The World category has 419 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2,940 ratings. The most-rated is A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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Breve historia de los vikingos [Brief History of the Vikings]
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“Así que si tienen ganas de conocer de manera amena una cultura en la que la valentía era piedra básica de una forma de vida no duden en buscar Breve Historia de los Vikingos y conocer de la mano de Manuel Velasco la gesta de un pueblo inmortal que incluso hoy ya se ha convertido en referente de la cultura actual.” (Blog Historia con minúsculas) “En pocas páginas se puede tener una visión muy completa y global del tema elegido, y que puede servir de guía para seguir en el futuro con estudios más profundos si el tema en cuestión resultó tan interesante como se creía. Así pues, vemos que este pueblo conocido sobre todo por sus incursiones y ataques a las costas y monasterios de toda Europa, tenía una cultura muy rica y variada.” (Blog Licerrock) La detallada historia de un pueblo, célebre por su arrojo, que nos descubre además su talento como navegantes e ingenieros navales o su valiosa artesanía. Era necesaria una historia sobre los vikingos, una cultura presente en el imaginario popular actual, que se sobrepusiera a los mitos que se han establecido como verdad absoluta, de pueblo beligerante y aguerrido exclusivamente y nos llevara a conocer un poco más: Breve Historia de los Vikingos es esa obra. El libro no sólo se cierra en los aspectos puramente técnicos y cronológicos de los vikingos, sino que también se adentra en la vida cotidiana de los artesanos, campesinos o comerciantes nórdicos y nos detalla su mitología y sus prácticas religiosas para tener así una visión completa de esta influyente cultura que surgió de las zonas más frías de la actual Europa. Entre el S. IX y el S. XI, irrumpen los vikingos en la escena europea, esta será su época de esplendor pero finalmente cederán ante el imparable empuje del catolicismo romano. Enmarcado en estos siglos nos descubrirá Manuel Velasco la rica cultura vikinga, no sólo asistiremos a su valor como guerreros, navegantes y constructores de naves, sino que veremos también su desconocida y rica actividad comercial, que les llevó a establecer una ruta desde Groenlandia hasta Constantinopla, e incluso hasta Bagdad. Divide el autor, para ello, el libro en cinco apartados: en el primero de ellos nos introducirá en la vida vikinga hasta en sus más pequeños detalles, en la segunda parte nos desplegará la rica mitología vikinga, en la tercera parte nos enseñará la expansión de los vikingos y la influencia nórdica, dedicará la cuarta parte a describir, hasta el último detalle el ocaso vikingo y en la quinta nos hablará de la vigencia de los pueblos del norte en la cultura popular actual. Breve Historia de los Vikingos incluye un apéndice final, muy completo, en el que se nos da un listado de nombres vikingos, breves perfiles de personajes curiosos, una descripción de lugares de interés tanto en Escandinavia como fuera de ella, una valiosa información sobre réplicas actuales de los drakkars y una cronología pormenorizada de la era vikinga. Razones para comprar la obra: La obra presenta una recreación total de la poco conocida vida de los vikingos, incluyendo su mitología, su historia bélica y comercial, y su vida cotidiana. Añade a las fuentes históricas tradicionales, nuevos materiales extraídos de la cultura popular como festivales, novelas, música, documentales o videojuegos. El autor es un experto reconocido en el tema y una referencia en divulgación histórica sobre los vikingos. La obra es un auténtico éxito comercial con cinco ediciones en seis años y ha tenido que ser ampliado debido a la demanda sobre el tema. Un completo recorrido no sólo por los saqueos y las batallas a bordo de los terribles drakkars, sino también por las ciudades y aldeas en los que artesanos o ganaderos perfilaban la cultura vikinga y también en las rutas comerciales por las que los vikingos se extendieron por toda Europa. Please note: This audiobook is in Latin American Spanish.
©2012 Ediciones Nowtilus S.L. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
1775
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What if the year we have long commemorated as America’s defining moment was in fact misleading? What if the real events that signaled the historic shift from colony to country took place earlier, and that the true story of our nation’s emergence reveals a more complicated - and divisive - birth process? In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by puncturing the myth that 1776 was the struggle’s watershed year. Mythology and omission have elevated 1776, but the most important year, rarely recognized, was 1775: the critical launching point of the war and Britain’s imperial outrage and counterattack and the year during which America’s commitment to revolution took bloody and irreversible shape. Phillips focuses on the great battlefields and events of 1775 - Congress’ warlike economic ultimatums to king and parliament, New England’s rage militaire, the panicked concentration of British troops in militant but untenable Boston, the stunning expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and many hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands. These onrushing events delivered a sweeping control of territory and local government to the Patriots, one that Britain was never able to overcome. Seventeen seventy-five was the year in which Patriots captured British forts and fought battles from the Canadian frontier to the Carolinas, obtained the needed gunpowder inmachinations that reached from the Baltic to West Africa and the Caribbean, and orchestrated the critical months of nation building in the backrooms of a secrecy-shrouded Congress. As Phillips writes, "The political realignment achieved amid revolution was unique - no other has come with simultaneous ballots and bullets." Surveying the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations, as well as the roles of ethnicity, religion, and class, Phillips tackles the 18th century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. He mines rich material as he surveys different regions and different colonies and probes how the varying agendas and expectations at the grassroots level had a huge effect on how the country shaped itself. He details often overlooked facts about the global munitions trade; about the roles of Indians, slaves, and mercenaries; and about the ideological and religious factors that played into the revolutionary fervor. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became. Kevin Phillips’ 1775 revolutionizes our understanding of America’s origins.
©2012 Kevin Phillips (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Wicked River
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Acclaimed journalist and author Lee Sandlin delivers a riveting glimpse of a dangerous and colorful place in America’s historical landscape - the Mississippi River of the 19th century. Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi - the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks - spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries, and thieves.
©2010 Lee Sandlin (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Alexander Henry's Travels and Adventures in the years 1760-1776
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Alexander Henry is one of the giants of the 18th century fur trade in the Great Lakes region, and his journal has been reprinted many times since it was first published in 1809. With the defeat of the French in Canada in 1760, the interior of the continent was suddenly accessible to English traders. Henry set out for the west with goods for the Indian trade, into a land where the First Nations were deeply hostile to the English. These two volumes, Adventures in Michigan 1760-1764 and Lake Superior and the Canadian Northwest 1765-1776 were compiled by Henry towards the end of his life and together have become an adventure classic. The Great Lakes region was in turmoil in the 1760's when Henry embarked upon his trading mission. The great First Nations leader Pontiac had engineered an uprising against the British Forts and Posts in the region with the intention of driving the British out. It was a time of violence and danger - and Alexander Henry was caught right in the middle of it, frequently experiencing hardship, hunger and abuse - while managing to retain his optimism and courage. The accounts of his experiences are at times harrowing, while at the same time providing an almost unparalleled description of First Nations life in the lands surrounding the Great Lakes and in the Canadian Northwest.
Public Domain (P)2020 Author's Republic
Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which - without any choice in the matter - we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life. Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life's mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.
©2020 Richard Holloway (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd
This Country of Ours, Part 2
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This Series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and The Great War (World War I). In Part 2, you'll hear stories of the settlement of the Virginia Colony. 1. The Adventures of Captain John Smith2. More Adventures of Captain John Smith3. How the Colony Was Saved4. How Pocahontas Took a Journey Over the Seas5. How the Redmen Fought Against Their White Brothers6. How Englishmen Fought a Duel with Tyranny7. The Coming of the Cavaliers8. Bacon's Rebellion9. The Story of the Knights of the Golden HorseshoeHenrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867 – 1941) was a British author, most famous for her works of history for children. For decades, Marshall's books were ubiquitous in schools and home libraries. Much of the popularity of her works stems from her talent for making history read like good storytelling.
Public Domain (P)2004 Alcazar Audioworks
Mayan Civilization
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Making sense of our universe is an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger-than-life Maya civilization grappled with the urge on a grand scale. Join us as we take a voyage to understand the ways of the Maya. Inside you will hear about: Who made contact: Early explorers and their impact How the Maya wanted to be represented: History written by the victors Different periods of Maya history Larger than life New findings We'll learn what they held as sacred, how the sacred manifested itself in their lives, and about efforts to accurately portray them, despite romanticized versions. This audiobook explores their glories and misfortunes and provides a deeper look at their pre-Columbian battling dynasties and their highly structured approach to religion, science, and society.
©2016 Hourly History (P)2018 Hourly History
Humanos
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Los humanos contemporáneos han recorrido un largo camino en sus 70,000 años de paso por la tierra. Arte, ciencia, cultura, comercio: en la cadena evolutiva somos verdaderos ganadores. Pero lo cierto es que no siempre ha sido un viaje fácil y, a veces, muy puntualmente, hemos llegado a pifiarla de verdad. Uniendo historia, ciencia, política y cultura pop, Humanos nos ofrece una exploración panorámica de la humanidad en todo su esplendor (es decir en todas sus pifias) y nos revela cómo incluso los errores más mundanos cambiaron el curso de la civilización como la conocemos. Desde Lucy, nuestro primer antepasado, que se cayó de un árbol, se rompió un brazo y murió, pasando por el emperador chino Zhengde, que almacenó pólvora en su palacio antes de un festival de linternas o por el ejército austriaco, que se atacó a sí mismo en una noche de borrachera. El audiolibro también hace un repaso de los peores líderes políticos de la historia, así como un resumen de la incapacidad de la raza humana para prever el futuro. Humanos es un compendio único, divertido, irónico y lleno de ideas brillantes que ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la historia de la humanidad llena de interés y, claro está, de humor. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2018 Tom Phillips (P)2019 Editorial Planeta, S. A.
Death in Acadia
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Maine Acadia National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the United States. It is an adventure seeker's paradise. Hiking, climbing, snowshoeing, back-country skiing, and ice-climbing are among the activities pursued there; as well as the less extreme sight seeing along the park road and Atlantic coast. Death in Acadia gathers the stories of fatalities that have occurred in the park, from falls to exposure to cardiac arrest - even getting swept out to sea - and presents dozens of misadventures.
©2019 Randi Minetor (P)2019 Randi Minetor
November 1918. Eine deutsche Revolution
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Weltgeschehen zum Klingen gebracht Was geschah in Deutschland, als sich im November 1918 die militärische Niederlage nicht länger leugnen ließ? Als alles möglich schien - eine Revolution des Proletariats ebenso wie eine Diktatur des Militärs? Döblins vierbändiges Monumentalwerk entstand in den Jahren 1937 bis 1943, auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten. Die bereits vorliegende Hörspielfassung der ersten drei Bände wird nun mit der grandiosen, rund 70-stimmigen akustischen Umsetzung des vierten Bandes komplettiert: Hier entwirft Döblin ein Porträt der Revolutionäre Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg. Ihr politisches Scheitern und ihr gewaltsamer Tod stehen für den missglückten Versuch, eine deutsche sozialistische Utopie zu verwirklichen.
©Alfred Döblin, vertreten durch die Gustav Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH; 2016 der Hörverlag
The Measure of All Things
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Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator. The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time. Yet when Ken Alder located the long-lost correspondence between the two men, along with their mission logbooks, he stumbled upon a 200-year-old secret. The meter, it turns out, is in error. One of the two astronomers, Pierre-François-André Méchain, made contradictory measurements from Barcelona and, in a panic, covered up the discrepancy. The guilty knowledge of his misdeed drove him to the brink of madness, and ultimately to his death. Only then did his partner, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre, discover the truth and face a fateful choice: what matters more, the truth or the appearance of the truth? This is a story of two men, a secret, and a timeless human dilemma: is it permissible to perpetuate a small lie in the service of a larger truth? In The Measure of All Things Ken Alder describes a quest that succeeded even as it failed. It is a story for all people, for all time.
©2002 Ken Alder, All Rights Reserved (P)2002 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved, AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.
Tagebuch eines Hugenotten
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Dieses packende Zeitdokument schildert drastisch, was Verfolgung und Vertreibung im 17. Jahrhundert bedeutete. Der Hugenotte Jean Migault bekommt die Repressionen, die schon vor der Aufhebung des Ediktes von Nantes beginnen, immer mehr zu spüren, und er muß um sein Leben und das seiner elf Kinder bangen - bis sich endlich die Möglichkeit zur Flucht ins Ausland auftut. Doch bis dahin liegt noch ein langer, gefahrvoller Weg vor ihm... Erschreckend und erhellend zugleich sind die Parallelen, die sich auftun zwischen diesen spannend geschilderten Erlebnissen und den Berichten von Vertreibungen aus jüngster Vergangenheit: Einschränkung von Rede- und Versammlungsfreiheit, Berufsverbot, Enteignung, willkürliche Gewalt sind die Schrecken, die mit einem Male in die Welt des Jean Migault eindrigen. Für Geschichtsinteressierte ein echtes Highlight!
(c) + (p) 2006 Vocalbar
On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War
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In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Grounded in security studies and informed analysis of the US response to North Korea's increasing nuclear threat, Trump's aggressive rhetoric is analysed in the context of prior US policy failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean strategic culture, and the acceleration of its nuclear program. Jackson argues that the Trump administration's policy of "maximum pressure" brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear war than many realise - and charts a course for the prevention of future conflicts.
©2019 Van Jackson (P)2019 Van Jackson
The Domestication of Dogs
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“Isn't it strange that our being such an intelligent primate, we didn't domesticate chimpanzees as companions, instead? Why did we choose wolves, even though they are strong enough to maim or kill us?” (Wolfgang Schleidt) As the oft-repeated and invariably accurate pearl of wisdom goes, a dog truly is man's best friend. For a long time, people have almost universally loved dogs, and it seems to have been that way for at least tens of thousands of years. When affection is abundantly and consistently expressed, this pure, unspoken, wholesome love is one that is very much requited, and then some. This bond can be demonstrated by the mere existence of pet keepers who unironically refer to themselves as “dog parents,” not merely “dog owners”. Of course, this camaraderie between man and dog did not materialize overnight. Quite the contrary, the relationship between people and dogs gradually evolved and steadily strengthened over several millennia, following a premise best summed up by the dog's metamorphosis from a predator to a lifelong companion. Apart from friendship and companionship, dogs may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and they have been trained to provide loyal and competent service in a variety of fields, ranging from seeing-eye dogs to vest-wearing police partners, among other lines of work. The Domestication of Dogs: The History of Dogs’ Genetic Divergence from Wolves and the Origins of Their Relationship with Humans examines the origins of this exceptional bond, including scientific and mythical theories, and explores how wolves gave rise to a new species marked by hundreds of breeds. It also looks at the cultural roles that canines have played around the world throughout the ages.
©2020 Charles River Editors (P)2020 Charles River Editors
Ship Ablaze
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There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered since the steamship was only chartered for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sound. But a fire erupted minutes into the trip, forcing hundreds of terrified passengers into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, 1,021 had perished. It was New York's deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001. The only book available on this compelling chapter in the city's history, Ship Ablaze draws on firsthand accounts to examine why the death toll was so high, how the city responded, and why this event failed to achieve the infamy of the Titanic's 1912 demise or the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Masterfully capturing both the horror of the event and heroism of men, women, and children who faced crumbling life jackets and inaccessible lifeboats as the inferno quickly spread, historian Edward T. O'Donnell spotlights an important incident with which most Americans are unfamiliar. Ship Ablaze brings to life a bygone community while honoring the victims of that forgotten day.
©2003 Edward T. O'Donnell (P)2017 Tantor
Illuminating History
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Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn captures the particularity of the past and its broad significance in precise, elegant prose. His transformative work has ranged from a new reckoning with the ideology that powered the opposition to British authority in the American Revolution to a sweeping account of the peopling of America and the critical nurturing of a new field, the history of the Atlantic world. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn's works. It is in part an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career. It is also alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of history. Among the dramatic human stories that command our attention: a struggling Boston merchant tormented by the tensions between capitalist avarice and a constrictive Puritan piety; an ordinary shopkeeper who in a unique way feverishly condemned British authority as corrupt and unworthy of public confidence; and a charismatic German Pietist who founded a cloister in the Pennsylvania wilderness. Here is vivid history and an illuminating self-portrait from one of the most eminent historians of our time.
©2020 Bernard Bailyn (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
The Attacking Ocean
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The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines. Global sea levels stabilized about six thousand years ago except for local adjustments that caused often quite significant changes to places like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out as urban civilizations developed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth's population boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution. The threat from the oceans increased with our crowding along shores to live, fish, and trade. Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean's climb has speeded. The sea level changes are cumulative and gradual; no one knows when they will end. The Attacking Ocean, from celebrated author Brian Fagan, tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed but little. What has changed is us, and the number of us on earth.
©2013 Brian Fagan (P)2013 Audible Inc.
How to Speak Science
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As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today's cutting-edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to "speak" science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains - as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos - the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system, light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, and much more. Along the way, Benamran guides us through the wildest hypotheses and most ingenious ideas of Galileo, Newton, Curie, Einstein, and science's other greatest minds, reminding us that while they weren't always exactly right, they were always curious. How to Speak Science acquaints us not only with what scientists know, but how they think, so that each of us can reason like a physicist - and appreciate the world in all its beautiful chaos.
©2018 Bruce Benamran and Stephanie Delozier Strobel (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Conquering Family
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Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with The Conquering Family and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.
©1983 Thomas B. Costain (P)2008 Books on Tape
This Country of Ours, Part 5
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This Series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and The Great War (World War I). In Part 5, you'll hear stories of explorers and pioneers. 1. Stories of the French in America 2. How the Mississippi Was Discovered 3. King Williams ' War and Queen Anne's War 4. The Mississippi Bubble 5. How a Terrible Disaster Befell the British Army 6. The End of French Rule in America 7. The Rebellion of Pontiac Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867 – 1941) was a British author, most famous for her works of history for children. For decades, Marshall's books were ubiquitous in schools and home libraries. Much of the popularity of her works stems from her talent for making history read like good storytelling.
Public Domain (P)2004 Alcazar Audioworks