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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- By: David Christian
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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Absolutely crucial reading
- By chimene on 15-11-2018
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2018
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.
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great and informative listen
- By Liam Prendergast on 18-02-2021
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: English
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Great Catherine
- The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Prize-winning historian and biographer, Carolly Erickson has created an eminently readable biography that recognizes the humanity of Great Catherine—Empress of Russia—with her majesty and immense capability. Dispelling some of the myths surrounding her voracious sexual appetite, the biographer portrays Catherine as a lonely woman far ahead of her time—achieving greatness in an era when women were executed on a husband’s whim.
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I Loved it
- By Mordsith on 17-03-2020
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Great Catherine
- The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2011
- Language: English
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The Boer War
- By: Martin Bossenbroek
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict.
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Poor pronunciation of names and places spoiled the book.
- By Anonymous User on 18-07-2018
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The Boer War
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2018
- Language: English
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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Good historical survey
- By Louis Cohalan on 04-04-2020
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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A History of the Twentieth Century
- By: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 53 mins
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Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany.
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Strange but Well Done
- By Shane on 29-05-2016
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A History of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2011
- Language: English
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
- By: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the 18th and 19th centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world.
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Well made
- By Anonymous User on 15-06-2019
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 22-08-2016
- Language: English
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The Fate of Rome
- Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- By: Kyle Harper
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.
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excellent
- By Mara on 30-07-2023
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The Fate of Rome
- Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2017
- Language: English
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Paradise in Chains
- The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonization.
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Fantastic Australian history
- By Jackson Dean on 21-05-2020
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Paradise in Chains
- The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
- By: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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The world will never see another peace conference like the one which took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders - including Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France - met to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One.
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The stories behind the story
- By Rob on 29-12-2019
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The Modern Scholar
- Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
- Narrated by: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2008
- Language: English
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
- From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
- By: Heather E. Quinlan
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
- From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2020
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans
- By: Professor Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Israel conjures up myriad associations for peoples of all cultures and religious backgrounds. Inextricably associated with the world's three most prominent religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Israel is steeped in history and conflict, much of which is known through the tales of biblical figures such as Moses, David, Solomon, and, of course, Jesus Christ.But how much of the Bible can be relied upon as accurate history? And how much of the biblical record can be verified through archaeology?
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The Modern Scholar
- The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2008
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- A History of the English Language
- By: Prof. Michael Drout
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael Drout
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Drout addresses the foundation of language and its connection to specific portions of the brain. The components of language are explained in easy-to-understand terms and the progression of the language from Germanic to Old, Middle, and Modern English is fully illustrated - including such revolutionary language upheavals as those brought about by the Norman Conquest and the Great Vowel Shift.
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Good but not quite what I expected
- By Joseph Azize on 14-04-2020
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The Modern Scholar
- A History of the English Language
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael Drout
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-09-2009
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar: Mathematics Is Power
- By: Professor William Bloch
- Narrated by: Professor William Bloch
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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William Goldbloom Bloch is a respected professor of mathematics at Wheaton College. This intriguing lecture series, Mathematics Is Power, delves into both the history of mathematics and its impact on people’s everyday lives from a non-mathematician’s perspective. Bloch first examines the history of mathematics and age-old questions pertaining to logic, truth, and paradoxes. Moving on to a discussion of how mathematics impacts the modern world, Bloch also explores abstract permutations such as game theory, cryptography, and voting theory.
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The Modern Scholar: Mathematics Is Power
- Narrated by: Professor William Bloch
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2013
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires, and War
- By: Prof. Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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This all-encompassing investigation of a highly influential time period includes the major events of the era and informative discussion of empire, papacy, the Crusades, and the fall of Constantinople. During the course of these lectures, Professor Madden also addresses the rise of Islam, reform movements, and schisms in the church. In so doing, Professor Madden underscores the significance and grand scale of an age that continues to hold an undeniable fascination for people today.
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The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires, and War
- Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 27-07-2009
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar: The Lost Warriors of God
- The True History of the Knights Templar
- By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Professor Thomas F. Madden
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Professor Thomas F. Madden is a widely published author and the director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. In The Lost Warriors of God, Madden examines one of the most fascinating organizations in world history: the Knights Templar, whose members gave up home, family, and worldly possessions to defend the Holy Land and the Christian pilgrims who journeyed there.
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The Modern Scholar: The Lost Warriors of God
- The True History of the Knights Templar
- Narrated by: Professor Thomas F. Madden
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2014
- Language: English
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2020
- Language: English
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Sexual Politics
- By: Kate Millett
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
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A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors - D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet - and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life.
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still relevant
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-2022
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Sexual Politics
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2019
- Language: English
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Nixon and Mao: International Edition
- The Week That Changed the World
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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With the publication of her landmark best seller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today - the relationship between the United States and China - and one of the most significant moments in modern history.
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Nixon and Mao: International Edition
- The Week That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2020
- Language: English
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In her graceful, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles the history of the Copernican Revolution, relating the story of astronomy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages. In its midst will be her play, And the Sun Stood Still, imagining the dialogue that would have transpired between Rheticus and Copernicus in their months together. As she achieved with her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel expands the bounds of science writing, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement.
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2011
- Language: English
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