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The Rational Optimist
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,456
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,001
Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Personal
- By Robert F. Jones on 09-15-17
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-18-10
- Language: English
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Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
However much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Breathtakingly Hypocritical
- By David on 12-11-13
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Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-27-10
- Language: English
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Packed with Knowledge
- By Ahmed on 09-07-24
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-25-20
- Language: English
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 958
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 787
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 783
Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators....
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5 out of 5 stars
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If I were ten Years Old...
- By Ken on 02-07-11
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-18-11
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Everything
- How New Ideas Emerge
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 657
The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch - the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By Winfield on 12-16-15
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The Evolution of Everything
- How New Ideas Emerge
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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Genome
- The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 642
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 529
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Find out....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still useful today.
- By Gary on 05-21-12
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Genome
- The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-18-11
- Language: English
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The Origins of Virtue
- Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Jeff Loeb
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of The Economist reveals that self-interest and mutual aid are not at all incompatible....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By ChandlerBlancaflor on 06-16-16
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The Origins of Virtue
- Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
- Narrated by: Jeff Loeb
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-05-14
- Language: English
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 656
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 652
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bad scholarship and bias that overwhelms his facts
- By RickyF on 07-01-20
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin’s revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and how understanding this driver of evolution complicates our view of even how human mating evolved.
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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 03-25-25
- Language: English
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Claves de la innovación [Keys to Innovation]
- By: Matt Ridley, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro - translator
- Narrated by: Gerardo Quiroz
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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La innovación es la actividad más importante de nuestra época: trae progresos espectaculares a nuestro nivel de vida, pero también, en ocasiones, cambios inquietantes a la sociedad....
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Claves de la innovación [Keys to Innovation]
- Narrated by: Gerardo Quiroz
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-28-21
- Language: Spanish
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Genome
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon....
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Genome
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-24-17
- Language: English
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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
- By: Matt Ridley
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Animals rarely treat sex as a simple or mutually beneficial transaction. Choosing a mate is often a transcendent event to be approached with reverence, suspicion, angst and quite a bit of violence. For Matt Ridley, nowhere is this more acute than in birds.
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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-13-25
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author Matt Ridley shows just how wrong this is in his compelling new book....
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The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-24-15
- Language: English
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