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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away - until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has completely upended what we thought we knew about ourselves. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story - from 100,000 years ago to the present.
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I wish this book was in American high schools.
- By melody sheldon on 03-31-19
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
Pronunciation is key
Reviewed: 01-05-23
While the content of the book was interesting, and I learned from it's content, the narrator should have taken the few minutes necessary to learn how to pronounce Indigenous names. It was incredibly disappointing to continually hear Indigenous names completely mispronounced when there are easily available pronunciation guides and many names are not difficult, especially given how easily the narrator pronounced scientific names with no issue.
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
- By: Christopher Paolini
- Narrated by: Jennifer Hale
- Length: 32 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope....
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Don't waste the credit
- By mike on 09-26-20
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
- By: Christopher Paolini
- Narrated by: Jennifer Hale
Good, but two hours shorter than it seems
Reviewed: 11-12-21
Two hours of addendums, timelines, definitions, and appendices was a little much. The story and performance were good.
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The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
- By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
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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
- By Mark on 08-21-13
Too Western Based
Reviewed: 09-04-21
Parts are quite interesting, however the Bible is not an academic source and shouldn't be used as one.
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The Mongol Empire
- By: Craig Benjamin, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Craig Benjamin
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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The Mongol Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen, forged by conquests across Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries. Yet despite the unparalleled brutality of the Mongols, they played a key role in launching civilization’s evolution into the modern world. In 24 half-hour lectures delivered by award-winning teacher and historian Craig Benjamin of Grand Valley State University, explore the paradox of the Mongols’ extreme barbarity combined with their enlightened religious attitudes and respect for high civilization, in The Mongol Empire.
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Good Info, Terrible Chinese Pronunciation
- By K. Cullen on 10-12-20
- The Mongol Empire
- By: Craig Benjamin, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Craig Benjamin
Good Info, Terrible Chinese Pronunciation
Reviewed: 10-12-20
The lecturer is engaging and knows his material, however his pronunciation of Chinese cities, places, and people is horrible. I would have thought that having studied the Mongols as extensively as he has, he would have learned how to read Pinyin or at least learned the proper way to say these names.
To call the deliberate rape and holding of concubines as political hostages as one man (Chinggis Khan) being very sexually active seems incredibly disingenuous and takes away from the Mongol story and historical impact.
The further I get in this history, the more disappointed I am with the narrator and the information presented. The same points are presented many times over in slightly different words. The impacts of Mongol policy on the folks living under them is almost ignored and seems to take a lot of liberty looking at the motivations and thoughts of the Mongols. The author says very little in many words.
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The Undivided Past
- Humanity Beyond Our Differences
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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From one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict. Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference - religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization - Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history.
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Terrible Narration
- By K. Cullen on 10-10-20
- The Undivided Past
- Humanity Beyond Our Differences
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Terrible Narration
Reviewed: 10-10-20
The book and argument are well researched and presented. The narrator is robotic and I eventually had to stop listening due to his narration.
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Fury of Obsession
- Dragonfury, Book 5
- By: Coreene Callahan
- Narrated by: Cole Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Dragon-warrior Venom lives in self-imposed isolation. Cursed by his toxic touch, he is deadly to anyone who has contact with him for too long. Set apart from others and hounded by intense loneliness, he craves the lasting connection he believes he cannot possess. Until a chance encounter with a sultry mortal offers a ray of hope...
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I Love It!
- By Cheri on 03-05-15
- Fury of Obsession
- Dragonfury, Book 5
- By: Coreene Callahan
- Narrated by: Cole Ferguson
Not up to par
Reviewed: 03-31-15
The performance was fantastic, the story was mediocre. I started these books for the romance aspect and accepted the little bits of drama, now it's doing what the Black Dagger Brotherhood did and becoming all about the battle and not about the couples. I'll give the next book a shot but if it's like this, it will be my last, unfortunately.
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