Skip to main content
Search Button
Australia Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

History Audiobooks

If you like History Audiobooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 54 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • Audiobook

    Political Science. Classics Collection:

    Sun Tzu-The Art of War, Plato-The Republic, Niccolo Machiavelli-The Prince, Lao Tzu-Tao Te Ching, Thomas More-Utopia, Thomas Paine-Common Sense, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels-The Communist Manifesto

    by Marcus Aurelius, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Paine, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Plato, John Stuart Mill, Vladimir lenin, Thomas More ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Elliot, Alfred Costa, Peter Coates, John Brown, Douglass Scott, Jowanna Lewis, Richard Williams, Jamey Lewis, Andrew Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 24 min

    Why Political Science Classics Collection is so important? In today's world, providing quality training for the younger generation at colleges and universities is of primary importance. But higher education is not enough. Any graduate is first and foremost a citizen of his nation. He has the right to be an actor in the political life of his society. The political changes taking place today in the ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Humble Pi

    A Comedy of Maths Errors

    by Matt Parker ...
    Narrated by Matt Parker ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Humble Pi written and read by Matt Parker.What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.As ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Our Mathematical Universe

    My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 22 min

    Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

    by Ananyo Bhattacharya ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Camm ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our worldThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann.Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Numbercrunch

    A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

    by Professor Oliver Johnson ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all'- Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical'- Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add UpIn our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with... ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Perfect Bet

    How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling

    by Adam Kucharski ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    Bringing together ideas from mathematics, psychology, economics and physics, The Perfect Bet traces the origins of successful betting methods. From the simple to the intricate, and the audacious to the absurd, Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science, and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision-making today. Covering ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Ontology Or the Theory of Being

    by Peter Coffey Ph. D. ...
    Narrated by Krista Shirley ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 33 min

    In the domain of Ontology, there are many scholastic theories and discussions which are commonly regarded by non-scholastic writers as possessing nowadays, for the student of philosophy, an interest that is merely historical. This mistaken notion is probably due to the fact that few if any serious attempts have yet been made to transpose these questions from their medieval setting into the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, The

    How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

    by Mario Livio ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry — known as group theory — did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved.For ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Counting: A Human History

    by Benjamin Wardhaugh ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

    PRE-ORDER

  • Audiobook

    Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything

    by Rob Eastaway ...
    Narrated by Rob Eastaway ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 36 min

    ‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRYHow many cats are there in the world?What's the chance of winning the lottery twice?And just how long does it take to count to a million?Learn how to tackle tricky maths problems with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power.Join ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Errors, Blunders, and Lies

    How to Tell the Difference

    by David S. Salsburg ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...
    series ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts to understand our world are blocked by blunders. And, unfortunately, in some cases, people have been ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Charles Babbage and Alan Turing: The Lives and Careers of the English Mathematicians Who Revolutionized Modern Computer Science

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Dan Gallagher ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing Digital Age, otherwise referred to as the “Age of Information.” It has been an unprecedented, remarkable, and explosive era marked by social media and computer-generated imagery (and with it, deep fakes), among other novel, previously unimaginable concepts. The bulky monitors and blocky towers of personal computers and ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

    by Sarah Hart ...
    Narrated by Sarah Hart ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    ‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didn’t know about the creative interplay between stories, structure and sums.’ – Alex Bellos‘This exuberant book will educate, amuse and surprise. It might even add ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Philosophie Grundlagen und Geschichte (Philosophie für Anfänger)

    Überblick und Grundlagen der Philosophie - Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

    by Patricia Sommer, Patricia Sommer ...
    Narrated by Mario Kunze ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart - Wie die Philosophie den Alltag verändert Die Philosophie hat einen langen und teilweise steinigen Werdegang hinter sich. Sie ist älter als 2.000 Jahre und reicht von der Antike über das Mittelalter und die Zeiten der Renaissance bis hin zur Neuzeit und der heutigen Gegenwart. 2.000 Jahre in einem einzigen Band unterzubringen ist unmöglich, da es so viele ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Historias de Nuestra Historia

    Temporada 2012

    by Felipe Pigna, Felipe Pigna ...
    Narrated by Felipe Pigna, Roberto Martínez ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 32 min

    Historias de nuestra historia. Felipe Pigna. La historia de nuestra historia, en tiempo presente, pensada desde ahora e interpelando las verdades de manual. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men

    A Cultural History

    by Paolo Zellini ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and deepest purpose, mathematics has ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Golden Ratio, The

    The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

    by Mario Livio ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887.... This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ... Read more

    $63.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Philosophie Geschichte

    Philosophie für Anfänger und Einsteiger - Geschichte der Philosophie

    by Patricia Sommer, Patricia Sommer ...
    Narrated by Mario Kunze ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 17 min

    Der philosophische Zeitstrahl: Von der Antike über das Mittelalter, die Renaissance und die Neuzeit bis hin zur Gegenwart Die Aspekte der Philosophie sind komplex und durch ihre 2.000 Jahre alte Geschichte besonders weitläufig. In den verschiedenen Epochen der Zeit hat sich die Philosophie mehrmals verändert und es kamen unzählige Strömungen und Formen hinzu, die nicht in dem größten Buch ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mathematics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Gowers ...
    Narrated by Craig Jessen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and listeners of this book will emerge with a clearer understanding of paradoxical-sounding concepts such as infinity, curved space, and imaginary numbers. The first few ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Beyond Good and Evil

    by Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Narrated by Cori Samuel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Forestillinger om Ana Ivan

    by Mikkel Rosengaard ...
    Narrated by Christian Engell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    'Forestillinger om Ana Ivan' begynder i Brooklyn et forår hvor en ung, dansk praktikant møder kunstneren og matematikeren Ana Ivan. Ana er opvokset i Rumænien i tiden op til Ceausescus fald i 1989, og hendes livshistorie indeholder en dramatisk og afgørende begivenhed.Over de næste måneder hjælper praktikanten Ana med at gennemføre et eksperiment, der skal opløse hendes tidsfornemmelse, og inden ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Numbers

    10 Things You Should Know

    by Colin Stuart ...
    Narrated by Colin Stuart ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics.Our world simply wouldn't function if we didn't have numbers. But where do they come from? Why do we cut cake the wrong way? How can there be different sizes of infinity?All these questions and more are answered in this engaging romp through the history of numbers by ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Ten Equations that Rule the World

    And How You Can Use Them Too

    by David Sumpter ...
    Narrated by Sam Woolf ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netflix series, or even relationship?This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in fact. They are integral to everything from investment banking to betting companies and social media giants. And they can ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Most Elegant Equation

    Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics

    by David Stipp ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial