Human Civilization

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    • The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
    • By: Saifedean Ammous
    • Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,325 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

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    • Civilization and the Stars
    • By: Jo Marchant
    • Narrated by: Jo Marchant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it....

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    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,070 ratings
    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,157 ratings
    • 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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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • UFOs, Aliens, and Spirits—and Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters
    • By: Mark Gober
    • Narrated by: Mark Gober
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Are we alone? The answer, according to Mark Gober’s An End to Upside Down Contact, is a resounding NO. Humans exist among a variety of advanced species, sometimes identified as aliens, spirits, beings of light, and beyond....

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,325 ratings
    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • THE NATURAL EVOLUTION OF CAPITAL ECONOMIES AND THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CULTURAL ENTROPY
    • By: Ralph Bourne
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historians and economists commonly cite natural disasters and foreign invasions to explain cultural collapses. The problem is, human families have ...

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    • How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
    • By: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Narrated by: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In A Human History of Emotion, Richard Firth-Godbehere takes listeners on a fascinating and wide ranging tour of the central and often under-appreciated role emotions have played in human societies around the world and throughout history....

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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

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    • The Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,187 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
    • By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,281 ratings
    • Analyzing the nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science....

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    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • By: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 527 ratings
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

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    • New Discoveries on the Solar-Induced Dark Age
    • By: Robert M. Schoch PhD, Catherine Ulissey
    • Narrated by: Micah Hanks
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • In this newly revised and expanded edition, updated throughout with recent developments, geologist Robert Schoch builds upon his revolutionary theory that the origins of the Sphinx date back much further than 2500 BCE....

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    • Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the 21st century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to 10 trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications....

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