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- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Technology: "The deliberate modification of any natural object or substance with forethought to achieve a specific end or to serve a specific purpose."
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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Last Gasp of American Anthropological Orthodoxy
- De Thomas66 en 01-05-17
De: David J. Meltzer
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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
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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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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- De: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Fascinating Subject... Soporific Reader
- De Andrew E. Yarosh en 11-21-17
De: Dimitra Papagianni, y otros
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The Future of Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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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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A scientifically-grounded case for the environment
- De Lucas en 01-24-10
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- De: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrado por: Bruce Pascoe
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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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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One of the best books ever!!!!
- De Matt Powers en 05-07-18
De: Bruce Pascoe
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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
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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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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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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- De: Ian Tattersall
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Great Book, Some Sloppy Editing
- De DB en 11-23-20
De: Ian Tattersall
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The Statues That Walked
- Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
- De: Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works?
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The "Mystery of Easter Island" remains raveled
- De Diane en 09-14-12
De: Terry Hunt, y otros
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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
- A Deep Environmental History
- De: Geoff Cunfer, Bill Waiser
- Narrado por: Chuck Buell
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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This audiobook explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the 19th century, bison reached a "tipping point" as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock.
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Buffalo Gone Baby Gone
- De Jim en 03-24-18
De: Geoff Cunfer, y otros
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Who Ate the First Oyster?
- The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
- De: Cody Cassidy
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. With a sharp sense of humor and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of the greatest firsts and catastrophes of prehistory.
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It could be better...
- De Alex en 04-06-21
De: Cody Cassidy
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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
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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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World without Women
- De Paul Richards en 04-28-18
De: James C. Scott
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- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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Excellent
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Understanding Software
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In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.
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I want more books like this on audible
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The Creativity Code
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Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can - only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we've taken solace in the notion that they can't create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines too?
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One of the best books I've ever listened to
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
- The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative?
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Eurocentric
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- De: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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Well presented and very informative.
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The Scythians
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The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe.
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Well researched but narrator is terrible
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
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Excellent
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Understanding Software
- Max Kanat-Alexander on Simplicity, Coding, and How to Suck Less as a Programmer
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In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.
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I want more books like this on audible
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The Creativity Code
- Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
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Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can - only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we've taken solace in the notion that they can't create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines too?
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One of the best books I've ever listened to
- De nonrachitect en 12-10-20
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
- The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
- De: Bryan Sykes
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative?
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Eurocentric
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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Well researched but narrator is terrible
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Life on a Young Planet
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Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.
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The Earliest Life
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
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The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.
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Fascinating history...
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
- De: Philip Matyszak
- Narrado por: Michael Page
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This thorough guide explores those civilizations that have faded from the pages of our textbooks but played a significant role in the development of modern society. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World covers the Hyksos to the Hephthalites and everyone in between, providing a unique overview of humanity's history from approximately 3000 BCE-550 CE. Each entry exposes a diverse culture, highlighting their important contributions.
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Gripping and seamless
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
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Many of us learn about the major inventions that shape our world. But we too often overlook the objects we use every day. In The Story Behind, Emily Prokop, creator of the Webby Award nominated podcast, explores the who, how, and huh? of everything from Band-Aids to bubble gum; hypnosis to Hula Hoops; and lullabies to lead pipes. Along the way, she demonstrates how the major events of history - from wars, plagues and revolutions to historic achievements and discoveries - have influenced some of the world’s most pervasive inventions.
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One third of the book is repeated after initial description of subject under “TLDR” ..?
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Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- De: The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Professor Sam Wang
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Your nervous system is you. All the thoughts, perceptions, moods, passions, and dreams that make you an active, sentient being are the work of this amazing network of cells. For many centuries, people knew this was true. But no one was sure how it happened. Now, thanks to the exciting new field of neuroscience, we can chart the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system in remarkable detail to explain how neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes produce all the experiences of everyday life, in every stage of life.
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Antiquity
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- Narrado por: David Stifel
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Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.
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A Book Forged in Hell
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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.
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Well researched, comprehensive intro to Spinoza’s work.
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The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
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- Narrado por: Robert Garland
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Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.
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Tantalizing time trip
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The American Civil War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gary W. Gallagher
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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Excellent Series
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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
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Wonderful book, disappointing narrator
- De Clare Woods en 07-05-19
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The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
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De: Anthony Gottlieb
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Babylon
- Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
- De: Paul Kriwaczek
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period.
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Solid overview 3000 years of history
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- Arthur W. Brown
- 01-13-19
Interesting but not mind blowing
I was hoping for more, it was neat but I didn't have any goosebump moments
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- Andrew Pitts
- 11-20-21
Unbound
This book offers a wide-lens perspective on the evolution of humanity’s use of tools. While much of this information can be found elsewhere, this book does a good job of bringing together many branches of anthropology and evolutionary science to show the trajectory our species has taken, and offers some theories about what may come next based on this information.
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- roberta peck
- 02-18-22
The story of mankind -, Fantastic overview !
Well worth listening to. To be gained is a deeper appreciation of all that has come before us.
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- Sanet Gouws
- 01-27-23
Excellent
I'm not an archeologist, anthropologist or even a scientist, just an ordinary citizen, but I enjoyed this book immensely. It's well written and the narator is very good as well.
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- Laurie Shentalevenn
- 06-18-22
Well read and cohesive but...
His arguments are well organized but he misses some things. He harps on how cultural evolution created the nuclear family, and completely misses that the next step after the tribe was the extended family, which was the major organizational mode of humans for ages before there was anything like a nuclear family. He points out that declining birthrate is a natural consequence of increasing comfort for the individual, because large families are no longer necessary, and lauds it as necessary to save the planet, but after detailing the history of the development of symbolic communication states several times that people who don't have children will contribute neither their DNA nor their accumulated experience and knowledge to the next generation. did he just forget that all important communication? the book is well reasoned but there is a hint of perspective bias in it. 4 out of 5.
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- J. Downing
- 05-16-22
Hard to find a better summary of humanity
This was like Sapiens, but based on science instead of opinion. Really enjoyed this. The narrator was ok, but a touch too fast and choppy at times.
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- Joel B. Gordon
- 10-30-16
Good facts, not much else
This is the book Jared Diamond would have written, had Jared Diamond been deprived of vision or originality. It covers the cultural and, to a significant degree, the physical evolution of hominids from earlier life forms till the hopes and fears of the future. It is a successful compilation of good information and accepted theory, with a lot of well articulated declarations of the obvious, and, here and there, some juicy surprises. But lacking is any interesting focus or vision, other than, if we choose wisely, we can survive; if not... well, you know. It's the grandeur of human evolution in pedestrian wrap. I learned many good things, but I wish there had been more.
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- Event Horizon
- 10-16-22
truly a remarkable baseline of universal knowledge
crisp concise yet surprisingly entertaining conveyance of what humanity has become well worth listening
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- Lucio Vazquez
- 09-16-22
Detailed book about human social interactions.
A detailed and concise book about the evolution of human social interactions and the technologies that have resulted due to social interactive changes. A substantial portion of the book concentrates of pre-industrial revolution, specifically focusing on stone age Technonologies. The last 1/4 of the book talks about the microprocessor. Finally, it finishes talking about the threats to humanity and society. It references the Biosphere experiment, which ended in failure. (I never knew that!)
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- Maya Beit Yaacov
- 05-05-21
Missing an important fact
This book is very interesting and enlightening. However, he speaks of the rise of pollution and mentions the causes - plastic, fossil fuel consumption, deforestation. He does not even mention animal agriculture, that is a leading cause for environmental catastrophe.
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