Tom Phillips has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 76 ratings. The most-rated is Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up.
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Summary
Modern humans have come a long way in the 70,000 years they’ve walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we’re true winners. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we’ve managed to truly f--k things up. Weaving together history, science, politics, and pop culture, Humans offers a panoramic exploration of humankind in all its glory, or lack thereof. From Lucy, our first ancestor, who fell out of a tree and died, to General Zhou Shou of China, who stored gunpowder in his palace before a lantern festival, to the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the most spectacular fails of the present day, Humans reveals how even the most mundane mistakes can shift the course of civilization as we know it. Lively, wry, and brimming with brilliant insight, this unique compendium offers a fresh take on world history and is one of the most entertaining listens of the year.
©2019 Tom Phillips (P)2019 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Truth
Summary
This is an audiobook about truth - and all the ways we try to avoid it - from the best-selling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F--ked It All Up. We live in a “post-truth” world, we’re told. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? Or have people been lying, fibbing, and just plain bullsh*tting since the beginning of time? Tom Phillips, editor of a leading independent fact-checking organization, deals with this question every day. In Truth, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - about everything from business to politics to plain old geography. Along the way, he chronicles the world’s oldest customer service complaint, the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, and the surprisingly dishonest career of Benjamin Franklin. Sharp, witty, and with a clear-eyed view of humanity’s checkered past, Truth reveals why people lie - and how we can cut through the bullsh*t.
©2020 Tom Phillips (P)2020 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Humanos
Summary
Los humanos contemporáneos han recorrido un largo camino en sus 70,000 años de paso por la tierra. Arte, ciencia, cultura, comercio: en la cadena evolutiva somos verdaderos ganadores. Pero lo cierto es que no siempre ha sido un viaje fácil y, a veces, muy puntualmente, hemos llegado a pifiarla de verdad. Uniendo historia, ciencia, política y cultura pop, Humanos nos ofrece una exploración panorámica de la humanidad en todo su esplendor (es decir en todas sus pifias) y nos revela cómo incluso los errores más mundanos cambiaron el curso de la civilización como la conocemos. Desde Lucy, nuestro primer antepasado, que se cayó de un árbol, se rompió un brazo y murió, pasando por el emperador chino Zhengde, que almacenó pólvora en su palacio antes de un festival de linternas o por el ejército austriaco, que se atacó a sí mismo en una noche de borrachera. El audiolibro también hace un repaso de los peores líderes políticos de la historia, así como un resumen de la incapacidad de la raza humana para prever el futuro. Humanos es un compendio único, divertido, irónico y lleno de ideas brillantes que ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la historia de la humanidad llena de interés y, claro está, de humor. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2018 Tom Phillips (P)2019 Editorial Planeta, S. A.
City Boy
Summary
An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of 11.
©1948, 1952, 1969, 1975 Herman Wouk (P)2021 Tantor