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…
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1. 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
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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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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4. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
5. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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- history
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7. An Introduction to Greek Philosophy (Great Courses #4477)
By: David Roochnik
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Audio CD
24 lectures | 30 minutes per lecture The first philosophers in Western history--the ancient Greeks-… read more
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8. Philosophy of Religion (Great Courses, #4680)
By: James Hall
4.20
Format: 406 pages,
The central questions of this course are: - Can humans know whether the claim "God exists" is true … read more
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- education
- audiobook
9. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)
By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more
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10. The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Audible Audio
The word "barbarian" quickly conjures images of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan. Yet few people rea… read more
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11. Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History
By: Phil Mason
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoi… read more
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12. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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14. How to Listen to and Understand Opera (Great Courses, #740)
By: Robert Greenberg
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Geniuses--Montever… read more
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15. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Great Courses, #700)
By: Robert Greenberg
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. An… read more
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16. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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17. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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19. 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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20. The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World
By: Robert Garland
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Audio CD
Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so … read more
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"Every human catastrophe, however, is archaeology's gain."-Robert Garland, The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World
21. 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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22. The Persian Empire
By: John W.I. Lee
4.11
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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23. 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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24. Norse Mythology
By: Jackson Crawford
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Audible Audio
Thor, Odin, Loki, Freyja, the Valkyries, Valhalla, Ragnarok — many of the places we encounter these… read more
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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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26. Ancient Civilizations of North America
By: Edwin Barnhart
4.11
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North A… read more
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27. Cities of the Ancient World
By: Steven L. Tuck
3.98
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 11 hours and 47 minutes This course tackles a number of large questions about ci… read more
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28. 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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29. Do It Now: Overcoming Procrastination
By: Fuschia M. Sirois
3.61
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 11 minutes Procrastination is an almost universal human experience. While many peopl… read more
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30. The Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
By: Craig R. Koester
3.91
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
What are we to make of the book of Revelation, with all its dramatic events and rich symbolism? Get… read more
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31. The Great Courses: Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor by Professor Kenneth W. Harl (2001-08-02)
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.00
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Perhaps no other region of the world has played so many different roles in culture, religion, and p… read more
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