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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 1,306 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 12,310 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 548 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: R.L. LaFevers
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Parry
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Theodosia Throckmorton is in a fix. Allowed to attend a reception given by one of the directors of her parents museum, she stumbles across Mr. Tetley of the British Museum in most unusual circumstances....

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