Bestsellers
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Assyria
- The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- By: Eckart Frahm
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....
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Too much volume change in narration
- By Erin on 06-19-24
By: Eckart Frahm
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- By S.R.E. on 03-02-16
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- By Blue Zion on 12-22-18
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Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
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Painfully boring
- By 80s Kid on 09-18-24
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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell....
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Gasping for Air
- By Jean Engle on 04-19-23
By: David Grann
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Assyria
- The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- By: Eckart Frahm
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....
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Too much volume change in narration
- By Erin on 06-19-24
By: Eckart Frahm
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- By S.R.E. on 03-02-16
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- By Blue Zion on 12-22-18
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Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
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Painfully boring
- By 80s Kid on 09-18-24
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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell....
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Gasping for Air
- By Jean Engle on 04-19-23
By: David Grann
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....
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It's a Wonderful Book
- By JKC on 06-02-16
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Great Mythologies of the World
- By: The Great Courses, Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, and others
- Narrated by: Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Kathryn McClymond, and others
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Original Recording
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The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies....
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Three Fantastic Lecturers, + one iffy one.
- By Christopher on 12-03-15
By: The Great Courses, and others
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- By Andrew on 11-09-09
By: Bill Bryson
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
By: Alfred Lansing
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- By: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....
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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- By Chencheno111 on 03-19-22
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- A Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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An immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history....
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Great overview with lots of additional history
- By McFitz on 03-26-25
By: Bettany Hughes
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The Wide Wide Sea
- Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day....
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Detailed story of third voyage
- By Sammi on 04-18-24
By: Hampton Sides
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The Prince
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici....
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You have to know what you get with The Prince
- By Cody Brown on 02-10-15
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys.
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Brilliant research and narration
- By Dr. Krishnendu Ray on 05-16-25
By: Laura Spinney
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
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Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination....
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Only the forward is narrated by Holland.
- By Honora on 06-16-20
By: Tom Holland
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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An Historic Achievement
- By Ellen S. Wilds on 04-25-14
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power....
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a warning for the future
- By judith on 11-06-19
By: Timothy Snyder
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....
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He’s correct but he misrepresented the data
- By Andrea Allen on 02-09-21
By: Rutger Bregman, and others
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The Horse
- A Galloping History of Humanity
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history....
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Virtue signaling on 4 legs
- By K N on 08-25-24
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 30 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history....
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Better read than listened to
- By B. In -t Veld on 03-25-17
By: Max Hastings
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Undaunted Courage
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Meriwether Lewis and his partner, William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights on their 1803 cross-country trip to unexplored West....
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Narration kills a great book
- By Kindle Customer on 02-10-08
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Elliot Hill
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks....
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Not his best by a long chalk: Read Steven Pinker.
- By David on 02-05-18
By: Niall Ferguson
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- By: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrated by: Mark Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation....
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exactly what I've been looking for
- By DankTurtle on 11-10-21
By: David Graeber, and others
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Sword and Scimitar
- Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
- By: Raymond Ibrahim, Victor Davis Hanson - foreword
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West sheds a revealing light on current hostilities....
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Excellent read
- By Susan Stone on 01-25-19
By: Raymond Ibrahim, and others
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The Guns of August
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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Wonderful
- By Mike From Mesa on 10-28-08
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 126 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....
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Masterpiece - Best Audiobook I’ve Listened To
- By Student on 09-18-18
By: Edward Gibbon
New releases
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west.
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Brilliant research and narration
- By Dr. Krishnendu Ray on 05-16-25
By: Laura Spinney
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Scorched Earth
- A Global History of World War II
- By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe.
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So Very Small
- How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease that reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.
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A gripping account of a triumph of humanity, and our limitations
- By Something Innocuous on 05-12-25
By: Thomas Levenson
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The Third Battle of Ypres
- The History of the Largest Battle in Flanders During World War I
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across No Man’s Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are all too true, they hide the fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly evolving throughout the war as all armies struggled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.
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A History of USOs
- Unidentified Submerged Objects: Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969
- By: Richard Dolan
- Narrated by: Gary Maholm
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects (Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969) by Richard M. Dolan is the first installment in a groundbreaking three-volume series that explores the fascinating and often unexplained phenomenon of USOs—Unidentified Submerged Objects. This meticulously researched book delves into the earliest reported sightings of mysterious objects observed in oceans, lakes, and rivers, spanning centuries and covering 178 carefully documented cases up to 1969.
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Good book
- By Andrew W. Swain on 05-23-25
By: Richard Dolan
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Humans
- A Monstrous History
- By: Surekha Davies
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal.
By: Surekha Davies
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west.
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Brilliant research and narration
- By Dr. Krishnendu Ray on 05-16-25
By: Laura Spinney
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Scorched Earth
- A Global History of World War II
- By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe.
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So Very Small
- How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease that reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.
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A gripping account of a triumph of humanity, and our limitations
- By Something Innocuous on 05-12-25
By: Thomas Levenson
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The Third Battle of Ypres
- The History of the Largest Battle in Flanders During World War I
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across No Man’s Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are all too true, they hide the fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly evolving throughout the war as all armies struggled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.
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A History of USOs
- Unidentified Submerged Objects: Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969
- By: Richard Dolan
- Narrated by: Gary Maholm
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects (Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969) by Richard M. Dolan is the first installment in a groundbreaking three-volume series that explores the fascinating and often unexplained phenomenon of USOs—Unidentified Submerged Objects. This meticulously researched book delves into the earliest reported sightings of mysterious objects observed in oceans, lakes, and rivers, spanning centuries and covering 178 carefully documented cases up to 1969.
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Good book
- By Andrew W. Swain on 05-23-25
By: Richard Dolan
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Humans
- A Monstrous History
- By: Surekha Davies
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal.
By: Surekha Davies
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The World of the Cold War
- 1945-1991
- By: Vladislav Zubok
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, Vladislav Zubok traces the origins of the Cold War in post-war Europe, through the tumultuous decades of confrontation, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. Drawing on years of research and informed by Zubok’s three decades in the USSR followed by three decades in the West, The Cold War paints a striking portrait of a world on the brink.
By: Vladislav Zubok
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The Year God Died
- Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD
- By: James Lacey
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 31 AD, after the Roman senators murdered Lucius Sejanus, the Roman Emperor Tiberius's closest confidant, the Empire was forever changed. If Sejanus had not been murdered, Jesus would never have been crucified. This profound connection between the lives of Sejanus and Jesus is the first of many revelations in this startling reexamination of the Roman world in which Jesus walked. With new evidence and meticulous research, Dr. James Lacey weaves a majestic and accurate description of who Jesus was.
By: James Lacey
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The History Gossip
- A Slice of Ye Olde Scandal for Every Day of the Year
- By: Katie Kennedy, Martin Hargreaves - illustrator
- Narrated by: Katie Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sexy. Scandalous. Dodgy. If you were of the mind that history is boring, you haven’t been paying attention. Meet Katie Kennedy, aka The History Gossip. Incorporating British slang and pop culture references and infused with her signature deadpan humor, Katie offers a delightful fusion of Drunk History and Horrible Histories, making learning about the past an absolute riot.
By: Katie Kennedy, and others
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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
- By: Pierre Zalloua
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In recent years, genetic testing has become easily available to consumers across the globe, making it relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from. But what do these test results actually tell us about ourselves? In Ancestors, Pierre Zalloua, a leading authority on population genetics, argues that these test results have led to a dangerous oversimplification of what one’s genetic heritage means. Genetic ancestry has become conflated with anthropological categories such as “origin,” “ethnicity,” and even “race” in spite of the complexities that underlie these concepts.
By: Pierre Zalloua
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Apocalypse
- How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
- By: Lizzie Wade
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened? The good news is, we’ve been here before. History is long, and people have already confronted just about every apocalypse we’re facing today. But these days, archaeologists are getting better at seeing stories of survival, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction. Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew.
By: Lizzie Wade
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How Capitalism Caused World War II
- The Political Effects of an Economic Crisis
- By: Thomas Winterbottom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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This book explores the idea that the Second World War was caused by economic crisis.
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The Lost Civilization of TARTARIA
- The Global Reset to Rewrite History & Control the Future: Exploring Mudfloods, Free Energy, Giants, The World Fairs, & The Orphan Trains Repopulation Plan.
- By: Michael Luciano
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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What if everything you thought you knew about history was wrong—or worse, deliberately rewritten? The Lost Civilization of Tartaria explores the mysteries of a forgotten empire that once spanned the globe. From buried architecture and impossible feats of engineering to orphan trains and suspiciously timed “natural disasters,” this book uncovers the patterns pointing to a massive global reset—and the systematic erasure of an advanced civilization from our collective memory. Through compelling evidence and provocative questions, you'll journey into the world of Tartaria, where star ...
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Fantastic book!
- By Mike on 05-06-25
By: Michael Luciano
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Freedom Ship
- The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
- By: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Marcus Rediker, one of the leading scholars of maritime history, puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic waterfront as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation. Freedom Ship is essential listening for anyone looking to understand the complete story of one of North America's most significant historical moments.
By: Marcus Rediker
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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From ancient civilization to modern times, history is full of mysterious and downright bizarre circumstances. With these crazy and compelling facts, Hidden Histories will change your view of history
By: Tim Rayborn
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The Enlightenment and Its Critics
- Human Progress and Its Opponents
- By: Thomas Winterbottom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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This book explores the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment and the critics of this belief in the higher capabilities of the human mind, such as the power of reason to effect positive change in human society.
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Earthly Materials
- Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
- By: Cutter Wood
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions—revealing that the very parts of us that we seek to hide in embarrassment are actually an essential part of human health, with fascinating social history.
By: Cutter Wood
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Mais c'est un complot
- By: Benjamin Brillaud, Stéphane Genêt
- Narrated by: François Hatt
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Benjamin Brillaud, créateur et animateur de la chaîne YouTube Nota Bene, et son complice historien Stéphane Genêt nous embarquent au cœur des complots connus et méconnus de l’Histoire. Le public fantasme parfois sur l’idée d’une histoire dissimulée, œuvrant dans l’ombre des récits officiels, et qui révélerait bien des secrets si elle était exposée au grand jour. Les machinations politiques sont utiles à connaître pour déconstruire des discours en résonance avec notre époque : une mission de la plus haute importance pour ces deux passionnés d’Histoire !
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The Shortest History of Music
- From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé―5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
- By: Andrew Ford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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The Shortest History of Music takes us on a lively tour through several thousands of years of music history, tracing our relationship with this essential art and allowing us to freshly appreciate and understand music today.
By: Andrew Ford
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Ancient Africa
- Discovering Lost Stories from Africa’s Early Civilizations (Secrets of the Forgotten Past)
- By: Matt Clayton
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Unlock the Lost Legends and Hidden Kingdoms of Ancient Africa. Think you know African history? While most people picture the pyramids of Giza, few realize that ancient Nubia built over two hundred pyramids — more than anywhere else on Earth. Ancient Africa: Pyramids, Pharaohs, Lost Cities, and Powerful Kingdoms takes you on an unforgettable journey through the overlooked empires, captivating cultures, and brilliant innovations that shaped a continent.
By: Matt Clayton
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The Mysterious Fate Of Henry Hudson
- By: Ted McCann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Step into the heart of the Age of Discovery and sail alongside one of its most enigmatic and driven figures: Henry Hudson. In an era defined by the insatiable hunger for new trade routes and uncharted territories, Hudson undertook four legendary voyages that would forever alter the map of the world, even as his ultimate goals remained tantalizingly beyond his grasp. This comprehensive and meticulously researched account takes you deep into the life, times, and enduring mysteries surrounding the English navigator whose name is etched across the geography of North America. From his shadowy ...
By: Ted McCann
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536 AD
- The Worst Year to Be Alive in the History of Humankind
- By: Kamal Khalaf
- Narrated by: Zack Zimbler
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In 536 AD, the sun dimmed, the sky turned a ghostly gray, and global temperatures plummeted. Crops withered, famine spread like wildfire, and entire civilizations were thrown into chaos. Historians and scientists now recognize this year as one of the most catastrophic climate events in human history—a volcanic winter that reshaped the world.
By: Kamal Khalaf
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The Wild Frontier
- 200 Years of Anglo-Saxon Fanaticism in Latin America
- By: Jorge Majfud
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
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"Simply powerful." Noam Chomsky The Savage Frontier is a book written with courage and dazzling lucidity. One of the best I've ever read." Víctor Hugo Morales Fifty years after the publication of How to Read Donald Duck, I am pleased to read a book like The Wild Frontier that explores in detail the less subtle ways in which the United States, for two hundred years, has sought to influence and distort the destiny of our Latin America." Ariel Dorfman The Wild Frontier is not only a journey through the most important events of the last two hundred years that marked the expansion of the ...
By: Jorge Majfud
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The Search For The Northwest Passage
- By: Ted McCann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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For centuries, the very idea of a navigable sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the treacherous, ice-bound waters north of the American continent has captivated the human spirit. The Search For The Northwest Passage chronicles this extraordinary and multifaceted quest, guiding readers through a story that is at once a tale to heroic ambition and a stark reminder of nature's unforgiving power. This comprehensive history delves into the origins of the search, exploring the powerful economic and political forces that first propelled explorers into the unknown. Witness ...
By: Ted McCann
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Beneath Dark Waters
- The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck
- By: Eve Lazarus
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves.
By: Eve Lazarus
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The World's Game
- Reflections on Western Culture
- By: Frederic Raphael
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
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In this epic narrative, Frederic Raphael explores the most significant moments, ideas and figures that have shaped the world’s stage. He takes us on a journey through history: from the reigns of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, to Plato and Socrates and the origins of philosophy, the turning point of World War Two and the invention of the atom bomb, and, finally, the social and cultural divisions of modern day. It is often a story of conflict: the rise of anti-Semitism, the tensions between science and faith, progress and strife, comedy and ruthlessness.
By: Frederic Raphael
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The Wisdom of the Ancients
- Four Ideas that Changed the World
- By: H.A. Drake
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq), through Greece and Rome, to the new Germanic states growing in what is now western Europe.
By: H.A. Drake
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De Gaulle et Roosevelt, le duel au sommet
- By: François Kersaudy
- Narrated by: Hervé Lavigne
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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Après le grand succès de son De Gaulle et Churchill, la mésentente cordiale, un nouveau face à face entre deux géants. D'un côté, le président des Etats-Unis, politicien brillant, retors et manipulateur. De l'autre, le chef de la France libre, visionnaire, intransigeant, soupçonneux à l'extrême et animé d'un patriotisme exacerbé.
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The Death of the Lusitania
- By: Phoebe Amory
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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This is a harrowing survivor account of the sinking of the Lusitania, a luxury, trans-Atlantic passenger ship which was struck by a German torpedo on May 7, 1915 during WWI. The Foreword and Afterword contain other survivor accounts as well as the backstory of the ocean liner and the events (and cover-up, suppressed for a hundred years) which led to that fateful journey during which 1198 British, Canadian, and American souls, including dozens of children and babies, were tragically drowned just eleven miles off the coast of Ireland and one day away from their destination in England.
By: Phoebe Amory
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Alla dessa djäfla qvinnor
- berättelsen om de första feministerna
- By: Anna Laestadius Larsson
- Narrated by: Charlotta Jonsson
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Historien har varit ett långt stafettlopp av kvinnokamp. Det har i alla tider funnits kvinnor som ifrågasatt den roll som tilldelats deras kön. Kvinnor som visat på orättvisor, som högljutt protesterat, som trotsat hån och hot. Och i vissa fall offrat sina liv. Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Olympe de Gouges och Mary Wollstonecraft är tre kvinnokämpar från 1700-talet som tog striden för alla kvinnors rättigheter. Med hjälp av dessa tre modiga kvinnor berättar Anna Laestadius Larsson om tusen år av bortglömd historia. Om förebilderna som inspirerat till förändring.