World Civilizations

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    • How Climate Changed Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Brian Fagan
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Langan
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Road Adventures
    • Auteur(s): Heidi Bodanis
    • Narrateur(s): Sam Rosenthal
    • Durée: 3 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dive into the exciting world of road trip trivia! This opening sets the stage for a journey filled with fun, learning, and family-friendly competition....

    Prix courant: 18,74 $

    • The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Mary Beard
    • Narrateur(s): Mary Beard
    • Durée: 2 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity....

    Prix courant: 12,24 $

    • Occidente y el resto [The West and the Rest]
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson, Francisco José Ramos Mena - traductor
    • Narrateur(s): Edson Matus
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-04
    • Langue: Espagnol
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    • Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla....

    Prix courant: 23,99 $

    • Auteur(s): John Julius Norwich - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
    • Durée: 5 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Today we take living in cities for granted. But when did humans first come together to live in large groups, creating an urban landscape? More than simply a history of ancient cities, this volume also reveals the art and architecture created by our ancestors....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • El Nino and the Fate of Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Brian Fagan
    • Narrateur(s): John Haag
    • Durée: 10 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Lyons
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Here is the story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
    • Auteur(s): Cutter Wood
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 10 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-04-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • Mesopotamia History, Book 2
    • Auteur(s): Hourly History
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
    • Série: Mesopotamia History, Livre 2
    • Durée: 1 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Akkadian Empire was one of the first empires in human history and certainly the first to involve the central government of a large, multi-ethnic populace. It also introduced things like the very first postal system and facilitated advances in science, art, and medicine....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $

    • Auteur(s): DK, David Olusoga - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Dede Davi
    • Durée: 13 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • The Philosophical and Intellectual Movement Called the Age of Reason
    • Auteur(s): Kelly Mass
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Newman
    • Durée: 1 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • For centuries, raw and primal urges and principles had taken hold of conquerors, officials, and governments. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Humanity just needed to acknowledge knowledge. Welcome to the book about how this happened....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $

    • Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
    • Auteur(s): David Eltis
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
    • Durée: 17 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-08-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century.

    Prix courant: 26,30 $

    • The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Oswyn Murray
    • Narrateur(s): Justin Avoth
    • Durée: 16 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries.

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Mesopotamia History, Book 3
    • Auteur(s): Hourly History
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Série: Mesopotamia History, Livre 3
    • Durée: 1 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Assyrian Empire was the largest, most powerful, and longest-lasting in the ancient world. It included lands comprising modern-day Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Cyprus, as well as parts of modern Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, and Iran....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $

    • Auteur(s): Samuel Gregg
    • Narrateur(s): John McLain
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Western civilization's genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis...our future is limited.....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • The Mighty Mortals Who Built the Greatest Empire the World Has Ever Known
    • Auteur(s): Joy Chester
    • Narrateur(s): Phil Thron
    • Durée: 4 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Studies have shown that developing an “atomic habit”—just doing a few minutes a day of whatever skill or habit you want to take on—can be more than enough to engrain it into our lives. Therefore, we have transformed timeless, legendary stories into 10-minute bite-size chunks.

    Prix courant: 18,74 $

    • A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Pagden
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Leffert
    • Durée: 6 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
    • Auteur(s): Anna Neima
    • Narrateur(s): Tania Rodrigues
    • Durée: 11 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War....

    Prix courant: 17,76 $

    • What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
    • Auteur(s): Deirdre Mask
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
    • Auteur(s): Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
    • Narrateur(s): Johny Heller
    • Durée: 15 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization....

    Prix courant: 24,49 $