Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World
By: Kara Cooney
4.08
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
What is power and who is allowed to wield it? Why is female power so rare and, often, so feared? Wh…
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1. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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2. Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Great Courses, #3588)
By: Bob Brier
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Audio CD
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3. The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel
By: Erin Macdonald
3.93
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Science fiction allows listeners to go places they can only dream of seeing—other worlds, distant s… read more
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4. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more
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5. Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
By: Fez Inkwright
4.28
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants through this beautifully produced, gorge… read more
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6. The Culture of Knighthood in Medieval Romance
By: Larissa Tracy
3.63
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
See the word "knight " and you’ll likely think of gallant men facing off on the field of battle, or… read more
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7. How the Medici shaped the Renaissance
By: William Landon
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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8. Powerful Women of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.28
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
Throughout history, women have played integral roles in family, society, religion, government, war—… read more
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"If you’re a college professor and you’re bored, it’s your own damn fault."-Dorsey Armstrong, Powerful Women of the Medieval World
9. Rise and Fall of the Borgias
By: William Landon
3.81
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins Since its rise to the highest ranks of power in Renaissance Europe, the… read more
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10. Sleep and Folklore in Popular Culture
By: Dr. Franziska Kohlt
3.53
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
t’s easy to dismiss dreams as “just dreams”—incoherent visions, disturbing, odd images that don’t r… read more
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11. A History of Video Games
By: Jeremy Parish
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Since their arrival in the mid-20th century, video games have become a sprawling, multi-billion dol… read more
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12. Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World
By: Kara Cooney
4.08
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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13. Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites
By: Eric H. Cline
4.18
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 12 hours and 41 minutes The work of archaeologists has commanded worldwide att… read more
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14. The Chinese Zodiac in Cultures and Traditions
By: Cindy I-Fen Cheng
3.86
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Lunar New Year, or the first new moon of the lunar calendar, is celebrated by people around the wor… read more
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15. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
By: Michael Shermer
3.81
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more
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16. Wolves and Werewolves in History and Popular Culture
By: Shannon Scott
3.82
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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17. Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
By: Jennifer McNabb
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
10 lectures on European and American witchcraft trials and history. 5 hours and 11 minutes Fr… read more
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"He who is not the right faith of God is not of God, but of him in whom he believes, that is the Devil. -Canon Episcopi"-Jennifer McNabb, Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
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18. American Monsters
By: Adam Jortner
3.99
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 55 minutes Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents… read more
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19. Feminism in the 1990s
By: Jennifer Baumgardner
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Feminism in the 1990s was a movement unique to its time but also deeply connected to earlier moveme… read more
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20. 10 Women Who Ruled the Renaissance
By: Joyce E. Salisbury
3.85
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The 16th century was a time of immense change across the globe. For many historians, it marks a mas… read more
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21. How Horror Works in Books and Film
By: Shannon Scott
3.75
Format: 4 pages, Audiobook
Why are we scared of ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons, and monsters, when we know they are not rea… read more
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22. Medical Mysteries Across History
By: Roy Benaroch
4.14
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
In medical school, every patient is a teaching case - and every patient can be your teacher. For hu… read more
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23. Medical Mysteries Across History, Pt.2
By: Roy Benaroch
4.18
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
About This Audible Original Doctors are more than doctors. They’re detectives who solve mysterie… read more
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24. The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
By: Maureen Corrigan
4.16
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
5 hours and 43 minutes Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her wri… read more
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25. Decoding Dogs: Inside the Canine Mind
By: Elen Furlong
3.88
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
They might be our best friends, but we often have no idea what they are thinking. Peer inside the f… read more
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26. Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
By: James Krasner
3.95
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Every hero works to soothe the fears of the people during their period in history. Heroes are not o… read more
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27. The Hidden History of the Holidays
By: Hannah Harvey
3.70
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 8 hours and 3 minutes What are the origins of dressing in costume for Hallowee… read more
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28. America’s Founding Women
By: Cassandra Good
3.56
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 6 minutes Many of us are intimately familiar with the stories of the Founding Father… read more
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29. Science of Friendship
By: Kyler Shumway
3.66
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 22 minutes Loneliness isn’t our natural state. As relationship-oriented creatur… read more
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30. The History of the Superhero
By: Lan Dong
3.29
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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31. American Heiresses of the Gilded Age
By: Melissa Ziobro
3.67
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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