22 Best audiobook books like The Persian Empire by John W.I. Lee

Cover of The Persian Empire by John W.I. Lee

The Persian Empire

By: John W.I. Lee

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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Cover of Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By: Tom Holland

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • iran
  • audiobook
Cover of The Vikings by Kenneth W. Harl

2. The Vikings

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Parts one,two, and three. Each part contains six audio cassettes and course guidebook in a clamshel… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost Worlds of South America by Edwin Barnhart

3. Lost Worlds of South America

By: Edwin Barnhart

4.15

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

11 hours 54 mins Buried by the centuries on soaring mountain slopes and beneath arid deserts and… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320) by Kenneth J. Hammond

4. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)

By: Kenneth J. Hammond

4.49

Format: None pages,

In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets … read more

Similar categories in Kenneth J. Hammond's From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320) book and John W.I. Lee's The Persian Empire

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire by Kenneth W. Harl

5. 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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  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6. 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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7. History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (The Great Courses, Course No. 8380)

By: None

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Audio CD

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8. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)

By: Bob Brier

0.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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9. Ancient Greek Civilization

By: Jeremy McInerney

3.50

Format: None pages,

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10. Emperors of Rome

By: Garrett G. Fagan

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Audible Audio

Course Lecture Titles 1. The Shape of Roman Imperial History 2. The Roman Republic 3. Caesar and th… read more

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11. The Historical Jesus (Great Courses, #643)

By: Bart D. Ehrman

2.75

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varyin… read more

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12. Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Great Courses, #3588)

By: Bob Brier

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Audio CD

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Cover of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

13. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • iran
  • audiobook
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Cover of England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest by Jennifer Paxton

14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman

15. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

By: Noah Whiteman

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by John McWhorter

16. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet

By: John McWhorter

3.99

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Peloponnesian War by Kenneth W. Harl

17. 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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  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization by Amanda H. Podany

18. 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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  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn

19. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

By: Rob Dunn

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I know what I want my dust to say about me."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

20. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlemagne Father of Europe by Philip Daileader

21. Charlemagne Father of Europe

By: Philip Daileader

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In Charlemagne: Father of Europe, you will look back on Charlemagne’s rule and the way his dynasty … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome by Eve MacDonald

22. Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome

By: Eve MacDonald

4.06

Format: 15 pages, Audible Audio

Hannibal Barca is famous for marching an eclectic mix of troops across the Alps and into the Roman … read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Persian Empire by John W.I. Lee

23. The Persian Empire

By: John W.I. Lee

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • the americas
  • nonfiction
  • iran
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

24. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.50

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan

25. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.81

Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio

Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more

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  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Age of Pericles by Jeremy McInerney

26. The Age of Pericles

By: Jeremy McInerney

4.14

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The career of Pericles, the leading Athenian politician and general from c. 450 to 429 B.C., is a p… read more

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  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia by Alexis Q. Castor

27. Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Alexis Q. Castor

3.69

Format: 374 pages, Audible Audio

18 hours All cultures lie in the shadow of ancient Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and E… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of The Agency: a history of the CIA by Hugh Wilford

28. The Agency: a history of the CIA

By: Hugh Wilford

3.73

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Since the eve of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked by the U.S. governme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang

29. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

By: Steve Tsang

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The World of J.R.R. Tolkien by Dimitra Fimi

30. The World of J.R.R. Tolkien

By: Dimitra Fimi

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Though there has been some contention over the title, J.R.R. Tolkien is regarded by many as the fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses) by Lynne Ann Hartnett

31. Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

3.90

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

4.16

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The Vikings

Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Lost Worlds of South America

Edwin Barnhart

4.15

Transform Your Habits

From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)

Kenneth J. Hammond

4.49

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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

Barbara Mertz

3.79

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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

4.11

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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn

4.19

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