Human Culture

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP classes, fill every waking hour with resume-padding activities, and even sabotage relationships with friends to “get ahead.”....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic, geographic, or anthropogenic as it is narrative....

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    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

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    • A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Are we? Find out....

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    • A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding the Relationship Between Humans and Domestic Dogs
    • By: Jean Donaldson
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Generations of dogs have been labeled training lemons for requiring actual motivation when all along they were perfectly normal....

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    • What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
    • By: Michaeleen Doucleff
    • Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,925 ratings
    • In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....

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    • An Executive Guide to Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer
    • By: Perry Carpenter, Kai Roer
    • Narrated by: Perry Carpenter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The topic of security culture is mysterious and confusing to most leaders. But it doesn't have to be. In The Security Culture Playbook, Perry Carpenter and Kai Roer deliver experience-driven insights into how to transform your organization's security culture and reduce human risk....

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    • The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
    • By: Noah Strycker
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood....

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    • How Stories Make Us Human
    • By: Jonathan Gottschall
    • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives....

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    • By: Kate Lister
    • Narrated by: Kate Lister
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humor and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr. Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history....

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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • By: David A. Mindell
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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    • Recovering the Heart and Soul of Your Leadership
    • By: Rob Murray, Jack Nicholson, Jerome Daley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Transform Your Life and Leadership Applying the five transformative principles of the Human Operating System is so much more effective than hacking...

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    • A Cybernetic History
    • By: Thomas Rid
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine....

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    • How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
    • By: Ainissa Ramirez
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

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    • Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Outstanding Diverse Teams
    • By: Lou Adler
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the newly revised fourth edition of Hire with Your Head, influential recruiting and hiring expert Lou Adler delivers a practical guide to consistently identifying and hiring the best people and scaling that process throughout your company....

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    • Creating a Culture of Purpose, Excellence, and Transformative Human Engagement
    • By: Robert Stiller
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Decades before the business world discovered the power of authentic staff engagement, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters cofounder Bob Stiller was busy creating a company with a mission to build an engaged workforce focused on innovation.

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    • 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
    • By: Cynthia Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Cynthia Shapiro is a former human resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them....

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    • 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World
    • By: Erica Keswin
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Bring Your Human to Work distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a “human workplace”....

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