A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
By: Gregory S. Aldrete
3.78
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
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1. 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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2. The Art of War (The Great Courses, #9456)
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Audiobook
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a landmark achievement in the evolution of strategic thought. So univer… read more
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3. Argumentation: The Study Of Effective Reasoning (Great Courses, #4294)
By: David Zarefsky
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Audio CD
Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric History of Argumentation Studies Formal and Informal Argumen… read more
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4. 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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5. The Great Courses: Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior
By: Mark R. Leary , Mark Leary
3.94
Format: 456 pages,
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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. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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8. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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9. 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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10. Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.98
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
Distilled to its essence, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy known as Stoicism is a philosophy of p… read more
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11. Thinking About Religion and Violence
By: Jason C. Bivins
3.94
Format: 230 pages, Audible Audio
What is it that causes some people to commit violent acts in the name of religion, either against t… read more
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12. The Mongol Empire
By: Craig G. Benjamin
3.89
Format: 345 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length 11 hours and 34 minutes The Mongol Empire was the largest empire the world has… read more
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13. 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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14. The Real History of Dracula
By: Sara Cleto
3.94
Format: None pages, Audiobook
There are few fictional characters who have entrenched themselves so thoroughly in the popular imag… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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18. Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy
By: Tara Susman-Peña
3.65
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 3hours and 34 seconds Americans spend hundreds, even thousands, of hours a week … read more
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19. The Real History of Secret Societies
By: Richard B. Spence
3.68
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length 12 hours and 21 minutes Welcome to The Real History of Secret Societies, a his… read more
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20. How to Publish Your Book
By: Jane Friedman
4.33
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
With the advent of submission conveniences offered by the Internet, today's authors face unpreceden… read more
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21. The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience (Great Courses)
By: Andrew B. Newberg
3.55
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Does God exist? Do we have a soul? Is it possible to make contact with a spiritual realm? How shoul… read more
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22. Creation Stories of the Ancient World
By: Joseph Lam
3.90
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Length: 4 hours and 57 minutes Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are traditi… read more
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23. Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach
By: Thad A. Polk
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
We live in a time of amazing new technologies - and an unparalleled level of surveillance. Virtuall… read more
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24. 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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25. These Six Things Will Kill You
By: Brandy Shillace
3.63
Format: None pages, None
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26. The Secret World of Espionage
By: The Great Courses
3.51
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery—even to those in it—but so much of what we think we k… read more
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27. The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
By: Donald R. Prothero
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's p… read more
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28. A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
By: Gregory S. Aldrete
3.78
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python's Life of Bri… read more
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29. Black Holes Explained
By: Alex Filippenko
3.89
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Imagine a region in space where the force of gravity is so strong that nothing - not even light - c… read more
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30. Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses)
By: Emily Zarka
3.41
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, t… read more
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31. Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces
By: Noah Charney
3.91
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost—… read more
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