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Rationality
- What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for COVID-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are an irrational species - cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions.
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Dull and Underwhelming .
- By Kindle Customer on 2021-10-21
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Rationality
- What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-28
- Language: English
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This Is Your Brain on Music
- The Science of a Human Obsession
- Written by: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life - even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature.
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A solid walk through of why music is such an important part of our experience
- By Mr. Chris on 2023-01-11
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This Is Your Brain on Music
- The Science of a Human Obsession
- Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-04
- Language: English
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for - sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber - surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable.
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Basically just a trip report.
- By Jade on 2022-09-01
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-06
- Language: English
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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future.
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Beautiful and deep and utterly gutting
- By Adam Drew on 2019-10-13
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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-03
- Language: English
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- Written by: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term complexity can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities, and our businesses.
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Profound Insight, Poorly Written
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-23
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-16
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Written by: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: The union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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Terrible Audio
- By SL on 2024-03-20
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-10
- Language: English
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For Small Creatures Such as We
- Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- Written by: Sasha Sagan
- Narrated by: Sasha Sagan
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan - a luminous exploration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world - a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.
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so good !
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-26
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For Small Creatures Such as We
- Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- Narrated by: Sasha Sagan
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-22
- Language: English
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
- The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
- Written by: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman
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Entertaining but a bit political
- By DJVIBE on 2022-01-06
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
- The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-12
- Language: English
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The Weather Detective
- Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
- Written by: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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In this first-ever English translation of The Weather Detective, Peter Wohlleben uses his long experience and deep love of nature to help decipher the weather and our local environments in a completely new and compelling way. Analyzing the explanations for everyday questions and mysteries surrounding weather and natural phenomena, he delves into a new and intriguing world of scientific investigation.
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Informative on the surface...
- By soberlin on 2019-08-29
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The Weather Detective
- Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-05
- Language: English
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Written by: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the Universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: To the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds.
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Beautiful text, terrible to listen to
- By Jenna on 2019-04-05
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-01
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- Written by: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 18 hrs
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Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films, and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade, many of Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have been borne out, and their viability has become familiar to the public through such now commonplace concepts. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity.
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 2024-06-25
- Language: English
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Humble Pi
- When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
- Written by: Matt Parker
- Narrated by: Matt Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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Missing something from the physical book
- By A on 2020-02-01
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Humble Pi
- When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
- Narrated by: Matt Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-21
- 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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Existential Physics
- A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
- Written by: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely.
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Enjoyed it greatly
- By James on 2023-06-11
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Existential Physics
- A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-09
- Language: English
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Written by: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements.
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-25
- Language: English
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Unnatural Causes
- Written by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right - and Shepherd has performed over 23,000 of them. Through his skill, dedication and insight, Dr Shepherd solves the puzzle to answer our most pressing question: how did this person die?
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Exceptional
- By Emma on 2019-11-10
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Unnatural Causes
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-20
- Language: English
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Small Is Beautiful
- A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
- Written by: E. F. Schumacher
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.
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Small Is Beautiful
- A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-04
- Language: English
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Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- Written by: Joshua Foer
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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An instant best seller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes". He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
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could be better
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-10-22
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Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2011-03-03
- Language: English
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Tamed
- Ten Species That Changed Our World
- Written by: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Tamed, written and read by Alice Roberts. The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter-gatherers, consummate foraging experts, taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred - our ancestors' interaction with other species changed.
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Not biased and easy to understand!
- By Cheryl on 2019-05-06
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Tamed
- Ten Species That Changed Our World
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-22
- Language: English
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The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- Written by: Alanna Mitchell
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization.
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Worth a credit!!
- By clevrgrl on 2018-06-01
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The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-30
- Language: English
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