General history and cultural history
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Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, NelsonHachette Audiobooks 2011Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa w...
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The Book of Five Rings
Musashi, MiyamotoTantor Media, Inc. 2010 UnabridgedSetting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and f...
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The Rational Optimist : How Prosperity Evolves
Ridley, MattHarperCollins Publishers 2010 UnabridgedMatt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West
Brown, DeeBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2009Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of thos...
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The Monuments Men : Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Edsel, RobertMacmillan Audio 2009 UnabridgedNow a major motion film! At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in...
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Exploring the Roots of Religion
The Great Courses 2009 UnabridgedWhat impulse drove ancient cultures to create sites like Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, and the pyramids at Giza? Why are we so transfixed by their presence today? And what do they reve...
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Anne Frank Remembered
Gies, Miep; Gold, Alison LeslieOasis Audio 2009She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thous...
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Lansing, AlfredBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2008This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance s...
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The Great Debate : Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution
The Great Courses 2007 UnabridgedRecent years have seen an explosion of interest in and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Its authority and stature are routinely invoked by voices from every point on the po...
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The Italians before Italy : Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean
The Great Courses 2007 UnabridgedTake a riveting tour of the Italian peninsula, from the glittering canals of Venice to the lavish papal apartments and ancient ruins of Rome. In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartle...
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A Long Way Gone
Beah, IshmaelMacmillan Audio 2008This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are so...
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Ackerman, DianeBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2008When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews...
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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Larson, ErikBooks on Tape 2006 -
The Ten Most Influential Christians
christianaudio 2006Issue# 65 The Ten Most Influential Christians of 20th Century – Read about inspiring leaders such Billy Graham, C. S. Lewis, John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., a...
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai; J. Sherwin, MartinBlackstone Publishing 2006 UnabridgedThe inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bo...
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The Worst Journey in the World
Cherry-Garrard, ApsleyBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry...
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Peoples and Cultures of the World
The Great Courses 2004 UnabridgedThe career of Pericles, the leading Athenian politician and general from c. 450 to 429 B.C., is a prism through which to view the "Golden Age" of Greece, a brief but remarkable era...