Human Violence

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

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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 779 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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    • Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation
    • By: John McManus
    • Narrated by: Frazer Blaxland
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes, manual labourers and domestic workers, its teachers and policemen, culture vultures and thrill seekers....

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    • Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • Using essays and the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography offers an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history....

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    • Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Tim Marshall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Tim Marshall's global best seller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has....

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    • A Global Environmental History
    • By: Daniel R. Headrick
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance....

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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 89 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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    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water and the ocean of the future....

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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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    • Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • New from the number-one Sunday Times best-selling author of Prisoners of Geography. We feel more divided than ever. This riveting analysis tells you why....

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    • The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
    • By: Jo Guldi
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics....

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    • Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

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    • Surviving America in the 21st Century
    • By: Jessica Bruder
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us....

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    • By: Kim Mahood
    • Narrated by: Jennifer McDonald
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners, the mining companies have arrived and Aboriginal art has flourished....

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    • By: Derrick Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oni Woods Ojukwu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2019
    • Language: English
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    • At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth....

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    • By: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

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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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