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 796 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 1,358 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 130 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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    • 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 342 ratings
    • The story of one of the most important - and incendiary - books in Western history....

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    • The Improbable Birth of Australia
    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony....

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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 711 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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    • 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 2,600 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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    • 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 48 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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    • From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476....

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    • Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
    • By: Sebastian Smee
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

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    • The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
    • By: John R. Hale
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come....

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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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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 623 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....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • 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 23,013 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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    • 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 280 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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    • George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
    • By: Michael Punke
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • George Bird Grinnell, a scientist and a journalist, a hunter and a conservationist, would lead the battle to save the buffalo from extinction....

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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 446 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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    • The Birth of Liberty
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....

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