Learning World History

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,994 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
    • By: Martin Blumenson
    • Narrated by: William Lavelle
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 871 ratings
    • In paying final tribute to his Third Army commander, General Eisenhower said: "He was one of those..."

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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 2,157 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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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • From the Ancient World to the Information Age
    • By: Philip Parker
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. This is an essential audiobook for every history buff....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: David Crystal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

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    • What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,169 ratings
    • The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years....

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    • By: Sam Wineburg
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Let's start with two truths about our era: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious....

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    • By: B. H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Will Staff
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Much has been written on the theory of history by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and understandable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History, the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider....

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    • Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....

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    • From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves....

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,024 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War
    • By: Thomas B. Allen, Roger MacBride Allen
    • Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Thomas B. Allen’s expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen’s knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the 16th president....

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    • How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
    • By: Pedro Domingos
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675 ratings
    • Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • Learn German the Fun Way with Topics that Matter
    • By: Olly Richards
    • Narrated by: David McNeill, Norbert Wendell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-22
    • Language: German
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For low - to high-intermediate learners. Improve your German and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter. When it comes to mastering a foreign language, listening around your interests makes all the difference....

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