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  • Guns, Germs and Steel cover art

    • Guns, Germs and Steel

    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700 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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    • Buried

    • An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
    • By: Alice Roberts
    • Narrated by: Alice Roberts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings

    • Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....

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    • A Brief History of Japan

    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings

    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Kindred

    • By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings

    • 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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    • Wisdom of the Ancients

    • Life Lessons from Our Distant Past
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: Neil Oliver
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings

    • For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our well-being relies on remaining as present as possible....

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    • Debt - Updated and Expanded

    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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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
    • Release date: 07-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice....

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    • Over Our Dead Bodies

    • Undertakers Lift the Lid
    • By: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
    • Narrated by: Reay Kaplan, Gregory St. John, Brian Troxell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned - even if it doesn't....

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    • Ghosts of My Life

    • Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
    • By: Mark Fisher
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 22-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen....

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    • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings

    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • The Witch

    • A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history....

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    • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    • On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
    • By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees....

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    • The WEIRDest People in the World

    • How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

    • In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....

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    • The Teachings of Don Juan

    • A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
    • By: Carlos Castaneda
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....

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    • Raw Spirit

    • By: Iain Banks
    • Narrated by: Tom Cotcher
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author lain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland....

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    • Denisovan Origins

    • 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: 03-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 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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    • Seeing Like a State

    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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    • The Third Chimpanzee

    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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  • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes cover art

    • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • What Doesn't Kill Us

    • How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
    • By: Scott Carney
    • Narrated by: Scott Carney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible....

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