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King of the World
- The Life of Cyrus the Great
- By: Matt Waters
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s BCE. Much of the empire's territory was conquered by its founder, Cyrus the Great, who reigned from 559-530 BCE.
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King of the World
- The Life of Cyrus the Great
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2022
- Language: English
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The Girl Explorers
- The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
- By: Jayne Zanglein
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers - an organization of adventurous female world explorers - and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and literature.
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The Girl Explorers
- The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2021
- Language: English
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Seven Games
- A Human History
- By: Oliver Roeder
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable.
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Seven Games
- A Human History
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Rest I Will Kill
- William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
- By: Brian McGinty
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor with the ship's black cook and steward at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has been tragically lost to history. Now reclaiming William Tillman as the American hero he deserves to be, historian Brian McGinty takes listeners on a courageous journey.
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The Rest I Will Kill
- William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2016
- Language: English
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No Turning Back
- Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
- By: Rania Abouzeid
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Based on more than five years of clandestine reporting on the front lines, No Turning Back is an utterly engrossing human drama full of vivid, indelible characters that shows how hope can flourish even amid one of the 21st century's greatest humanitarian disasters.
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No Turning Back
- Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2018
- Language: English
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Tasting the Past
- The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
- By: Kevin Begos
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The characters in Tasting the Past include a young Swiss scientist who set out to decode the DNA of every single wine grape in the world; Middle Eastern researchers who seek to discover the wines that King David drank; and a University of Pennsylvania academic who has spent decades analyzing wine remains. The science illuminates wine in ways no critic can, and demolishes some of the most sacred dogmas of the industry: well-known French grapes aren't especially noble.
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Tasting the Past
- The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-06-2018
- Language: English
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Plagues and Their Aftermath
- How Societies Recover from Pandemics
- By: Brian Michael Jenkins
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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From a plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 BCE, to another in 540 that wiped out half the population of the Roman empire, down through the Black Death in the Middle Ages and on through the 1918 flu epidemic (which killed between 50 and 100 million people) and this century's deadly SARS outbreak, plagues have been a much more relentless fact of life than many realize. The legacy of epidemics, Brian Michael Jenkins observes, is not only one of lives lost but of devastated economies and social disorder, all of which have severe political repercussions.
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Plagues and Their Aftermath
- How Societies Recover from Pandemics
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2022
- Language: English
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The One-Cent Magenta
- Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
- By: James Barron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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One-cent magentas were provisional stamps, printed quickly when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive in British Guiana. They were mostly thrown out with the newspapers; one stamp survived. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the One-Cent Magenta, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect.
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The One-Cent Magenta
- Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2017
- Language: English
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The Vikings
- By: Frank R. Donovan
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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At the height of their power in the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings seemed invincible - conquering well-armed warriors whose ships were the ultimate in seafaring technology. From island bases near the deltas of major rivers, they used the waterways to scour the countryside, looting and burning towns, plundering merchant shipments, and stripping churches and monasteries of their gold, silver, and jeweled treasures.
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The Vikings
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2017
- Language: English
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Samurai
- A Concise History
- By: Michael Wert
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late 17th century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy. This book gives listeners access to the real samurai as they lived, fought, and served. Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy, and religion of their own time, and controlled Japan from the 14th century until their demise in the mid-19th century.
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Samurai
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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The Sunken Gold
- A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History
- By: Joseph A. Williams
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret, since the British government dared not alert the Germans to the presence of the gold. Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was the most qualified officer to head the risky mission.
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The Sunken Gold
- A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2017
- Language: English
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Reaching for the Moon
- Short History of the Space Race
- By: Roger D. Launius
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 7 hrs
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Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing - following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov - to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing.
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Reaching for the Moon
- Short History of the Space Race
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- By: Theodore M. Porter
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages.
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-06-2018
- Language: English
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Grave New World
- The End of Globalization, the Return of History
- By: Stephen D. King
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.
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Grave New World
- The End of Globalization, the Return of History
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2017
- Language: English
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Ways of Eating
- Exploring Food through History and Culture
- By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
- Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nuoc cham, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.
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Ways of Eating
- Exploring Food through History and Culture
- Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2023
- Language: English
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- By: Dana Hercbergs
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place.
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One of my favourite books
- By Anonymous User on 28-10-2019
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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Leftover in China
- The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
- By: Roseann Lake
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage - or not marry at all - to spawn a label: "leftovers". Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners.
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- By Brooke Austin on 13-08-2021
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Leftover in China
- The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-02-2018
- Language: English
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The Burr Conspiracy
- Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
- By: James E. Lewis Jr.
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of the uncertain rumors and reports about Burr's intentions and movements, and examines what the resulting crisis reveals about their anxieties concerning the new nation's fragile union and uncertain republic.
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The Burr Conspiracy
- Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2017
- Language: English
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
- How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- By: Philip Jenkins
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Historian Philip Jenkins draws out the complex relationship between religion and climate change. He asserts that the religious movements and ideas that emerge from climate shocks often last for many decades, and even become a familiar part of the religious landscape. By stirring conflicts and provoking persecutions that defined themselves in religious terms, changes in climate have redrawn the world's religious maps, and created the global concentrations of believers as we know them today.
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
- How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
- By: Gordon H. Chang
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would be pushed to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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