World Civilizations

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    • A World History
    • Auteur(s): Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 13 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 évaluations
    • The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • Auteur(s): Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 19 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 évaluations
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • Auteur(s): Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Boston
    • Durée: 16 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • Auteur(s): Matt Ridley
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 13 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 évaluations
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

    Prix courant: 33,79 $

    • The Year Civilization Collapsed
    • Auteur(s): Eric H. Cline
    • Narrateur(s): Eric H. Cline
    • Série: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 18,13 $

    • The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
    • Auteur(s): Tom Holland
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
    • Durée: 17 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness....

    Prix courant: 27,27 $

    • How the Sea Fed Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Brian Fagan
    • Narrateur(s): Shaun Grindell
    • Durée: 13 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this history of fishing, archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization....

    Prix courant: 22,82 $

    • The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Vince Beiser
    • Narrateur(s): Will Damron
    • Durée: 8 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

    • A Fragile History
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
    • Durée: 15 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Nicholson Baker
    • Narrateur(s): Norman Dietz
    • Durée: 14 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

    Prix courant: 24,49 $

    • How Wars Descend into Annihilation
    • Auteur(s): Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 10 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • Selected Essays
    • Auteur(s): Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrateur(s): Wanda McCaddon
    • Durée: 12 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga
    • Auteur(s): Julius Evola
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Moynihan
    • Durée: 17 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world....

    Prix courant: 25,61 $

    • How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
    • Auteur(s): Cody Cassidy
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 5 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Cody Cassidy provides a detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

    • Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Roland Ennos
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 8 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

    Prix courant: 25,61 $

    • A Zecharia Sitchin Reader
    • Auteur(s): Zecharia Sitchin, Janet Sitchin - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Luke Bob Robinson
    • Série: The Earth Chronicles, Livre 7.75
    • Durée: 14 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Providing an insider's look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin's complete works as well as an in-depth overview of his theories, this collection includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series....

    Prix courant: 25,61 $

    • A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
    • Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
    • Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
    • Durée: 17 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic, geographic, or anthropogenic as it is narrative....

    Prix réduit: 7,99 $ (80% de réduction)

    Prix courant: 39,38 $

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    • How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Edward Slingerland
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
    • Durée: 10 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth George Speare
    • Narrateur(s): Pat Young
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • In this Newberry Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $