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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
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    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • A Personal History of Modern Ireland
    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society....

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    • How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Now is the time for a new women’s history - for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due - from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
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    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • Unraveling the Hidden History of the Nephilim and Modern Deception
    • By: Greg Hood, Scott Oatsvall
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    • Release date: 11-03-24
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    • There is an unseen realm where the eternal struggle between the seeds of God and the seeds of Satan rages. This profound cosmic conflict has ...

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    • Starter Kit of Wiccan History & Traditions; Practical Magick, Spells & Rituals with Crystals, Candles, & Herbs for the Solitary Practitioner
    • By: Glinda Porter
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Revised and Reformatted Dec 2021 Have you heard of practicing witchcraft and magick to gain what you want in life and are interested to learn more?...

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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • By: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
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    • Madness and Civilization will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself....

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    • By: Barbara Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf
    • Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-19
    • Language: English
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    • A Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-16
    • Language: English
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    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • The Life
    • By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul....

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    • How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • By: Stephen Batchelor
    • Narrated by: Stephen Batchelor
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha's teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion? This is one man's confession....

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