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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-15
- Language: English
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Lapidarium
- The Secret Lives of Stones
- Written by: Hettie Judah
- Narrated by: Nina Wadia
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Stones have furnished our earliest technologies and our first art materials. As jewelry and talismans, they have accompanied us in our journeys into the afterlife. We have carried stones over vast distances, erecting temples with them where we gathered to worship our gods. The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life. Michelangelo climbed mountains in Tuscany searching for the sugar-white marble that would yield his sculptures.
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Lapidarium
- The Secret Lives of Stones
- Narrated by: Nina Wadia
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-07
- Language: English
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The Buried
- An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
- Written by: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt. After his years of covering China for The New Yorker, friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place. But not long before he arrived, the Egyptian Arab Spring had begun, and now the country was in chaos.
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Such a wonderful book!
- By cy. on 2019-08-22
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The Buried
- An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-07
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- Written by: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-03
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- Written by: Dan Parry
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2011-02-22
- Language: English
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Americanon
- An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
- Written by: Jess McHugh
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Surprising and delightfully engrossing, Americanon explores the true history of thirteen of the nation’s most popular books. Overlooked for centuries, our simple dictionaries, spellers, almanacs, and how-to manuals are the unexamined touchstones for American cultures and customs. These books sold tens of millions of copies and set out specific archetypes for the ideal American, from the self-made entrepreneur to the humble farmer.
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Americanon
- An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-01
- Language: English
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Our Hidden Lives
- The Every Diaries of a Forgotten Britain
- Written by: Simon Garfield
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perry, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where, remarkably, most remain unread.
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Our Hidden Lives
- The Every Diaries of a Forgotten Britain
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perry, Joan Walker, Moir Leslie, Simon Garfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-06
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Gods
- The Emperor in World History
- Written by: Dominic Lieven
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
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From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). He projects the power, terror, magnificence, and confidence of imperial monarchy, tracking what they had in common as well as what made some rise to glory and others fail spectacularly.
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In the Shadow of the Gods
- The Emperor in World History
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-07
- Language: English
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- Written by: Bart van Es
- Narrated by: Bart van Es
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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Most holding as well as educational
- By JP on 2020-06-18
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- Narrated by: Bart van Es
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-14
- Language: English
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The Sea Hunters II
- Written by: Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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From the authors of the number-one best-selling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.
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The Sea Hunters II
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2009-11-19
- Language: English
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Asia's Reckoning
- China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
- Written by: Richard Mcgregor
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II.
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Marvellous
- By paul summerville on 2021-04-11
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Asia's Reckoning
- China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-05
- Language: English
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Around the World in 80 Books
- Written by: David Damrosch
- Narrated by: David Damrosch
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring 80 exceptional books from around the globe.
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Around the World in 80 Books
- Narrated by: David Damrosch
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-16
- Language: English
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
- Written by: Lyn Smith
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, the series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the Imperial War Museum sound archive, one of the most important archives of its kind in the world. The intertwined moving and revealing interviews reveal the sheer complexity and horror of the Holocaust.
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2005-11-01
- Language: English
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Last of the Few
- The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It
- Written by: Max Arthur
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Shaw-Parker, Patience Tomlinson, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies – the RAF would have to be broken – so every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties.
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Last of the Few
- The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Shaw-Parker, Patience Tomlinson, Gareth Armstrong, Sam Kelly
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2010-06-10
- Language: English
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
- (That You Probably Learned in School)
- Written by: Larry Schweikart
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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The problem isn’t that liberal authors present their opinions or interpretations of history from an obvious left-wing bias. Students learn, for example, that the Founding Fathers were elitists who drafted the Constitution in order to protect their own economic interests; that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers; that racist groups such as the KKK represented our society in the early twentieth century.
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Great Read
- By POVERTY POINT CUSTOMS on 2020-10-28
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
- (That You Probably Learned in School)
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-01
- Language: English
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Beyond
- How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
- Written by: Catherine Wolff
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it.
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Beyond
- How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-25
- Language: English
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Feminisms
- A Global History
- Written by: Lucy Delap
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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In this absorbing book, historian Lucy Delap challenges the simplistic narrative of 'feminist waves' - a sequence of ever more progressive updates - showing instead that feminists have been motivated by the specific concerns of their historical moment. Drawing on an extraordinary range of examples from Japan to Russia, Egypt to Germany, Delap explores different feminist projects to show that those who are part of this movement have not always agreed on a single programme. This diverse history of feminism, she argues, can help us better navigate current debates and controversies.
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Feminisms
- A Global History
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-27
- Language: English
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The Horse
- A Galloping History of Humanity
- Written by: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 hrs
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Timothy C. Winegard’s The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe; when one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the future of humanity was instantly rewritten, placing the reins of destiny firmly in human hands. Since that pivotal day, the horse has carried the history of civilizations on its powerful back.
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The Horse
- A Galloping History of Humanity
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 2024-07-30
- Language: English
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- Written by: Charlie English
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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To Westerners, the name Timbuktu long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late 18th century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way, too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts.
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-02
- Language: English
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The Malaria Project
- The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
- Written by: Karen M. Masterson
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
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Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.
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The Malaria Project
- The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-07
- Language: English
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