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A Galloping History of Humanity
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One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history
Timothy C. Winegard’s The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe; when one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the future of humanity was instantly rewritten, placing the reins of destiny firmly in human hands.
Since that pivotal day, the horse has carried the history of civilizations on its powerful back. For millennia it was the primary mode of transportation, an essential farming machine, a steadfast companion, and a formidable weapon of war. Possessing a unique combination of size, speed, strength, and stamina, the horse dominated every facet of human life and shaped the very scope of human ambition. And we still live among its galloping shadows.
Horses revolutionized the way we hunted, traded, traveled, farmed, fought, worshipped, and interacted. They fundamentally reshaped the human genome and the world’s linguistic map. They determined international borders, molded cultures, fueled economies, and built global superpowers. They decided the destinies of conquerors and empires. And they were vectors of lethal disease and contributed to lifesaving medical innovations. Horses even inspired architecture, invention, furniture, and fashion. From the thundering cavalry charges of Alexander the Great to the streets of New York during the Great Manure Crisis of 1894 and beyond, horses have shaped both the grand arc of history and our everyday lives.
Driven by fascinating revelations and fast-paced storytelling, The Horse is a riveting narrative of this noble animal’s unrivaled and enduring reign across human history. To know the horse is to understand the world.
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"In this epic saga of the horse and human history, Winegard has researched deeply, written vividly, and made new connections about trade, agricultural production, transportation, and war. The horse has been integral to every point in civilization, and this grand narrative blazes new trails for experts and readers."—Tim Cook, bestselling author of Vimy: The Battle and the Legend, The Fight for History, and The Good Allies
“They say that dogs are humankind’s best friend, but as Timothy Winegard makes clear in this sweeping book, it’s the horse that truly deserves that title—and not just that one. Horses were revolutionary political allies, tireless explorers, and our deadliest weapons of war as well. And if we've come so far, it’s only because the horse has carried us here, and this book masterfully maps each stage in that 5500-year epic journey.”—Sam Kean, author of The Icepick Surgeon and The Disappearing Spoon
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France’s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?
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Fascinating history of scientific thought
- De Candy Dan en 06-10-24
De: Jason Roberts
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Papyrus
- The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- De: Irene Vallejo, Charlotte Whittle - translator
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and pharaohs, determined to possess them, dispatched emissaries to the edges of the known world to bring them back. Exploring the deep and fascinating history of the written word, from the oral tradition to scrolls to codices, internationally bestselling author Irene Vallejo shows that books have always been a precious and precarious vehicle for civilization.
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Great read
- De Hunter Pechin en 12-15-22
De: Irene Vallejo, y otros
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The Missing Thread
- A Women's History of the Ancient World
- De: Daisy Dunn
- Narrado por: Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.
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Not quite what I expected
- De havanese lover en 01-13-25
De: Daisy Dunn
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Jewels
- A Secret History
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Victoria Finlay
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.
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Fascinating romp around the world
- De No1Treehugger en 05-15-25
De: Victoria Finlay
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Alice
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
- De: Stacy A. Cordery
- Narrado por: Alex Picard
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole of the twentieth-century political scene. Her barbed tongue was as infamous as her scandalous personal life, but whenever she talked, powerful people listened, and she reigned for eight decades as the social doyenne in a town where socializing was state business.
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Interesting but sometimes infuriating
- De Info Seeker en 05-16-23
De: Stacy A. Cordery
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Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test
- How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
- De: Marlene Zuk
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction, or the way that genes and environment work together. Driving her investigation is a simple but essential question: How does behavior evolve?
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Good information, but reader distracts from it.
- De Jeremy Proctor en 02-13-23
De: Marlene Zuk
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- A Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
- De: Bettany Hughes
- Narrado por: Bettany Hughes
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising, revelatory history.
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Great overview with lots of additional history
- De McFitz en 03-26-25
De: Bettany Hughes
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The Reopening of the Western Mind
- The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 27 h y 37 m
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Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era. As the dominance of Christian teachings gradually subsided over time, a new open-mindedness made way for the ideas of morality and theology, and fueled and formed the backbone of the Western mind of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond.
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Fascinating survey of 1,000+ years of thought
- De Roger en 11-07-23
De: Charles Freeman
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Water
- A Biography
- De: Giulio Boccaletti
- Narrado por: Giulio Boccaletti
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Giulio Boccaletti - honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford - shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers.
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Understand Built-Environment Governance~Know Water
- De Tom en 05-11-22
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Prisoner of Lies
- Jack Downey's Cold War
- De: Barry Werth
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the young CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth. But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences.
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The Jack I knew
- De Frederick P. Leaf en 12-10-24
De: Barry Werth
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Without Precedent
- Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
- De: Joel Richard Paul
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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No member of America's founding generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for the next 40 years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. As Chief Justice of the United States - the longest-serving in history—he established the independence of the judiciary and the supremacy of the federal Constitution and courts.
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Scholarly and Accessible
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 03-01-18
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The Eagle and the Hart
- The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- De: Helen Castor
- Narrado por: Helen Castor
- Duración: 20 h y 5 m
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Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were ten years old when Richard became king of England. They were thirty-two when Henry deposed him and became king in his place. Now, the story behind one of the strangest and most fateful events in English history (and the inspiration behind Shakespeare’s most celebrated history plays) is brought to vivid life by the acclaimed author of Blood and Roses, Helen Castor.
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A thrilling read
- De Rich C en 11-30-24
De: Helen Castor
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Budapest
- Portrait of a City Between East and West
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Elinor Coleman
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe.
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Absolutely Amazing 🤩
- De Elizabeth Hoadley en 04-28-24
De: Victor Sebestyen
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A Castle in Wartime
- One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
- De: Catherine Bailey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north of Italy. Beautiful and privileged, Fey and her two young sons lead a tranquil life undisturbed by the trauma and privations of war. But with Fascism approaching its zenith, Fey's peaceful existence is threatened when Ulrich and Detalmo take the brave and difficult decision to resist the Nazis.
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Excellent account
- De Francis J. Slobodnik en 03-22-20
De: Catherine Bailey
Hard to imagine the big cities with all those horses.
Almost as good as the Mosquito
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History of the horse.
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The hero of the human story.
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Great global history of one mankind's best friends.
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A remarkable thing insight
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The horses relationship with the history of the world
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Invaluable horse
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The field of human evolution (and evolution in general) is changing so fast that wonderful works like "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" are surprisingly out-of-date just a few years after publication. This book brings recent genetic studies to bear on the data in that work, and is surprising in its clarity. I suspect some professionals might quibble with a few of the author's bolder assertions, but I found it refreshing that he made such complex information so accessible.
Wonderful, expansive and up-to-date.
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This is a wonderful read, thx billions!
Great boom
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The overwhelming scope of the horses impact on humanity.
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