Evolution: The Human Odyssey
By: Scientific American
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discover…
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1. Who Wrote the Bible?
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?
2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
- audiobook
"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
By: Peter Singer
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential philosopher. He is also one of its … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate ch…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
"We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are insufficient to outweigh these prolonged negative states. If we think tha…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
4. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
By: Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolu… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- anthropology
5. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
By: None
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
7. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
By: Daniel Tammet
4.57
Format: None pages,
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and i… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Chariots of The Gods
By: Erich von Däniken
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to intr… read more
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9. Myth in Human History
By: Grant L. Voth
3.53
Format: None pages,
Myths provide the keys to truly grasping the ways that principles, rituals, codes, and taboos are w… read more
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10. A Little History of Science
By: None
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism,… read more
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11. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- evolution
- science
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
12. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
14. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
19. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
By: Faith G. Harper
3.32
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
20. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Life and Legacy of Muhammad
By: Maria Dakake
4.02
Format: None pages, None
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
23. Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
By: Steven Novella
4.25
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Volumes 1 and 2 of Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills Lecture Seri… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If B follows A, then B is not necessarily a cause of A."-Steven Novella, Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
24. The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy
By: Bradley E. Schaefer
3.69
Format: 354 pages, Audiobook
Listening Length 11 hours and 51 minutes In a world without artificial lights, the night sky is … read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
25. Ancient Civilizations of North America
By: Edwin Barnhart
4.11
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North A… read more
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- audiobook
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- anthropology
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- science
26. The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution
By: Elen Feuerriegel
3.92
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 28 minutes Who are we? Where did we come from? These aren’t flippant questions,… read more
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- science
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- anthropology
27. Cities of the Ancient World
By: Steven L. Tuck
3.98
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 11 hours and 47 minutes This course tackles a number of large questions about ci… read more
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- history
- audiobook
28. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
By: Michael Shermer
3.81
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
29. A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
By: Bill Mesler
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
30. A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
By: Silvana Condemi
3.96
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo … read more
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- science
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- anthropology
31. Evolution: The Human Odyssey
By: Scientific American
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discover… read more
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