Human Violence

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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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    • 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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    • The World Shaped by Us
    • By: Diane Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet....

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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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    • An Account of the Trump Administration's Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health
    • By: Jack Hassard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus,...

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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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    • Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
    • By: Ken Jennings
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night....

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    • By: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 748 ratings
    • A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms....

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    • An Archaeology of Early American Life
    • By: James Deetz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten....

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    • Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
    • By: Lauret Savoy
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past....

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    • Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    • By: Stefanos Geroulanos
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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    • The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
    • By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, America is often reduced to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. But that is an oversimplification....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,498 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • A Genetic Portrait of America
    • By: Bryan Sykes
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics....

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    • How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Tim Marshall
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an essential book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.

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