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…
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1. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
2. The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.32
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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3. The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
4.17
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Christianity is the largest and most global religious tradition in history. For nearly 2,000 years,… read more
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- history
- christianity
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- audiobook
4. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- philosophy
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- theology
5. Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
3.57
Format: None pages,
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6. Effective Communication Skills (Great Courses, #9331)
By: None
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Audio CD
Talk is something you do every day. And your life is literally shaped by it. Many of the decisions … read more
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7. The Catholic Church: A History
By: William R. Cook
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Audible Audio
The Catholic Church. It began as a small band of supporters following the teachings of an itinerant… read more
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8. The Story Of Medieval England from King Arthur To The Tudor Conquest (Great Courses, #8410)
By: Jennifer Paxton
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Audio CD
The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of… read more
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9. The History Of Christianity In The Reformation Era
By: Brad S. Gregory
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Audio CD
We are the cultural descendants of the Reformation era, says Professor Brad S. Gregory in these 36 … read more
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10. The First Crusade: The Call from the East
By: Peter Frankopan
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more
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11. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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12. Conquest of the Americas
By: Marshall C. Eakin
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Audio CD
Why was Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 arguably the most important event in … read more
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13. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
14. 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.61
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most… read more
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"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fram…"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
15. How Jesus Became God:
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
Twenty-four lectures that parallel the book by the same title. The early Christian claim that Jesus… read more
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16. 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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17. 3001: The Final Odyssey
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning S… read more
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"Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
18. The Late Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.24
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Course Lecture Titles 1. Late Middle Ages-Rebirth, Waning, Calamity? 2. Philip the Fair versus B… read more
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19. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
20. The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.14
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Without the presence of Christianity, our world would be considerably different. Whether we view it… read more
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21. Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
By: Nicholas Spencer
4.07
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about… read more
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22. Years That Changed History: 1215
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.12
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
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23. Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.05
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 12 hours and 33 minutes Why did pagan Rome, which had a history of tolerating … read more
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24. 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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25. Lenin?s Embalmers
By: Vern Thiessen
3.61
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A new play by Governor General's Literary Award winning playwright Vern Thiessen. Based on a true s… read more
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26. Stress and Your Body
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.32
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Feeling stressed? You're not alone. Stress is an inherent aspect of life that can have tremendous n… read more
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27. Jesus and His Jewish Influences
By: Jodi Magness
4.01
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From Audible description: Jesus - a Jewish man from first-century Judea - was perhaps the most inf… read more
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28. Consciousness and Its Implications
By: Daniel N. Robinson
3.57
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Consciousness, a unique and perplexing mental state, has been the subject of debate for philosopher… read more
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"We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what it's like to be sleeping. We can say what it's like to be restored to consc…"-Daniel N. Robinson, Consciousness and Its Implications
29. 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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- ancient history
- religion
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- mythology
- audiobook
30. America and the World: A Diplomatic History
By: Mark A. Stoler
4.09
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In barely more than two centuries, the United States evolved from a sparsely settled handful of col… read more
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31. How To Raise Lifelong Learners
By: Donna Baer
3.74
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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