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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Thought-provoking
- By Ant Le Breton on 30-08-2017
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Right Story, Wrong Story
- Adventures in Indigenous Thinking
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta’s explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking....
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Wow. 💓
- By Julia on 07-10-2023
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Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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As an Indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions....
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So negative and confused
- By Anonymous User on 29-10-2022
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped....
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Both brilliant and infuriating
- By Saraghina on 04-10-2023
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Where are the female outliers?
- By laura on 26-04-2019
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Thought-provoking
- By Ant Le Breton on 30-08-2017
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Right Story, Wrong Story
- Adventures in Indigenous Thinking
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta’s explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking....
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Wow. 💓
- By Julia on 07-10-2023
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Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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As an Indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions....
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So negative and confused
- By Anonymous User on 29-10-2022
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped....
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Both brilliant and infuriating
- By Saraghina on 04-10-2023
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Where are the female outliers?
- By laura on 26-04-2019
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....
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This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author.
- By Daniel Rimmer on 27-10-2018
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Don't let the title put you off! Read this book
- By Melanie Maher on 19-06-2020
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Born to Run
- The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- By: Christopher McDougall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? The author sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners....
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worst book I have ever read
- By Anonymous User on 14-08-2020
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How to Change Your Mind
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan....
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Brilliant
- By James on 14-06-2018
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- By: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilisation, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts....
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a fantastic look at early communist societies
- By Red Skippy on 22-05-2022
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The Talent Code
- Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown.
- By: Daniel Coyle
- Narrated by: Alex McMorran
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured....
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This is the best book on Skill and Talent!!
- By Sakshi Nash on 06-04-2019
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"You Just Need to Lose Weight"
- And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
- By: Aubrey Gordon
- Narrated by: Aubrey Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice....
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Such a perfect book
- By Anonymous User on 07-09-2023
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America 51
- A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World"
- By: Corey Taylor
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor reflects on what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself....
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Another amazing book from Corey Taylor!
- By Aaron Elliott on 23-08-2017
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media....
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Riveting
- By Jenny on 06-10-2018
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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An important message
- By Anonymous User on 27-12-2022
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The Paradox of Choice
- Why More is Less
- By: Barry Schwartz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice....
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Very good book, bad first 2 chapters
- By Karl on 16-09-2016
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Deep Time Dreaming
- Uncovering Ancient Australia
- By: Billy Griffiths
- Narrated by: Tom Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent....
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very dry. misnomer of a title
- By Ben on 23-07-2019
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The Passion of Private White
- By: Don Watson
- Narrated by: Don Watson
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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From the bestselling author of The Bush comes the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land—a unique, astonishing window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers....
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We have a complicated history
- By Anonymous User on 03-05-2023
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Cave of Bones
- By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....
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The Shape of things to Come
- By nikkel on 04-09-2023
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- By: J. B. MacKinnon
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet....
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an interesting perspective
- By Steven Frew on 19-06-2021
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All the Living and the Dead
- A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
- By: Hayley Campbell
- Narrated by: Hayley Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared....
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Fantastic
- By Gemma Lye on 20-06-2022
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2018
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Me and White Supremacy
- How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World
- By: Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo
- Narrated by: Layla Saad
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour, and if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not....
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Book of the decade
- By Leigh on 13-06-2020
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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A kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story, Africa Is Not a Country brings the story of the continent towards reality....
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A brilliant stereotype busting book
- By Kerry Kilner on 09-07-2023
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2023
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Running with the Kenyans
- By: Adharanand Finn
- Narrated by: Paul Tyreman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races....
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Fascinating, inspiring and well delivered
- By Miles on 30-09-2023
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Chris , you’ve changed my life
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-2019
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Pathogenesis
- How Germs Made History
- By: Jonathan Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam....
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Great narrator and author
- By Cathy thompson on 22-11-2023
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
- By: Aubrey Gordon
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people....
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Everyone should read/listen to this book.
- By Clare Seddon on 10-12-2020
New Releases
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Homo Sapiens
- The History of Humanity and the Development of Civilization
- By: William Potter
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Homo Sapiens tells the story of the species from its earliest evolutions through the development of the first civilizations up to the industrial and information revolutions that have shaped the modern age. William Potter's thrilling new account asks us to reconsider our traditional notions of history by examining the power of the environment, the influence of language, the ideas that have transformed society, the power of transformative technology, and much, much more.
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The Valkyries' Loom
- The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
- By: Michèle Hayeur Smith
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change.
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Killers of the Dream
- By: Lillian Smith, Margaret Rose Gladney - introduction
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of taboos—that undergirded Southern society.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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Decolonising My Body
- A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty
- By: Afua Hirsch
- Narrated by: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, award-winning journalist Afua Hirsch embarked on a journey to reclaim her body from the colonial ideas of purity, adornment and ageing she - and many of us - absorbed while growing up. Informed by research from around the world, Afua will look at how individual and collective notions of what is beautiful are constructed or stripped away from us. Through personal anecdotes, interviews from beauty experts, practitioners and service users, she explores the global history of skin, hair and body modification rituals.
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Furry Planet
- A World Gone Wild: Includes History, Costumes, and Conventions
- By: Joe Strike
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Furs are the creative subculture of people who identify with animals. You can find them at furry conventions, furfests, around the world-tens of thousands of people donning their most elaborate fursuit. In costume, at conventions, with friends or alone, furries unleash the animal within, letting their inner beasts roar and their inner cats purr, aware of the power—and joy—to be found in bringing forward one's animal side and encouraging others to do the same.
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Homo Sapiens
- The History of Humanity and the Development of Civilization
- By: William Potter
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Homo Sapiens tells the story of the species from its earliest evolutions through the development of the first civilizations up to the industrial and information revolutions that have shaped the modern age. William Potter's thrilling new account asks us to reconsider our traditional notions of history by examining the power of the environment, the influence of language, the ideas that have transformed society, the power of transformative technology, and much, much more.
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The Valkyries' Loom
- The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
- By: Michèle Hayeur Smith
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change.
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Killers of the Dream
- By: Lillian Smith, Margaret Rose Gladney - introduction
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of taboos—that undergirded Southern society.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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Decolonising My Body
- A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty
- By: Afua Hirsch
- Narrated by: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, award-winning journalist Afua Hirsch embarked on a journey to reclaim her body from the colonial ideas of purity, adornment and ageing she - and many of us - absorbed while growing up. Informed by research from around the world, Afua will look at how individual and collective notions of what is beautiful are constructed or stripped away from us. Through personal anecdotes, interviews from beauty experts, practitioners and service users, she explores the global history of skin, hair and body modification rituals.
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Furry Planet
- A World Gone Wild: Includes History, Costumes, and Conventions
- By: Joe Strike
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Furs are the creative subculture of people who identify with animals. You can find them at furry conventions, furfests, around the world-tens of thousands of people donning their most elaborate fursuit. In costume, at conventions, with friends or alone, furries unleash the animal within, letting their inner beasts roar and their inner cats purr, aware of the power—and joy—to be found in bringing forward one's animal side and encouraging others to do the same.
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The Fifth History of Man
- History of Man Series, Book 5
- By: John Bershof
- Narrated by: John Fox Bershof
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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To paraphrase the great sci-fi writer Stephen King: Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your heart, kill your darlings. Translation: stay on point and mercilessly avoid side stories and anecdotes. With much respect for Mr. King, The History of Man Series is precisely that, a great deal about all those little darlings, a style of writing termed “jumping off.”
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Right Story, Wrong Story
- Adventures in Indigenous Thinking
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Right Story, Wrong Story describes how our relationship with land is inseparable from how we relate to each other. This book is a sequence of thought experiments, which are, as Yunkaporta writes, ‘crowd-sourced narratives where everybody’s contribution to the story, no matter how contradictory, is honoured and included…the closest thing I can find in the world to the Aboriginal collective process of what we call “yarning”.’
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Wow. 💓
- By Julia on 07-10-2023
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Anthropology
- An Audio Guide
- By: Joy Hendry, Simon Underdown
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about 'race' based upon the latest genetic research. They even share what our bathroom tells us about our concept of the body – and ourselves.
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Textures of Terror
- The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice
- By: Victoria Sanford
- Narrated by: Angela Juarez
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala-and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended.
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The Naked Neanderthal
- By: Ludovic Slimak, David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs.
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Rambling
- By KJ on 15-10-2023
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity - all we have to meet the world - so unstable?
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Both brilliant and infuriating
- By Saraghina on 04-10-2023