Life History Theory

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    • What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
    • By: Andreas Wagner
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
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    • In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection - instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls....

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    • The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
    • By: Scott S. Greenberger
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early 50s Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
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    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,892 ratings
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
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    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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    • The Emergence and Evolution of Life
    • By: Stuart A. Kauffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant....

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    • Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce
    • By: John Piper
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice....

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    • By: Joseph E. Uscinski, Joseph M. Parent
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Though there is significant scholarly literature on the topic in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more, American Conspiracy Theories is the first to use broad, long-term empirical data to analyze this popular American tendency of creating a conspiracy theory....

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    • God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin
    • By: John Piper
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • We admire these men for their greatness, but the truth is Augustine grappled with sexual passions, Martin Luther struggled to control his tongue, and John Calvin fought the battle of faith with worldly weapons. Yet each of these men will always be remembered for their messages....

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    • Essential Essays from Five Decades
    • By: Fritjof Capra
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
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    • Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection....

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    • Life with Hitler
    • By: Heike B. Gortemaker
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delivers the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun in this authoritative reassessment of Braun’s role in Hitler’s life....

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    • The Secret History of MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence....

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    • Reflections at Ninety
    • By: Jimmy Carter
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,251 ratings
    • Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life....

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    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society....

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    • The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
    • By: Carl Zimmer
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world - from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses - the harder they find it is to locate life’s edge....

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    • Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics....

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    • A Political Life
    • By: Robert Dallek
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the number one New York Times best-selling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker....

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