Human Culture

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Facts, Fiction, and Future
    • By: Nigel Poulton
    • Narrated by: Nigel Poulton
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • AIs are everywhere, and they're changing everything. AI Explained: Facts, Fiction, and Future from best-selling author Nigel Poulton is your fast-track easy-to-understand guide to the exciting new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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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 33 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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    • 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 407 ratings
    • In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Find out....

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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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    • 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 9 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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    • 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 21 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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    • The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
    • By: Sandra Matz
    • Narrated by: Anna Caputo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human mind, they also become more and more powerful at controlling it, enticing us to buy a certain product or vote for a certain political candidate. Some of us say this technological trend is no big deal.

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    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

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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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    • 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 1,223 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 450 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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    • How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
    • By: Tom Lean
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 11-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother....

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    • The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
    • By: Dr Julia Shaw
    • Narrated by: Dr Julia Shaw, John Sackville, Lauryn Allman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Julia Shaw explores how people have defined and measured bisexuality during its long and important history. She looks at behavioural bisexuality in animals, and investigates whether there is a bi gene. She introduces some famous bi activists and scholars whom everyone should know....

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