Short History Life

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity....

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    • By: George M. Marsden
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 12-02-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards is not an abridgment of Marsden's earlier award-winning study but is instead a completely new narrative based on his extensive research....

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    • The Compelling Story of a Battle of Britain Ace
    • By: Tim Vigors
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • It is not often that a long-hidden gem of a manuscript is published, bringing a moment in WWII history to vivid life for today’s audiences. Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light was one example. The memoir of Timothy Vigors is another....

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    • A Short History of Private Life
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

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    • Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World
    • By: Dina Bennett
    • Narrated by: Katherine Dyer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris", a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down....

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    • By: Ken Grimwood
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Jeff Winston's life is not how he imagined it would be. An unhappy marriage and unrewarding job - and then he died. Aged 43. And woke up again, back in his college room, in 1963, age 18....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
    • By: Leslie Winfield Williams
    • Narrated by: Philip Zoutendam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Thomas Cranmer was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before....

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    • A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
    • By: Jonathan Kirsch
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-2013
    • Language: English
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    • On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences....

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    • The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
    • By: Bruce Lewis
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is a blisteringly honest account of life for the Second World War bombers....

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    • A Point in Time collection
    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
    • Series: A Point in Time collection
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A young autistic woman finds her voice and a path toward justice in this uplifting short story about the power of family history by Thomas Keneally, award-winning author of Schindler’s List....

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    • The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia
    • By: Brendan I. Koerner
    • Narrated by: Brendan I. Koerner
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2012
    • Language: English
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    • By his early 20s, Teddy Weatherford was the toast of Chicago's jazz scene, rivaling Louis Armstrong and wowing Jelly Roll Morton with his piano talent....

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    • By: Frances Gilchrist Wood
    • Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
    • Length: 35 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2007
    • Language: English
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    • "Local color" author Frances Gilchrist Wood wrote this powerful tale of a young wife who proves better able to succeed on the homestead frontier than does her husband....

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    • By: Ambrose Bierce
    • Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2007
    • Language: English
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    • A sentry falls asleep at his post, leading to dire consequences. This is a classic tale about the terrible cost of the Civil War, which divided entire families....

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