The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates
By: John Hawks
4.03
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
Lectures, Professor John Hawks combine fossil and genetic information to test hypotheses about huma…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Foundations of Western Civilization
By: Thomas F.X. Noble
4.16
Format: 44 pages, Audio CD
Forty-eight thirty minute lectures explore the essential contours of the human experience in what h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
3. The Myths of Nutrition and Fitness
By: Anthony A. Goodman
3.49
Format: 3 pages, Audio CD
This course goes beyond simplistic edicts of loading up on carbohydrates before running and staying… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
By: Timothy R. Pauketat
3.63
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization While Mayan an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- archaeology
- anthropology
5. The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
By: Edward J. Larson
4.00
Format: 162 pages,
Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution-the idea that life on earth is the product of purely n… read more
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- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The High Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
3.59
Format: None pages,
12 Audio CD set in two volumes. 24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture. 1. Why the Middle Ages? 2. De… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. The Dead Sea Scrolls
By: Gary A. Rendsburg
4.06
Format: None pages,
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkabl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
By: Tony Hillerman
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more
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9. 12 Essential Scientific Concepts
By: The Great Courses , Indre Viskontas
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Audible Audio
Length: 12 hours and 5 minutes Science is such a vast arena of knowledge that people looking for a … read more
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10. 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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11. The Early Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more
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12. 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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13. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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14. London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
By: Robert O. Bucholz
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. But what m… read more
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15. A History of Hitler's Empire (The Great Courses, #805)
By: Thomas Childers
3.71
Format: 76 pages,
Know thy enemy. That's what the wisdom of history teaches us. And Adolf Hitler was surely the great… read more
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16. A History of India (The Great Courses #8350)
By: Michael H. Fisher
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Audiobook
Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world'… read more
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17. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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18. The Dispatcher
By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto
4.57
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more
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19. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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20. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
By: Manfred B. Steger
3.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
"Globalization" has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political ac… read more
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21. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
22. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- history
- biology
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
23. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.16
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
25. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
26. Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)
By: John Scalzi
4.02
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, p… read more
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27. Understanding the Old Testament
By: Robert D. Miller
4.11
Format: 285 pages, Unbound
The Old Testament is one of the foundational texts of Western civilization, and is among the most i… read more
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- history
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28. 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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- history
- audiobook
29. The Sisters (Cormac Reilly, #.5)
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.61
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
3 hours, 8 minutes Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. A murder … read more
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30. 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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31. The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates
By: John Hawks
4.03
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
Lectures, Professor John Hawks combine fossil and genetic information to test hypotheses about huma… read more
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- archaeology
- anthropology
