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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,158
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- De Doug en 08-25-11
De: Jared Diamond
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Maya Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Maya History and Maya Mythology
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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In this captivating guide, you will discover why Maya have gained such worldwide admiration over the many other civilizations that existed in Mesoamerica at the time. You will learn how the Maya civilization developed, the major turning points in their 3,000-year-long history, the mysteries surrounding their demise, and some of the unique places where Maya exist to this day. In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover the origins of the Maya civilization and the Mesoamerican cultures that may have influenced them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too brief
- De William en 02-10-21
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,665
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,139
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Future of Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Today we understand that our world is infinitely richer than was ever previously guessed. Yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. These two contrasting truths - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have become compellingly clear during the past two decades of research on biological diversity. In his dazzlingly intelligent book, Wilson describes the treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and how we can save them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A scientifically-grounded case for the environment
- De Lucas en 01-24-10
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55,112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46,764
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading
- De Blue Zion en 12-22-18
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- De: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrado por: Bruce Pascoe
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been understated in modern retellings of Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books ever!!!!
- De Matt Powers en 05-07-18
De: Bruce Pascoe
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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The Memory Code
- The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
- De: Dr. Lynne Kelly
- Narrado por: Louise Siverson
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting topic , uninteresting listen.
- De Daniel Pisegna en 04-28-18
De: Dr. Lynne Kelly
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- De: Richard L. Currier
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 212
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good facts, not much else
- De Joel B. Gordon en 10-30-16
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- De: Mike Shanahan
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible research in a wonderful story
- De Alonsa Guevara en 11-24-22
De: Mike Shanahan
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100+1 Trivia Questions with Interesting Facts: General Knowledge
- De: Michael Harris
- Narrado por: Kevin Hung-Liang
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Are you looking for a fun way to spend your evening with your friends and also learn something new and interesting? You don't have to spend money and go to a pub quiz or any trivia questions event! You can enjoy your own pub quiz trivia questions event right at your home!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very educational
- De HHenry en 02-09-22
De: Michael Harris
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The First Americans: Prehistory – 1600, A History of US, Book 1
- De: Joy Hakim
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 169
Thousands of years, way before Christopher Columbus set sail, wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The First Americans is a fascinating re-creation of pre-Columbian Native American life, and it's an adventure of a lifetime!
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2 out of 5 stars
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For Kids
- De Matthew en 01-26-05
De: Joy Hakim
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Errors
- De The History Teacher en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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Galapagos Islands
- Travel South America
- De: iMinds
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Home to the giant tortoises that gave them their name, the Galapagos Islands lie one thousand kilometres off the coast of mainland Ecuador. The famous group of islands remained untouched by humanity for thousands of years, being only charted in the seventeenth century. Two hundred years later the stunning wildlife provided Charles Darwin with the perfect place to work on his theory of evolution. Darwin’s book ‘The Origin of the Species’ was partially inspired by his trip to the Galapagos.
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1 out of 5 stars
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6minutes for 69 cents!
- De TKM 1234 en 10-04-16
De: iMinds
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Who Discovered America?
- The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
- De: Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas - offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like reading an appendix
- De D. McCracken en 01-23-15
De: Gavin Menzies, y otros
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Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End
- De: Henry Freeman
- Narrado por: Christopher Boozell
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The writing is so poor I could not listen.
- De Erin en 12-04-21
De: Henry Freeman
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 109
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,408
America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could have been great, but
- De An Amazon Buyer en 08-29-18
De: Dan Flores