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Title: How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

Author: Theodore Papakostas

Narrator: Tom Babbage, John Moraitis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale. Archaeologist Theodore Papakostas takes the reader on a spectacularly iconoclastic and hugely engrossing journey through ancient Greece, from its beginnings in prehistory to its end. Marvelling at the exalted moments in history as well as the more mundane, Papakostas introduces the reader to countless fascinating stories about the cradle of western civilisation – many of which upend received wisdom about the empire as well as about archaeology itself. Along the way, he settles questions such as: What did a Minoan princess pack for a trip to Egypt? How did a raunchy dance lead to the birth of Democracy? Why did Heraclitus suggest that Homer should be slapped? A whistle-stop tour through three hundred years of Greek history, How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator is an unforgettable love letter to the treasures we’ve inherited from the ancient world, as well as to those who have helped us unearth them.

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Title: Random Fun Facts and Motivational Quotes (2-in-1) Bundle: An Amazing Collection of 1,000 Interesting Facts and Trivia + 1000 Inspirational Quotes and Positive Affirmations for Success, Wealth and More

Author: Matthew Shevchenko, Nazar Santoro, Joel Omega, Adam Thielke

Narrator: Corey Katona, Matyas J

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

If knowledge is power and affirmations transform lives, then combining them makes you an unstoppable force. Learning a thousand facts guarantees that you know at least a thousand more things than the person standing next to you. This could help you win quizzes, boost your survival skills, and even save a life. Trivia junkies will love this! You’ll come across facts that enlighten you about the world, some that fill you with delight, and others that make you go “Wow!” Now that you’re brimming with knowledge, it’s time to change your life forever. Affirmations have been known to help people find love, lose weight, and attract wealth. With these 1000 motivational quotes developed by expert psychologist Adam Thielke, you’ll have enough material to: Build your self-confidence Attain career goals Overcome setbacks in life Find love Lose weight Attract wealth This is the formula that makes you unstoppable! Get your copy of the Millennium Bundle (1000 interesting facts + 1000 motivational quotes) to brighten and improve your life.

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Title: Random Fun Facts and Trivia: An Amazing Collection of 1000 of the World's Most Interesting and Weird Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Author: Nazar Santoro, Matthew Shevchenko

Narrator: Corey Katona

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

If you love a surprising and interesting fun read, you’ve come to the right place! This book will help you to scratch that curious itch to learn more about the world, and that feeling of going, “Wow, really?”. It will make you question the world around you because you will find over 1000 facts from every genre imaginable that are guaranteed to stoke your curiosity. So, lean back on your chair, put your feet up, and keep reading. This isn’t a book with a bunch of random facts from one of those low-quality websites with click-bait titles and images that make their money by baiting people to see their advertisements. With this in mind, the following 1000 facts have been handpicked to both educate and amuse the reader. If you want to be picking your jaw up off the floor after reading some incredible and eye-watering facts… then simply click the buy now button on this page to get started!

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Title: To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul

Author: Alexander Christie-Miller

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

‘An enthralling guide one of the world’s great cities – that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul. A book that is as informative as it is enjoyable' PETER FRANKOPAN Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country’s history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, sometimes triumphing despite the odds. To the City seamlessly blends two narratives: the story of Turkey’s tumultuous recent past told through the lives of those who live around the walls, and the story of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II’s siege and capture of the city in 1453. That event still looms large in Turkey, as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan like a latter-day sultan invokes its memory as part of his effort to transform the country in an echo of its imperial past. This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. Walk with Christie-Miller and see the danger, beauty and hope.

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Title: Pessoa

Author: Richard Zenith

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 42 hours 45 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa (a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography) immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do 'more in dreams than Napoleon,' yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or 'heteronyms,' under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this 'most multifarious of writers' (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet's life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa's teeming imagination and literary genius.

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Title: The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers

Author: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell

Narrator: Daphne Kouma

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Release date: August 17, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality. From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American mathematicians of the twentieth century, to the 'lady computers' around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky, we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed to our global knowledge today. Along the way, the mathematics itself is explained extremely clearly, for example, calculus is described using the authors' home baking, as they pose the question: how much cake is in our cake? This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important. ©2023 Tomoko L. Kitagawa & Timothy Revell (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

Author: Aarathi Prasad

Narrator: Lucinda Roberts

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. For silk, prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired – from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms – continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet. Prasad's Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals, manipulating the habitats and physiologies of moths, spiders and molluscs. Because there is more than one silk, there is more than one story of silk. More than one road, more than one people who discovered it, and wove its threads. From the moths of China, Indonesia and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar, to the silk-producing molluscs of the Mediterranean, Silk is a book rich in the passionate connections made by women and men of science to the diversity of the animal world. It is an intoxicating mix of biography, intellectual history and science writing that brings to life the human obsession with silk.

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Title: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Author: Daniel Finkelstein

Narrator: Daniel Finkelstein

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Release date: June 8, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'. I can't recommend it enough' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’ DAILY MAIL From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen. Daniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik’s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein’s parents’ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through. ‘Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant, moving account of the history of one family, and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century. If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin, read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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Title: The Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

Author: Lewis Dartnell

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our boldest plans. Our psychological biases have been at the root of terrible decisions in both war and peacetime. This extraordinary contradiction is the essence of what it means to be human - the sum total of our frailties and our faculties. And history has played out in the balance between them. Now, for the first time, Lewis Dartnell tells our story through the lens of this unique, capricious and fragile nature. He explores how our biology has shaped our relationships, our societies, our economies and our wars, and how it continues to challenge and define our progress. Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world. ©2023 Lewis Dartnell (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

Author: Peter Heather, John Rapley

Narrator: Sid Sagar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Release date: May 25, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it. In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of the West has reached its own end - so what comes next? ©2023 John Rapley & Peter Heather (P)2023 Penguin Audio