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The Twelve Caesars (Unabridged), Suetonius Higher Education Faculty From the dignified grace of Augustus to the cruel debauchery of Nero, this history chronicles all the vices and virtues of the first twelve rulers of Imperial Rome. The Twelve Caesars was written based on the information of eyewitnesses and public... (13 hours and 16 min.) ukázka audio |
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Alexander the Great (Unabridged), Arrian Higher Education Faculty This is the incredible story of the world's greatest conqueror, a man who single handedly changed the course of history...and who was worshipped as a god. There have been many attempts in the 2,300 years since Alexander's death to tell the epic story of t... (11 hours and 55 min.) ukázka audio |
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Hannibal: One Man Against Rome (Unabridged), Harold Lamb Higher Education Faculty This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome. When conflict between Rome and Carthage resumed in 219 B.C., after a brief hiatus from the first Punic War, the Romans decided to invade Spain. Eluding... (10 hours and 55 min.) ukázka audio |
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Philosophy for Studs: The Alpha Male Guide (Unabridged), Anthony Leccisi Higher Education Faculty History's greatest thinkers, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sun Tzu, Seneca, Baudelaire, Sir Francis Bacon, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, and others expound their philosophies on wine, women, song, love, lust, life, living, m... (3 hours and 40 min.) ukázka audio |
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A Survey of the Middle Ages: c. 500 - c. 1270 A.D. (Unabridged), John Pruskin Higher Education Faculty In this audiobook, John Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance. You have a ringside seat as the remnants of the Roman Empire emerge from the tangled chaos of the barbarian conquests. The eastern empir... (10 hours and 50 min.) |
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The Jewish War, Volume 2 (Unabridged), Flavius Josephus Higher Education Faculty The spectacularly violent Jewish revolt of A.D. 66 is in full swing as Volume 2 opens, and we begin our story with the horrific siege of Jotapata and the capture of Josephus. Listeners receive a rousing, eyewitness account of Roman arms in action as Vespa... (10 hours) ukázka audio |
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The Jewish War, Volume 1 (Unabridged), Flavius Josephus Higher Education Faculty In A.D. 66, nationalist and religious revolutionaries in Palestine led a ferocious revolt of the Jewish people against the authority of mighty Rome, culminating in the greatest upheaval and savagery the world had known up to that time. By the end of the c... (9 hours and 55 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Persian Wars, Volume 1 (Unabridged), Herodotus Higher Education Faculty Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the world's greatest works of literature. But what, precisely, is it? The Persian Wars is part history, part geography, part anthropology...and completely entertaining. It possesses a charm that is... (14 hours 37 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Commentaries (Unabridged), Julius Caesar Higher Education Faculty Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army. The Gallic Wars and The Civil Wars constitute the greatest series of military dispatches ever written. As litera... (16 hours and 23 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Italian Renaissance (Unabridged), J.H. Plumb Higher Education Faculty In all of human history there has never been an era as richly endowed with human creativity as the Italian Renaissance. When the economic boom of the Late Middle Ages had allowed a flourishing and wealthy merchant class to emerge, a plethora of artists, s... (6 hours and 13 min.) ukázka audio |
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 3 (Unabridged), William Somerset Maugham Higher Education Faculty William Somerset Maugham (1874 ? 1965) took his reading material quite seriously. He said, "When I read a book, I seem to read it with my eyes only. But now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it become... (6 hours and 8 min.) ukázka audio |
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A Survey of Ancient History, John Pruskin Higher Education Faculty In this eight-hour audiobook, five thousand years of history have been condensed into a concise and easy to follow series of lectures. Each track is a titled section, no more than two to four minutes long, making the material easy to ingest, navigate an... (7 hours and 4 min.) |
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Napoleon (Unabridged), H.A.L. Fisher Higher Education Faculty Between 1796 and 1815, the continent of Europe was held in thrall by one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times, a man whose name was on the lips of every man, woman, and child: Napoleon Bonaparte. Certainly, one would have to go back to the... (7 hours) ukázka audio |
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Waking Up (Unabridged), Swami Yogeshananda Higher Education Faculty Waking Up is an attempt to answer some of the most profound questions that mankind has ever posed. The text is inspired by Vedanta teachings, a spiritual philosophy born of the Upanishads and the Vedas of ancient India. With it many have been able... (1 hour and 56 min.) ukázka audio |
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The French Revolution: 1789 - 1799 (Unabridged), Leo Gershoy Higher Education Faculty In 1789 a group of sober-minded, concerned citizens set in motion a series of events which were to end up leading to the deaths of thousands of perfectly innocent persons. How did this reasonable movement of level-headed civic leaders spin out of control?... (3 hours and 30 min.) ukázka audio |
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Introduction to English Literature: The Anglo-Saxon Era to the Victorian Era (Unabridged), Charles Lamarck Higher Education Faculty The study of literature is the cornerstone of any liberal arts education. Literature is the history of ideas. It is a reflection of thoughts, feelings and culture of a time and a place. What better place to start when learning about the world we live in?<... (11 hours and 36 min.) ukázka audio |
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1 (Unabridged), William Somerset Maugham Higher Education Faculty William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born at the height of British Imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life - the proud, the urb... (3 hours and 41 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Persian Wars, Volume 2 (Unabridged), Herodotus Higher Education Faculty Starting with Book Five, Volume 2 of The Persian Wars enters directly into the intrigues between the Greeks and Persians. Darius, infuriated with Athens because of her support for the liberation of the Ionian Greeks, initiates the first invasion of... (14 hours 22 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Three Documents That Made America (Unabridged), Sam Fink Higher Education Faculty For the first time ever, the complete founding documents of the United States of America are here in one unabridged recording. Sam Fink, award-winning author of the highly acclaimed illustrated book of The Declaration of Independence, provides conc... (1 hour and 27 min.) ukázka audio |
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Europe Under the Old Regime: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century (Unabridged), Albert Sorel Higher Education Faculty Behind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy, and ironically it was their blueprint for conquest that the French Revolution was to utilize... (3 hours and 2 min.) ukázka audio |