Inventions History
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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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 (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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History told from all perspectives
- By lukman on 01-12-23
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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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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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- By: Jamie Mackay
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places.
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Excellent summary of Sicily
- By Miriam Williams on 13-03-23
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....
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The Invention of the Jewish People
- By: Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan - translator
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.
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Comically bad reading
- By BarryLyndon on 22-04-24
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The Invention of the Jewish People
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with....
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.
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Very good story with great narrator performance
- By abdul on 19-07-23
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.
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Wonderful book
- By Andy on 05-01-17
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- By: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
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We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen.
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Marvellous
- By Joye C. on 10-12-21
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-04-16
- Language: English
- Historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history....
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- By: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....
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How the West Won
- The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
- By: Rodney Stark
- Narrated by: Kevin Foley
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Modernity developed only in the West - in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization.
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A worthy discourse but lacking a solid conclusion
- By MR on 07-05-17
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How the West Won
- The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
- Narrated by: Kevin Foley
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 27-06-14
- Language: English
- How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge...
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Pure Invention
- How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- By: Matt Alt
- Narrated by: Matt Alt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Today we take it for granted that Japan is a forge of the world's fantasies: the birthplace of Transformers and Pokémon, of food trends like ramen and artisanal whisky and cutting-edge manga and anime. But it wasn't always this way. The first Japanese products that trickled into the global marketplace after the Second World War inspired derision, not admiration. The three words Made in Japan were a punchline, a synonym for cheap trinkets from a defeated nation.
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This is so well researched.
- By k a h on 30-08-24
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Pure Invention
- How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Matt Alt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Today we take it for granted that Japan is a forge of the world's fantasies: the birthplace of Transformers and Pokémon, of food trends like ramen and artisanal whisky and cutting-edge manga and anime....
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1517
- Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation
- By: Peter Marshall
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience and of righteous protest against the abuse of power. But did it actually really happen? In this engagingly written, wide-ranging, and insightful work of cultural history, leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall reviews the available evidence and concludes that very probably, it did not.
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Absolutely the wrong narrator for this work
- By Severn on 30-09-21
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1517
- Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. But did it actually really happen? Leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall concludes that very probably, it did not....
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit
- Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
- By: David Wootton
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton reveals, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives.
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Awful narrator!!!
- By Stephen Daly on 19-05-19
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit
- Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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David Wootton traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives....
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- By: James Barrat
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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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. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.
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unfounded assumptions,biased unsupported opinions.
- By mike ryan on 07-06-15
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-05-14
- Language: English
- 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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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- By: Moira Weigel
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do. This isn't a guide to "getting the guy". There are no ridiculous "rules" to follow. Instead Weigel helps us understand how looking for love shapes who we are and hopefully leads us closer to the happy ending that dating promises.
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-05-16
- Language: English
- Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....
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The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)
- Nose-Diving into History
- By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering - they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight - their success was hard-earned. In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single 12-second flight! In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.
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The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)
- Nose-Diving into History
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Series: Epic Fails, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-12-18
- Language: English
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In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation....
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The Collector of Lives
- Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
- By: Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift.
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Good book. Dreadful performance.
- By AMD on 30-12-19
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The Collector of Lives
- Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art....
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- By: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. 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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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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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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Idea to Invention
- What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
- By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products.
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How to be successful like me !
- By Joe T on 29-07-21
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Idea to Invention
- What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-02-14
- Language: English
- You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....
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Lion City
- Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
- By: Jeevan Vasagar
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and essential guide to the city and how its remarkable rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.
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Lion City
- Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state....
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The Invention of Power
- Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others. Yet in The Invention of Power, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita draws on his expertise in political maneuvering, deal-making, and game theory to present a revolutionary new theory of Western exceptionalism: that a single, rarely discussed event in the 12th century changed the course of European and world history.
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The Invention of Power
- Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others....
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- By: Ainissa Ramirez
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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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. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer.
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brilliant and engaging
- By Truespeaking89 on 21-08-21
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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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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