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 Lives and Ideas of The Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science....

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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 5,905 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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    • 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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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • 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 Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
    • By: Peter Shinkle
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House....

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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 1,255 ratings
    • Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life....

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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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    • 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 515 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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    • 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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    • How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
    • By: David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion....

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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 151 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 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 68 ratings
    • Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant....

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    • The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    • By: Sarah Bradford
    • Narrated by: Sandra Burr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • The acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Grace reveals the real Jackie in a sympathetic but frank portrait of an amazing woman who has dazzled us for years....

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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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    • 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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    • The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
    • By: Larry Tye
    • Narrated by: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
    • Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever access to his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings....

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