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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,154 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
    • Narrated by: Charles Carroll
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,307 ratings
    • Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsmith like their father....

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • Cat Detective
    • By: A. B. Greenfield
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Series: Ra the Mighty, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • An egotistical royal cat and his dung beetle sidekick track a jewelry thief in this hilarious new series set in ancient Egypt....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,313 ratings
    • 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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    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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    • By: Elizabeth George Speare
    • Narrated by: Pat Young
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 550 ratings
    • In this Newberry Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel....

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    • A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....

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    • 1608 Random Facts In the Realm of History, Human Body, Natural Disasters, Ancient Civilizations, Science and Unbelievable Facts Mashup
    • By: Patrick Quan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★Amusing Facts For Adventurous Minds★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Are...

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    • By: John Jackson
    • Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" by John G. Jackson is a seminal work that challenges traditional Eurocentric perspectives on the origins of civilization....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

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    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

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    • How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
    • By: Laurence C. Smith
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores the timeless yet underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it....

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    • Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the 21st century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to 10 trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications....

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    • The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Children's Edition
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the East married the West with a remarkable voyage at its heart - the journey along the Silk Roads....

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    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was...? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler....

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    • The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
    • By: Spencer Wells
    • Narrated by: Spencer Wells
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project....

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    • The First 6,000 Years
    • By: Monica L. Smith
    • Narrated by: Monica L. Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • A sweeping history of cities through the millennia - from Mesopotamia to Manhattan - and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance....

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    • How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
    • By: Mark W. Moffett
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail....

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