Showing results by publisher "Basic Books" in Religion & Spirituality
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Justinian
- Emperor, Soldier, Saint
- By: Peter Sarris
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive life story of the Roman Emperor who shaped modern times. In this groundbreaking new biography of Justinian, Peter Sarris gives us an intimate insight into both the Emperor and the man. We meet a man who from the humblest beginnings, rose to become ruler of much of the known world...
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Everything history should be!!!
- By Dennis Sommers on 24-10-23
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Justinian
- Emperor, Soldier, Saint
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement “Hitchens is, first and last, a writer, an always exciting, often exacting, furious polemicist.”―The Boston Globe In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling...
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enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-07-20
- Language: English
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The Bible
- A Global History
- By: Bruce Gordon
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and likely never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hear God speak. Available in over 3,000 languages and taking innumerable forms, each version is a revelation, evolving as a reflection of its own culture and moment.
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The Bible
- A Global History
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Chosen Land
- How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
- By: Matthew Avery Sutton
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Machado
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping history of Christianity in America, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the political triumphs of evangelicalism, showing the powerful, singular role the faith has always played in American public life. In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than...
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Chosen Land
- How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Machado
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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Meteorite
- How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
- By: Tim Gregory
- Narrated by: Tim Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a treasure"--Wall Street Journal Meteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from the gods, their fiery remains inspiring worship and giving rise to...
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Meteorite
- How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
- Narrated by: Tim Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Thoughts without a Thinker
- Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
- By: Mark Epstein
- Narrated by: Mark Epstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Blending the lessons of psychotherapy with Buddhist teachings, Mark Epstein offers a revolutionary understanding of what constitutes a healthy emotional life “One of the most sophisticated integrations of the therapeutic and spiritual disciplines.” —New York Times The line between...
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Thoughts without a Thinker
- Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
- Narrated by: Mark Epstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- Language: English
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Venus and Aphrodite
- A Biography of Desire
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit...
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Fabulous
- By Liz on 30-07-21
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Venus and Aphrodite
- A Biography of Desire
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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To Sanctify the World
- The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Steven Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world's The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on...
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Brilliant, couldn't stop listening
- By MMM on 06-11-23
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To Sanctify the World
- The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
- Narrated by: Steven Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
- How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph...
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Well argued, balanced and informative.
- By John Phillips on 08-06-22
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
- How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- By: Jeremy England
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded...
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Religion not science
- By Redd on 14-04-22
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Lessons in Hope
- My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From a preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer, "an intimate understanding of John Paul II" (Weekly Standard) In Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he also offers a...
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Lessons in Hope
- My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-09-17
- Language: English
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Summer for the Gods
- The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
- By: Edward J Larson
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The landmark history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History “A riveting book.” —Frank Rich, New York Times In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the...
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Summer for the Gods
- The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Catholic
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For the faithful, the doubtful, and the searchers of every age, these letters convey the power of the Catholic faith that is at once personal and universal, timely and eternal. In this remarkable exploration of the Catholic world, prominent Catholic author and papal biographer George Weigel...
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Contemporary classic
- By LMC on 31-10-23
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Letters to a Young Catholic
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence—an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For...
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Blood Letters
- The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
- By: Lian Xi
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...
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Blood Letters
- The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- By: Matthew Avery Sutton
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They...
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-09-19
- Language: English
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Blood Dawn
- World War II and the Making of Modern Asia
- By: Hans van de Ven
- Narrated by: Hans van de Ven
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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'This is the history we so badly needed' ANTONY BEEVOR 'Essential reading for understanding Asia's present' RICHARD OVERY A momentous new history of World War II in Asia. In the early twentieth century, from India to China, Western imperial powers dominated Asia. Then, in the 1930s, Japan began...
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Blood Dawn
- World War II and the Making of Modern Asia
- Narrated by: Hans van de Ven
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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