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Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Dominic Green
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye

Three Empires on the Nile tells of the rise of the first modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British Empire of Queen Victoria. Ever since the self-proclaimed Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi gathered an army in the Sudan and besieged and captured Khartoum under its British overlord Charles Gordon, the dream of a new caliphate has haunted modern Islamists. The 19th-century origins of it all were even more dramatic and strange than today's headlines.

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Thomas Sowell
• Narrated By Brian Emerson

Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one.

The Modern Scholar: Religions of the East: Paths to Enlightenment

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Stephen Prothero

The main aim of this course is to cultivate basic literacy in the principal religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. This course explores the origins of these religious traditions in Asia and their transplantation to the United States. The course focuses on three related issues: why religion matters, what the term "religion" means, and how Asian religions - especially Buddhism and Confucianism - wonderfully complicate that term.

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 51 mins)
• By William Rosen
• Narrated By Barrett Whitener

The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. At his capital in Constantinople, he built the world's most beautiful building, married the most powerful empress, and wrote the empire's most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's fortunes for the next five hundred years. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed 5,000 people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself.

The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Susan Wise Bauer
• Narrated By John Lee
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From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Barbara W. Tuchman
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon

In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 21 mins)
• By James W. Loewen
• Narrated By Brian Keeler

This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Anthony Pagden
• Narrated By John Lee

In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.

The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans - creating the modern Middle East along the way - and on to the present struggles in Iraq.

Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss
• Narrated By Renee Raudman
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An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leading research psychologists.

The Modern Scholar: Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Michael Drout

Through his writing, Chaucer's wit, charm, and eloquence give us a deeper understanding of not only the time in which he lived, but of how human emotion, frailty, and fortitude are the base elements of human existence. Despite social upheaval and the changing fortunes of his patrons and peers, Chaucer remained a favored subject during three distinct and contrasting reigns. His experiences provided Chaucer an appreciation for his good (and bad) fortune - and that of others - made evident in his writing.