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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 ...
    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? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 25 min

    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? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Technology Trap

    Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

    by Carl Benedikt Frey ...
    Narrated by Richard Lyddon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 31 min

    This audiobook narrated by Richard Lyddon reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automationFrom the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Cro-Magnon

    How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

    by Brian M. Fagan ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Bestselling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges—including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals.For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The 10,000 Year Explosion

    How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

    by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The 10,000 Year Explosion

    How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

    by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending ...
    Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Technology Trap

    Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

    by Carl Benedikt Frey ...
    "Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."—David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automationFrom the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition

    Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

    by Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    Now updated with the latest research, this pioneering, accessible study argues for a more complex view of evolution—proposing there is more to heredity than just genes.In this revised edition the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb propose that there are four “dimensions” in heredity. These four inheritance systems play a role in evolution which, they argue, can ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How To Think Like a Neandertal

    by Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge ...
    There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain

    by Stephen Oppenheimer ...
    'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of CambridgeStephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool.Two-thirds of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cro-Magnon

    How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

    by Brian Fagan ...
    A Los Angeles Times BestsellerNew York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons--the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived the Ice Age and became the ancestors of today's humans.They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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