Knowledge History

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    • A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
    • By: Violet Moller
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance - an exciting debut history....

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    • What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Richard Goulding
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn....

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    • How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself....

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    • The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....

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    • The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
    • By: Simon Garfield
    • Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age.

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,205 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • A Knowledge Compass for Finding Strategies to Win Wars and Keep Peace With Powerful Leadership Insights from World History for Military Personnel, Diplomats, & Wargamers
    • By: Eric Engle
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover Secrets to Victory with this Strategic Knowledge Compass, your Ultimate Guide to Winning Wars & Keeping the Peace.Are you ready to master ...

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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,298 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • The Unity of Knowledge
    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ansgar Allen
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly - "I hate to be a cynic, but...." - before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute....

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    • By: Martha Grimes
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Series: A Richard Jury Novel, Book 24
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 559 ratings
    • Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive....

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    • A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy
    • By: Michael Huemer
    • Narrated by: Nathan Nguyen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The world's best introduction to philosophy, Knowledge, Reality, and Value explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics....

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    • The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge....

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    • The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
    • By: Marcelo Gleiser
    • Narrated by: William Neenan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
    • How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,517 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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