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A Survey of Ancient History
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
In this eight hour audiobook, five thousand years of history have been condensed into a concise and easy to follow series of lectures.
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A Survey of The Middle Ages
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
In this 12 hour mp3 audiobook, Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance.
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Anthology of Mythology
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
Mythology has provided an intellectual foundation for the modern world, and has provided inspiration for story tellers and scientists alike.
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The Wisdom Of Joseph Campbell
by Joseph Campbell
Price: Audio CD ($19.16) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($15.57)
This is a collection of conversations between Michael Toms and the late Joseph Campbell, recorded over a span of 12 years.
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A History of Rome
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
Part 1 presents the personalities that dominated the struggle for power in ancient rome...
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Ancient Egypt
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
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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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.
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Native American Tales, Myths and Legends
Price: Digital Download ($7.99)
The stories in this collection are drawn mainly from those tribes which lived in the northern and central areas of north america.
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1
by Edward Gibbon
Price: Audio CD ($33.58) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($33.58)
Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts...
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Price: Audio CD ($35.96) | MP3 CD
In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclops, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six-headed serpent Scylla.
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Heroes of History
by Will Durant
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette ($34.95) | Digital Download
At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....
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The Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia...
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A History of the Middle East
by Peter Mansfield
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In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...
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The Trojan War
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city.
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Price: Audio CD | Digital Download ($23.18)
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
by Thomas Cahill
Price: Audio Cassette ($27.96) | Digital Download
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared...
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Mountains of the Pharaohs
by Zahi Hawass
Price: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
An unprecedented account of one of civilization's greatest achievements.The great pyramids of Giza have intrigued humanity for thousands of years.
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They Saw It Happen
Price: Audio CD ($28.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945....
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Unlocking the Secrets of 2012
by John Major Jenkins
Price: Audio CD ($19.96) | Digital Download ($17.47)
Did the ancient Mayans predict that the "end of time" would occur in 2012 . . . or is that a modern misunderstanding of their intended message?
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Saint Patrick of Ireland
by Philip Freeman
Price: Audio CD ($25.19) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2
by Edward Gibbon
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($33.58)
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces...
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The World of the Ancient Maya
by John S. Henderson
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Since it was first published in 1981, The World of the Ancient Maya has established itself as an extraordinarily comprehensive, concise, and elegantly written introduction to the rich Maya culture.
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Greek Gods
by William Smith
Price: Digital Download ($9.95)
Here we present 14 brief audio sketches of each of the major Greek Deities; providing the listener with information on lineage, characteristics, historical significance and artistic renditions.
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