1,000 Years of the Samurai

by Jeffrey Mass (Professor of History, Stanford University)

Were the samurai vigilantes who acted outside the law, or upholders of law and order? This lecture...

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A History of Britain, Volume 2: The British Wars, 1603 - 1776

by Simon Schama

Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors....

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A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603-1776

by Simon Schama

The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars...

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A History of Britain, Volume 3: The Fate of Empire, 1776 - 2000

by Simon Schama

Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic....

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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

by Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

by Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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American RadioWorks presents Justice on Trial

by Stephen Smith, Michael Montgomery, and Deborah George

From the trials of Nazis at Nuremberg to the prosecution of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, to people's courts in Rwanda....

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American RadioWorks presents Korea: The Unfinished War

by Stephen Smith and John Biewen

To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...

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American RadioWorks presents Massacre at Cuska: Anatomy of a War Crime

by Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith

In 1999, Serb death squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead....

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American RadioWorks presents Radio Fights Jim Crow

by Stephen Smith

During the World War II years, a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America....

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American RadioWorks presents Shadow Over Lockerbie

by John Biewen

270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988....

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American RadioWorks presents The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda

by Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith

In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people....

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Anwar Sadat Addresses Congress

by Anwar Sadat

On October 26, 1975, Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit the United States...

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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Unabridged)

by David K. Shipler

The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature...

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Unabridged)

by Mark Kurlansky

The innocuous cod has been the subject of international wars, national diets, economies, livelihoods, and health in general...

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

In his million-copy best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate....

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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Unabridged)

by Alan Gurney

This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass....

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Core and Periphery: The Transformation of Revolution in China

by Lyman Van Slyke (Professor of History and Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University)

What happens if we change our definition of China to include the peripheral Chinas like Hong Kong...

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Deadlines and Datelines (Unabridged)

by Dan Rather

With his distinctive blend of frontline determination and a journalist's knack for a good story, CBS anchorman...

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Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and the New Way of Ideas

by John Perry (Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University)

Get the big picture of over 3,000 years of philosophical thought in this clear, down-to-earth, and...

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Desire of the Everlasting Hills (Unabridged)

by Thomas Cahill

In Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill takes up his most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth...

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Don't Know Much About Geography

by Kenneth C. Davis

Don't Know Much About® Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned...

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Economics as History

by Ezra Solomon (Dean Witter Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

Professor Solomon provides a fascinating look at the history of man through the prism of economics...

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Edward VIII Abdicates Throne to Marry Divorcee

by Edward VIII

On December 11, 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Great Britain and the British Empire...

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Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage (Unabridged)

by Alfred Lansing

This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackelton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic...

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Famous People in History (Unabridged)

by Nicolas Soames

Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage, and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus who set off into unknown seas...

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From Dawn to Decadence, Volume 1 (Unabridged)

by Jacques Barzun

Highly regarded here and abroad for some 30 works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative...

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From Dawn to Decadence, Volume 2 (Unabridged)

by Jacques Barzun

Highly regarded here and abroad for some 30 works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative...

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Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

by Gordon Thomas

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth...

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Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism (Unabridged)

by Dore Gold

From New York City to Bali, Indonesia, ideologically motivated terrorist groups have chillingly demonstrated their global reach...

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Hiroshima and the Limits of Theodicy

by James Foard (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University)

Hiroshima not only marks the start of the nuclear age, the annihilation created an ethical...

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History of the World, Updated (Unabridged)

by J.M. Roberts

In the History of the World, Updated, J. M. Roberts has revised his monumental previous work, History of the World, taking into account the great range of discoveries....

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How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War

by James F. Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose, editors

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, one question has been on the mind of every American: How did this happen?...

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Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Unabridged)

by Robert Spencer, foreword by David Pryce-Jones

Going beyond the shallow distinction between a true peaceful Islam and the hijacked Islam of terrorist groups...

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Islam, A Short History (Unabridged)

by Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith...

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Japan: A Learning Society

by Thomas Rohlen (Professor of Education, Institute of International Relations, Stanford University)

Japan's rapid rise to prominence on the world stage is a phenomenon interesting on many levels. This...

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Japan's Literary Legacy

by Makoto Ueda (Professor of Japanese and Chairman, Asian Languages Department, Stanford University)

Professor Ueda explores the mystery of suicide among Japan's reigning modern literary masters...

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 (Unabridged)

by Simon Winchester

The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami....

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Leaders and the Led

by Harold Kahn (Professor of History, Stanford University)

Take an intimate look at the great emperors of China - and their relationship to the huge, submerged...

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Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of World History (Unabridged)

by Richard Shenkman

Did you know that Captain Bly, a man we think of as a sadistic menace, was actually a true hero? Or that...

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Audio Length: 5 hours and 38 min.