History Essays

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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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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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2011
    • Language: English
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    • Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox....

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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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    • 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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    • Essential Essays from Five Decades
    • By: Fritjof Capra
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection....

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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
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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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    • 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 19 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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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    • By: Susan Sontag
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....

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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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    • Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream....

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    • Selected Stories and Essays
    • By: Bruce Pascoe
    • Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work....

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    • Political and Literary Essays from Post-Soviet Ukraine
    • By: Vladislav Davidzon
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years. This anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the perspective of an observer at its center....

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