Birth History

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    • The Surprising History of How We Are Born
    • By: Tina Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Angela Starling
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy's smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in 50 years....

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    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,346 ratings
    • The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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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 39 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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    • Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
    • By: Matti Friedman
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff - but it's all true....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 685 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: David Van Reybrouck
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • By: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

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    • The Birth of a New America
    • By: Bruno Maçães
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, he takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path....

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    • Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • By: Deborah Blum
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,581 ratings
    • Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

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    • From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476....

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    • Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
    • By: Moudhy Al-Rashid
    • Narrated by: Moudhy Al-Rashid
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-25
    • Language: English
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    • In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time.

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    • The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22,769 ratings
    • In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....

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    • Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the 20th century....

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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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    • A Global History of Christianity
    • By: Robert Louis Wilken
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history....

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