Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity
By: Marc Zender
3.67
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
At just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so c…
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1. 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
2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
By: David Sedaris , Ian Falconer
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed anim… read more
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- audiobook
3. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity
By: Marc Zender
3.67
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
At just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so c… read more
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- linguistics
- history
- language
- historical
- nonfiction
- writing
- audiobook
5. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
By: Peter F. Drucker
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline… read more
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7. King Arthur: History and Legend
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Audible Audio
The saga of King Arthur and his court is the most enduringly popular mythic tradition of Western ci… read more
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8. The Science of Getting Rich
By: Wallace D. Wattles
3.53
Format: 256 pages,
This book claims there is a true science to becoming wealthy, and reveals it within these pages. Fr… read more
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9. The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
By: Robert Greenberg
3.87
Format: None pages, Audio CD
This course identifies and celebrates 30 of the greatest orchestral works in the concert repertoire… read more
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10. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
By: Douglas Adams
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, t… read more
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11. 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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12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- historical
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
By: Jon Meacham
4.26
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
14. 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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- history
- audiobook
15. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
By: John McWhorter
3.95
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- writing
- audiobook
16. The Greeks: A Global History
By: Roderick Beaton
4.17
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
18. How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
By: Spencer Klavan
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A book to let you know you're not the wisdom of the ages can guide us through the struggles of the… read more
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- history
- audiobook
19. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
By: David Gelles
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles revea… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. 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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21. Bach and the High Baroque
By: Robert Greenberg
4.57
Format: 24 pages, Audio CD
Bach and the High Baroque (32 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Course No. 720 Taught by Robert Greenbe… read more
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