Geography History

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    • Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,807 ratings
    • Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • By: Robert Tombs
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 43 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 685 ratings
    • Robert Tombs' momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world....

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    • What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 742 ratings
    • A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms....

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,486 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • Britain's Place in the World: A 10,000 Year History
    • By: Ian Morris
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and—increasingly—Chinese actors. Geography Is Destiny shows that the great question for the coming century is not what to do about Brussels; it's what to do about Beijing....

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    • A Spiritual Geography
    • By: Kathleen Norris
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 674 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
    • By: Christopher Knowlton
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Open Range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,148 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • Geography, Technology, and Institutions
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,282 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
    • By: Georgia Bragg
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter....

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    • A Historical Geography
    • By: Graham Robb
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita....

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    • By: Caroline Alexander
    • Narrated by: Michael Tezla, Martin Rubin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration....

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