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    • History of a Goddess
    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the 21st century and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Steven Pressfield
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • In words that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield returns with a riveting historical novel that recreates Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • The Empress of Bright Moon, Book 1
    • By: Weina Dai Randel
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: The Empress of Bright Moon, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the emperor's attention....

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    • Religion and the History of Violence
    • By: Karen Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11 perception: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness....

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    • Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Energy Age and Enlightened Future
    • By: Joseph Selbie, David Steinmetz, Swami Kriyananda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment....

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    • The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • From best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan comes an examination of the Indian Ocean region - an area that will become crucial to global politics as the 21st century continues....

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    • The Secret History of Gnosticism
    • By: Richard Smoley
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries AD, but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages....

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    • The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The acclaimed ancient world historian examines the centuries-long decline of Greek powers in the face of the growing Roman threat....

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    • A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history....

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    • The Contest for the Center of the World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,128 ratings
    • Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....

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    • By: Ovid
    • Narrated by: Barry Kraft
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: James Bryce
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This essential guide to religion, narrated by James Bryce, explains the key tenets and big ideas behind the world's five main religions - Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism - alongside newer faiths....

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    • On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.

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