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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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well researched
- By pj on 01-03-12
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules - For Now
- The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
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With flair and authority, historian and archaeologist Ian Morris draws uniquely on 15,000 years of history to offer fresh insights on what the future will bring. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why The West Rules - For Now is a gripping and truly original history of the world.
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Why the West Rules - For Now
- The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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Empires of the Steppes
- The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
- By: Kenneth W. Harl
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth Harl illustrates in this glorious work of narrative history, their deeds still resonate today. Professor Kenneth Harl draws on a lifetime of scholarship to vividly recreate the lives and world of these often-forgotten peoples from their beginnings to the early modern age.
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Too much detail destroys the narrative
- By Mark on 03-12-23
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Empires of the Steppes
- The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Vice
- How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
- By: Robert Evans
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for women's rights to the beer that helped create - and destroy - South America's first empire.
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Interesting and entertaining
- By Rachel on 29-10-20
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A Brief History of Vice
- How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-08-16
- Language: English
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our boldest plans. Our psychological biases have been at the root of terrible decisions in both war and peacetime. This extraordinary contradiction is the essence of what it means to be human - the sum total of our frailties and our faculties.
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interesting perspective
- By brucewuilloud on 07-01-24
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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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
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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. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.
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Delectable
- By Lizzie Lay on 15-02-24
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Sapiens (Nova edição) [Sapiens (New Edition)]
- Uma breve história da humanidade [A Brief History of Humankind]
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, Jorio Dauster
- Narrated by: Antonio Fagundes
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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Na nova edição do livro que conquistou milhões de leitores ao redor do mundo, Yuval Noah Harari questiona tudo o que sabemos sobre a trajetória humana no planeta ao explorar quem somos, como chegamos até aqui e por quais caminhos ainda poderemos seguir. Com narração de Antonio Fagundes.
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Sapiens (Nova edição) [Sapiens (New Edition)]
- Uma breve história da humanidade [A Brief History of Humankind]
- Narrated by: Antonio Fagundes
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: Portuguese
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer".
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Outstanding and inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-23
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 15-12-15
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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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
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The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely.
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Fantastic content and narration
- By Peer Nelz on 19-07-15
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-03-08
- Language: English
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The Wood Age
- How one material shaped the whole of human History
- By: Roland Ennos
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Roland Ennos’ The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world’s most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four-poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much it matters, Ennos takes the listener through four phases: the impact of wooded habits on the lives of primates, human emergence and the discoveries of fire and woodwork, wood’s role in an environment both pre- and post-industrialisation, and lastly, the possible future of wood in an increasingly technologised world.
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A journey to greater appreciation
- By leoniera on 13-02-24
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The Wood Age
- How one material shaped the whole of human History
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of Western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire....
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Like a river that doesn't know where it is going.
- By The Phantom Agent on 27-05-23
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC History of Iron Age Britain
- By: David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, and others
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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In the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed, and societies developed new cultures and lifestyles. In this comprehensive collection, we take an in-depth look at Iron Age Britain and its inhabitants. The Essay: Unearthing Britannia's Tribes takes us on a 15-part 'road trip' from the western reaches of Cornwall to the wilds of Scotland and Wales. Bookending this series are three episodes from In Our Time, unpacking the context behind this period.
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You can get this for free on BBC sounds
- By Toby on 03-06-24
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC History of Iron Age Britain
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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Heroes of History
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization.
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You can almost smell the pipe smoke
- By Maolsheachlann on 03-12-08
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Heroes of History
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-05-04
- Language: English
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A History of Water
- Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- By: Edward Wilson-Lee
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them—an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music—returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other—a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan—ends up as the national poet of Portugal.
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Fascinating
- By djmp on 20-12-23
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A History of Water
- Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- By: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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A fascinating history
- By Shaun on 11-05-19
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Les Routes de la Soie
- By: Peter Frankopen
- Narrated by: Patrick Donnay
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
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D'Alexandre le Grand aux nouvelles Routes de la Soie, 2 500 ans d'histoire comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue. Avec son "histoire du cœur du monde", Peter Frankopan renverse notre récit traditionnel, qui gravite autour de la Grèce antique, de Rome et de l'irrésistible ascension de l'Occident. Une approche réductrice, qui mérite une relecture urgente et approfondie. L'auteur élargit la perspective et tourne son regard vers "une région située à mi-chemin entre Orient et Occident, qui va des rives orientales de la Méditerranée jusqu'à la mer Noire et à l'Himalaya".
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Les Routes de la Soie
- Narrated by: Patrick Donnay
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-06-19
- Language: French
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When Asia Was the World
- Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East”
- By: Stewart Gordon
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Author Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers - the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science, and culture.
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Interesting and entertaining
- By Jason Tsang on 25-08-23
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When Asia Was the World
- Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East”
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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How Do We Look/The Eye of Faith
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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The idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images? Why have they sometimes been so contentious?
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A Mary Beard Classic!
- By Amazon Customer on 21-07-21
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How Do We Look/The Eye of Faith
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-05-18
- Language: English
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