Human Civilization

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    • The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
    • By: Saifedean Ammous
    • Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,357 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • Civilization and the Stars
    • By: Jo Marchant
    • Narrated by: Jo Marchant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it....

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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,076 ratings
    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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    • UFOs, Aliens, and Spirits—and Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters
    • By: Mark Gober
    • Narrated by: Mark Gober
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Are we alone? The answer, according to Mark Gober’s An End to Upside Down Contact, is a resounding NO. Humans exist among a variety of advanced species, sometimes identified as aliens, spirits, beings of light, and beyond....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,163 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,330 ratings
    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • THE NATURAL EVOLUTION OF CAPITAL ECONOMIES AND THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CULTURAL ENTROPY
    • By: Ralph Bourne
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historians and economists commonly cite natural disasters and foreign invasions to explain cultural collapses. The problem is, human families have ...

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    • What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
    • By: Jonathan F. P. Rose
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050....

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    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • By: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 532 ratings
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,235 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • 1608 Random Facts In the Realm of History, Human Body, Natural Disasters, Ancient Civilizations, Science and Unbelievable Facts Mashup
    • By: Patrick Quan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★Amusing Facts For Adventurous Minds★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Are...

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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

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    • The Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

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    • The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
    • By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,292 ratings
    • Analyzing the nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science....

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    • How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
    • By: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Narrated by: Richard Firth-Godbehere
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In A Human History of Emotion, Richard Firth-Godbehere takes listeners on a fascinating and wide ranging tour of the central and often under-appreciated role emotions have played in human societies around the world and throughout history....

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