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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
For the first time, HRH The Prince of Wales shares his views on how our most pressing modern challenges - from climate change to poverty - are rooted in mankind's disharmony with nature, presenting a compelling case that the solution lies in our ability to regain a balance with the world around us. With its holistic approach, this provocative and well-reasoned book takes the discussion of sustainability and climate change in a new direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Exploration
- De Sara en 03-31-16
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Deep Truth
- Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate
- De: Gregg Braden
- Narrado por: Gregg Braden
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
A new world is emerging before our eyes, while the unsustainable world of the past struggles to continue. Both worlds reflect the beliefs of our past. Both exist - but only for now. Which world do you choose? Best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest issues that divide us as families, nations, and civilizations-seemingly separate concerns such as war, terror, abortion, suicide, genocide, the death penalty, poverty, economic collapse, and nuclear war - are actually related.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Information
- De David en 08-13-12
De: Gregg Braden
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- De: Addy Pross
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 643
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 562
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 560
Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: What is life?. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound & Life Changing...
- De Daegan Smith en 04-06-15
De: Addy Pross
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Why Information Grows
- The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- De: César Hidalgo
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De bpjammin en 01-07-17
De: César Hidalgo
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Know This
- Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
- De: John Brockman
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, Dan John Miller
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 201
Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it's technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, "become a big story, if not the big story". In that spirit this new addition to Edge.org's fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important recent scientific news?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pete and Repeat and Re-repeat
- De Daniel L en 02-25-18
De: John Brockman
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- De: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
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? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to endure
- De Michael D. Busch en 09-09-18
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- De: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
- Narrado por: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 150
The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sagan's lectures about the possibility of God
- De David T. en 11-13-17
De: Carl Sagan, y otros
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Genesis
- The Deep Origin of Societies
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Before the Dawn
- Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 928
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 519
Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing information
- De Albert en 06-15-07
De: Nicholas Wade
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Blueprint
- The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- De: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Narrado por: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 903
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 773
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 765
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many interesting thoughts
- De Jonas Blomberg Ghini en 06-01-19
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Evolution
- The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent History!
- De Bradly D. Elder en 08-13-07
De: Edward J. Larson
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 365
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is NOT Racism!...
- De Douglas en 06-01-14
De: Nicholas Wade
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Freedom Evolves
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments - drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy - that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I knew I was going to like this book
- De Gary en 05-30-14
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Undeniable
- How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
- De: Douglas Axe
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 270
Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the "design intuition" - the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can be accomplished only by someone who has that knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Seductively Challenge what are consider facts
- De Rafael Vila en 10-08-16
De: Douglas Axe