World Civilizations

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    • How Textiles Made the World
    • Written by: Virginia I. Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....

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    • A History
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • The West and the Rest
    • Written by: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2011-11-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • Stories of Greatness and Decline
    • Written by: Paul Cooper
    • Narrated by: Paul Cooper
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • Written by: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
    • Written by: Iain McGilchrist
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • Written by: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2005-09-28
    • Language: English
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    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • Written by: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2019-08-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • 50 Defining Moments from Ancient Civilizations to the Modern Day
    • Written by: Susan B. Katz NBCT
    • Narrated by: Katie Schorr
    • Series: People and Events in History
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Learning about history helps us understand how we got where we are today—and how to make the world a better place. This kid-friendly journey takes young learners through thousands of years of history, one key event at a time.

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    • A Brief History of Humankind
    • Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,267 ratings
    • In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical — and sometimes devastating — breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions....

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    • Written by: Kim MacQuarrie
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2007-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru....

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    • Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
    • Written by: Adam Frank
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-12
    • Language: English
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    • Light of the Stars is science at the grandest of scales, and it tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets....

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    • How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
    • Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date....

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    • Written by: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-13
    • Language: English
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    • This thorough guide explores those civilizations that have faded from the pages of our textbooks but played a significant role in the development of modern society....

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