Showing titles in Civilization
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- By: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Narrated by: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and...
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If you thought Red Hair was ordinary…
- By Lara Wells on 10-05-25
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- Narrated by: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
- Civilization · Nature & Ecology · Science
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west.
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
- Ancient · Archaeology · Biological Sciences
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Pockets
- An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
- By: Hannah Carlson
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters. It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress...
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“It’s got pockets!”
- By Christine on 12-05-24
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Pockets
- An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
- Art · Civilization · Gender Studies
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
- An Elusive World Wonder Traced
- By: Stephanie Dalley
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognized in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable volume Stephanie Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, gathers for the first time all the material on this enigmatic World Wonder.
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Lack of bonus PDF with illustrations
- By Amazon Customer on 24-01-19
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
- An Elusive World Wonder Traced
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-07-14
- Language: English
- Ancient · Archaeology · Civilization
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African Dominion
- A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
- By: Michael Gomez
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history.
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So inaccessible, it's bulletproof
- By Kristos on 05-11-24
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African Dominion
- A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
- Africa · Civilization · Politics & Government
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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A great flowing history of humankind.
- By Mr T J Lynass on 29-01-24
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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challenging!
- By coz on 04-12-20
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
- Conservation · Biological Sciences
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Stepping-Stones
- A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
- By: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Over more than 25 years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the "cave experience." Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself.
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Informative
- By AmazonCustomer on 04-07-23
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Stepping-Stones
- A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-02-20
- Language: English
- Ancient · Anthropology · Archaeology
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
- By: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Joshua Kane
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...
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Thin and insular
- By BenMcNevis on 25-01-22
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
- Narrated by: Joshua Kane
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Civilization · Psychology
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- By: David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From warrior queens to King Arthur, this epic collection explores the tribes, rulers and civilisations of Britain's Iron Age In the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed...
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You can get this for free on BBC sounds
- By Toby on 03-06-24
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
- Ancient · Anthropology · Civilization
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What Is Ancient History?
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity's pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided the shared foundation of our world and continues to shape our lives today.
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What Is Ancient History?
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
- Ancient · Civilization · World
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance15
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
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Absolutely awful!
- By Jennifer on 17-03-21
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
- Ancient · Archaeology · Civilization
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Indus Valley Civilization
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1800s, British engineers building some of the first railways in the Dominion of India discovered large numbers of bricks buried in the dusty plains of the Punjab. This was odd because historians were not aware of any cities or civilizations which might have constructed buildings in this area. It wasn’t until archeological expeditions in the 1920s that it was finally realized that these bricks were the remains of mighty cities built by a previously unknown ancient civilization.
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Interesting and enjoyable
- By KK on 12-05-20
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Indus Valley Civilization
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-08-19
- Language: English
- Asia · Civilization · India
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Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Henry Freeman
- Narrated by: Christopher Boozell
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact.
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Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Christopher Boozell
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
- Civilization · Middle East · World
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The Story of Greece and Rome
- By: Tony Spawforth
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East.
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Good for social history
- By Mr. Paul D. Balcombe on 23-02-20
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The Story of Greece and Rome
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-11-18
- Language: English
- Ancient · Civilization · Europe
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Those About to Die
- By: Daniel P. Mannix
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports. But as Rome begin to fall in the fifth century, so did the games, devolving into nothing more than pointless massacres. In the end, millions of humans and animals were sacrificed in barbaric displays. What were once ceremonies given in honor of gods met an inglorious fate, yet they still captivate the imagination of people today.
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Those About to Die
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
- Ancient · Civilization · Rome
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Pagan America
- The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
- By: John Daniel Davidson
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, because it will be based on a hatred of Christianity.
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Tragically Timely
- By RichardDM on 29-09-24
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Pagan America
- The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
- Civilization · Future Studies
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China in World History
- By: Paul S. Ropp
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. Offering a global perspective, the book tells how China's nomadic neighbors to the north and west influenced much of the political, military, and even cultural history of China.
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A brief overview, not as comprehensive.
- By Stuart H on 25-01-24
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China in World History
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
- Military · Ancient · Asia
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The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England
- The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early second century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. The sheer scale of Hadrian’s Wall still impresses people today, but as the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century, Hadrian’s Wall was abandoned and Roman control of the area broke down. Little is known of this period of British history, but soon the Anglo-Saxons showed up and began to settle the land, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of British history.
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The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England
- The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
- Civilization · Europe · Medieval
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Archaeology for Beginners
- By: Ben Egginton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Archaeology for Beginners offers a crash course in the fundamentals of archaeological work. It is the go-to place for student and volunteer archaeologists attending their first dig, or for anyone with a passion for human history who wants to find out more about what archaeology is all about.
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Good narration
- By Mr.Sunshine on 20-07-25
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Archaeology for Beginners
- Narrated by: Sebastian Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-11-21
- Language: English
- Archaeology · Civilization · Science
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