Inventions History

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • By: Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan - translator
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with....

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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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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 5 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 World History of Morality
    • By: Hanno Sauer
    • Narrated by: Callum Coates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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? Find out more....

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    • The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else....

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    • How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
    • By: Matt Alt
    • Narrated by: Matt Alt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Today we take it for granted that Japan is a forge of the world's fantasies: the birthplace of Transformers and Pokémon, of food trends like ramen and artisanal whisky and cutting-edge manga and anime....

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    • By: Brian Selznick
    • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....

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    • The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
    • By: Bill Hammack
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the secret method used to build the world....

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    • A New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • By: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history....

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    • Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
    • By: Jeevan Vasagar
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state....

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    • Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
    • By: James Barrat
    • Narrated by: Gary Dana
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car....

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    • A Natural History of Foresight
    • By: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley
    • Narrated by: Philip Battley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Invention of Firearms
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The crucial importance of education in China, a prized virtue instilled in the population among all classes by beloved teacher and philosopher Confucius in the 6th century BCE, generated an unprecedented and long-lived golden age of literature and art.

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    • The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
    • By: Irene Vallejo
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Vallejo takes us on an enthralling journey through the history of books and libraries in the ancient world and those who have helped preserve their rich literary traditions....

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    • The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge...

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    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 28-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world....

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    • By: Tracy Vonder Brink
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • How did forgetting to wash a jar make cars safer? A scientist named Édouard Bénédictus accidentally dropped a plastic-coated flask that did not break. This invention was tested and engineered to help today's windshields protect drivers better.

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