The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia
By: Gary Hamburg
3.93
Format: 1 pages, Audio Cassette
From the Oval Office to the streets of Moscow, world leaders and ordinary citizens alike share conc…
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1. The Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917
By: Robert I. Weiner
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Audio Cassette
History at its most interesting is complex, a fascinating whirl of events, personalities, and force… read more
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2. A History of Eastern Europe
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.24
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheava… read more
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3. When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” Curl up wit… read more
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"She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air. And you'd see me here in the fields and say: "Doesn't the sky look green today?"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered t…"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
4. The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.10
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
What different kinds of books are in the New Testament? When, how, and why were they written? And w… read more
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5. Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When We Were Very Youngand Now We Are Sixcomplete the four-volume set of deluxe editions of the Mil… read more
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6. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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7. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
By: Mark J. Ravina
3.52
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Japan's extraordinary culture is like no other in the world, and it remains mysterious to many of u… read more
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8. 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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9. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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10. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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11. History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (The Great Courses, Course No. 8380)
By: None
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Audio CD
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12. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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13. The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
By: Nancy Goldstone
3.80
Format: 275 pages,
The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial - and a reign as triump… read more
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14. World War I: The "Great War"
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.23
Format: None pages, Unbound
18 CDs Running Time: 18hrs 45min 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. Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century (Great Courses, #8313)
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
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17. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
18. The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
3.88
Format: None pages,
This deluxe edition of The House At Pooh Corneris the perfect way to celebrate the enduring popular… read more
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19. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
20. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
By: Dan Carlin
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apoca… read more
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"But it's never wise to bet against any of the four horsemen long term. Their historical track record is horrifyingly good."-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"It may seem strange to suggest that high levels of illness might make human beings tougher, but the effect on a society of relatively regular and lethal epidemics and the mortality they cause certain…"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to …"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up,' Voltaire reportedly said. The observation refers to the argument that fortunes of nations or civiliza…"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
21. 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
22. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia
By: Gary Hamburg
3.93
Format: 1 pages, Audio Cassette
From the Oval Office to the streets of Moscow, world leaders and ordinary citizens alike share conc… read more
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23. 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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24. Krieg (Warhammer 40,000)
By: Steve Lyons
4.06
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
A Death Korps Novel The Death Korps of Krieg are deployed to a soul-crushing siege in the Octari… read more
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25. The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.90
Format: 220 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 31 minutes How did communism become such a pervasive economic and … read more
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26. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
By: Gemma Hollman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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27. The Industrial Revolution
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.25
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at hom… read more
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28. The Agency: a history of the CIA
By: Hugh Wilford
3.73
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Since the eve of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked by the U.S. governme… read more
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29. Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.87
Format: 13 pages, Paperback
Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long… read more
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"Our side has agents. Their side has spies."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"Espionage is the world's second oldest profession."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
30. Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)
By: Lynne Ann Hartnett
3.90
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their pla… read more
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31. How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield
By: Pamela Beth Radcliff
3.71
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
The Spanish Civil War was a local conflict on the margins of Europe—a short yet bloody series of ba… read more
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