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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- Written by: Yuval Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.
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I'll definitely listen to this again.
- By Shea Earl on 2017-11-25
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-13
- Language: English
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- Written by: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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Who's this for?
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-02-21
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-16
- Language: English
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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. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices.
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Illuminating book
- By Daphne D on 2020-07-04
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Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-26
- Language: English
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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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A Beautiful Story
- By Cathryn Belle on 2018-02-25
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-27
- Language: English
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
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Yet Another Thought-Provoking Effort from Isaacson!
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-03-15
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-09
- Language: English
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Wild Sounds of Canada
- Written by: Various writers
- Narrated by: Sarika Cullis-Suzuki
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Join lauded marine biologist Dr. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki for an intimate tour of the wild heart of the nation. From the Tombstone Mountains of the Yukon Territory to the glowing grasslands of Saskatchewan, each episode is alive with the buzzes, warbles, and howls of Canadian wildlife. Cullis-Suzuki is your guide, painting a picture of the landscapes around you while letting you in on the wilderness stories unfolding.
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Wonderful sounds of Canada
- By Tracy Milne on 2020-12-22
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Wild Sounds of Canada
- Narrated by: Sarika Cullis-Suzuki
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-17
- Language: English
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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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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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Neat facts and great advice for better sleep
- By Connor Morgan-Lang on 2018-07-04
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-03
- Language: English
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams, and nightmares that will shape the 21st century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
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Accept minor defects and enjoy this book
- By Reza on 2017-12-10
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-13
- Language: English
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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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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-27
- Language: English
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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
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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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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Professor Ben Garrod
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-11
- Language: English
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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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From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, 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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Amazing
- By Russ Pastorchik on 2020-02-16
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-10
- Language: English
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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans
- Written by: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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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 Amazon Customer on 2020-09-21
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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-11
- Language: English
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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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What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
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great audio book.
- By Burk Prael on 2017-11-18
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-02
- Language: English
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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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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Boring yet thought provoking
- By Julie on 2019-10-08
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2011-01-18
- Language: English
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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. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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Totally delightful!
- By eve on 2018-02-12
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Series: The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2016-09-13
- Language: English
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Chatter
- The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
- Written by: Ethan Kross
- Narrated by: Ethan Kross
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus - you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use?
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Easy Listen
- By PWsoccer on 2021-04-06
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Chatter
- The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
- Narrated by: Ethan Kross
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.
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Abridged
- By Robin on 2017-11-29
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2010-04-01
- Language: English
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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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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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alright alright alright
- By Anonymous User on 2019-10-02
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Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-26
- Language: English
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Algorithms to Live By
- The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Written by: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.
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They must have written this book for me
- By SJ on 2018-10-24
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Algorithms to Live By
- The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-19
- Language: English
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
- Written by: Eric Berger
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.
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Best book about SpaceX
- By Anonymous User on 2021-04-15
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-02
- Language: English
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