Human Culture

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • A Brief History of How We F--ked It All Up
    • By: Tom Phillips
    • Narrated by: Nish Kumar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f--k ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree to the most spectacular fails of the present day....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • AI and the Problem of Control
    • By: Stuart Russell
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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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: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 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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    • 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: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • By: Ian Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady, Ian Mortimer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Find out....

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    • Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital
    • By: Rob Walling
    • Narrated by: Rob Walling
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • With nearly two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, author, and investor, Rob Walling is one of the world's leading experts in SaaS. In this audiobook, he shares little-known strategies that have been battle-tested by some of today's most successful founders....

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    • Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World
    • By: Kathy Koch
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-16
    • Language: English
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    • If you feel like you're losing your teen to technology, you're not alone. Screen time is rapidly replacing family time, and for teens especially, it is hardwiring the way they connect....

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    • How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
    • By: Hannah Fry
    • Narrated by: Hannah Fry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220 ratings
    • Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in health care, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go, even whom we send to prison....

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    • A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding the Relationship Between Humans and Domestic Dogs
    • By: Jean Donaldson
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Generations of dogs have been labeled training lemons for requiring actual motivation when all along they were perfectly normal....

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    • What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human....

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    • A New Look at Human Evolution
    • By: Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In A Story of Us, Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future....

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    • Our Amazing Evolution, What Race Really Is and What Makes Us Human
    • By: Adam Rutherford, Adam Ming - illustrator, Emma Norry - contributor
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Have you ever thought about who you might be related to? What if we told you that you were related to extraordinary emperors, great kings and magnificent queens? Well, your majesty, you are. In fact, everyone is. And geneticist Adam Rutherford is here to tell you how....

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    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • By: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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    • The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
    • By: Allison J. Pugh
    • Narrated by: Allison J. Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this audiobook, Allison Pugh makes a timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation.

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    • How Humans Took Over the World
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Rosa Howard
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story....

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    • Ladybird Audio Adventures
    • By: Ladybird
    • Narrated by: Ben Bailey-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On this adventure, we're going to travel all around the globe and learn more about the seven natural wonders of the world....

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    • Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
    • By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

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