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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 4.45 out of 54.45 out of 54.45 out of 54.45 out of 54.45 out of 5 (3118 ratings)
Author: Bill Bryson
Audio Length: 17 hours and 48 min.
Release Date: 10/17/2003
Narrator: Richard Matthews
Format: Unabridged

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...

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.93 out of 53.93 out of 53.93 out of 53.93 out of 53.93 out of 5 (419 ratings)
Author: Bernard Lewis
Audio Length: 4 hours and 44 min.
Release Date: 3/28/2003
Narrator: Bernard Lewis
Format: Unabridged

Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the frustrations and resentments that dominate the Islamic world today...

Salt: A World History (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.79 out of 53.79 out of 53.79 out of 53.79 out of 53.79 out of 5 (302 ratings)
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Audio Length: 13 hours and 43 min.
Release Date: 2/20/2003
Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged

So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...

The World Is Flat: Further Updated and Expanded (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.83 out of 53.83 out of 53.83 out of 53.83 out of 53.83 out of 5 (260 ratings)
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Audio Length: 27 hours and 21 min.
Release Date: 7/23/2007
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Format: Unabridged

With the flattening of the globe, the world may have gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner....

Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.65 out of 53.65 out of 53.65 out of 53.65 out of 53.65 out of 5 (175 ratings)
Author: Thomas W. Lippman
Audio Length: 8 hours
Release Date: 12/29/1999
Narrator: Nadia May
Format: Unabridged

Since the Gulf War, many have asked the question, Why do Middle Easterners think and act as they do? Of the 1.3 billion people who today follow the Islamic faith...

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.77 out of 53.77 out of 53.77 out of 53.77 out of 53.77 out of 5 (220 ratings)
Author: George Friedman
Audio Length: 9 hours and 41 min.
Release Date: 1/15/2009
Narrator: William Hughes
Format: Unabridged

Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future....

The Demon Under The Microscope (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 4.26 out of 54.26 out of 54.26 out of 54.26 out of 54.26 out of 5 (415 ratings)
Author: Thomas Hager
Audio Length: 12 hours and 18 min.
Release Date: 10/27/2006
Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

History of the World, Updated (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.57 out of 53.57 out of 53.57 out of 53.57 out of 53.57 out of 5 (145 ratings)
Author: J.M. Roberts
Audio Length: 54 hours and 48 min.
Release Date: 6/3/2005
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged

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....

The Pirate Hunter (Unabridged)

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Listener Rating: 3.82 out of 53.82 out of 53.82 out of 53.82 out of 53.82 out of 5 (174 ratings)
Author: Richard Zacks
Audio Length: 18 hours and 27 min.
Release Date: 3/19/2004
Narrator: Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged

Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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

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Listener Rating: 4.01 out of 54.01 out of 54.01 out of 54.01 out of 54.01 out of 5 (220 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 11 hours and 58 min.
Release Date: 1/14/2004
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged

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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