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This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the listener from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield.
It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden.
Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place—especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together—without sin, they claimed.
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By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington’s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war’s unimaginable horrors - every drop of blood spilled - might well have been God’s just verdict on the national sin of slavery.
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- De Clark Booth en 07-19-20
De: Edward Achorn
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Eleanor in the Village
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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A captivating blend of personal history detailing Eleanor’s struggle with issues of marriage, motherhood, financial independence, and femininity, and a vibrant portrait of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world, this unique work examines the ways that the sensibility, mood, and various inhabitants of the neighborhood influenced the First Lady’s perception of herself and shaped her political views over four decades, up to her death in 1962.
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- De Amanda Hodges en 05-13-21
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The President and the Freedom Fighter
- Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
- De: Brian Kilmeade
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history.
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Great Story and Research
- De Marla O'Halloran en 11-06-21
De: Brian Kilmeade
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Union
- The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood.
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Required Reading
- De Ben Brafford en 08-30-20
De: Colin Woodard
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- De: A'Lelia Bundles
- Narrado por: A'Lelia Bundles
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then - with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for Black women - everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up that would be run by four generations of Walker women until its sale in 1985.
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Please read the book and not rely on the Netflix series
- De Sweet Pea's Mommy en 04-27-20
De: A'Lelia Bundles
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The Hour of Fate
- Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- De: Susan Berfield
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-08-20
De: Susan Berfield
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The White Devil's Daughters
- The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
- De: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history - and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.
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Well researched
- De Qats reads en 08-05-19
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Sex with Presidents
- The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House
- De: Eleanor Herman
- Narrado por: Emily Rankin
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Eleanor Herman revisits some of the sex scandals that have rocked the nation's capital and shocked the public, while asking the provocative questions: does rampant adultery show a lack of character or the stamina needed to run the country? Or perhaps both? While Americans have judged their leaders' affairs harshly compared to other nations, did they mostly just hate being lied to? And do they now clearly care more about issues other than a politician’s sex life?
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lots of speculation no facts
- De John Pyle en 11-30-20
De: Eleanor Herman
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The Lincolns
- Portrait of a Marriage
- De: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 21 h y 33 m
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In 1974 the historian Fawn Brodie predicted that a "sensitive study of the Lincoln marriage will not always defy biographers". Until now, it has. The only book-length treatment of the marriage was published in 1953, when scholars lacked today's resources and were still struggling with deep-seated prejudices about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Now Daniel Mark Epstein has produced an incisive and balanced portrait of the Lincolns.
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Fascinating!
- De F. Elizabeth Hauser en 12-14-08
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Reveille in Washington
- De: Margaret Leech
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
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Margaret Leech’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history paints a wonderfully vivid and lively picture of Washington, DC, during the Civil War. In addition to the major events and figures such as Lincoln, Leech uses telling anecdotes and draws upon cameo players such as Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Andrew Carnegie, and a Confederate lady spy to create a living portrait of a sleepy, unfinished city as it struggles to become the strong capital of a united nation.
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Good book, poor read
- De JC en 08-10-20
De: Margaret Leech
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Martha Washington
- An American Life
- De: Patricia Brady
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
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In-depth portrayal of a woman we all think we know
- De Clarence en 04-05-21
De: Patricia Brady
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Big Wonderful Thing
- De: Stephen Harrigan
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 28 h y 54 m
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The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.
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Guidall is in top form with very good material
- De Elizabeth en 12-22-19
De: Stephen Harrigan
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A Secret Life
- The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- De: Charles Lachman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States - Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that unfolds like a sordid romance novel....
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Are the charges true?
- De Jean en 02-16-13
De: Charles Lachman
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Lincoln on the Verge
- Thirteen Days to Washington
- De: Ted Widmer
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ted Widmer
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration - an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent by any means necessary. Drawing on new research, this account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, foiling an assassination attempt, and forging an unbreakable bond with the American people.
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A perfect listen for our divided times.
- De Jonathan W White en 12-06-20
De: Ted Widmer
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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Necessary story well told!
- De Marc W Rhoades en 01-19-23
De: Ilyon Woo
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- A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
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All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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Great historical piece
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American Brutus
- John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
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In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel. This definitive masterwork dispels commonly held myths and reveals the truth about John Wilkes Booth. Luring Southern sympathizers into a “noble” presidential kidnapping, Booth stunned his puzzled pawns by murdering Lincoln. From Booth’s early life and acting career to his escape and death, this meticulously researched book re-examines it all using a wealth of primary sources.
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informative
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The Case of the Married Woman
- Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Justice for Women
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Beset by the personal cruelties perpetrated by her husband and a society whose rules were set against her, Caroline Norton chose to fight. She channeled her energies in an area of much-needed reform: the rights of a married woman and specifically those of a mother. She campaigned tirelessly, achieving her first landmark victory with the Infant Custody Act of 1839. Provisions which are now taken for granted owe much to Caroline, who was determined to secure justice for women at all levels of society from the privileged to the dispossessed.
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Well told! Well researched! And well written.
- De LoveFromBothSides en 12-06-23
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Long Island’s Vanished Heiress
- The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping
- De: Steven C. Drielak
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When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.
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Interesting story
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Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
- How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
- De: Brian Clegg
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Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to 10 separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives.
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The Scandalous Hamiltons
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Scandal was never far from the Hamiltons
- De Edward C. Callahan Jr. en 07-02-23
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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Great historical piece
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American Brutus
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In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel. This definitive masterwork dispels commonly held myths and reveals the truth about John Wilkes Booth. Luring Southern sympathizers into a “noble” presidential kidnapping, Booth stunned his puzzled pawns by murdering Lincoln. From Booth’s early life and acting career to his escape and death, this meticulously researched book re-examines it all using a wealth of primary sources.
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informative
- De Sue Ogle en 11-27-20
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The Case of the Married Woman
- Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Justice for Women
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Beset by the personal cruelties perpetrated by her husband and a society whose rules were set against her, Caroline Norton chose to fight. She channeled her energies in an area of much-needed reform: the rights of a married woman and specifically those of a mother. She campaigned tirelessly, achieving her first landmark victory with the Infant Custody Act of 1839. Provisions which are now taken for granted owe much to Caroline, who was determined to secure justice for women at all levels of society from the privileged to the dispossessed.
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My Soul Is a Witness
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Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. African American victims and survivors had to find a way to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching. Crabtree offers a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in a strategy for “working through” trauma that has long existed within the African American cultural tradition: the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility—a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain.
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Valuable
- De Amazon Customer en 11-13-23
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An Empire on the Edge
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The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies. Here, Nick Bunker explores and illuminates the dramatic chain of events that led to the outbreak of the war-revealing a tale of muddle, mistakes, and misunderstandings by men in London that led to the Boston tea party and then to the decision to send redcoats into action against the minutemen.
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Hard to put down
- De Mike From Mesa en 03-07-15
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?
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- De: Richard White
- Narrado por: Christopher P. Brown
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In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.
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Jane Stanford Would Rather be Dead than Read This
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A History of Biology
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- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Morange covers everything from the first cell theory to the origins of the concept of ecosystems, and offers perspectives on areas that are often neglected by historians of biology, such as ecology, ethology, and plant biology. He highlights the contributions of technology, the important role of hypothesis and experimentation, and the cultural contexts in which some of the most breathtaking discoveries in biology were made. Unrivaled in scope and written by a world-renowned historian of science, A History of Biology is an ideal introduction for students and experts alike.
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Comprehensive Yet Concise
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- De: Alan Lightman
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In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.
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A Unique Take on the Scientific Project
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Burning the Sky
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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A Better Ape
- The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human
- De: Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell
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Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved? In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution.
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- De: Theodore M. Porter
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages.
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Deadly Companions
- How Microbes Shaped Our History
- De: Dorothy H. Crawford
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
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Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man....
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Fantastic writing, research and narration!
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- De: Johan Norberg
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
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It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
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Global Uptrends That May Surprise You
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Pinpoint
- How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
- De: Greg Milner
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Over the last 50 years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the global positioning system. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity.
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This is not a book.
- De Patrick🍀 en 12-07-16
De: Greg Milner
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- Heather Coltman
- 08-20-23
Fascinating
I had no idea about any of this, so I was completely fascinating. However, the narrator’s voice was harsh and unpleasant.
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- Leah K.
- 05-15-24
Terrible narration!
The story is interesting, although all the different facets the author strung together are only loosely connected. I'm sure I would have liked it more with a different narrator. This was simply awful. For a while I thought it was an AI bot until I looked her up. It was as though she was reading without understanding the sentence, so inflections were weird, or it sounded like she ended a sentence when she shouldn't have.
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- janrecipe2015
- 05-18-23
Interesting topic, narrator meh
The topic was interesting and I definitely learned something new for me in US history.
The narrator's nasally voice seriously made me want to turn it off and then I got to a point where I just waited it out. I don't think I could handle another piece with this narrator. Seriously grating.
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- Nancy
- 04-12-23
Not for me
Interesting story but really didn’t care for the narrator. Very flat voice that took me out of the story every time.
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- Joe
- 01-12-24
Gripping!
A captivating story told in a compelling and refined style. Wels has breathed life into long departed souls and animated them for a modern audience. I knew nothing of her characters but now I can’t stop roaming in their psyche. Brilliant!
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- Steven Hassan PhD
- 02-14-23
Fascinating account of Oneida Cult
It was extremely interesting to learn about the 1800s cult explosion. It was very scholarly and academic. So it was not as critical as I had hoped of the malignant narcissism of Noyes. I wish there had been more former member voices. Moses David Berg, the pedophile sex cult leader of the Children of God copied so many aspects of the Oneida cult.
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- Leland Meyer
- 07-13-23
Surprising
I was a bit surprised by this book. I learned things I didn't realize I wanted to know.
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- Gardenstate Reader
- 04-08-24
Fascinating story!
I have never really heard anything about Garfield’s assassination, and never anything about the Oneida Community. I was totally riveted!
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- JE in SH
- 06-15-24
Fascinating little-known history
Great story from a largely forgotten episode in US history. Narrator is fine-dont be scared off by the complainers.
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- Kevin Walters
- 04-16-23
Required reading
A compelling portrait of 19th century America that looks a whole lot — distressingly so — like 21st century America.
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