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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
Credits: Audio Download
Experience a thrilling, comprehensive account of the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian...
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Great Speeches in History
Credits: Audio Download
This audio program offers speeches from a wide variety of thinkers and leaders. You will here important statements made by Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Royalty, Statesman civil rights advocates and more.
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Anthology of Mythology
Credits: Audio Download
Mythology has provided an intellectual foundation for the modern world, and has provided inspiration for story tellers and scientists alike.
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Ancient Egypt
Credits: Audio Download
In the dimness of prehistory, more than 10, 000 years ago, man began to settle in the long valley ribboned by the Nile.
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Great Speeches Of The 20th Century
Credits: Audio Download
This collection represents some of the most well-known speeches of the 20th century, spanning the years 1908-1991.
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Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Address
by Nelson Mandela
Credits: Audio Download
After 27 years a prisoner during the apartheid era, Mandela emerged as a leader of the black majority, signaling the end to minority rule in the African nation.
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Left to Tell
by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Credits: Audio CD
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so....
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Nelson Mandela - Address Upon Release from Prison
by Nelson Mandela
Credits: Audio Download
A dignified, yet defiant Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison in Cape Town South Africa, a free man for the first time in 27 years.
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Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela's Victory Address
by Nelson Mandela
Credits: Audio Download
Leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela claimed an unprecedented victory in South African Presidential elections.
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Mahatma Gandhi
by iMinds Audio
Credits: Audio Download
Learn about the life of Mahatma Gandhi with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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The Incredible Century
Credits: Audio Download
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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Collapse
by Jared Diamond
Credits: Audio CD
Diamond probes the other side of the equation: what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?
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World War I: The Great War and the World It Made
by John Ramsden
Credits: Audio Download
"The Great War" as it was known at the time was also said to be the "war to end all wars." It seized all of Europe and much of the rest of the world in its grip of death and destruction.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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Islam and the West
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Credits: Audio Download
Islam and Christianity share both remarkable similarities and remarkable differences. In the grand scheme, both are relatively recent religions, with Christianity taking hold in Northern Europe at about the same time that Islam took hold in the Persian world (although Christianity appeared on the scene six centuries before Islam).
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Warming the Stone Child
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The pain of abandonment—both real and metaphorical—can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience.
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Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by Jonathan Smele
Credits: Audio Download
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917.
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The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas
by William J. Bennett
Credits: Audio Download
If you've ever been asked, "Who is Saint Nicholas?"...If you've ever wondered if he is just a commercial invention…
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Journeys of the Great Explorers: Columbus To Cook
by Glyndwr Williams
Credits: Audio Download
One of the most dramatic periods in world history is the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century.
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Secret Societies
by Sylvia Browne
Credits: Audio CD
Fresh from the success of her book Secrets & Mysteries of the World, Sylvia Browne now reveals the clandestine world of secret societies.
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Ideas that Shaped Mankind
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Credits: Audio Download
Ideas That Shaped Mankind flows from internationally respected historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world.
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D-Day: June 6, 1944
by Stephen Ambrose
Credits: Audio Download
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight...
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