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Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- Written by: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrated by: Peter Attia MD
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health....
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Not what I was expecting
- By stuck in Mobay on 2023-07-20
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- Written by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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I listened to this audiobook on 1.4 X speed
- By JMS on 2021-09-09
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Written by: Matthew Walker
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Professor Matthew Walker reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better....
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Would be better as a physical book
- By NePatsGirl on 2019-02-06
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Written by: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI....
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Short, Sweet & Relevant to our times
- By Jose Amaya on 2024-04-17
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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So painfully blah!
- By Myself on 2019-03-13
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Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....
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Interesting fluff, useful information.
- By zach on 2020-08-09
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Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- Written by: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrated by: Peter Attia MD
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health....
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Not what I was expecting
- By stuck in Mobay on 2023-07-20
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- Written by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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I listened to this audiobook on 1.4 X speed
- By JMS on 2021-09-09
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Written by: Matthew Walker
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Professor Matthew Walker reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better....
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Would be better as a physical book
- By NePatsGirl on 2019-02-06
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Written by: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI....
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Short, Sweet & Relevant to our times
- By Jose Amaya on 2024-04-17
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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So painfully blah!
- By Myself on 2019-03-13
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Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....
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Interesting fluff, useful information.
- By zach on 2020-08-09
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- Written by: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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An eye opening look into the corruption of the scientific community
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-01-12
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Written by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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make the world smart again.
- By a2thak on 2017-10-19
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- Written by: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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This paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated....
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Starts good
- By Adam Dee on 2019-10-17
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Determined
- A Science of Life Without Free Will
- Written by: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences....
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A Perspective Changing Book
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-10-26
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- Written by: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known....
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Totally delightful!
- By eve on 2018-02-12
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Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Le cadeau idéal pour toute la famille, pour comprendre d'où nous venons, qui nous sommes et vers où va le monde...
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un livre totalement renversant. j'ai adoré !!!!
- By Anonymous User on 2018-10-10
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Gut Check
- Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health
- Written by: Steven R. Gundry MD
- Narrated by: Steven R. Gundry MD
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Steven R.Gundry, MD offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home—us!—revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease....
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Saved my health
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-01-26
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Surviving to Drive
- A Year Inside Formula 1: An F1 Book
- Written by: Guenther Steiner
- Narrated by: Guenther Steiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A high-octane, no-holds-barred account of a year inside Formula 1 from Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive to Survive, one of the most successful Netflix series of all time....
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Scattered thoughts.
- By Mark Allison on 2024-03-29
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Life as We Know It (Can Be)
- Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
- Written by: Bill Weir
- Narrated by: Bill Weir
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Life as We Know It (Can Be) is a celebration of the wonders of our planet, a meditation on the human wants and needs that drive it out of balance, and an inspiration for communities to galvanize around nature and each other as the very best way to brace for what’s next.
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Amazing!
- By Spinningwheelgirl on 2021-04-30
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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- Written by: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end....
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Yet another science history book
- By Niqomi on 2024-02-27
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Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- Written by: Donella H. Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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Good book with Deleuzian undertones
- By Zac on 2020-10-24
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- Written by: Suzanne Simard
- Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....
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Couldn't put it down...
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-11-28
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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Solve for Happy
- Engineer Your Path to Joy
- Written by: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy....
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misleading
- By Harley on 2019-02-15
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How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- Written by: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....
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Repetition is Repetitive
- By Anonymous User on 2018-09-19
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- Written by: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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life changing
- By srwatson on 2018-06-26
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The Molecule of More
- How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- Written by: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself....
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Life Changing
- By Chaz on 2020-04-30
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Bill Bryson, best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-listen owner's manual for everybody....
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Required reading for the self-aware
- By Dr. Gordon K. McIvor on 2020-02-04
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The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
- Written by: Boyd Varty
- Narrated by: Boyd Varty
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life....
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Wild at heart as the lion is, so shall the tracker
- By SHAN on 2022-10-17
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In the Form of a Question
- The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
- Written by: Amy Schneider
- Narrated by: Amy Schneider
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself....
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Great!
- By Roberta W on 2024-04-13
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- Written by: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....
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Passionate care demonstrated by the author as well as the vastness of the information
- By NA on 2024-03-01
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Written by: Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems....
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Very cool
- By Zac on 2020-12-13
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The Field - Updated Edition
- The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
- Written by: Lynne McTaggart
- Narrated by: Lynne McTaggart
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The Field is a highly listenable scientific detective story presenting a stunning picture of an interconnected universe and a new scientific theory that makes sense of supernatural phenomena....
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Mind expanding
- By Nicole on 2019-08-24
New Releases
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Life as We Know It (Can Be)
- Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
- Written by: Bill Weir
- Narrated by: Bill Weir
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. As the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the latest scientific warnings and breakthroughs while often on the frontlines of disasters, natural and manmade. After the birth of his son in April 2020, Bill began distilling these experiences into a series of Earth Day letters to his boy, weaving together worry and wonder into a poignant reminder that a better future can still be written.
Written by: Bill Weir
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Climate Capitalism
- Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age
- Written by: Akshat Rathi
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.
Written by: Akshat Rathi
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Layers of Truth
- Navigating the Objective from the Subjective
- Written by: Drew Weatherhead
- Narrated by: Drew Weatherhead
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You may think that a simple concept like Truth should be easy to describe and easy to understand. But like many simple concepts, it becomes so much more complicated the further you go. Author Drew Weatherhead endeavors to display the complexity of the objective Truth that we're forced to navigate from our subjective viewpoints through a variety of meta constructs. These Layers of Truth that make up the whole of our reality can help us recognize how we perceive the parts of it in which we exist.
Written by: Drew Weatherhead
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The Jupiter Sun
- The Greatest Achievement in Human History
- Written by: Michael Mathiesen
- Narrated by: Michael Mathiesen
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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In this book, we go over the details of how NASA and hopefully Spacex and Blue Origins can get together and create a mission to create a 2nd sun in the sky. Imagine how other civilizations all around the universe who are able to look up into the sky around their planets with telescopes and instruments as powerful as ours and they notice a completely new star blazing into the night sky. They might even be able to conclude that this star had to have been created by an intelligent life form, a life form that may have achieved something no other life form had ever done before.
Written by: Michael Mathiesen
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The Climate Optimist Handbook
- How to Shift the Narrative on Climate Change and Find the Courage to Choose Change
- Written by: Anne Therese Gennari
- Narrated by: Anne Therese Gennari
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In The Climate Optimist Handbook, Anne Therese Gennari offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical tools to help us let go of fear and the dismal truth of today to build toward a world that can be better and more beautiful than anything we've yet seen. That future starts with shifting the narrative on climate change so we can act from courage and excitement, not fear. We must let go of the guilt and responsibility we feel to save the planet and move into a place of opportunity, optimism, and hope.
Written by: Anne Therese Gennari
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A Clean Sweep Through Time
- The History of Cleaning
- Written by: Donna Dougherty
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 3 hrs
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Dive into the untold story of humanity's battle against dust, grime, and disorder in "A Clean Sweep Through Time." This captivating journey through the annals of history unveils the often-overlooked but crucial role that cleanliness has played in shaping civilizations. From ancient civilizations' use of rudimentary brooms to the rise of elaborate cleaning rituals in royal courts, this book explores the evolution of cleaning practices across cultures.
Written by: Donna Dougherty
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Life as We Know It (Can Be)
- Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
- Written by: Bill Weir
- Narrated by: Bill Weir
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. As the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the latest scientific warnings and breakthroughs while often on the frontlines of disasters, natural and manmade. After the birth of his son in April 2020, Bill began distilling these experiences into a series of Earth Day letters to his boy, weaving together worry and wonder into a poignant reminder that a better future can still be written.
Written by: Bill Weir
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Climate Capitalism
- Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age
- Written by: Akshat Rathi
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.
Written by: Akshat Rathi
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Layers of Truth
- Navigating the Objective from the Subjective
- Written by: Drew Weatherhead
- Narrated by: Drew Weatherhead
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You may think that a simple concept like Truth should be easy to describe and easy to understand. But like many simple concepts, it becomes so much more complicated the further you go. Author Drew Weatherhead endeavors to display the complexity of the objective Truth that we're forced to navigate from our subjective viewpoints through a variety of meta constructs. These Layers of Truth that make up the whole of our reality can help us recognize how we perceive the parts of it in which we exist.
Written by: Drew Weatherhead
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The Jupiter Sun
- The Greatest Achievement in Human History
- Written by: Michael Mathiesen
- Narrated by: Michael Mathiesen
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, we go over the details of how NASA and hopefully Spacex and Blue Origins can get together and create a mission to create a 2nd sun in the sky. Imagine how other civilizations all around the universe who are able to look up into the sky around their planets with telescopes and instruments as powerful as ours and they notice a completely new star blazing into the night sky. They might even be able to conclude that this star had to have been created by an intelligent life form, a life form that may have achieved something no other life form had ever done before.
Written by: Michael Mathiesen
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The Climate Optimist Handbook
- How to Shift the Narrative on Climate Change and Find the Courage to Choose Change
- Written by: Anne Therese Gennari
- Narrated by: Anne Therese Gennari
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Climate Optimist Handbook, Anne Therese Gennari offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical tools to help us let go of fear and the dismal truth of today to build toward a world that can be better and more beautiful than anything we've yet seen. That future starts with shifting the narrative on climate change so we can act from courage and excitement, not fear. We must let go of the guilt and responsibility we feel to save the planet and move into a place of opportunity, optimism, and hope.
Written by: Anne Therese Gennari
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A Clean Sweep Through Time
- The History of Cleaning
- Written by: Donna Dougherty
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 3 hrs
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Dive into the untold story of humanity's battle against dust, grime, and disorder in "A Clean Sweep Through Time." This captivating journey through the annals of history unveils the often-overlooked but crucial role that cleanliness has played in shaping civilizations. From ancient civilizations' use of rudimentary brooms to the rise of elaborate cleaning rituals in royal courts, this book explores the evolution of cleaning practices across cultures.
Written by: Donna Dougherty
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The Empire of Climate
- A History of An Idea
- Written by: David N. Livingstone
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
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Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche.
Written by: David N. Livingstone
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Chamber Divers
- The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
- Written by: Rachel Lance
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The previously classified story of the eccentric researchers who invented cutting-edge underwater science to lead the Allies to D-Day victory.
Written by: Rachel Lance
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
- Written by: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee’s hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they’ve made to reach us.
Written by: Jessica J. Lee
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Alien Earths
- The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
- Written by: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
Written by: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
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The Importance of Being Educable
- A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
- Written by: Leslie Valiant
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities?
Written by: Leslie Valiant
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The Sixth Extinction (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- Written by: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines to provide a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept
Written by: Elizabeth Kolbert
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Loose of Earth
- A Memoir
- Written by: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.
Written by: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- Written by: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
Written by: John M. Barry
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- Written by: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
Written by: Susan E. Lederer
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The Conservative Environmentalist
- Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future
- Written by: Benji Backer
- Narrated by: Benji Backer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he delivers an entirely new strategy to take care of the planet while putting the economic interest of the American people first.
Written by: Benji Backer
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Psilocybin Therapy
- Understanding How to Use Nature's Psychedelics for Mental Health
- Written by: Dr. JJ Pursell
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In Psilocybin Therapy, Dr. JJ Pursell explores the next frontier in mental health: the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms and related psychedelics. Listeners will learn about the chemical makeup of mushrooms and what makes them powerful, the history of the fungi, the thought leaders in the movement, and the impact of psilocybin on the brain. Additional chapters explore how to use psilocybin with a facilitator, how psychedelics can help users work through deep psychological issues, what microdosing means, and how to assess potential risks.
Written by: Dr. JJ Pursell
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Saving Ourselves
- From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
- Written by: Dana R. Fisher
- Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective.
Written by: Dana R. Fisher
Sciences & Engineering Podcasts
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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- Written by: Ellie Sans, Clare Chadburn
- Narrated by: Professor Ben Garrod
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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We're living through a golden age of paleontological research that, in the last couple of decades, has radically changed our understanding of dinosaurs. Through candid interviews with the world’s top paleontologists, Professor Ben Garrod reveals new dinosaur facts from cutting edge research into the greatest animals ever to walk the planet.
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My favourite dinosaur is a chicken!!!
- By Jennifer on 2019-08-22
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Exoplanets: The Search for Another Earth
- Written by: Danielle George
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Technologically there’s never been a better time to search for a new earth beyond our solar system. Professor Danielle George examines exoplanets in the so-called habitable zone. Those that have liquid water. And maybe even life. She wonders how we might be able to take the our first ever high resolution picture of an exoplanet using the microchips found in mobile phones. And she meets world-leading astrophysicists to ask if within our lifetimes humans might step foot on an earth-like planet.
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Must Listen To Book if you enjoy Space & Sciences
- By Canadian Dad on 2021-02-27
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Sue Perkins Earpedia: Animals
- Written by: Sue Perkins
- Narrated by: Sue Perkins, Margaret Cabourn-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Former Bake Off host, passionate animal lover and comedian Sue Perkins, is our indispensable guide to the animal kingdom. Join her on a comical, insightful and, at times, shocking nature trail around the world. In this mad-cap adventure, she introduces us to the amazing, surprising and hysterical truth about all creatures great and small. From the African lungfish to the kangaroo, get ready for an irreverent, funny and often furry journey of discovery.
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Lack of passion / gives you 0 interest in animals
- By Divya on 2020-08-08
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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans
- Written by: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Kids love the ocean - it’s mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet. But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves? In this follow-up to A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, evolutionary biologist, Professor Ben Garrod, takes the listener on an oceanic journey from the beginning of life on Earth to the present day, discovering what the ocean actually is and why it’s so important in the evolutionary history of life.
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An educational listen
- By Rosie on 2020-09-21
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The Dark Web
- Written by: Geoff White, Bernard P. Achampong
- Narrated by: Geoff White
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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From sex trafficking and fraud to government secrets and anonymous hacking groups, this definitive exploration and exposé of the dark web goes where no documentary has gone before. The anonymous and lawless online environment of the Dark Web makes headlines on a daily basis. It touches all of our lives, without our knowledge, in many different ways. But where do the myths end and reality begin? Tech writer and broadcaster Geoff White ( Channel 4 News) wants to find out.
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Missed the mark
- By Jonathan on 2019-04-24
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Artificial Intelligence
- Friend or Foe?
- Written by: Geoff White, Bernard P. Achampong
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Will AI lead to the transformation of society as we know it, or bring about its destruction? Join technology journalist, Geoff White (The Dark Web), on a journey to discover how AI is already disrupting our lives. From warfare to the world of work, and finance to fine art, we experience AI every day - often without realising. Its effects will only increase in the coming years.
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Great book for entrepreneurs and business owners
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-20
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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- Written by: Ellie Sans, Clare Chadburn
- Narrated by: Professor Ben Garrod
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
We're living through a golden age of paleontological research that, in the last couple of decades, has radically changed our understanding of dinosaurs. Through candid interviews with the world’s top paleontologists, Professor Ben Garrod reveals new dinosaur facts from cutting edge research into the greatest animals ever to walk the planet.
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My favourite dinosaur is a chicken!!!
- By Jennifer on 2019-08-22
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Exoplanets: The Search for Another Earth
- Written by: Danielle George
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Technologically there’s never been a better time to search for a new earth beyond our solar system. Professor Danielle George examines exoplanets in the so-called habitable zone. Those that have liquid water. And maybe even life. She wonders how we might be able to take the our first ever high resolution picture of an exoplanet using the microchips found in mobile phones. And she meets world-leading astrophysicists to ask if within our lifetimes humans might step foot on an earth-like planet.
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Must Listen To Book if you enjoy Space & Sciences
- By Canadian Dad on 2021-02-27
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Sue Perkins Earpedia: Animals
- Written by: Sue Perkins
- Narrated by: Sue Perkins, Margaret Cabourn-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Former Bake Off host, passionate animal lover and comedian Sue Perkins, is our indispensable guide to the animal kingdom. Join her on a comical, insightful and, at times, shocking nature trail around the world. In this mad-cap adventure, she introduces us to the amazing, surprising and hysterical truth about all creatures great and small. From the African lungfish to the kangaroo, get ready for an irreverent, funny and often furry journey of discovery.
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Lack of passion / gives you 0 interest in animals
- By Divya on 2020-08-08
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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans
- Written by: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Kids love the ocean - it’s mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet. But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves? In this follow-up to A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, evolutionary biologist, Professor Ben Garrod, takes the listener on an oceanic journey from the beginning of life on Earth to the present day, discovering what the ocean actually is and why it’s so important in the evolutionary history of life.
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An educational listen
- By Rosie on 2020-09-21
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The Dark Web
- Written by: Geoff White, Bernard P. Achampong
- Narrated by: Geoff White
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From sex trafficking and fraud to government secrets and anonymous hacking groups, this definitive exploration and exposé of the dark web goes where no documentary has gone before. The anonymous and lawless online environment of the Dark Web makes headlines on a daily basis. It touches all of our lives, without our knowledge, in many different ways. But where do the myths end and reality begin? Tech writer and broadcaster Geoff White ( Channel 4 News) wants to find out.
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Missed the mark
- By Jonathan on 2019-04-24
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Artificial Intelligence
- Friend or Foe?
- Written by: Geoff White, Bernard P. Achampong
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Will AI lead to the transformation of society as we know it, or bring about its destruction? Join technology journalist, Geoff White (The Dark Web), on a journey to discover how AI is already disrupting our lives. From warfare to the world of work, and finance to fine art, we experience AI every day - often without realising. Its effects will only increase in the coming years.
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Great book for entrepreneurs and business owners
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-20
Science & Engineering Listens by Canadian Authors
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
- By Carolinebp on 2019-10-01
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- Written by: Christopher Dewdney
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth’s atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm - at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible rivers in the sky that affect how our weather works and the structure of clouds and storms and seasons, the rollercoaster of climate.
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Loved it
- By Wm. G. O'Farrell on 2019-10-19
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The Reality Bubble
- How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World
- Written by: Ziya Tong
- Narrated by: Ziya Tong
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around.
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this book was a bittersweet and very entertaining
- By Gypsymama on 2019-07-10
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall? Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he's here to put our scientific quandaries to rest.
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This book reminds me how awesome science is.
- By Kathryn on 2019-09-25
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The Science of Why 2
- Answers to Questions About the Universe, the Unknown and Ourselves
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Best-selling author and commentator Jay Ingram is back to explain the magic and mysteries of the world around us. Jay takes listeners on a tour of the universe, exploring wonders big and small. From the farthest reaches of space to the most perplexing historical riddles to the marvels of who we are and what we're made of, Jay answers the important questions, such as: What's inside a black hole? Will machines ever learn to feel? And how much pee is in the average pool?
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A fun & interesting listen
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-18
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
- By Carolinebp on 2019-10-01
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- Written by: Christopher Dewdney
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth’s atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm - at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible rivers in the sky that affect how our weather works and the structure of clouds and storms and seasons, the rollercoaster of climate.
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Loved it
- By Wm. G. O'Farrell on 2019-10-19
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The Reality Bubble
- How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World
- Written by: Ziya Tong
- Narrated by: Ziya Tong
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around.
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this book was a bittersweet and very entertaining
- By Gypsymama on 2019-07-10
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall? Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he's here to put our scientific quandaries to rest.
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This book reminds me how awesome science is.
- By Kathryn on 2019-09-25
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The Science of Why 2
- Answers to Questions About the Universe, the Unknown and Ourselves
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Best-selling author and commentator Jay Ingram is back to explain the magic and mysteries of the world around us. Jay takes listeners on a tour of the universe, exploring wonders big and small. From the farthest reaches of space to the most perplexing historical riddles to the marvels of who we are and what we're made of, Jay answers the important questions, such as: What's inside a black hole? Will machines ever learn to feel? And how much pee is in the average pool?
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A fun & interesting listen
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-18
Best Sellers from Audible Studios
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall? Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he's here to put our scientific quandaries to rest.
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This book reminds me how awesome science is.
- By Kathryn on 2019-09-25
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Considering the Horse
- Tales of Problems Solved and Lessons Learned
- Written by: Mark Rashid
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Own an unruly horse? Thinking about purchasing a horse but don't exactly know what to expect once you do? Ever wondered what and how a horse thinks? Mark Rashid tells stories that provide horse owners and potential buyers with the best training solutions - straight from the horse's mouth. By considering the horse's point of view, he explores a variety of solutions to common training problem like head tossing, trailer loading, mounting problems, and more.
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Une histoire de tout, ou presque...
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Posez une question, Bryson y répond dans ce livre, clair, synthétique, vivant, truffé d'anecdotes, qui conjugue avec bonheur science et sourire. Vous y apprendrez sans efforts par quels hasards, traits de génie, intuitions, déductions, expérimentations, débats, les hommes en sont arrivés à connaître le monde tel qu'ils le connaissent aujourd'hui.
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un touche-à-tout scientifique
- By Claude Lambert on 2021-03-18
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Call of the American Wild
- A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska
- Written by: Guy Grieve
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log cabin from scratch and began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting, and diligently avoiding bears. Packed with adventure, humor, and insight, this is the gripping story of an ordinary man learning the ways of the wild.
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Good read!
- By Anonymous User on 2024-01-06
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- Written by: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall? Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he's here to put our scientific quandaries to rest.
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This book reminds me how awesome science is.
- By Kathryn on 2019-09-25
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Considering the Horse
- Tales of Problems Solved and Lessons Learned
- Written by: Mark Rashid
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Own an unruly horse? Thinking about purchasing a horse but don't exactly know what to expect once you do? Ever wondered what and how a horse thinks? Mark Rashid tells stories that provide horse owners and potential buyers with the best training solutions - straight from the horse's mouth. By considering the horse's point of view, he explores a variety of solutions to common training problem like head tossing, trailer loading, mounting problems, and more.
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Une histoire de tout, ou presque...
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Posez une question, Bryson y répond dans ce livre, clair, synthétique, vivant, truffé d'anecdotes, qui conjugue avec bonheur science et sourire. Vous y apprendrez sans efforts par quels hasards, traits de génie, intuitions, déductions, expérimentations, débats, les hommes en sont arrivés à connaître le monde tel qu'ils le connaissent aujourd'hui.
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un touche-à-tout scientifique
- By Claude Lambert on 2021-03-18
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Call of the American Wild
- A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska
- Written by: Guy Grieve
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log cabin from scratch and began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting, and diligently avoiding bears. Packed with adventure, humor, and insight, this is the gripping story of an ordinary man learning the ways of the wild.
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Good read!
- By Anonymous User on 2024-01-06
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The Blind Watchmaker
- Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
- Written by: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Blind Watchmaker, knowledgably narrated by author Richard Dawkins, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the 18th-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte.
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Excellent Discussion
- By Langer MD on 2020-02-23
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- Written by: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
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Excellent content... annoying narrator
- By mykey on 2019-04-03
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Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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Ayant découvert que ce qui s'était passé dans le monde depuis deux siècles s'était retrouvé sous forme d'objets et de rituels quotidiens dans notre intérieur, le plus drôle des écrivains voyageurs américains fait le tour de sa maison pour nous raconter cette grande aventure du génie humain - de l'invention de la tapette à souris à la conception de la tour Eiffel, de la saga des acariens à celle des milliardaires. Une histoire de l'envers du décor.
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Super
- By Anonymous User on 2023-05-25
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Deep
- Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. Fascinated by the sport of freediving - in which competitors descend to great depths on a single breath - James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena.
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Educational
- By Kim on 2020-04-05
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Atomic Awakening
- A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
- Written by: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears, our perception of all things nuclear is seen through the lens of weapons development. Nuclear power is full of mind-bending theories, deep secrets, and the misdirection of public consciousness - some deliberate, some accidental. The result of this fixation on bombs and fallout is that the development of a non-polluting, renewable energy source stands frozen in time.
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Decent overview
- By Adam D Patterson on 2022-12-09
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L'ordre du temps
- Written by: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Laurent Jacquet
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Dans ses "Sept brèves leçons de physique", Carlo Rovelli confiait : qu'une question avait guidé sa vie de chercheur : la nature du temps. Se hissant sur les épaules d'Isaac Newton, d'Albert Einstein, de Stephen Hawking et de bien d'autres, il nous livre enfin ses découvertes dans ce livre majeur. Le temps est au cœur d'un étrange mystère. Tel un flocon de neige qui fond lorsqu'on s'en saisit, il s'est progressivement délité sous les assauts de la science : on sait dorénavant que le temps s'écoule plus lentement en plaine qu'en altitude.
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Excellente leçon
- By Anonymous User on 2023-04-13
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Gut
- The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
- Written by: Giulia Enders
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit.
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Very informative
- By Yousuf J. on 2019-12-18
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
- Written by: Kathleen McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.
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Really interesting conclusion
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-11
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Written by: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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well written, narrator excellent as well
- By dan barsky on 2021-11-09
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Bernoulli's Fallacy
- Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
- Written by: Aubrey Clayton
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the 17th-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.
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Eye opening
- By Lexloco on 2023-05-08
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Initiation à l'Astrologie
- Written by: Émilie Charton
- Narrated by: Axelle Bossard
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Connaissez-vous la carte du ciel au moment de votre naissance ? Que révèle votre ascendant ? Quelle importance ont la Lune, Vénus, Jupiter, Saturne ... et quels secteurs de votre vie (amour, famille, travail, argent, projets…) ces planètes influencent-elles ? Le thème astral donne des indications précises sur notre personnalité et représente notre potentiel à réaliser. C'est un puissant outil de connaissance de soi et de croissance personnelle...
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Bien expliqué
- By France Lindsay on 2023-08-06
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Written by: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
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Mother of God
- An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
- Written by: Paul Rosolie
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.
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Recommend listen!
- By Troy Chubbs on 2024-02-14
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Le grand roman des maths
- De la préhistoire à nos jours
- Written by: Mickaël Launay
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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La plupart des gens aiment les maths. L'ennui, c'est qu'ils ne le savent pas. Dans les temps préhistoriques, les maths sont nées pour être utiles. Les nombres servaient à compter les moutons d'un troupeau. La géométrie permettait de mesurer les champs et de tracer des routes. L'histoire aurait pu en rester là, mais au fil des siècles, les Homo sapiens furent bien étonnés de découvrir les chemins sinueux de cette science parfois abstraite.
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Une belle surprise.
- By sylvain madran on 2021-08-25
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Une histoire du corps humain à l'usage de ses occupants
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Rendu célèbre par ses récits de voyage et son humour, l'Américain Bill Bryson entreprend dans ce nouveau livre audio le plus extraordinaire des périples : surpris d'apprendre qu'on pourrait acheter tous les composants chimiques de notre organisme pour cinq dollars dans une quincaillerie, il décide d'explorer le corps humain et d'en percer les secrets.
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Toujours aussi merveilleux qu'instructif
- By Mathieu Gaulin on 2021-11-04
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Evolution’s Rainbow
- Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, with a New Preface
- Written by: Joan Roughgarden
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science--and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality.
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Starts with science then becomes christian opinion
- By Darnaryel Fantaisie on 2023-05-03
Trending in the Plus Catalogue: Science & Engineering
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
- By Carolinebp on 2019-10-01
Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Written by: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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ROBOT VOICE narration is UNLISTENABLE!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-03-17
Written by: Jenny Odell
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Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- Written by: The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Sam Wang
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Your nervous system is you. All the thoughts, perceptions, moods, passions, and dreams that make you an active, sentient being are the work of this amazing network of cells. For many centuries, people knew this was true. But no one was sure how it happened. Now, thanks to the exciting new field of neuroscience, we can chart the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system in remarkable detail to explain how neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes produce all the experiences of everyday life, in every stage of life.
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unable to find the images of the brain structures
- By Night Rider on 2020-03-05
Written by: The Great Courses
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Remember It!
- The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget
- Written by: Nelson Dellis, Sanjay Gupta MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Throughout his research into memory theory, Nelson Dellis found existing memory improvement guides to be wanting - overcomplicated, dry, and stodgy. So he decided to create a book that is approachable and fun, centered on what people actually need to remember. In Remember It!, Dellis teaches us how to make the most of our memory, using his competition-winning techniques.
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Must Buy!! Worth every dollar
- By Kyle on 2021-11-03
Written by: Nelson Dellis, and others
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Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
- Written by: Brian M. Fagan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Brian M. Fagan
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?
These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins, how populations developed, and the ways in which civilizations spread throughout the globe.
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over rated
- By Anonymous User on 2019-12-16
Written by: Brian M. Fagan, and others
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Le futur de la vie terrestre
- Written by: Hubert Reeves
- Narrated by: Hubert Reeves
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Notre planète va mal : réchauffement climatique, épuisement des ressources naturelles, pollutions des sols et de l'eau provoquées par les industries civiles et guerrières, disparité des richesses, malnutrition des hommes, taux d'extinction effarant des espèces vivantes, etc. La situation est-elle vraiment dramatique ? Que penser des thèses qui contestent ce pessimisme ?
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J’ai adoré
- By david on 2023-07-19
Written by: Hubert Reeves
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
- By Carolinebp on 2019-10-01
Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Written by: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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ROBOT VOICE narration is UNLISTENABLE!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-03-17
Written by: Jenny Odell
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Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- Written by: The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Sam Wang
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Your nervous system is you. All the thoughts, perceptions, moods, passions, and dreams that make you an active, sentient being are the work of this amazing network of cells. For many centuries, people knew this was true. But no one was sure how it happened. Now, thanks to the exciting new field of neuroscience, we can chart the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system in remarkable detail to explain how neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes produce all the experiences of everyday life, in every stage of life.
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unable to find the images of the brain structures
- By Night Rider on 2020-03-05
Written by: The Great Courses
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Remember It!
- The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget
- Written by: Nelson Dellis, Sanjay Gupta MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout his research into memory theory, Nelson Dellis found existing memory improvement guides to be wanting - overcomplicated, dry, and stodgy. So he decided to create a book that is approachable and fun, centered on what people actually need to remember. In Remember It!, Dellis teaches us how to make the most of our memory, using his competition-winning techniques.
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Must Buy!! Worth every dollar
- By Kyle on 2021-11-03
Written by: Nelson Dellis, and others
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Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
- Written by: Brian M. Fagan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Brian M. Fagan
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?
These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins, how populations developed, and the ways in which civilizations spread throughout the globe.
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over rated
- By Anonymous User on 2019-12-16
Written by: Brian M. Fagan, and others
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Le futur de la vie terrestre
- Written by: Hubert Reeves
- Narrated by: Hubert Reeves
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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Notre planète va mal : réchauffement climatique, épuisement des ressources naturelles, pollutions des sols et de l'eau provoquées par les industries civiles et guerrières, disparité des richesses, malnutrition des hommes, taux d'extinction effarant des espèces vivantes, etc. La situation est-elle vraiment dramatique ? Que penser des thèses qui contestent ce pessimisme ?
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J’ai adoré
- By david on 2023-07-19
Written by: Hubert Reeves
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Le cerveau et la musique
- Une odyssée fantastique d'art et de science
- Written by: Michel Rochon
- Narrated by: Michel Rochon
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Un son, une note, une mélodie et voilà...le cerveau en effervescence. Mais pourquoi certains airs arrivent-ils à nous tirer des larmes, à nous donner la chair de poule, à nous enthousiasmer ou à nous faire danser? Journaliste scientifique aguerri, Michel Rochon nous entraîne dans une exploration fascinante du cerveau musical. Il nous révèle les plus récentes découvertes en intelligence artificielle, en neuropsychologie, en linguistique et même en mathématiques qui nous font comprendre autrement les harmonies sonores.
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Le cerveau et la musique
- By Anonymous User on 2023-02-05
Written by: Michel Rochon
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The Master and His Emissary
- The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- Written by: Iain McGilchrist
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
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This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master.
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I am in awe of McGilchrist's erudition.
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-09-17
Written by: Iain McGilchrist
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One Man's Wilderness
- An Alaskan Odyssey
- Written by: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin... to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available... to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company. Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them.
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My favorite book of all time
- By Patrick on 2019-08-27
Written by: Sam Keith, and others
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The Book of Humans
- A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
- Written by: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Are we? In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal".
Written by: Adam Rutherford
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- Written by: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals".
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Excellent
- By Kelly on 2022-07-18
Written by: Dan Flores
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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Fascinating walking old paths
- By Jamie Levine on 2020-06-18
Written by: Robert Macfarlane
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Quantum
- Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
- Written by: Manjit Kumar
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution.
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Eye opening and encouraging.
- By Ernesto R. on 2023-03-28
Written by: Manjit Kumar
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Nature in Horsemanship
- Discovering Harmony Through Principles of Aikido
- Written by: Mark Rashid
- Narrated by: Matt Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horse's training and resolve any problems encountered along the way.
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Love all Mark Rashid books
- By Pine Haven on 2023-01-19
Written by: Mark Rashid
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.
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Brilliant thinker worth listening to.
- By Rena on 2023-02-22
Written by: Richard P. Feynman, and others
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- Written by: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems.
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Enjoyed
- By Robert klippenstein on 2018-09-13
Written by: Sebastian Junger
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Sauver la planète une bouchée à la fois
- Written by: Bernard Lavallée
- Narrated by: Bernard Lavallée
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Dans ce guide pratique, ludique et convivial, le nutritionniste Bernard Lavallée nous donne une foule de conseils, de trucs et d'astuces pour que le respect et la protection de l'environnement se fassent aussi dans notre assiette. Manger local, choisir la pêche durable, produire moins de déchets, cuisiner les aliments fatigués, produire sa nourriture, etc.
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J'aime
- By Jojo on 2022-04-22
Written by: Bernard Lavallée
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Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe
- Written by: Jeffrey C. Grossman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeffrey C. Grossman
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Nothing has had a more profound impact on the development of modern civilization than thermodynamics. Thermodynamic processes are at the heart of everything that involves heat, energy, and work, making an understanding of the subject indispensable for careers in engineering, physical science, biology, meteorology, and even nutrition and culinary arts. Get an in-depth tour of this vital and fascinating science in 24 enthralling lectures suitable for everyone from science novices to experts who wish to review elementary concepts and formulas.
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Too technical for most people
- By Tariq Rana on 2024-01-15
Written by: Jeffrey C. Grossman, and others
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Becoming Fluent
- How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
- Written by: Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do, they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children.
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Excellent book about how adults learn languages
- By Patricia P. on 2020-05-23
Written by: Richard Roberts, and others
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- Written by: Ben Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."
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Inspiration
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-12-15
Written by: Ben Montgomery
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens...Where Is Everybody? Second Edition
- Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
- Written by: Stephen Webb
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of the numbers almost demands that we accept the truth of this hypothesis. Why, then, have we encountered no evidence, no messages, no artifacts of these extraterrestrials?
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Excellent book
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-11
Written by: Stephen Webb
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The Higgs Boson and Beyond
- Written by: Sean Carroll, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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In this 12-lecture masterpiece of scientific reporting, you'll learn everything you need to know to fully grasp the significance of this discovery, including the basics of quantum mechanics; the four forces that comprise the Standard Model of particle physics; how these forces are transmitted by fields and particles; and the importance of symmetry in physics.
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One of the greatest
- By josh brolin on 2020-11-27
Written by: Sean Carroll, and others
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A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- Written by: Walter Lord
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
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The first book ever written on the disaster!
- By Bella Amelia on 2022-01-20
Written by: Walter Lord
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Into the Great Emptiness
- Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
- Written by: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level.
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Tidy adventurous account
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-03-22
Written by: David Roberts
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Quantum Space
- Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
- Written by: Jim Baggott
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Today we are blessed with two extraordinarily successful theories of physics. The first is Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the large-scale behavior of matter in a curved spacetime. The second is quantum mechanics. This theory describes the properties and behavior of matter and radiation at their smallest scales.
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Fascinating look into the possible nature of space-time
- By Andrew on 2024-03-10
Written by: Jim Baggott
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Animal Lessons
- Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with Animals
- Written by: Danielle MacKinnon
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person using Animal Lessons. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus - if you pay attention. They want to guide you toward the next step in your personal evolution, and this first-of-its-kind audiobook shows you how to understand and benefit from them. With an open heart and mind, you'll develop a new awareness and stronger love of yourself as well as the wise creatures in your life.
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Really Great Read!
- By Jaclyn on 2023-05-07
Written by: Danielle MacKinnon
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The German Aces Speak
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- Written by: Anne-Marie Lewis, Jon Guttman, Brigadier General Robin Olds USAF - Ret., and others
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the World War II fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the 65-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots' heroics have never been in short supply. But what about their adversaries - the highly skilled German aviators who pushed the Allies to the very brink of defeat?
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Great Collection of Accounts From Great Aces
- By Andrew Mendes on 2021-09-15
Written by: Anne-Marie Lewis, and others
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Arctic Homestead
- The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
- Written by: Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five children pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans 20 to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society's fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or death feud with unscrupulous neighbors who would rob from new settlers.
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Abysmal Narration
- By South Shore Rebel on 2023-10-16
Written by: Norma Cobb, and others
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
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Great listen
- By Tyrell on 2020-01-11
Written by: Jared Diamond
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Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications
- Written by: David Sadava, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: David Sadava
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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We use DNA routinely - to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, our nutrition, our society, and our future. But what, exactly is DNA, the self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms?
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Worth listening to in the modern age
- By Mark F Sperring on 2024-02-21
Written by: David Sadava, and others