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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins.**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do abo... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    by Dan Carlin ...
    Narrated by Dan Carlin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    1177 B.C.

    The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

    by Eric H. Cline ...
    Narrated by Eric H. Cline ...
    Audiobook 6 - Turning Points in Ancient History

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark AgesIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    The Fates of Human Societies

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Doug Ordunio ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Magicians of the Gods

    Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse

    by Graham Hancock ...
    Narrated by Graham Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    New archaeological evidence for a pre-historic civilisation updated with two substantial new chapters brimming with recent reporting of fresh scientific advances.Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    Narrated by Douglas Murray ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Our Oriental Heritage

    A History of Civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the Beginning to Our Own Day, with

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Robin Field ...
    Audiobook 1 - The Story of Civilization

    Unabridged

    50 hours 17 min

    The 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Upheaval

    Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Henry Strozier ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 44 min

    A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A History of the World

    by Andrew Marr ...
    Narrated by Andrew Marr, David Timson ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 28 min

    Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A People’s History of the World

    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    by Chris Harman ...
    Narrated by Napoleon Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 44 min

    Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Millennium

    The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 32 min

    Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Life of Greece

    A History of Greek Civilization from the Beginnings, and of Civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander, to the Roman Conquest

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...
    Audiobook 2 - The Story of Civilization

    Unabridged

    32 hours 36 min

    The 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Person of Interest

    Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible

    by J. Warner Wallace ...
    Narrated by J. Wallace ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    Read 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 ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dynasty

    The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 45 min

    Dynasty tells the story of Rome's first dynasty of emperors, from its establishment by Augustus Caesar in the last decades of the 1st century BC to its final, florid extinction less than a century later. The line of autocrats known to historians as the 'Julio-Claudians' remains to this day a byword for depravity. The brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes still ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Caesar and Christ

    A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to AD 325

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
    Audiobook 3 - The Story of Civilization

    Unabridged

    36 hours 31 min

    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 ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Curious History of Sex

    by Kate Lister ...
    Narrated by Kate Lister ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatize particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow-hopefully for the better-but ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fabric of Civilization, The

    How Textiles Made the World

    by Virginia I. Postrel ...
    Narrated by Caroline Cole ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide.The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture.In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Babylon

    Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pathogenesis

    How germs made history

    by Jonathan Kennedy ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Kennedy ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Humans did not make history - we played host.This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam. How did an Indonesian volcano help cause the Black Death, setting Europe on the road to capitalism? How ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 31 min

    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Millennium

    The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Andrew Sachs ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 34 min

    Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Classical World

    An Epic History of Greece and Rome

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    Narrated by Roger May ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization.The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Grand Transitions

    How the Modern World Was Made

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization-in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics-which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial