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  • Psychology and Pop Culture

    An Empirical Adventure

    by April Fugett, Britani Black, Keith W. Beard ...
    Psychology and Pop Culture: An Empirical Adventure examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from across sixteen research studies. The authors analyze such phenomena as superhero and antihero fandoms, internet trolls, women in popular culture, generational preferences, and romance and sexuality. Analyzing pop culture in the context of the #MeToo ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

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    The Colosseum

    by Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins ...
    Narrated by Joan Walker ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 52 min

    Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a ... Read more

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    The Parthenon

    by Mary Beard ...
    Narrated by Joan Walker ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears—and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a ... Read more

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    Venice

    by Jan Morris, Sebastian Comberti ...
    Narrated by Sebastian Comberti ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her ‘the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands’. Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness. So Jan Morris remarks, with graceful literary distinction, on the ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

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    Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Narrated by Bettany Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Dynasty

    The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 5 min

    Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.Dynasty continues Rubicon’s story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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    Carthage Must Be Destroyed

    The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

    by Richard Miles ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 9 min

    An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.Drawing on a ... Read more

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    The Story of Egypt

    The Civilization That Shaped the World

    by Joann Fletcher ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 25 min

    The story of the world’s greatest civilization spans four thousand years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories of a constantly evolving society peopled with inventors, heroes and heroines, villains, artisans, and pioneers. Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete story of Egypt, charting the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptians while ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Scandal Takes a Holiday

    A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

    by Lindsey Davis ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble ...
    Series Audiobook 16 - The Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    Ancient Rome’s organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco.In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Death of Caesar

    The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

    by Barry Strauss ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. Brutus and Cassius were indeed key players, but they had the help of a third man—Decimus. He was the mole in Caesar's entourage ... Read more

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    Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Making of England

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan.The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex, his son Eadweard expanded it, and his ... Read more

    $12.08 USD

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    Last Act in Palmyra

    A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

    by Lindsey Davis ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - The Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries

    Unabridged

    13 hours 15 min

    Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in the bestselling Falco series by Lindsey Davis.The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the chief spy Anacrites paying his fare, Falco knows anything can go ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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