Global History

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Craig L. Symonds
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Craig Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • Written by: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • A Global History of Christianity
    • Written by: Robert Louis Wilken
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history....

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    • A Global History of Soccer
    • Written by: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: English
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    • Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system....

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    • Questions and Answers for Humanity's 7 Oldest and Largest Faiths
    • Written by: Jill Carroll PhD
    • Narrated by: Leslie Howard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • If you’re interested in learning about world religions, this book is the place to start. Packed with informative fact sheets and answers to common questions, this beginner’s guide fills you in on the most important aspects of each religion.

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    • A Global History of Financial Bubbles
    • Written by: William Quinn, John D. Turner
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles....

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    • A Global History of the First Psychedelic
    • Written by: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity....

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    • How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
    • Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Victor Davis Hanson argues that neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Roderick Beaton
    • Narrated by: Anna Crowe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization....

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    • A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
    • Written by: David Vine
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire....

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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • Written by: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Lucy Delap
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-27
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Martin Marty
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2008-10-27
    • Language: English
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    • In his comprehensive yet concise The Christian World, Marty outlines the life and teachings of Christ and details how his followers spread the gospel to the world....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism....

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    • A Global History
    • Written by: Bruce Gordon
    • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • Written by: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
    • Written by: James W. Cortada
    • Narrated by: Brian Conover
    • Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

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    • A Global History of the Olympics
    • Written by: David Goldblatt
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2016-07-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Games, Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the biggest sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the games....

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    • A Global History from Antiquity to Today
    • Written by: David Stastavage
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer - democratic practices were present in many places at many other times....

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