23 Best Civilization, History Books
Civilization, History is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Civilization, History audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 23 Civilization, History audiobooks below.
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Person of Interest
- By: J. Warner Wallace
- Narrator: J. Warner Wallace
- Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: September 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.64(608 ratings)
4.64(608 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDRead by the author. Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered–even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detective and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace as he investigates Jesus using an innovative and unique approach he employs toRead by the author.
Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered–even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detective and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace as he investigates Jesus using an innovative and unique approach he employs to solve real missing person murder cases.
In Person of Interest, Wallace carefully sifts through the evidence from history alone, without relying on the New Testament. You’ll understand like never before how Jesus, the most significant person in history, changed the world.
Features:
- Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder cases
- Marvel at the way Jesus changed the world as you investigate why Jesus still matters today
- Learn how to use an innovative and unique “fuse and fallout” investigative strategy that you can also use to examine other claims of history
- Explore and learn how to respond to common objections to Christianity
Detective J. Warner Wallace listened to a pastor talk about Jesus and wondered why anyone would think Jesus was a person of interest.
Wallace was skeptical of the Bible, but he’d investigated several no-body homicide cases in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim’s body. Could the historical life and actions of Jesus be investigated in the same way?
In Person of Interest, Wallace describes his own personal investigative journey from atheism to Christianity as he carefully considers the evidence. Creative, compelling, and fully illustrated, Person of Interest will strengthen the faith of believers while engaging those who are skeptical and distrusting of the New Testament.
Accompanying images, reference lists, and case notes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
“Wallace has an uncanny ability to discover clues where no one else sees them. Now he tackles perhaps his toughest case ever: solving a deeply personal mystery involving his own religious faith.”
–ROBERT DEAN, producer of NBC News Dateline
“A creative and eye-opening work. You’ll be captivated as Wallace takes you on a thrilling journey of discovery.”
–LEE STROBEL, bestselling author of The Case for Christ
“If you read this book, you will have to reckon with Jesus, not just as a historical person but as Lord and Savior. This is not your typical apologetics book!”
–ALISA CHILDERS, author of Another Gospel
“Bring your doubts, bring your skepticism–but if you bring them in open-minded honesty . . . be prepared to render a shocking verdict.”
–SCOTT HANSON, host of NFL RedZone
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The Age of Voltaire
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 42 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.41(680 ratings)
4.41(680 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of the Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired theThe Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of the Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter
the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France–skepticism, scientific experiment, constitutional government, “natural rights,” and individual liberty; the salons of Paris, where the wits and thinkers of all Europe gathered to exchange ideas; the philosophes–intellectuals, playwrights, and poets who consulted and consorted with kings and queens; Voltaire himself–the incarnation of the Enlightenment and a devotee of reason who still defended religious faith; Mme. Pompadour, patron of the philosophes, who seduced King Louis XV and through him influenced French policy; the Augustan Age in English literature–Alexander Pope’s poetry, Jonathan Swift’s satires, and the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding; and the growing parasitism of the aristocracy and rising power of the commercial class.
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Caesar and Christ
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 36 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.41(1404 ratings)
4.41(1404 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe third volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Caesar and Christ chronicles the history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to 325 AD. In this masterful work, listeners will learn about: –The third volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Caesar and Christ chronicles the history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to 325 AD. In this masterful work, listeners will learn about:
– the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy – the birth of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of Roman law – the great reigns of Caesar and Antony – the people of Rome–the artisans, tradesmen, and scientists – the places of Rome’s great empire – the beginnings of Christianity and its growth – the rise of Constantine and the fall of the empire
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The Age of Faith
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 61 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.38(1136 ratings)
4.38(1136 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe fourth volume in Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture. Like the other volumes in the Story ofThe fourth volume in Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture. Like the other volumes in the Story of Civilization series, this is a self-contained work, which at the same time fits into a comprehensive history of mankind. It includes the dramatic stories of St. Augustine, Hypatia, Justinian, Mohammed, Harun al-Rashid, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Maimonides, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many others, all in the perspective of integrated history. The greatest love stories in literature–of H+(r)loise and Ab+(r)lard, of Dante and Beatrice–are here retold with enthralling scholarship.
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Bloodlands
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 02, 2018
- Language: English
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4.36(11527 ratings)
4.36(11527 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDFrom the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.Americans callFrom the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.... Read more
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.”But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens–and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.
Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
Bloodlands won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into more than thirty languages, was named to twelve book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countries. -
The Reformation
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 50 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.35(832 ratings)
4.35(832 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDAn engrossing volume on the European Reformation by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant The sixth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformation chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564.An engrossing volume on the European Reformation by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant
The sixth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformation chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter
the schism within the Roman Catholic Church and the formation of early Protestantism; the theology of Martin Luther and his societal impact; the rise of Humanism and the life of Desiderius Erasmus; the royal monarchies of England, France, Spain, and Italy; the imperial conquests of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Americas; the Bohemian revolution of Eastern Europe, the unification of Russia, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire; the teachings of John Calvin; andthe Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century.
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The Life of Greece
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 32 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.35(1550 ratings)
4.35(1550 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe second volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume 2 chronicles the history of ancient Greek civilization. Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece, from the days ofThe second volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume 2 chronicles the history of ancient Greek civilization. Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece, from the days of Crete’s vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the heel of an implacably forward-marching Rome. The dry minutiae of battles and sieges, of tortuous statecraft of tyrant and king, get the minor emphasis in what is preeminently a vivid recreation of Greek culture, brought to the reader through the medium of supple, vigorous prose.
In this masterful work, readers will learn about:
– the siege of Troy- the great city-states of Athens and Sparta- the heroes of Homer’s epics- the gods and lesser deities of Mount Olympus- the teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle- the life of Alexander the Great
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The Age of Reason Begins
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 34 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.35(697 ratings)
4.35(697 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThis seventh volume of Will and Ariel Durant’s renowned Story of Civilization chronicles the history of European civilization from 1558 to 1648. The Age of Reason Begins brings together a fascinating network of stories in the discussion of theThis seventh volume of Will and Ariel Durant’s renowned Story of Civilization chronicles the history of European civilization from 1558 to 1648.
The Age of Reason Begins brings together a fascinating network of stories in the discussion of the bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs and greater artists–on the one hand, Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and Henry IV of France; on the other, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Rembrandt. It also encompasses the heyday of Francis Bacon, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Descartes, the fathers of modern science and philosophy. But it is equally an age of extreme violence, a moment in which all Europe was embroiled in the horrible Thirty Years’ War–in some respects, the real first world war. This chapter in cultural history is one that can’t be missed.
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The Age of Napoleon
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 44 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.33(706 ratings)
4.33(706 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDAn engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out ofAn engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant
The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter
the French Revolution–from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king; the revolution’s leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just–all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated; Napoleon’s meteoric rise–from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history; Napoleon’s fall–his army’s destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe; the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era.
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The Age of Louis XIV
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 36 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.31(652 ratings)
4.31(652 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648-1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. “Some centuries hence,” Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, “they will translate theThe Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648-1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. “Some centuries hence,” Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, “they will translate the good authors of the age of Pericles and Augustus.” Those authors are lovingly treated here: Pascal, Racine, and Boileau, Madame de S+(r)vign+(r), Madame de la Fayette, and above all the philosopher-dramatist Moli+?re, who so memorably exposed the vices and hypocrisies of the age.
Central to the book is the “Sun King” himself, Louis XIV. Louis XIV ruled France for over seventy years, longer than almost any European ruler in history. He is the subject of a character study that runs through seven chapters, revealing the flesh and blood beneath the purple and the crown. He is seen at his worst in his struggle with Jansenists and Huguenots, at his best in his patronage of literature and art, and at his most human in his love affairs with Henrietta Anne of Orl+(r)ans, Louise de La Valli+?re, Madame de Montespan, and Madame de Maintenon.
From France the narrative passes to the Netherlands, and after pausing to examine the domestic idylls of Vermeer, shows the Dutch opening their dikes to save their land from Louis XIV and sending William of Orange to become king of England and a leader of the European alliance against Louis’ hegemony.
In England we contemplate the heyday of virtue under the Puritans and study the strange character of Cromwell. We see Milton’s passionate career as part of the vain effort to prevent the Stuart Restoration. We find Charles II, the “Merry Monarch,” with more manners than morals, attend boisterous Restoration plays; we skim the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; and we follow Jonathan Swift from genius to insanity.
Crossing the North Sea we trace the tragic heroism of Charles XII of Sweden and the attempt of Peter the Great to lead Russia from barbarism to civilization. We accompany the noble Sobieski of Poland as he rescues Vienna from the Turks. We visit Italy and Spain. We see the Jews proscribed and impoverished in Europe but rising to riches in Amsterdam and following Sabbatai Zevi in a desperate hope of regaining Palestine and freedom.
All this forms the background for the “intellectual adventure” of the European mind in its passage from superstition, mythology, and intolerance to education, science, and philosophy, for this was the age when Newton and Leibniz gave simultaneous birth to calculus, when Newton bound the planets and the stars with a chain of universal gravitation. Toward the end of the volume the authors revert to their favorite subject, philosophy, and devote a full chapter, with love and care, to Spinoza.
The book ends with the sunset of Le Roi Soleil: Louis punished for his aggressions by a swarm of enemies gathering around him; fighting till his people are destitute and disillusioned, till his treasury and his heart are empty; dying defeated and repentant, begging his grandson and successor not to imitate his taste for splendor and war; and followed in his funeral by the insults of the crowd.
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Our Oriental Heritage
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Robin Field
- Length: 50 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.31(2280 ratings)
4.31(2280 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe first volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers willThe first volume of Will Durant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:
Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years agothe Babylonians, who developed astronomy and physics, and planted the seeds of Western mythologythe Judeans, who preserved their culture forever in the immortal books of the Old Testamentthe Persians, who ruled the largest empire in recorded history before RomeIndian philosophy, Chinese philosophers, and Japanese samurais
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The Renaissance
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 37 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.26(901 ratings)
4.26(901 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDAn engrossing volume on the Italian Renaissance by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant The fifth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from 1304 to 1576. In this masterfulAn engrossing volume on the Italian Renaissance by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant
The fifth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from 1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter
the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance; the paintings, sculptures, and architecture of Milan, Florence, and Venice; the life and accomplishments of Leonardo Da Vinci; the Catholic church and the popes of Avignon and Rome; the politicians and philosophers of Italy, including the Borgia family, Julius II, and Machiavelli; the Italian Wars, the conflicts with France, and the country’s decline.
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Rousseau and Revolution
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 57 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.25(719 ratings)
4.25(719 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe Pulitzer Prize-winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionateThe Pulitzer Prize-winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant
Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel–philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration and social revolt, who contended with the great rationalist Voltaire for the mind of Europe. Rousseau condemned civilization as a disease, glorified the noble savage, proclaimed to the world with equal intensity his own love affairs and the natural rights of man, and became the patron saint of the revolution and the worldwide social upheavals of two centuries.
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The Lessons of History
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.09(10208 ratings)
4.09(10208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. The authors devoted five decades to the study of world historyA concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today. The rare archival recordings of the Durants in conversation, made from 1957-1977, illuminate our present condition and offer insightful guidance for the future.
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Heroes of History
- By: Will Durant
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.92(663 ratings)
3.92(663 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDAt Will Durant’s death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant’sAt Will Durant’s death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant’s granddaughter’s garage. Written shortly before he died, these twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant’s bestselling, eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization. Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from Confucius to Shakespeare, from the Roman Empire to the Reformation, spanning thousands of years of human history. A volume of life-enhancing wit and wisdom, Heroes of History draws upon Durant’s expansive knowledge and singular ability to translate distant events and complex ideas into easily accessible principles.
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A God-Sized Vision
- By: Collin Hansen
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 02, 2010
- Language: English
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3.92(153 ratings)
3.92(153 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDCan God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recounts global examples of prior revivals, beginningCan God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recounts global examples of prior revivals, beginning with the Reformation and the Great Awakenings. It continues with the Welsh and Azusa Street revivals and those that occurred simultaneously in Asia, followed by the East Africa Revival of the 1930s. More recent revivals in North America that instigated parachurch or evangelistic ministries like those of Billy Graham and the revivals in China, particularly in Henan Province over the last forty years, give further evidence of church renewal. These stories enlarge our hearts, expand our minds, and empower our witness to the power of God at work in human history. Christians with a deep evangelistic commitment who realize that there is more to church growth than field-tested techniques will expand their vision by remembering God’s vision, as it has been revealed throughout history. Hansen and Woodbridge mine these stories of renewal to suggest how to get ready for revival today.
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Civilization and Its Enemies
- By: Lee Harris
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.91(111 ratings)
3.91(111 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDCivilization and Its Enemies is an extraordinary tour de force by America’s reigning philosopher of 9/11, Lee Harris. In it, Harris focuses on the next great conflict: the war between the civilized world and the international terrorists whoCivilization and Its Enemies is an extraordinary tour de force by America’s reigning philosopher of 9/11, Lee Harris. In it, Harris focuses on the next great conflict: the war between the civilized world and the international terrorists who wish to destroy it.
Harris’ brilliant tour through the stages of civilization, from Sparta to the French Revolution to the present, demonstrates that civilization depends upon brute force, properly wielded by a sovereign. Today, only America can play the role of sovereign on the world stage, by the use of force when necessary.
Lee Harris’ articles have been hailed by thinkers from across the spectrum, and his message is an enduring one that will change the way readers think about the war with Iraq, about terrorism, and about our future.
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Walls
- By: David Frye
- Narrator: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.81(324 ratings)
3.81(324 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)–walls–and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.With“A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)–walls–and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.
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With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as “informative, relevant, and thought-provoking,” we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed–to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out.
The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves–rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia’s steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era.
Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “provocative, well-written, and–with walls rising everywhere on the planet–timely,” Walls gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling. -
The Year 1000
- By: Valerie Hansen
- Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.67(980 ratings)
3.67(980 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly,*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*
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From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world’s societies at the end of the first millennium.
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blond-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire?
Valerie Hansen, an award-winning historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies, which sparked conflict and collaboration eerily reminiscent of our contemporary moment.
For readers of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, The Year 1000 is a “fascinating…highly impressive, deeply researched, lively and imaginative work” (The New York Times Book Review) that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. -
The Rule of Laws
- By: Fernanda Pirie
- Narrator: Ana Clements
- Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 09, 2021
- Language: English
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3.63(66 ratings)
3.63(66 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0038.99 USDFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offeredFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
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Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world.
In The Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people–tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers–called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world’s laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos. -
The Lost Empire of Atlantis
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 25, 2011
- Language: English
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3.6(583 ratings)
3.6(583 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USD“MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.” —New York Times Magazine New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that“MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.” —New York Times Magazine
New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped from the earth.
For three millennia, the legend of Atlantis has gripped the imaginations of explorers, philosophers, occultists, treasure hunters, historians, and archaeologists. Until now, it has remained shrouded in myth. Yet, like ancient Troy, is it possible that this fabled city actually existed? If so, what happened to it and what are its secrets? The fascinating reality of Atlantis’s epic glory and destruction are uncovered, finally, in these pages in thrilling detail by the iconoclastic historian Gavin Menzies–father of some of “the most revolutionary ideas in the history of history” (New York Times).
Meticulously analyzing exciting new geologic research, recently unearthed archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies has made a jaw-dropping discovery: Atlantis truly did exist, and was part of the incredibly advanced Minoan civilization that extended from its Mediterranean base to England, India, and even America. In The Lost Empire of Atlantis, he constructs a vivid portrait of this legendary civilization and shares his remarkable findings.
As riveting as an Indiana Jones adventure, The Lost Empire of Atlantis is a revolutionary work of popular history that will forever change our understanding of the past.
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The Undivided Past
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.5(149 ratings)
3.5(149 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict. Investigating the six mostFrom one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict.
Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference–religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization–Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history. Without denying their power to motivate populations dramatically at particular moments, he reveals that in the long term none has proven remotely as divisive as the occasional absolutist cries of “us versus them” would suggest, whether Christian versus Muslim during the Crusades (and now), landed gentry versus peasantry during the Bolshevik Revolution, or Jews versus “Aryan race” in Nazi Germany. For most of recorded time, these same “unbridgeable” differences were experienced as just one identity among others; whatever most chroniclers, self-serving mythmakers, and demagogues would have us believe, history needs to be reimagined to include the countless fruitful interactions across these lines, which are usually left out of the picture.
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Red
- By: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Narrator: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 09, 2015
- Language: English
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3.5(966 ratings)
3.5(966 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDRed is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion,Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art.
With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora to its emergence under Northern skies. She goes on to explore red hair in the ancient world; the prejudice manifested against red hair across medieval Europe; red hair during the Renaissance as both an indicator of Jewishness during the Inquisition and the height of fashion in Protestant England, under the reign of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; the modern age of art and literature, and the first positive symbols of red hair in children’s characters; modern medicine and science and the genetic and chemical decoding of red hair; and finally, red hair in contemporary culture, from advertising and exploitation to “gingerism” and the new movement against bullying.
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