History Essays

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    • A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time....

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    • What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Aimee Horne
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more....

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    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2021
    • Language: English
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    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2013
    • Language: English
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    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-01-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....

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    • The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
    • By: Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Catriona Keyes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Get yourself comfortable, and let Marian take you places you've never been before....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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    • How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
    • By: Robert Evans
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history....

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    • A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

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