The Great Courses, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:36:00. — (Great Courses). One of the most interesting ways that historians study the past is through the so-called “great man theory”: the idea that history is shaped by the lives, decisions, and legacies of specific individuals. Alexander the Great, Jesus, Darwin, and Churchill are just a few of the many politicians, religious...
The Great Courses, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:36:00. — (Great Courses). One of the most interesting ways that historians study the past is through the so-called “great man theory”: the idea that history is shaped by the lives, decisions, and legacies of specific individuals. Alexander the Great, Jesus, Darwin, and Churchill are just a few of the many politicians, religious...
The Great Courses, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:36:00. — (Great Courses). One of the most interesting ways that historians study the past is through the so-called “great man theory”: the idea that history is shaped by the lives, decisions, and legacies of specific individuals. Alexander the Great, Jesus, Darwin, and Churchill are just a few of the many politicians, religious...
Read by Cameron Stewart. — Penguin Books, 2017. — 79 kbit/s. — 1189 minutes. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed...
Read by Cameron Stewart. — Penguin Books, 2017. — 79 kbit/s. — 1189 minutes. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed...
Read by Cameron Stewart. — Penguin Books, 2017. — 79 kbit/s. — 1189 minutes. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed...
Read by Cameron Stewart. — Penguin Books, 2017. — 79 kbit/s. — 1189 minutes. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed...
Read by Doug Ordunio. — Random House, 2011. — Duration 16:20:00. Chapters 1-5 of 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and...
Read by Doug Ordunio. — Random House, 2011. — Duration 16:20:00. Chapters 6-10 of 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...
Read by Doug Ordunio. — Random House, 2011. — Duration 16:20:00. Chapters 11-13 of 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...
Read by Doug Ordunio. — Random House, 2011. — Duration 16:20:00. Chapters 14-16 of 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...
Read by Doug Ordunio. — Random House, 2011. — Duration 16:20:00. Chapters 17-20 of 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...
Read by Niall Ferguson. — Tantor, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 13:05:00. The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments,...
Read by Niall Ferguson. — Tantor, 2011. —64 kbps. — Duration 13:05:00. The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments,...
Read by Simon Prebble. — Tantor, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:27:00. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What's more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, arguing that...
Read by Simon Prebble. — Tantor, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:27:00. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What's more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, arguing that...
Read by Paul Slack. — Recorded Books, 2013. — 64 kbps. — Duration 04:18:00. Best-selling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and...
Read by Sean Barrett. — Penguin, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:21:00. Ferguson's eight-hundred-page reevaluation of the Second World War presents itself as a grand theory about ethnic conflict, the end of empire, and the postwar triumph of the East. The exact contours of the theory, however, remain unclear. Ferguson argues that the central story of the twentieth century is...
BBC Radio, 1985.
From Neville Chamberlain's historic declaration of war on Germany in 1939 to the sounds of rejoicing crowds on VJ Day in August 1945, the BBC brought the full picture of both the battle front and the home front, as well as the major speeches, to an attentive nation The strident sounds of battle, the stirring and inspiring words of Churhill, Montgomery and...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. — 1321 p. — ISBN: 0-03-093854-6, ISBN13: 978-0-03-0093854-2. NB: единая аудиокнига из двух частей (1/2+2/2). As you read Human Legacy, look for the eight themes described below. They appear again and again, not just in this textbook, but throughout history. These themes help you see ways all peoples and societies are alike and ways they are...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. — 1321 p. — ISBN: 0-03-093854-6, ISBN13: 978-0-03-0093854-2. NB: единая аудиокнига из двух частей (1/2+2/2). As you read Human Legacy, look for the eight themes described below. They appear again and again, not just in this textbook, but throughout history. These themes help you see ways all peoples and societies are alike and ways they are...
The Teaching Company, 2006 Автор \ Исполнитель: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius \ Веяс Габриел Лилевичус Жанр: Лекции Продолжительность: 36 лекций по 30 min. Язык: английский Тип: аудиокнига Аудио кодек: MP3 Битрейт аудио: 32 kbps Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius was born in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up on Chicago’s Southside in a Lithuanian-American neighborhood and also spent some years...
Tantor Audio, 2013. — 434 MB. — ISBN10: 1452660379. — ISBN13: 978-1452660370. Narrator: authors. Program Type: Audiobook. Language: English. Format and quality: MP3 160 kbps. Listening Length: 6 hours and 7 minute. A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light. After the unprecedented...
Tantor Audio, 2013. — 434 MB. — ISBN10: 1452660379. — ISBN13: 978-1452660370. Narrator: authors. Program Type: Audiobook. Language: English. Format and quality: MP3 160 kbps. Listening Length: 6 hours and 7 minute. A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light. After the unprecedented...
Tantor Audio, 2013. — 434 MB. — ISBN10: 1452660379. — ISBN13: 978-1452660370. Narrator: authors. Program Type: Audiobook. Language: English. Format and quality: MP3 160 kbps. Listening Length: 6 hours and 7 minute. A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light. After the unprecedented...
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