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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of Western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire....
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So so
- By Anonymous on 17-01-2020
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Florentines
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mould largely began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in the province of Tuscany.
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Requiring Reading
- By Dan B. on 18-05-2025
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The Florentines
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Well told history
- By Anonymous on 17-09-2025
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-2019
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Schopenhauer in just one hour. Arthur Schopenhauer, the ‘philosopher of pessimism,’ makes it clear that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. However, if the world is indifferent to our fate it...
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Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hegel in just one hour. With Hegel philosophy became very difficult indeed – even the great man himself conceded that ‘only one man understands me, and even he does not.’ His dialectical method produced the most...
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Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2013
- Language: English
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Sartre: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Following on from the incredible online success of the ‘History In An Hour’ titles- now there’s a Philosophy series for busy people, on the go. Listen to a succinct account of the Philosophy of Sartre in just one hour. Here is a concise, expert account of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and...
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good
- By Trent on 22-08-2020
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Sartre: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2013
- Language: English
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Spinoza: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Spinoza in just one hour. Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic axioms (assumptions), by means of a series of geometric proofs he built a universe...
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Spinoza: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Neitzsche in just one hour. Philosophy has always been dangerous for philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche made it dangerous for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness which was to ravage Europe throughout the...
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trash, doesn't tell you anything
- By Emir on 16-12-2020
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Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2013
- Language: English
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Heidegger: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Philosophy for busy people who are always on the go but have always wanted to read up on certain figures in history that have shaped the way we think and live. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Heidegger in just one hour. One of the two major philosophical traditions of the...
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fascinating
- By Alan Groves on 28-08-2018
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Heidegger: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2013
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour. Niccolò Machiavelli’s work remains misunderstood – synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics – nearly 350 years after his death. His philosophy of statecraft was...
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Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2013
- Language: English
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, England, and even in Italy itself. Following a sequence of major figures, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian Renaissance in bringing our modern world into being.
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: English
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Ten Cities that Led the World
- From Ancient Foundations to Modern Powerhouses – a remarkable history
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores...
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Interesting and engaging
- By Anonymous on 12-11-2024
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Ten Cities that Led the World
- From Ancient Foundations to Modern Powerhouses – a remarkable history
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2022
- Language: English
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Dewey: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour. In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his age – no mean feat when his colleagues included the likes of Russell, Wittgenstein and Heidegger...
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Dewey: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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Socrates: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Socrates in just one hour. Socrates is widely renowned as one of the founders of Western philosophy, despite the fact that his ideas survive largely through the work of his pupil Plato. Socrates’ dialectic – a...
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Don’t bother
- By AC on 01-12-2022
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Socrates: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2013
- Language: English
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Dark Brilliance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.
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Dark Brilliance
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2024
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Wittgenstein in just one hour. Ludwig Wittgenstein saw himself as ‘the last philosopher’. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished. A superb logician, Wittgenstein distrusted language and...
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Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2013
- Language: English
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Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Foucault in just one hour. The French philosopher Michel Foucault set about his task rather like a historian. After painstaking research, he concluded that knowledge and power were intimately related throughout history...
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Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2013
- Language: English
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Berkeley: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Berkeley in just one hour. Berkeley’s philosophy denies the existence of matter. According to his work, there is no material world, only our own experience. So when you don’t see something, it isn’t there. Then...
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Berkeley: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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Kant: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Kant in just one hour. Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never travelled farther than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. Appropriately, his philosophy strenuously denies...
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Kant: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2013
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Kierkegaard in just one hour. Although Kierkegaard was not a philosopher in the academic sense, he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn’t write about the world, he wrote about life – how we live...
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Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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