The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human [Audiobook] download free by Instructor Jonathan Gottschall
- Listen audiobook: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human
- Author: Instructor Jonathan Gottschall
- Release date: 2013/9/23
- Publisher: MARINER BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780544002340
- Rating: 8.38 of 10
- Votes: 415
- Review by: Journey Bryson
- Review rating: 8.57 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/14
- Duration: 3H8M17S in 256 kbps (49.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WavPack, Shorten, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4, MOD, MP3 (compression DEB, ZIP, RAR, Z)
- Total pages original book: 248
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M54S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A NYTimes.com Editor's Choice A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist 'A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.'-New York Times Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems-just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us. 'This is a quite wonderful book. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.'-Edward O. Wilson 'Charms with anecdotes and examples . . . we have not left nor should we ever leave Neverland.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Other categories, genre or collection: Evolution, Literature: History & Criticism, Neurosciences, Popular Culture, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: FreakShare, KATCR, Uploaded, BitShare, Dropbox. Compressed in DEB, ZIP, RAR, Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.97 USD
- Dimensions: 137x208x23mm
- Weight: 218g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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