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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Written by: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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Good but not excellent
- By Taras T. on 2019-11-14
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2016-09-08
- Language: English
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Written by: Jerry Grayson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever to serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-16
- Language: English
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Needs a new narrator
- By CC on 2024-03-12
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Donkeys
- Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World
- Written by: Andy Merrifield
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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"The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance...and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind - a search for slowness and tranquility - Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, Gribouille, to walk amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne.
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a philosophical road story
- By Kumru Bilici on 2018-09-19
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The Wisdom of Donkeys
- Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-12
- Language: English
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Lost Among the Birds
- Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
- Written by: Neil Hayward
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with 'the one' or his potential for ruining a new relationship with 'the next one'. And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning 40. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans.
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Lost Among the Birds
- Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-26
- Language: English
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The Real Global Warming Disaster
- Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
- Written by: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before.
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The Real Global Warming Disaster
- Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-03
- Language: English
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Because I Come from a Crazy Family
- The Making of a Psychiatrist
- Written by: Edward M. Hallowell
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.
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A bit disappointing
- By Mike on 2018-10-10
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Because I Come from a Crazy Family
- The Making of a Psychiatrist
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-12
- Language: English
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- Written by: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
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Encouraging and reassuring
- By Dion Jones on 2018-01-14
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-21
- Language: English
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- Written by: David Hone
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Adored by children and adults alike, tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, triceratops, or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right and are among the best-studied of all dinosaurs.
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Good overview of the available data.
- By pete Vanderzwet on 2018-04-09
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-30
- Language: English
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Rambunctious Garden
- Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Written by: Emma Marris
- Narrated by: Renee Chambliss
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity.
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Great ideas from a great journalist, read aloud by a not so great narrator
- By Clara on 2020-09-11
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Rambunctious Garden
- Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Narrated by: Renee Chambliss
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-09
- Language: English
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Titanic on Trial
- The Night the Titanic Sank, Told Through the Testimonies of Her Passengers and Crew
- Written by: Nic Compton
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 9 hrs
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April 15, 2012, marked 100 years since the Titanic sank. Since that fateful night, stories about the sinking have become legendary - how the band played to the end, how lifeboats were lowered half-empty - but amongst the films, novels and academic arguments, only those who were there can separate truth from fiction. After the sinking, inquiries into the loss of 1,517 lives (out of 2,223 aboard) were held in both the UK and US. The proceedings produced 1,000 pages of transcripts.
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Titanic on Trial
- The Night the Titanic Sank, Told Through the Testimonies of Her Passengers and Crew
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 2013-03-07
- Language: English
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- Written by: David Sumpter
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily?
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2018-05-17
- Language: English
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- Written by: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Rowell Gormon
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- Narrated by: Rowell Gormon
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-27
- Language: English
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Herding Hemingway's Cats
- Understanding How Our Genes Work
- Written by: Kat Arney
- Narrated by: Kat Arney
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. So we've all heard of genes, but how do they actually work?
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Herding Hemingway's Cats
- Understanding How Our Genes Work
- Narrated by: Kat Arney
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2016-01-14
- Language: English
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Written by: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature.
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-01
- Language: English
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Bird Sense
- What It's Like to Be a Bird
- Written by: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other.
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Bird Sense
- What It's Like to Be a Bird
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-01
- Language: English
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Light
- A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
- Written by: Bruce Watson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a 'heaven of pure light.' Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas.
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Light
- A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-23
- Language: English
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- Written by: Seth S. Horowitz PhD
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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The surprising truth about how the things our ears hear affect what's between them. Every day, we are surrounded by millions of sounds - ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what we hear every day? And how does it affect our brains and our minds?
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-26
- Language: English
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p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
- Written by: Sue Armstrong
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code reveals the tale of the search for this gene, as well as the excitement of the hunt for new cures - the hype, the lost opportunities, the blind alleys, and the thrilling breakthroughs. As the long-anticipated revolution in cancer treatment tailored to each individual patient's symptoms starts to take off at last, p53 is still at the forefront of the game. This is a timely tale of scientific discovery and advances in our understanding of a disease that still affects more than one in three of us at some point in our lives.
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p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2014-11-20
- Language: English
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Forecast
- What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics
- Written by: Mark Buchanan
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs
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Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. We all know how that works out for her.Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions - storms - seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react.
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Forecast
- What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2013-11-15
- Language: English
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