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A Very Short Introduction
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Patrick Lawlor
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David Norman
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Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures, and their popularity seems never-ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely, non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their fossilized bones, the tracks and traces they left behind, and in very rare instances, some of the soft tissues or even traces of their chemistry.
In many respects, dinosaurs present us with one of the ultimate forensic challenges: They comprise the fragmentary remains of creatures that died many tens of millions of years ago, rather than just recently, or a few tens of years ago, which is the problem usually faced by forensic pathologists. How much do we really know about them, and to what extent can their remains inform us about ancient worlds and indeed about the history of our planet?
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpreted and how our understanding of them has changed over the past 200 years. He looks at some of the amazing discoveries that have enabled us to gain new and unexpected insights into dinosaurs as animals with natural histories and behaviors and considers some of the biggest questions in dinosaur biology, such as the implications of them having warm blood.
Norman also shows how research upon dinosaurs has been enriched, particularly in recent decades, by technological breakthroughs, which complement the informed speculation and luck that have played a part in many of the major discoveries.
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Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of the best of this new scholarship.
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Eye opening narrative
- By T.J. Dowling on 07-15-21
By: Alan Taylor
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Ancient Egypt (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Ian Shaw
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination - mummies and pyramids, curses, and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this great civilization? This second edition of Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction explores the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt, including ideas about Egyptian kingship, ancient Egyptian writing systems, and the history of Egyptology.
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Not worth the time
- By Amazon Customer on 10-14-24
By: Ian Shaw
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Hegel
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Peter Singer
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Offering a broad discussion of Hegel's ideas and an account of his major works, Singer explains what have often been considered abstruse and obscure ideas in a clear and inviting manner.
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Great introduction
- By I'm all ears on 02-17-22
By: Peter Singer
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World Prehistory
- The Basics
- By: Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is world prehistory important in the modern world? What does it tell us about ourselves? Providing a simple, but entertaining and stimulating, account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective, World Prehistory: The Basics is the ideal guide to the story of our early human past and its relevance to the modern world.
By: Brian M. Fagan, and others
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Social and Cultural Anthropology
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Peter Just, John Monaghan
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work.
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Good introduction with a dead voice
- By Jo on 10-22-24
By: Peter Just, and others
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The History of Life
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael J. Benton
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human - big breakthroughs that made whole new ways of life possible - including cell division and multicellularity, hard skeletons, the move to land, the origin of forests, the move to the air.
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Life in a nutshell
- By Judy on 04-28-24
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The Ghetto
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bryan Cheyette
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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For 300 years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the 19th century it was a free-floating concept that traveled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European "ghettos", which enabled genocide, were crudely rehabilitated by the Nazis during World War Two as if they were part of a benign medieval tradition. Here, Bryan Cheyette unpicks the extraordinarily complex layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over 500 years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the globe.
By: Bryan Cheyette
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North American Indians
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million Indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve, and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America.
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VSI # 243
- By Darwin8u on 10-29-24
By: Theda Perdue, and others
Only complaint is on discussion of COProlites when I seemed to hear cORprolites which was very annoying. Considering all the other technical terms that were pronounced correctly it might seem minor but it grates.
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