Human Civilization

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    • What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended.

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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
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    • 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 783 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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    • 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 2,206 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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    • 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 209 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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    • 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 417 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 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 2,354 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 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 206 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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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

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    • A Beginner's Guide: Decoding the Origins of Human Progress
    • By: Saleh Ancar
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Step into the mind of one of history’s greatest thinkers. Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah is no ordinary work—it’s a timeless blueprint for ...

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    • Una historia de la civilización [A History of Civilization]
    • By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
    • Narrated by: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Con una revolución comenzó el universo, con otra abrimos los ojos de la consciencia y comenzó nuestra historia. Aprendimos a pensar, a producir, a luchar por el poder, a venerar dioses, a surcar los mares, a descifrar el firmamento, a transformar el mundo....

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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 135 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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    • 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 45 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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    • 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 11,555 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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    • 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 2,123 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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    • 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 Human Souls Waiting Beyond Antarctica
    • By: Claudio Nocelli
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An experienced mechanical engineer is hired for a secret mission that takes him to the uncharted lands beyond Antarctica. What begins as a simple ...

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    • 300 Years from now. A time travel book to a brave new world.
    • By: Radu Niculescu
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • What if the future was a place of harmony, where technology and humanity intertwined to create a society free from the burdens of money, property, ...

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    • The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
    • By: Lydia Pyne
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today....

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