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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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Badly Abridged
- By Carol L. on 09-19-06
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-28-05
- Language: English
- Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....
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They Are Already Here
- UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
- By: Sarah Scoles
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about a Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn't be linked to any country. The implication was that they might be linked to other solar systems. The UFO community - those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing UFOs for years - was surprisingly skeptical of the revelation.
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Where is the rest of the research?
- By nerular on 04-27-20
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They Are Already Here
- UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery - both terrestrial and cosmic....
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Our Inner Ape
- A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we?
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I loved this book
- By Ruth on 06-22-07
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Our Inner Ape
- A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-12-05
- Language: English
- What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....
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Violence and the Sacred
- By: René Girard
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
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Violence and the Sacred
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-21-24
- Language: English
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Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- By: Lucas Bessire
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.
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Water is life, so….
- By Caroline Pufalt on 11-29-21
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-20-21
- Language: English
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This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland....
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A Death in the Rainforest
- How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
- By: Don Kulick
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can't study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they speak every day, and even more, how they live. This book takes us inside the village as Kulick came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of 200 people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a swamp, in the middle of a tropical rainforest.
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Outstanding
- By Shipwrecked on 07-29-20
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A Death in the Rainforest
- How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-18-19
- Language: English
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Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying....
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Close Encounters with Humankind
- A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
- By: Sang-Hee Lee, Shin-Young Yoon
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature? In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters, we gain new perspectives into our first hominin ancestors, our first steps on two feet, and more.
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A different perspective of human ancestry
- By John on 09-15-18
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Close Encounters with Humankind
- A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-20-18
- Language: English
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In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters, we gain new perspectives into our first hominin ancestors....
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I Love Learning; I Hate School
- An Anthropology of College
- By: Susan D. Blum
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experiences at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students.
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Made a college senior cry
- By Jennybomb on 02-02-19
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I Love Learning; I Hate School
- An Anthropology of College
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-28-16
- Language: English
- Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experiences at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying....
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The Smart Neanderthal
- Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
- By: Clive Finlayson
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Or so we thought. As Clive Finlayson explains, the latest advances in genetics prove that there was significant interbreeding between modern humans and the Neanderthals.
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Birds, birds and more birds
- By Pamela on 01-05-20
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The Smart Neanderthal
- Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species....
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Redeeming Anthropology
- A Theological Critique of a Modern Science
- By: Khaled Furani
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "the natives". Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways.
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Redeeming Anthropology
- A Theological Critique of a Modern Science
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways....
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- By: Dana Hercbergs
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place.
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Rare glimpses over various border lines
- By srjmas on 07-24-19
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects....
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Why We Hate
- Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
- By: Michael Ruse
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? In this book, Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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A very interesting topic
- By Anonymous User on 03-22-24
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Why We Hate
- Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-25-22
- Language: English
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An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species....
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Goat
- A Memoir
- By: Brad Land
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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At turns shockingly fierce and surprisingly tender, Goat is a shattering memoir that graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men. Brad is driving two strangers home from a party when he realizes they are leading him to the middle of nowhere. Viciously beaten and left in the middle of the road, Brad survives. But as his physical injuries heal, his psychological wounds worsen. Desperate to belong, he pledges his brother's fraternity.
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if you're perversely curious about frat culture-
- By Alisa on 02-17-05
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Goat
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-19-04
- Language: English
- At turns shockingly fierce and surprisingly tender, Goat is a shattering memoir that graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men....
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Reconsidering Race
- Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics
- By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. - foreword, Kazuko Suzuki - editor, Diego A. von Vacano - editor
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the 16th century or the 18th century. This book points out that there is a disjuncture between the way race is conceptualized in the social sciences and in recent natural science literature. In the view of some proponents of natural-scientific perspectives, race has a biological - and not just a purely social-dimension.
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Reconsidering Race
- Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
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Race is an elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. The book argues that, to understand what we mean by race, social scientists need to engage new perspectives coming from genomics, medicine, and health policy....
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