World Art History

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    • By: Peter Whitfield
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41,403 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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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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    • An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever
    • By: Philomena Cunk
    • Narrated by: Philomena Cunk
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world history so far.

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    • A World History
    • By: Aarathi Prasad
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.

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    • By: Scott Pelley
    • Narrated by: Scott Pelley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • A 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley writes as a witness to events that changed our world....

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    • From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The Florentines presents a sweeping and magisterial 400-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance....

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    • By: Robert Capa
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • From Sicily to London, Normandy to Algiers, Capa experienced some of the most trying conditions imaginable, yet his compassion and wit shine throughout this book. Charming and profound, Slightly Out of Focus is a marvelous memoir told by an extraordinary man....

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    • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
    • By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,547 ratings
    • In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • By: Hiroaki Sato
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings
    • From military officers to CEOs to those simply looking to be more powerful in their own life, The Art of War has become required reading for anyone seeking a path of success through the modern world.....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,371 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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    • By: Gunter Grass
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published....

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