Inventions History

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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 67 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 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 88 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 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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    • 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....

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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 425 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 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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    • By: Rev George Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Edison and His Electric Empire" is a comprehensive exploration of the life and inventions of Thomas Edison, one of history's greatest inventors. ...

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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 208 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • By: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

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    • The Giants of Science Series, Book 7
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. And they may even have some vague idea that he once flew a kite during a lightning storm....

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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 58 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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    • 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 44 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....

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    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

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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 265 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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    • 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....

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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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