Great Inventions

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    • A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
    • By: Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz - translator
    • Narrated by: Todd Portnowitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, China, Central America, and beyond....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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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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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • 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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    • By: David Angus
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Soames
    • Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One thing that hasn't changed much at all in the last 10,000 years is the human brain. The relentless curiosity of the human mind has resulted in huge innovation and change....

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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Steven Johnson recounts the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers....

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    • The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
    • By: Nick Lane
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its 10 greatest inventions....

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    • Take your Great Idea to Profitable Reality - Sell your New Invention, Innovation, Brand, Product, Service & Business Ideas -Think it, Make it, Launch it, Sell it & Profit from it
    • By: Nathan McKenzie
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • If you have been nurturing a Great Idea and wondered how to Launch a Brand, how to Launch a Product or about Launching a Venture, this is the Book ...

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    • A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
    • By: Ben Wilson
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations....

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    • Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
    • By: David Leavitt
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer....

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    • Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
    • By: Sarah Churchwell
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the relation of Fitzgerald's classic to the chaotic world he in which he lived....

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    • Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
    • By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
    • Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs.

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    • Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this account of Europe’s rise to world leadership in technology, Frances and Joseph Gies make use of recent scholarship to destroy two time-honored myths....

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    • A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
    • By: Ben Wilson
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis combines scholarship and storytelling in a terrifically engaging, stylishly written history of the world through an urban lens....

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    • The Most Important People, Events and Inventions That Shaped the "20th Century History"
    • By: Wayne M. Nestor
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • The best book on the 20th Century. Read up on the most important people, events and stories with this book. Download your copy today!

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    • The Fascinating True Stories Behind the World's Greatest Inventions
    • By: Tim Rayborn
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • Who Made That? uncovers the fascinating true stories behind the inventions and items that the world would be unimaginable without!

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    • The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Civil War in the North)
    • By: Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads—the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines.

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    • Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
    • By: Edward Keenan
    • Narrated by: Adam Paul
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford....

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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 42 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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