Inventions History

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    • What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
    • By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • By: Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan - translator
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • By: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....

    Regular price: $22.22

    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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    • Wacky Inventions and Surprising Discoveries
    • By: Kent Jameson
    • Narrated by: M. Jeffrey Howard
    • Series: Fun Facts for Inquisitive Minds
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • "Fun Facts Book: Wacky Inventions and Surprising Discoveries" is your gateway to a world of unexpected breakthroughs designed to captivate explorers of all ages without being too simplistic or complex.

    Regular price: $14.95

    • 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 24 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.

    Regular price: $20.99

    • The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
    • By: David Schneider MD
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....

    Regular price: $38.00

    • A World History of Morality
    • By: Hanno Sauer
    • Narrated by: Callum Coates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history of humanity, covering five million years of our universal moral values, comes at a crucial moment of crisis for those values, and helps to explain how they arose-and why we need them.

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Bill Hayton
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
    • By: Jason Fagone
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
    • By: Matt Alt
    • Narrated by: Matt Alt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured - and transformed - the world’s imagination....

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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 427 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

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    • Medicine & Inventions
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Luca James Lee
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Learn about the invention of The Internet with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series....

    Regular price: $1.95

    • 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 452 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....

    Regular price: $35.09