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    • A Brief History of Humankind
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55,968 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.

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    • A New History of Humanity
    • By: David Graeber, David Wengrow
    • Narrated by: Mark Williams
    • Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,861 ratings
    • A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation....

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    • How Wars Descend into Annihilation
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....

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    • A Short History of Private Life
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,496 ratings
    • A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home....

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    • Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
    • By: Dan Carlin
    • Narrated by: Dan Carlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,285 ratings
    • In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did....

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    • By: Kenneth Harl
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization....

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    • The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
    • By: Cody Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations....

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    • The Survival of Civilizations
    • By: Eric H. Cline
    • Narrated by: John Chancer, Eric H. Cline
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever.

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    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,453 ratings
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

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    • The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026 ratings
    • A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....

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    • An Intimate History
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,893 ratings
    • Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,086 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind....

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    • The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....

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    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,070 ratings
    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,955 ratings
    • The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 765 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 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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