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  • A History of the World cover art

    • A History of the World

    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr, David Timson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,572 ratings
    • From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series....

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    • The Norman Conquest

    • The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....

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    • 1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)

    • The Year Civilization Collapsed
    • By: Eric H. Cline
    • Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

    • This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....

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    • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 948 ratings

    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • Against the Grain

    • A Deep History of the Earliest States
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

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    • A Little Book of Language

    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 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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  • After 1177 B.C. cover art

    • After 1177 B.C.

    • The Survival of Civilizations
    • By: Eric H. Cline
    • Narrated by: John Chancer, Eric H. Cline
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • This audiobook tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever.

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  • The WEIRDest People in the World cover art

    • The WEIRDest People in the World

    • How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

    • 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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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World cover art

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    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • 1177 B.C.

    • The Year Civilization Collapsed
    • By: Eric H. Cline
    • Narrated by: Andy Caploe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline....

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    • Worlds at War

    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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  • How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance cover art

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    • Those About to Die

    • By: Daniel P. Mannix
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.

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    • Drunk

    • How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
    • By: Edward Slingerland
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....

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  • The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character cover art

    • The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character

    • Phoenix Books
    • By: Samuel Noah Kramer
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC.

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  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire cover art

    • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    • A Modern Abridgment by Moses Hadas
    • By: Edward Gibbon, Moses Hadas, Mitch Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.

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    • Growth

    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 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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    • King of the World

    • The Life of Cyrus the Great
    • By: Matt Waters
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s BCE....

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