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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,197 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
    • By: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Narrated by: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In A Human History of Emotion, Richard Firth-Godbehere takes listeners on a fascinating and wide ranging tour of the central and often under-appreciated role emotions have played in human societies around the world and throughout history....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,428 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • 1608 Random Facts In the Realm of History, Human Body, Natural Disasters, Ancient Civilizations, Science and Unbelievable Facts Mashup
    • By: Patrick Quan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★Amusing Facts For Adventurous Minds★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Are...

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    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,105 ratings
    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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    • Civilization and the Stars
    • By: Jo Marchant
    • Narrated by: Jo Marchant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it....

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    • A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic, geographic, or anthropogenic as it is narrative....

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    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • By: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 541 ratings
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

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    • THE NATURAL EVOLUTION OF CAPITAL ECONOMIES AND THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CULTURAL ENTROPY
    • By: Ralph Bourne
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historians and economists commonly cite natural disasters and foreign invasions to explain cultural collapses. The problem is, human families have ...

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    • A History of Life on Earth
    • By: Michael Spitzer
    • Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A colossal history spanning cultures, time and space, The Musical Human explores the vibrant relationship between music and the human species....

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    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,860 ratings
    • Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 774 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,366 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian Human History, Starting from the Polynesian Arrival Through the Growth of a Civilization to Kamehameha the Great
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Saffir
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Are you interested in the history of one of the most isolated kingdoms on Earth? Then this audiobook is for you! When most people hear the phrase “ancient Hawaii”, it brings up a certain air of mystery and intrigue....

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    • The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
    • By: Lydia Pyne
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today....

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    • What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended.

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