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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- By: Adrian Bliss
- Narrated by: Adrian Bliss, Beth Rylance, Sebastian Humphreys, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the Renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor’s toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch. These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and Adrian Bliss thinks it’s high time they join their glory-hogging contemporaries in the spotlight. Fortunately, now they can.
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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- Narrated by: Adrian Bliss, Beth Rylance, Sebastian Humphreys, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-22-24
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth
- A History
- By: Sunil Amrith
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates in gorgeous prose, and on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself.
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The Burning Earth
- A History
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-08-24
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders
- Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does―and about human folly.
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders
- Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-08-24
- Language: English
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Swadeshi Steam
- V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire
- By: A.R. Venkatachalapathy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself. VOC's plan was audacious: to launch the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, a venture that would compete head-on with the British India Steam Navigation Company, the shipping giant that controlled the region.
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Swadeshi Steam
- V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-08-24
- Language: English
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Freedom Ship
- The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
- By: Marcus Rediker
- Length: 11 hrs
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Marcus Rediker, one of the leading scholars of maritime history, puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic waterfront as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation. Freedom Ship is essential listening for anyone looking to understand the complete story of one of North America's most significant historical moments.
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Freedom Ship
- The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes
- The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
- By: Richard Kerbaj
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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This is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful—but least known—intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time.
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes
- The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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The Year God Died
- Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD
- By: James Lacey
- Length: 11 hrs
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In late 31 AD, after the Roman senators murdered Lucius Sejanus, the Roman Emperor Tiberius's closest confidant, the Empire was forever changed. If Sejanus had not been murdered, Jesus would never have been crucified. This profound connection between the lives of Sejanus and Jesus is the first of many revelations in this startling reexamination of the Roman world in which Jesus walked. With new evidence and meticulous research, Dr. James Lacey weaves a majestic and accurate description of who Jesus was.
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The Year God Died
- Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 05-20-25
- Language: English
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Into the Ice
- The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
- By: Mark Synnott
- Length: 13 hrs
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Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, stretching through Canada’s north from Maine to Alaska—and substantially fewer have completed the treacherous journey in a fiberglass-hulled boat like Polar Sun. But Mark Synnott was determined to add his name to the list, and in doing so, also investigate a 175-year-old mystery, that of what happened to the legendary captain Sir John Franklin and his crew aboard the legendary HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
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Into the Ice
- The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 04-15-25
- Language: English
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 3 hrs
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From ancient civilization to modern times, history is full of mysterious and downright bizarre circumstances. With these crazy and compelling facts, Hidden Histories will change your view of history
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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The Rabbit Hole Book
- 99 adventures into the history of stuff
- By: Richard Coles, Charles Spencer, Cat Jarman
- Narrated by: Richard Coles, Charles Spencer, Cat Jarman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Forensically researched, beautifully observed, and using humour and their vast historical knowledge, The Rabbit Hole Detectives Book is a feast of historical trivia and unknown facts. Packed full with a stimulating and moreish mix of longer entries, lists, trivia, amazing factoids and hysterical banter, this book is addictive, fun and endlessly informative. Whatever you think you know, guess again.
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The Rabbit Hole Book
- 99 adventures into the history of stuff
- Narrated by: Richard Coles, Charles Spencer, Cat Jarman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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So Very Small
- How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War against Infectious Disease
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Length: 8 hrs
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In So Very Small, Thomas Levenson follows the thread of human ingenuity and hubris across centuries--along the way peering into microscopes, spelunking down sewers, traipsing across the battlefield, and more--to show how we came to understand the microbial environment and how little we understand ourselves. He traces how and why ideas are pursued, accepted, or ignored--and hence how human habits of mind can, so often, make it terribly hard to ask the right questions.
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So Very Small
- How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War against Infectious Disease
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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Heretic
- Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
- By: Catherine Nixey
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity’s existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. One had a twin brother and traveled to India; another consorted with dragons. One particularly terrifying Christ scorned his parents and killed those who opposed him. Why do we know so little about these early versions of Jesus? Because the orthodox form of Christianity that had become preeminent set about systematically wiping out every other variation.
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Heretic
- Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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The Cold War
- A New History
- By: Vladislav Zubok
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, Vladislav Zubok traces the origins of the Cold War in post-war Europe, through the tumultuous decades of confrontation, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. Drawing on years of research and informed by Zubok’s three decades in the USSR followed by three decades in the West, The Cold War paints a striking portrait of a world on the brink.
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The Cold War
- A New History
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 02-06-25
- Language: English
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早回し全歴史 ──宇宙誕生から今の世界まで一気にわかる
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-08-24
- Language: Japanese
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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
- By: Pierre Zalloua
- Length: 7 hrs
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In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from. But acclaimed geneticist Pierre Zalloua believes that these test results have led to a dangerous oversimplification of what one’s genetic heritage means. People have conflated genetic ancestry with other ways of defining themselves such as “origin,” “ethnicity,” and even “race” but give no attention to the complexities that underlie these concepts.
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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- By: Buddy Levy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history’s first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole—which would be achieved not by dogsled or airplane, but by airship.
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-28-25
- Language: English
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The Once and Future World Order
- Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
- By: Amitav Acharya
- Length: 13 hrs
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Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—especially China—threaten to unravel today’s Western-led world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But the West has never had a monopoly on order.
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The Once and Future World Order
- Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 04-08-25
- Language: English
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地中海世界の歴史1 神々のささやく世界 オリエントの文明
- 講談社選書メチエ
- Series: 地中海世界の歴史, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-13-24
- Language: Japanese
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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The Origin of Politics
- Human Nature and the Shaping of Political Systems
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Length: 12 hrs
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Combining the scope of Yuval Noah Harari with the political savvy of Francis Fukuyama, The Origin of Politics, Wade’s work draws from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and historical analysis to explore how human nature shapes the direction of society—and how policies which ignore human nature risk chaos and even extinction. Political scientists agree that the roots of politics must lie in human nature, but then assume that human behavior is infinitely flexible. The Origin of Politics shows that limits set by human evolution cannot be ignored without penalty.
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The Origin of Politics
- Human Nature and the Shaping of Political Systems
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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