Inventions History

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 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 New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • By: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • 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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    • A World History of Morality
    • By: Hanno Sauer
    • Narrated by: Callum Coates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 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: 01-10-19
    • 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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    • 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: 21-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Discover the secret method used to build the world....

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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: 23-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 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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    • 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: 18-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else....

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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: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Steven Johnson recounts the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers....

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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: 15-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
    • By: James Barrat
    • Narrated by: Gary Dana
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 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 History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
    • By: Ben Wilson
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis combines scholarship and storytelling in a terrifically engaging, stylishly written history of the world through an urban lens....

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    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 28-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 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: Brian Selznick
    • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 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 First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others....

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    • God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
    • By: Stephen Tomkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World....

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