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Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Drift into the shadowy corners of human history, where forbidden knowledge sleeps in locked museum drawers and ancient mysteries whisper of civilizations lost to time. This immersive sleep-friendly journey guides listeners through the most controversial...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beneath the jungle canopies, cornfields, and grasslands of the Americas lies a secret so vast it rewrites everything you thought you knew about the New World. Long before Columbus set sail, thriving civilizations built pyramids taller than those of...

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from "sleep debt", or what Horne calls "societal insomnia" - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. It presents evidence which suggests that sleep debt has not in fact worsened to any marked extent over the last hundred or so years, by looking back at some historical writings on sleeplessness and integrating the findings with, evidence-based research that he has undertaken over the last decade.