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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall.
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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The Gifts Of The Jews
- How A Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Series: The Hinges of History (Abridged), Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 22-01-25
- Language: English
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Fields of Blood
- Religion and the History of Violence
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general is...
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Fields of Blood
- Religion and the History of Violence
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-10-14
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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10 Mistakes That Changed History
- The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World.
- By: Paul Coulter
- Narrated by: Paul Coulter
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From breakups that ended empires to naps that sank ships, 10 Mistakes That Changed History reveals how overlooked historical errors are responsible for some of the most era-defining events of the past. Featuring many of the most recognisable characters and episodes in...
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Brilliant and captivating
- By Molly Johnston on 09-09-25
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10 Mistakes That Changed History
- The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World.
- Narrated by: Paul Coulter
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Love, Poverty, and War
- Journeys and Essays
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Anthony May
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall148
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Performance128
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Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson, and Michael Bloomberg.
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- By Paul K on 09-05-22
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Love, Poverty, and War
- Journeys and Essays
- Narrated by: Anthony May
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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Nexus (Italian Edition)
- Breve storia delle reti di informazione dall'età della pietra all'IA
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, Marco Piani - traduttore
- Narrated by: Riccardo Mei
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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La storia di come le reti di informazione hanno fatto e disfatto il nostro mondo, dall’autore del bestseller mondiale Sapiens. Negli ultimi centomila anni, noi Sapiens abbiamo accumulato un enorme potere. Eppure, nonostante tutte le nostre scoperte, invenzioni e conquiste, oggi ci troviamo in una crisi esistenziale. Il mondo è sull’orlo del collasso ecologico. La disinformazione dilaga. E ci stiamo buttando a capofitto nell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale, una nuova rete di informazioni che minaccia di annientarci. Perché siamo così autodistruttivi?
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Nexus (Italian Edition)
- Breve storia delle reti di informazione dall'età della pietra all'IA
- Narrated by: Riccardo Mei
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-12-24
- Language: Italian
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- By: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient...
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Another masterpiece of interesting facts woven into a beautifully constructed narrative
- By Aucher on 29-05-23
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Kings & Queens of Early Britain
- The Geoffrey Ashe Histories, Book 8
- By: Geoffrey Ashe
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nichols
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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From the founding of Britain to the crowning of Alfred the Great, in this updated volume, Geoffrey Ashe investigates legendary British monarchs of old. From Brutus the Trojan in 1100 BC, and the early famed rulers Bran the Blessed and King Lear to the leaders of Roman Britain, Boudicca, and Alfred. Drawing on archaeological and documentary evidence, Ashe identifies real and imagined rulers from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Gildas, including King Arthur and other powerful figures in the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.
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Kings & Queens of Early Britain
- The Geoffrey Ashe Histories, Book 8
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nichols
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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The Road
- A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- By: Christopher Hadley
- Narrated by: Guy Slocombe
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two...
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Great research, very interesting
- By Cats_alone on 28-06-25
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The Road
- A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- Narrated by: Guy Slocombe
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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How the World Made the West
- By: Josephine Quinn
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance63
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Story63
In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost, drowned out by the concept – developed in the Victorian era – of separate ‘civilisations’. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart.
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A superb challenge to civilisational assumptions
- By JCM on 01-04-24
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How the World Made the West
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Blake Kubena
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance30
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Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date and comprehensive investigation of history's infamous sunken city. Nowhere else will you find a more dramatic and convincing presentation of the evidence for its archaeological reality.
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Loved it
- By apollos on 16-12-17
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Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds
- Narrated by: Blake Kubena
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-02-16
- Language: English
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Assyria
- The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- By: Eckart Frahm
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance43
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At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield.
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Surprisingly dull.
- By John R. on 10-09-24
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Assyria
- The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut
- How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...
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Fascinating
- By Amazon Customer on 09-04-26
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Dinner with King Tut
- How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-07-25
- Language: English
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance112
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Story110
Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are; they'll be plagued with gum disease and stand a decent chance of violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did.
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Fascinating!
- By C. A. Mealing on 08-05-17
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-02-17
- Language: English
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- By: Harvey Whitehouse
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation. Unveiling a visionary new way of studying human history - one that stunningly weaves together experimental psychology, anthropology and quantitative social science - Harvey Whitehouse uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism.
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Green behind the ears.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-04-26
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- By: Nigel Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance81
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When a travel writer is stuck on home soil in the middle of a pandemic he meets Kris Rodgers, one of Britain's eminent metal detectorists. Dipping a toe in the hobby, Nigel quickly finds himself swept up in the world beneath the surface. Above the ground are a cast of fascinating and passionate...
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A familiar and pleasant book
- By Michael Stanworth on 06-09-22
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- By: Seb Falk
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance33
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we...
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Medieval Science
- By Elke on 23-07-25
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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About Time
- A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
- By: David Rooney
- Narrated by: David Rooney
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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From the city sundials of ancient Rome to the era of the smartwatch, clocks have been used throughout history to wield power, make money, govern citizens and keep control. Sometimes, also with clocks, we have fought back. In About Time, time expert David Rooney tells the story of timekeeping, and how it continues to shape our modern world. In 12 chapters, demarcated like the hours of time, we meet the greatest inventions in horological history, from medieval water clocks to monumental sundials, and from coastal time signals to satellites in Earth's orbit.
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A Horological Adventure
- By Anonymous on 15-06-23
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About Time
- A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
- Narrated by: David Rooney
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt
- By: Donald P. Ryan
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance164
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Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra. During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet 24 Egyptians from all strata of society - from the king to the bread-maker, the priestess to the fisherman, the soldier to the midwife - and get to know what the real Egypt was like by spending an hour in their company.
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Historically Accurate and Entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 23-07-20
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-09-19
- Language: English
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