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Free Download David Baker, Simon Whistler – foreword, Grant Cartwright (Narrator), "The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation"
English | ASIN: B0D3MD8RVW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:02:00 | 248 MB
From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?
With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality-chemical, anatomical, behavioral, social-come from. Chasing down our evolutionary family tree, from the first aquatic creatures to primate societies, David Baker sheds light on our baffling array of passions, impulses, and fetishes, and guides us toward a clear understanding of one of the deepest, most abiding forces of human nature.
The Shortest History of Sex also charts how sex changed for humans across the foraging, agrarian, and modern eras, showing how, even as our biology and sexual instincts have remained the same, the current nature of our sex lives has no historical or evolutionary precedent.

Free Download The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D15Y4KBG | 2024 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Ross King
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy’s past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence. The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a world without Italian influence-and easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from a strong, stable peninsula, sure of its place in the world. In this breakneck history, bestselling author Ross King dismantles this assumption, uncovering the story of a land rife with inner uncertainty even as its influence spread. As the Italian tale unfolds, prosperity and power fluctuate like the elevation in the Dolomites. If Rome’s seven hills could talk, they might speak of the glorious time of Trajan-or bemoan the era of conquest and the Bubonic Plague that decimated Rome’s population. Episodes of wealth like the First Triumvirate and the time of the Medicis are given fresh life alongside descriptions the Middle Ages, the early days of Venice, the invasion of Napoleon, and the long struggle for unification. King paints a colorful, fascinating portrait of a country that remains compelling not just to tens of millions of Italian Americans, but to the millions of Americans who visit Italy every year.

Free Download The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic: A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) (Shortest History) by Ross King
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011456 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 16.32 MB
Discover the prodigious global influence of il bel paese in this star-studded retelling of Italy’s past-from a foremost author of historic Italy. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

Free Download The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
English | ISBN: 1760643815 | 0 pages | MOBI | 9.16 Mb
Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers – our world has been shaped by the products of Greek civilisation. Yet most of us know little about a people and a place that have given us so much. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what of Epaminondas, the Theban general who saved the Greek world from Spartan tyranny? Alexander the Great’s fame has rolled down the centuries, but the glorious Hellenistic Age that came after him is largely forgotten. ‘Byzantine’ often conjures a vague notion of decadence and deadly intrigue, yet the 1,000-year empire ruled from Constantinople saved Europe twice from invasion and was, in fact, Greek.The story of modern Greece, too, is a dramatic tale of triumph and catastrophe, from liberation and expansion through schism and home-grown dictatorship, Nazi occupation and civil war to today’s nation – battered by austerity, a transit camp for the casualties of the Middle East, at the front-line of climate change – yet still proud of its values.The Shortest History of Greece, James Heneage charts the odyssey of the Greeks through more than three millennia. As he does so, he uncovers a vital lesson – one that may just help us fix our own democracies.

Free Download The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy-A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) by John Zubrzycki
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1615199977 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 10.56 MB
5,000 years of history-from the Bhagavad Gitāto Bollywood-fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power.The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

Free Download The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy-A Retelling for Our Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7FS6FN | 2023 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: John Zubrzycki
Narrator: Julian Elfer
5,000 years of history-from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood-fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. India-a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction-often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together-across its many cultures, races, languages, and creeds-and how has India evolved into the liberal democracy it is today? From the Harappan era to Muslim invasions, the Great Mughals, British rule, independence, and present-day hopes, John Zubrzycki distills India’s colossal history into a gripping true story filled with legendary lives: Alexander the Great, Akbar, Robert Clive, Tipu Sultan, Lakshmi Bai, Lord Curzon, Jinnah, and Gandhi. India’s gifts to the world include Buddhism, yoga, the concept of zero, the largest global diaspora-and its influence is only growing. Already the world’s largest democracy, in 2023, India became the most populous nation. Can India overcome its political, social, and religious tensions to be the next global superpower? As the world watches-and wonders-this Shortest History is an essential, clarifying must-listen.

Free Download The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us by David Baker, John Green
English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: 161519973X | 318 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events