Inventions History

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    • The Invention of the Modern Mind
    • Auteur(s): George Makari
    • Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin
    • Durée: 18 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • Auteur(s): Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 13 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo [The Invention of Books in the Ancient World]
    • Auteur(s): Irene Vallejo
    • Narrateur(s): Elena Silva
    • Durée: 17 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-18
    • Langue: Espagnol
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
    • Auteur(s): Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Beck
    • Durée: 12 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Invention of Dating
    • Auteur(s): Moira Weigel
    • Narrateur(s): Kyra Miller
    • Durée: 8 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): Gary Krist
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 11 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
    • Auteur(s): Roma Agrawal
    • Narrateur(s): Roma Agrawal
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
    • Auteur(s): Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Saouer
    • Durée: 14 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. This is the story of how one invention changed the world and of the man most responsible for it all....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions
    • Auteur(s): Captivating History
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
    • Durée: 3 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
    • Auteur(s): David Wootton
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • David Wootton traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
    • Auteur(s): Dana Stevens
    • Narrateur(s): Dana Stevens
    • Durée: 12 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • In Camera Man, film critic Dana Stevens pulls the lens out from Keaton’s life and work to look at concurrent developments in entertainment, journalism, law, technology, the political and social status of women, and the popular understanding of addiction....

    Prix courant: 23,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
    • Auteur(s): David Leavitt
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • Auteur(s): Edward Glaeser
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 12 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

    Prix courant: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Laurie Winer
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 13 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
    • Auteur(s): Pagan Kennedy
    • Narrateur(s): Randye Kaye
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
    • Auteur(s): Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrateur(s): Roy Roy Samuelson
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 6 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Steven Johnson recounts the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Kneale
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Weyman
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits?....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
    • Auteur(s): William Rosen
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 13 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
    • Auteur(s): Patricia Nolan-Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Saltus
    • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....

    Prix courant: 33,39$ ou 1 crédit

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