1493 for Young People
From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
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1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the 15th century to the present.
How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of 16th-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire?
Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement. Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative, his research and erudition vast, his conclusions ones that will stimulate the critical thinking of young people. 1493 for Young People provides tools for wrestling with the most pressing issues of today and will empower young people as they struggle with a changing world.
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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- De: William J. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 259
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. He transports listeners from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the 16th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and Germane to Today's World
- De Mark en 07-18-08
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The Paradox of Jamestown
- 1585-1700
- De: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 283
> The Paradox of Jamestown discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony. Beginning with an examination of 16th- and 17th-century life in England, the authors explain many of the reasons - social, political, religious, and economic - people chose to leave the Old World for a new life in the Americas. They describe the early interactions between the settlers and the Indians, the difficulties those groups had in establishing cooperative relationships, and the many difficulties the settlers had in adjusting to life in the New World.
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3 out of 5 stars
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poorly Accurate
- De Bertie en 12-02-20
De: Christopher Collier, y otros
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Clash of Cultures
- Prehistory-1638
- De: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 241
History is dramatic - and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young listeners. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through the present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good context
- De MonicaB en 03-03-20
De: Christopher Collier, y otros
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Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,716
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Why the West Rules - for Now
- The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
- De: Ian Morris
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 24 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the 20th century secured its global supremacy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling and infuriating take at World History
- De Skeptical en 09-11-11
De: Ian Morris
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Empire's Crossroads
- A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
- De: Carrie Gibson
- Narrado por: Romy Nordlinger
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson traces the story of this coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, and from discovery through colonialism to today, offering a vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich, important history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Careless production mars storytelling
- De Brenda Thomas en 03-31-16
De: Carrie Gibson
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The Mental Floss History of the World
- An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
- De: Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
- Narrado por: Johny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 570
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 374
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 372
About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization. Everything since then, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in class that day, the geniuses at mental_floss magazine have put together a hilarious (and historically accurate) primer on everything you need to know---and that means the good stuff.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and Funny. What more could you want?
- De Septimus MacGhilleglas en 01-22-09
De: Steve Wiegand, y otros
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- De: Mike Davis
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mike Davis on Audible!
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-02-17
De: Mike Davis
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Ramp Hollow
- The Ordeal of Appalachia
- De: Steven Stoll
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in US history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost unlistenable
- De Golf Fan en 09-13-18
De: Steven Stoll
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,771
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,232
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- De: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 994
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please up-date the addition
- De fishrock en 02-20-10
De: Eduardo Galeano, y otros
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What Is America
- A Short History of the New World Order
- De: Ronald Wright
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the "essence" of America can be traced to the foundations of our history--literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another--and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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insightful overview
- De rm3154 en 04-19-12
De: Ronald Wright
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 177
Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American History World History Our History
- De Bill en 06-13-22
De: Howard W. French
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A Shorter History of Australia
- De: Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 154
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall poppy, the rivalries of Catholic and Protestant, Sydney and Melbourne, new and old homelands, the conflicts of war abroad and race at home, the importance of technology, the recognition of our Aboriginal past and Native Title.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just couldn't stand the paternalism
- De Matthew en 04-02-14
De: Geoffrey Blainey
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,121
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
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De: Charles C. Mann
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Before Columbus
- The Americas of 1491
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
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A companion book for young listeners based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking best seller by Charles C. Mann.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Intro, Abridged and Edited
- De Chris Hummel en 10-24-20
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Wizard and the Prophet
- Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 18 h y 56 m
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In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De BKATX en 01-26-18
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Silk Roads
- The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Children's Edition
- De: Peter Frankopan
- Narrado por: Peter Frankopan
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Peter Frankopan, number one best-selling author and historian, explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the East married the West with a remarkable voyage at its heart - the journey along the Silk Roads.
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2 out of 5 stars
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too easy to confuse with the full version
- De Alex en 01-10-23
De: Peter Frankopan
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A Different Mirror for Young People
- A History of Multicultural America
- De: Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Howard Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential Listening
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1493
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
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Before Columbus
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Intro, Abridged and Edited
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- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Wizard and the Prophet
- Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 18 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 742
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 735
In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De BKATX en 01-26-18
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Silk Roads
- The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Children's Edition
- De: Peter Frankopan
- Narrado por: Peter Frankopan
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
Peter Frankopan, number one best-selling author and historian, explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the East married the West with a remarkable voyage at its heart - the journey along the Silk Roads.
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2 out of 5 stars
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too easy to confuse with the full version
- De Alex en 01-10-23
De: Peter Frankopan
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A Different Mirror for Young People
- A History of Multicultural America
- De: Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 33
A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Howard Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential Listening
- De Susie en 06-10-16
De: Ronald Takaki, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre 1493 for Young People
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- Susie
- 06-15-16
Mind Blowing
"1493 for Young People" takes this popular history of the explosion that happened post-Columbus and makes it a comprehensible tale. The Columbian Exchange was absolutely b-a-n-a-n-a-s, a biological free-for-all that makes today's globalism seem tame by comparison
There are so many moments that made me think, "Wow, I didn't know that!" Take the "biological bedlam" that came when the Spanish unwittingly brought scale insects to the Caribbean whose sugary excrement ignited the population of native fire ants which in turn destroyed entire plantations and orchards, or that Europeans already knew the world was round, but Columbus was trying to prove that it was pear shaped!
Stefoff simplifies the book, making it fully comprehensible for young people, and narrator James Fouhey is careful and clear.
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