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Animals, Robots, Gods
- Adventures in the Moral Imagination
- Written by: Webb Keane
- Narrated by: Mark Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane provides a new vision of ethics, defined less by our minds, religion or society, and more by our interactions with those around us. Drawing on ground-breaking research by fieldworkers around the world, he explores the underpinnings of our moral universe. Along the way we investigate the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, Japanese robot fanciers -- even macho cowboys.
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Animals, Robots, Gods
- Adventures in the Moral Imagination
- Narrated by: Mark Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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How Religion Evolved
- And Why It Endures
- Written by: Robin Dunbar
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Religion is both unique—as far as we can judge—and universal to humans. Our species diverged from the great apes about six to eight million years ago, and since then, along with language, our propensity towards spiritual thinking and ritual emerged. How, when and why did this occur, and how did the earliest informal shamanic practices evolve into the world religions familiar to us today? Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford, explores this and other key questions.
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How Religion Evolved
- And Why It Endures
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Written by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation. Unveiling a visionary new way of studying human history - one that stunningly weaves together experimental psychology, anthropology and quantitative social science - Harvey Whitehouse uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism.
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Inheritance
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- Written by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science.
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- Written by: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our boldest plans. Our psychological biases have been at the root of terrible decisions in both war and peacetime. This extraordinary contradiction is the essence of what it means to be human - the sum total of our frailties and our faculties.
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Being Human
- How Our Biology Shaped World History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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The Jaguar Smile
- Written by: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister, a priest, to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room.
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The Jaguar Smile
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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Magdalena
- River of Dreams
- Written by: Wade Davis
- Narrated by: Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
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Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. In this masterful new book, he revisits the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet.
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Magdalena
- River of Dreams
- Narrated by: Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Banquet
- The Story of Chinese Food
- Written by: Fuchsia Dunlop
- Narrated by: Fuchsia Dunlop
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
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Chinese was the first truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved food cultures and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking has ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of the richness or sophistication of China's local food traditions - but today that is beginning to change.
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Invitation to a Banquet
- The Story of Chinese Food
- Narrated by: Fuchsia Dunlop
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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The Naked Neanderthal
- Written by: Ludovic Slimak, Dr. David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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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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The Naked Neanderthal
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Written by: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements.
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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The Descent of Man
- Written by: Grayson Perry
- Narrated by: Jonny Philips
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place for everyone? What would happen if we rethought the old, outdated macho version of manhood and embraced a different idea of what makes a man?
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- By Srishty on 22-08-19
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The Descent of Man
- Narrated by: Jonny Philips
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 27-10-16
- Language: English
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Written by: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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A Short History of Humanity
- How Migration Made Us Who We Are
- Written by: Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe, Caroline Waight
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving. In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future. Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors' DNA like journals chronicling personal stories of migration, Krause charts two millennia of adaption, movement and survival.
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A Short History of Humanity
- How Migration Made Us Who We Are
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 08-04-21
- Language: English
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The Songlines
- Written by: Charles Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs and unravel the mysteries of their stories.
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The Songlines
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- Written 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. Yet our reliance on stuff continues to grow. But what would our world look like if we stopped? Would civilisation collapse? Would the planet's ecology be reborn? What would happen to the way we think, make products, use time, express our individuality? Would life be better - or worse?
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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Who Gets Believed?
- When the Truth Isn’t Enough
- Written by: Dina Nayeri
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture?
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Who Gets Believed?
- When the Truth Isn’t Enough
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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The World According to Colour
- A Cultural History
- Written by: James Fox
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The subject of this audiobook is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies.
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The World According to Colour
- A Cultural History
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Anima
- A Wild Pastoral
- Written by: Kapka Kassabova
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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Anima is an extraordinary portrayal of pastoral life, where humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Kassabova conjures the spirit of this remarkable place with intimacy and empathy, and helps us imagine how we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.
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Anima
- A Wild Pastoral
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- Written by: Johny Pitts
- Narrated by: Johny Pitts
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- Narrated by: Johny Pitts
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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The History of Magic
- From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- Written by: Chris Gosden
- Narrated by: Clarke Peters
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe and that the universe responds to us - has developed a bad reputation. But it is still with us, as it has been for millennia, as Professor Chris Gosden shows in this extraordinarily bold and unprecedented history.
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The History of Magic
- From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- Narrated by: Clarke Peters
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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