The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad
By: Joyce E. Salisbury
4.08
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 4 mins Spain has played a unique and essential role in Western civilization. To underst…
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1. The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire
By: Teofilo F. Ruiz
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Audio CD
Ask anyone about the significance of the year 1492, and you're almost certain to hear something abo… read more
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2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. Music as a Mirror of History
By: Robert Greenberg
4.27
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 18 hours and 22 minutes In the worlds of painting and literature, it's easy to s… read more
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- american
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- education
- audiobook
"In all Mary had 283 protestants killed. Most of them burned at the stack. For ever after the queen will be known as Bloody Mary. Though given the methods involved Crispy Mary what is the more appropr…"-Robert Greenberg, Music as a Mirror of History
4. The Great Siege: Malta 1565
By: Ernle Bradford
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
In 1565 the Ottoman Empire was at its peak. Under their sultan, Solyman the Magnificent, the Turks … read more
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5. Iberia
By: James A. Michener , Robert Vavra
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Here, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experie… read more
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6. Beethoven - His Life and Music
By: Robert Greenberg
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Audio CD
Course Lecture Titles 1. The Immortal Beloved 2. What Comes down Must Go up, 18131815 3. What Goes … read more
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7. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
By: Harold Bloom , María Rosa Menocal
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectua… read more
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8. Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
By: Edwin Barnhart
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Audible Audio
Centuries ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands encountered a group of indepe… read more
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9. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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10. Isabella: The Warrior Queen
By: Kirstin Downey
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain … read more
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11. Food: A Cultural Culinary History
By: Ken Albala
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Audible Audio
Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to … read more
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12. Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
By: Robert Garland
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Audible Audio
Integrated approaches to teaching Greek and Roman history are a rarity in academia. Most scholars a… read more
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13. Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
By: Kenneth W. Harl
3.82
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Alexander the Great - one of the most renowned figures in antiquity - has inspired everything from … read more
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14. Great Mythologies of the World
By: Kathryn McClymond , Grant L. Voth , Julius H. Bailey , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Audible Audio
The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our mod… read more
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15. The Dead Sea Scrolls
By: Gary A. Rendsburg
4.06
Format: None pages,
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkabl… read more
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16. A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts (Great Courses, #8470)
By: Robert O. Bucholz
3.57
Format: None pages, Audio CD
During the 229-year period from 1485 to 1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state … read more
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17. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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18. The Early Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more
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19. 1066: The Year That Changed Everything
By: Jennifer Paxton
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Audio CD
If you were to look back at hundreds of years of history in search of the one critical moment after… read more
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20. The Oregon Trail
By: Francis Parkman
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing fr… read more
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21. Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
By: Thomas F. Madden
4.28
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of ci… read more
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22. Agent 355
By: Marie Benedict
3.73
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more
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23. England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.28
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Great Courses Plus Dr. Jennifer Paxton is Assistant Director of the University Honors Program and … read more
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24. The Peloponnesian War
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.14
Format: 18 pages, Audio CD
Course Lecture Titles 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War 2. The Greek Way of War 3. Spart… read more
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25. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.19
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more
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26. Introduction to the Qur’an
By: Martyn Oliver
3.96
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length 5 hours and 48 minutes Publisher's Summary For people of the Muslim faith - n… read more
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27. Willie Nelson's Letters to America
By: Willie Nelson
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Following his bestselling memoir, It’s a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most personal a… read more
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"My mother, Myrtle, once wrote...I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing love for all humanity...we all become better people just by trying to ban negativity f…"-Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson's Letters to America
28. The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad
By: Joyce E. Salisbury
4.08
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 4 mins Spain has played a unique and essential role in Western civilization. To underst… read more
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29. God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
By: Alan Mikhail
3.91
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Long neglected in accounts of world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectu… read more
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30. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil Wa… read more
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31. The Celtic World
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.09
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what w… read more
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