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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before.
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- By Robert F. Jones on 09-15-17
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-18-10
- Language: English
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators.
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If I were ten Years Old...
- By Ken on 02-07-11
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-18-11
- Language: English
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan.
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Exceptional
- By Anonymous User on 05-01-22
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-25-20
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Everything
- How New Ideas Emerge
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch - the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution, with direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high.
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Brilliant!
- By Winfield on 12-16-15
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The Evolution of Everything
- How New Ideas Emerge
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.
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Bad scholarship and bias that overwhelms his facts
- By RickyF on 07-01-20
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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The Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist Nominees 2011. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than six billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous.
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Breathtakingly Hypocritical
- By David on 12-11-13
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Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-27-10
- Language: English
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Viral
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- By: Matt Ridley, Alina Chan
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in the city of Wuhan.
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A pivotal work in search of truth around the Covid19 virus in a world where facts got downgraded in favour of politics
- By Pal on 11-25-21
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Viral
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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The Origins of Virtue
- Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Jeff Loeb
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of The Economist reveals the results of recent studies that suggest that self-interest and mutual aid are not at all incompatible. In fact, he points out, our cooperative instincts may have evolved as part of mankind's natural selfish behavior - by exchanging favors we can benefit ourselves as well as others.
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great book
- By ChandlerBlancaflor on 06-16-16
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The Origins of Virtue
- Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
- Narrated by: Jeff Loeb
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-05-14
- Language: English
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Genome
- The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers - questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Matt Ridley here probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome.
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Still useful today.
- By Gary on 05-21-12
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Genome
- The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-18-11
- Language: English
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Claves de la innovación [Keys to Innovation]
- By: Matt Ridley, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro - translator
- Narrated by: Gerardo Quiroz
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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La innovación es la actividad más importante de nuestra época: trae progresos espectaculares a nuestro nivel de vida, pero también, en ocasiones, cambios inquietantes a la sociedad.
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Claves de la innovación [Keys to Innovation]
- Narrated by: Gerardo Quiroz
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-28-21
- Language: Spanish
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Viral
- The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
- By: Alina Chan, Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan and renowned science writer Matt Ridley examine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, using their formidable skills to scrutinise arguments and rigorously analyse the sprawling data. Viral is a fascinating account that takes in pangolins, horseshoe bats, internet sleuths and misleading scientific papers. It details the evidence and investigates hypotheses for the virus origin, chief among them a potential laboratory leak or a natural spillover.
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Thorough and careful
- By Geoffrey Jackson on 02-10-23
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Viral
- The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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Genome
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon. It shows outstanding breakthroughs in gene research, how we've gone from knowing almost nothing to knowing almost everything, and how our genes reveal more about our past, our evolution, and even our minds. Every important event in human history is written into our genes, whether it happened four billion or a few hundred years ago. All you need to know is where to look.
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Genome
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-24-17
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Generals win battles; politicians run countries; scientists discover truths; artists create genres; inventors make breakthroughs; teachers shape minds; philosophers change minds; priests teach morality; businessmen lead businesses; environmentalists save the planet.
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The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-24-15
- Language: English
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