- Language: English
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists.
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Great for someone already knowledgeable on Roman history
- By Anonymous User on 29-10-2023
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Good Drinker
- How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
- By: Adrian Chiles
- Narrated by: Adrian Chiles
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.
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Very relatable
- By John on 24-12-2022
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The Good Drinker
- How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
- Narrated by: Adrian Chiles
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2022
- Language: English
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Strongmen
- How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
- By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, India, Turkey and America are ruled by men who, as they have risen to the top, have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And as they do so, they draw on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.
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Terrible narration
- By Give up on 16-04-2023
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Strongmen
- How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2020
- Language: English
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
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Interesting in parts
- By Andrew Craig on 25-01-2024
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: English
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Fear
- An Alternative History of the World
- By: Robert Peckham
- Narrated by: Callum Coates
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the COVID-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces - perhaps the driving force - of world history: fear of God, of famine, war, disease, poverty, and other people. In Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change.
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Fear
- An Alternative History of the World
- Narrated by: Callum Coates
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2023
- Language: English
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A Short History of England
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A Short History of England sheds light on all the key individuals and events, bringing them together in an enlightening and engaging account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence and then partial eclipse. There have been long synoptic histories of England, but until now there has been no standard short work covering all significant events, themes and individuals.
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bit dry
- By Adam on 12-09-2022
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A Short History of England
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2022
- Language: English
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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The Digital Silk Road
- China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
- By: Jonathan E. Hillman
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data to reflect its interests.
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The Digital Silk Road
- China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2021
- Language: English
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Britain's best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. In Women & Power she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women, using examples ranging from the classical world to the modern day. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.
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Audible forcing me to write a review or I can’t listen to my library?
- By Karen Cummings on 16-02-2021
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2019
- Language: English
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Little Englanders
- Britain in the Edwardian Era
- By: Alwyn Turner
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Britain's dominance stretched across seven continents and its ruling classes were wealthier than ever before. Many later remembered the decade or so that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians themselves were acutely aware that the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever. In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change.
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Little Englanders
- Britain in the Edwardian Era
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2024
- Language: English
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- By: Tiya Miles
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery.
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2023
- Language: English
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At Close Range
- Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. The South Notts Hussars fought at almost every major battle. Here, Peter Hart draws on detailed interviews conducted with members of the regiment to provide both a comprehensive account of the conflict and reconstruct its most thrilling moments in the words of the men who experienced it. This is military history at its best.
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Great narration fantastic story
- By Anonymous User on 30-12-2022
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At Close Range
- Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2020
- Language: English
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The Celts
- A Sceptical History
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall. The word keltoi first appears in Greek as applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians'—and theories of Celticism continue to fuel many of the prejudices and misconceptions that divide the peoples of the British Isles to this day. Often seen as unimportant or irrelevant adjuncts to English history, in The Celts Simon Jenkins offers a compelling counterargument.
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The Celts
- A Sceptical History
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
- A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
- By: Julia Laite
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts—and disappears. 1910, London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring of international criminals when they find a young woman on the streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case. As more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era.
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
- A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2021
- Language: English
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