Birth History

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339 ratings
    • The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today....

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    • The Surprising History of How We Are Born
    • By: Tina Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Angela Starling
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy's smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in 50 years....

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    • By: Paul Brannigan, Ian Winwood
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • A landmark release, this is the first of a two-volume biography of Metallica, the biggest metal band of all time, told via exclusive interviews with the band and their world....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 670 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22,553 ratings
    • In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
    • By: Steven Nadler
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • The story of one of the most important - and incendiary - books in Western history....

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    • A Global History of Christianity
    • By: Robert Louis Wilken
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history....

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    • Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
    • By: Matti Friedman
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff - but it's all true....

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    • The Birth of a New America
    • By: Bruno Maçães
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, he takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path....

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    • How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: NIgel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German war machine....

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    • Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • By: Deborah Blum
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,562 ratings
    • Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

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    • An American History
    • By: Susan J. Pearson
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Deftly weaving together social, political, and legal history, The Birth Certificate is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans....

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    • Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • Here is the epic drama behind the making of five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967, and through them, the story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever....

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