Higher Civilization

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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 2,173 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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    • Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
    • By: Adam Frank
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • Light of the Stars is science at the grandest of scales, and it tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets....

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    • The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
    • By: Anthony Sattin
    • Narrated by: Anthony Sattin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. The story of the shifting, umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization....

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    • By: Edith Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the past can be to us....

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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 351 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 Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 618 ratings
    • Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world....

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    • A History
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs.

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    • Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    • By: Stefanos Geroulanos
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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    • How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
    • By: Robert Spencer
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire.

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    • The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
    • By: Frank Joseph
    • Narrated by: Andy Rick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine - some of which has yet to be reproduced today....

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    • By: various
    • Narrated by: various
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From anonymous 10th-century troubadours to world-renowned 20th-century composers, this comprehensive commentary explores the roots of the most influential music genres of our time....

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    • Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 650 ratings
    • After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....

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    • The Life of Cyrus the Great
    • By: Matt Waters
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s BCE....

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    • Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
    • By: Beebe Bahrami
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In the Dordogne region of Southwestern France, Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists working on the research and recovery of our ancient ancestors....

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    • A Hemispheric History [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is a world-renowned scholar, professor of history and geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History of Oxford University....

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    • The Story of Man's Continuing Quest
    • By: Daniel J. Boorstin
    • Narrated by: Denis deBoisblanc
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Daniel J. Boorstin introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning....

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    • Dispatches from Up South (Unabridged Selections)
    • By: Roy Blount Jr.
    • Narrated by: Roy Blount Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Here's a sly, dry, hilarious collection of essays, Blount's first in more than 10 years....

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    • Defenders of Western Civilization
    • By: Nick Adams, Newt Gingrich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Trump and Churchill both fought valiantly to protect Western Civilization, and while fighting different forms of tyranny, Trump could very well be to the 21st century what Churchill was to the 20th....

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