Human Inventions

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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 435 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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    • Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    • By: Stefanos Geroulanos
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • By: Edward Glaeser
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

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    • Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
    • By: James Barrat
    • Narrated by: Gary Dana
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car....

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    • How Autism Drives Human Invention
    • By: Simon Baron-Cohen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire....

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    • How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
    • By: Ainissa Ramirez
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

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    • Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
    • By: Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time - and as a cultural idea....

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    • Technology and the Human Future
    • By: Sheila Jasanoff
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit....

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    • The Ideas That Will Remake the World
    • By: David Rothkopf
    • Narrated by: David Rothkopf
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A unique tour around the world in search of the great thinkers of our time and their next big ideas....

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    • A Celebration of Human Bionics
    • By: Patrick Kane, Sam Rodriguez - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Patrick Kane
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-23
    • Language: English
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    • Imagine being able to hear for the first time, or see in full-colour, or take your first steps on Earth. This incredible book celebrates the remarkable achievements made in medical engineering, and offers a glimpse of what the future might hold for humanity....

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