Human Violence

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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 118 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 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 2,154 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 232 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 12,310 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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    • 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 747 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 32 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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    • Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,822 ratings
    • Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

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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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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,346 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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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 3,496 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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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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