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Brought to you by Penguin. 'With reason, evidence, common sense, uncompromising candour and disciplined imagination Fernando Cervantes makes the conquistadores believable' Felipe Fernández-Armesto The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff...

The great revolutions of the past 300 years have profoundly shaped the social, cultural, political, and military landscape of the 21st century. These epic changes tore down established orders and built new ones in their place. What drives individuals and groups to embrace revolution? At what point does a society decide to revolt? Delve into these questions and more. Taught by Professor Lynne Ann Hartnett of Villanova University, these 24 eye-opening lessons will give you new insights into the forces that have shaped our political and cultural world.

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the listener on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five thousand years of history redolent with contemporary importance.

lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.

How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way. 

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.

Now in audio - a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter. In this lively and comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history, and its threat to mankind, Spielman and D'Antonio take a mosquito's-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. 

If History Has Taught Us Anything sifts through the rubble of time to tell some classic stories from history - the master storyteller. The idea of A’maal or Karma - that deeds have repercussions for the doer - is used as a silent leitmotif throughout, bringing home a larger lesson to the listener.

Bloomsbury presents How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter, read by Jack Bennett. ‘Brilliant’ NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR ‘Enlightening and a good read’ SPECTATOR ‘Moving and perceptive’ NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of...

A pathbreaking neuroscientist reveals how our social instincts turn Me into Us, but turn Us against Them - and what we can do about it. The great dilemma of our shrinking world is simple: never before have those we disagree with been so present in our lives. The more globalization dissolves national borders, the more clearly we see that human beings are deeply divided on moral lines - about everything from tax codes to sexual practices to energy consumption - and that, when we really disagree, our emotions turn positively tribal.

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma. Its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. His trek around the great mountain, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude....

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking listeners from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism", revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights.

ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵਸ਼ਾਲੀ ਸ਼ਖਸੀਅਤਾਂ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਇੱਕ, ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੇ ਜੀਵਨ ਅਤੇ ਵਿਰਾਸਤ ਦੀ ਪੜਚੋਲ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਤਿਆਰ ਹੋ ਜਾਓ। ਸਾਡੀ 10-ਐਪੀਸੋਡ ਪੋਡਕਾਸਟ ਲੜੀ ਵਿੱਚ, ਅਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਅਧਿਆਤਮਿਕ ਆਗੂ, ਯੋਧੇ ਅਤੇ ਕਵੀ ਦੇ ਜੀਵਨ 'ਤੇ ਡੂੰਘਾਈ ਨਾਲ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ...

# Lanternlight Lives: American History for Sleep Discover the fascinating stories of American history as you drift off to sleep. Lanternlight Lives is a relaxing history podcast featuring forgotten Americans, extraordinary biographies, lost stories, historical mysteries, and the events that shaped the United States. Carefully researched storytelling, historical evidence, and a warm, unhurried narration, each episode brings the past to life without the noise of an ordinary documentary. From presidents and pioneers to inventors, explorers, and overlooked figures. True America lives, softly told

Paratiisisaari Balin kimaltavan pinnan alla sykkii pimeä sydän. Valkoisten hiekkarantojen ja huoletonta elämää etsivien surffareiden sekä rattopoikia janoavien turistinaisten varjossa kukoistaa kansainvälinen huumekauppa, joka vetää puoleensa niin reppureissaajia kuin...

Koala Moon is a human-made bedtime story channel created to help children feel safe, calm and ready for sleep.Every story is written by Luke Prendergast, Annabel Pitcher or a specially selected guest writer, read aloud by host and Co-Creator Abbe Opher, produced by Holly, engineered by Sokratis, and brought to YouTube by George and Adam. With 500+ original stories, our mission is simple: to make bedtime calmer and easier for families. Our videos are intentionally low stimulation, using slow-changing visuals, dark nighttime colours and descriptive storytelling that works as ears-only content. ...

History is more than a record of the past—it is humanity's greatest classroom.From the fall of Rome to the Moon landing, from the Black Death to the Digital Revolution, every defining moment in history carries lessons that remain strikingly relevant today. The choices that built civilizations...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There are deep, terrifying fractures in the official record. Never Explained: Volume 1 - Chilling Maritime Secrets & Deep Space Echoes is a strictly verified descent into the exact moments when the laws of nature violently broke down and modern science...

La historia está llena de relatos que todos creemos conocer y que casi nunca sucedieron como nos los contaron. ¿Resistieron realmente solo 300 espartanos en las Termópilas? ¿Eran los vikingos simples saqueadores sanguinarios? ¿Vivió la Edad Media sumida en la oscuridad y la ignorancia?...

O Historiamus une narrativas poéticas, resgates históricos e canções autorais para resgatar momentos, sentimentos e lições esquecidas pelo tempo. A cada episódio, uma crônica imersiva acompanhada da sua canção original. Visite nosso portal em historiamus.com.br.