Human Civilisation

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 783 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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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 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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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • How the Earth Shaped Human History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? Find out....

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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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: 23-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • How Our Biology Shaped World History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world....

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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 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along with us....

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    • By: Ian Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady, Ian Mortimer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Find out....

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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: 22-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
    • By: Andrew Collins, Gregory L. Little
    • Narrated by: Micah Hanks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 03-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago....

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    • A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic, geographic, or anthropogenic as it is narrative....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • A History of Life on Earth
    • By: Michael Spitzer
    • Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story....

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    • How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
    • By: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years....

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    • By: Lara Maiklem
    • Narrated by: Lara Maiklem
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun a person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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    • How one material shaped the whole of human History
    • By: Roland Ennos
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Roland Ennos’ The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world’s most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four-poster bed....

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    • A Secret History of the Stars
    • By: Jo Marchant
    • Narrated by: Jo Marchant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the universe we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health and its potential for inspiration and revelation....

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    • How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
    • By: Agustín Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth? Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight....

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