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Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

by Richard Manning ...

Music is fundamental to human existence, a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our evolution, encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, arcane, incomplete, ivory-towered, and just plain wrong. He ... Read more

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Music is fundamental to human existence, a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our evolution, encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, arcane, incomplete, ivory-towered, and just plain wrong. He
... Read more
Go Wild

Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

by Richard Manning, John J. Ratey, MD ...

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being.In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace. This mismatch affects every area of our lives, from our general physical health to our ... Read more

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The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being.In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace. This mismatch affects every area of our lives, from our general physical health to our
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Against the Grain

How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

by Richard Manning ...

In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning ... Read more

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In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning
... Read more
If it Sounds Good, It is Good

Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

by Richard Manning ...

Music is a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our DNA, essential to our surivival. Academics have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, incomplete, or just plain wrong. He approaches the question from a different angle, using his own guitar and banko as instruments of discovery. In the process, he ... Read more

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Music is a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our DNA, essential to our surivival. Academics have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, incomplete, or just plain wrong. He approaches the question from a different angle, using his own guitar and banko as instruments of discovery. In the process, he
... Read more
Necessary Noise

How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good News for America

by Star Parker ...

Popular FOX commentator Star Parker explains why today's noisy political rhetoric is good for you and provides specifics on why Trump's presidency is vital for America's future.Star Parker was among the many reeling and confused as Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. But, she argues, a silver lining to this outcome is the debate that has since ruled our media and private ... Read more

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Popular FOX commentator Star Parker explains why today's noisy political rhetoric is good for you and provides specifics on why Trump's presidency is vital for America's future.Star Parker was among the many reeling and confused as Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. But, she argues, a silver lining to this outcome is the debate that has since ruled our media and private
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Food's Frontier

The Next Green Revolution

by Richard Manning ...

An eye-opening look at how the world will feed itself in the coming decadesBy now it is clear that the techniques of the first "Green Revolution" that averted mass starvation a generation ago --pesticides, chemical fertilizers, focusing on a few key crops--are threatening the food supply for future generations. Interestingly, the solution to this dilemma seems most likely to emerge from the still ... Read more

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An eye-opening look at how the world will feed itself in the coming decadesBy now it is clear that the techniques of the first "Green Revolution" that averted mass starvation a generation ago --pesticides, chemical fertilizers, focusing on a few key crops--are threatening the food supply for future generations. Interestingly, the solution to this dilemma seems most likely to emerge from the still
... Read more
Meaning and Publicity

ProtoSociology Volume 34

Edited by Manning Richard N. ...

Series Book 34 - ProtoSociology
The papers collected in this volume all discuss the ways and extent to which the determinants of meaning must be public. In the philosophy of language there are currently two main traditions concerning the relationship between meaning and public phenomena. According to one tradition language is public in principle, so that there can be nothing to the meaning of linguistic expressions that cannot ... Read more

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The papers collected in this volume all discuss the ways and extent to which the determinants of meaning must be public. In the philosophy of language there are currently two main traditions concerning the relationship between meaning and public phenomena. According to one tradition language is public in principle, so that there can be nothing to the meaning of linguistic expressions that cannot
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Go Wild

Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

by Richard Manning, John J. Ratey, MD ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being.In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace. This mismatch affects every area of our lives, from our general physical health to our ... Read more

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The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being.In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace. This mismatch affects every area of our lives, from our general physical health to our
... Read more

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Necessary Noise

How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good News for America

by Star Parker ...

Narrated by Alecia Hill ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

Popular FOX commentator Star Parker explains why today's noisy political rhetoric is good for you and provides specifics on why Trump's presidency is vital for America's future.Star Parker was among the many reeling and confused as Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. But, she argues, a silver lining to this outcome is the debate that has since ruled our media and private ... Read more

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Popular FOX commentator Star Parker explains why today's noisy political rhetoric is good for you and provides specifics on why Trump's presidency is vital for America's future.Star Parker was among the many reeling and confused as Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. But, she argues, a silver lining to this outcome is the debate that has since ruled our media and private
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All Over Creation

A Novel

by Ruth Ozeki ...

Narrated by Ruth Ozeki ...

Unabridged

17 hours 23 min

A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time BeingYumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her ... Read more

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A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time BeingYumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her
... Read more

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Burr

A Novel

by Gore Vidal ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Narratives of Empire
Unabridged

21 hours 20 min

For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice ... Read more

$46.99 USD

For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice
... Read more
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Genome

The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability.” — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped. ... Read more

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“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability.” — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped.
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