Inventions History

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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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.

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    • 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 63 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....

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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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    • 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 87 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....

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    • 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 48 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....

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    • 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 134 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....

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    • 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 98 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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    • 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 262 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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    • A World History of Morality
    • By: Hanno Sauer
    • Narrated by: Callum Coates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.

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    • 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 205 ratings
    • In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust....

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    • From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
    • By: Arkady Ostrovsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation....

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    • A New History of the Invention of America
    • By: Jack Rakove
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World....

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    • A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
    • By: Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz - translator
    • Narrated by: Todd Portnowitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, China, Central America, and beyond....

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    • 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 56 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • 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 304 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....

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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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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Steven Johnson recounts the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers....

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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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    • A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine....

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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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