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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today's globalization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator.
- De ROGER QUESADA en 08-03-20
De: Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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Sustainability
- A History
- De: Jeremy L. Caradonna
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De marc grub en 03-06-17
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 412
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 306
At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
- De Douglas en 02-06-14
De: Robert Wright
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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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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How Soon Is Now
- From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
- De: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our world. How Soon Is Now presents a compelling manifesto for personal and planetary change. It proposes a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement. Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Relevant!!!!
- De Anonymous User en 12-11-23
De: Daniel Pinchbeck
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 826
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 682
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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World without Women
- De Paul Richards en 04-28-18
De: James C. Scott
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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Harmony
- A New Way of Looking at Our World
- De: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales
- Narrado por: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
For the first time, HRH The Prince of Wales shares his views on how our most pressing modern challenges - from climate change to poverty - are rooted in mankind's disharmony with nature, presenting a compelling case that the solution lies in our ability to regain a balance with the world around us. With its holistic approach, this provocative and well-reasoned book takes the discussion of sustainability and climate change in a new direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Exploration
- De Sara en 03-31-16
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij
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Work
- A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
- De: James Suzman
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 268
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 267
Work defines who we are. It determines our status and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hardwired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are.
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2 out of 5 stars
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if you like Jared Diamond's work, you'll like this
- De Mark en 04-09-22
De: James Suzman
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- De: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A monotonous text disguised as casual reading.
- De Rob en 07-29-16
De: Ian Goldin, y otros
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Doug Ordunio
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,199
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,155
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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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 364
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is NOT Racism!...
- De Douglas en 06-01-14
De: Nicholas Wade
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A Brief History of the Future
- A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
- De: Jacques Attali
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 111
What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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feels like a popular mechanics article
- De Robin en 07-11-17
De: Jacques Attali
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 26 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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PDF should come with this book...
- De Sebastian en 04-22-20
De: Vaclav Smil
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre This Fleeting World
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- Thomas Mertritt
- 09-12-19
Ok
The audio book helped me with getting My AP world summer assignment done quickly, but the story was boring as heck.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Noahstepro
- 02-01-21
one of the most important 4-hour books to read!
this is one of the best things ANYONE can read if they want to understand the world we live in
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Book Lover
- 01-17-20
Very interesting
I found this to be a very interesting book for several reasons. The first reason is it gave a quick view of the history of the world. I have to admit that I have a paper copy of this book and have read only about ten pages of it. That brings me to my second reason for this book hold my interest this time and that this type of book for me at least seems to stick in my mind more. If you are a student of history this would be a book to have in your library.
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