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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
James Suzman · 2021
🎙 Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith
80/100
👍 Worth It
Suzman uses decades of fieldwork with the Ju/'hoansi to overturn the tired assumption that hunter-gatherer life was a grim scramble, then rides that insight all the way through industrialization to today's automation anxieties. It's dense in the way sweeping deep-history books tend to be, but Nicholas Guy Smith's narration carries the scope well and Publishers Weekly backed it on release.
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🎙 Narration: good Nicholas Guy Smith narrates a professional Penguin Audio production suited to the book's historical sweep.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing78
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict80
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