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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
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    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    • By: Joel L. Kraemer
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-09
    • Language: English
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    • This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....

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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....

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    • History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times (Second Edition, Revised) (Vol. 1) (Story of the World)
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jim Weiss
    • Series: The Story of the World, Book Volume 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
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    • Told in a straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, The Story of the World series covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present....

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    • How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
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    • In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
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    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
    • By: Vishal Mangalwadi
    • Narrated by: Peter Lawrence
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
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    • Learn how the Bible transformed the social, political, and religious institutions that have sustained Western culture for the past millennium, and discover how secular corruption endangers the stability and longevity of Western civilization....

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    • The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    • By: Vince Beiser
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: Liam Neeson
    • Series: The Hinges of History (Abridged), Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-22-01
    • Language: English
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    • Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 1
    • Length: 50 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
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    • Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia....

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