Showing titles in History & Philosophy
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,693
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Performance5,062
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Story5,035
From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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Not too bad for a Jon Ronson book
- By M. S. on 20-08-19
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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At Work in the Ruins
- Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
- By: Dougald Hine
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question. He delves deeply into what he discovered during the globally shared isolating Covid moment, why the virus and the measures taken against it drove so many of us to despair, and how we can re-find our bearings if the pandemic is not the big event that changes everything but simply one in a chain of emergencies that are bringing about the end of the world as we knew it.
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Dancing badgers
- By Jeremy Le Fèvre on 13-02-23
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At Work in the Ruins
- Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-02-23
- Language: English
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- By: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance73
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Story73
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: Observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria.
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Interesting, informative & thought provoking read
- By JHFD on 29-12-20
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall258
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Performance181
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Story181
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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Dangerous Miracle
- A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them
- By: Liam Shaw
- Narrated by: Liam Shaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
Brought to you by Penguin. Antibiotics: one of humanity’s greatest achievements – but invented by microbes. An epic narrative of discovery and innovation – but also of extraction and exploitation. This is the spellbinding story of how we have burned through the fossil fuels of medicine...
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Brilliant
- By Razzamuffin on 03-04-26
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Dangerous Miracle
- A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them
- Narrated by: Liam Shaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-08-25
- Language: English
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The Bigger Picture
- How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
- By: Alexander Beiner
- Narrated by: Alexander Beiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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Story19
Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultural, spiritual, and political wounds we're wrestling with?Psychedelics have hit the mainstream as powerful new mental health treatments. But as clinicians explore what these molecules can do for...
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Excellent guide to changing your perspective
- By Mr Stefan Chmelik on 05-03-24
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The Bigger Picture
- How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
- Narrated by: Alexander Beiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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American Sherlock
- Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
- By: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance23
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Story24
From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with...
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Enthralling
- By Anonymous on 10-03-21
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American Sherlock
- Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
- Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-02-20
- Language: English
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Freedom Evolves
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story20
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments - drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy - that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally.
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I must get more cleverer
- By Simon on 07-03-15
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Freedom Evolves
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- By: Nicola Twilley
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Winner of the James Beard Award for Literary Writing "Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times Book Review “Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary...
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a mind-blowing book that's made me see the world differently
- By Kindle-klant on 27-07-24
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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I Told You So!
- Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
- By: Matt Kaplan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted—from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners. For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He’s seen breakthroughs often...
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Excellent Story Telling and Eye Opening
- By paparelli on 27-03-26
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I Told You So!
- Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Enchanted Creatures
- Our Monsters and Their Meanings
- By: Natalie Lawrence
- Narrated by: Natalie Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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'Fascinating . . . a riveting tour' MERLIN SHELDRAKE 'Game of Thrones meets the Natural History Museum meets Grimm fairytales . . . fascinating, enthralling and definitely enchanting' CHRIS PACKHAM 'Thrilling, wide-ranging and profound' CASPER HENDERSON The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry...
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Enchanted Creatures
- Our Monsters and Their Meanings
- Narrated by: Natalie Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- By: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
- Narrated by: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- Narrated by: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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The Biology Book
- Big Ideas
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The Biology Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of more than 95 momentous ideas in science, from cell theory to evolution by natural selection. Themed chapters explore key areas of the life sciences including ecology, zoology and biotechnology, tracing the history of scientific thought and introducing the scientists who shaped the subject, such as Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. Coverage of topical issues such as cloning, neuroscience, human evolution and gene-editing brings the story right up to date.
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The Biology Book
- Big Ideas
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Atomic Awakening
- A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
- By: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall236
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Performance216
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Story213
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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Futuristic, tense, stranger than fiction history!
- By Jim Vaughan on 20-11-13
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Atomic Awakening
- A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-09-13
- Language: English
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Lucy
- The Beginnings of Humankind
- By: Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Edey
- Narrated by: Donald C. Johanson
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues today. Bursting with all the suspense and intrigue of a fast-paced adventure novel, here is Johanson’s lively account of the extraordinary discovery of “Lucy.” By expounding the controversial change Lucy makes in our view of human origins, Johanson provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the history of paleoanthropology and the colorful, eccentric characters who were, and are, a part of it.
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Umpteen wow moments.
- By Mul on 16-03-25
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Lucy
- The Beginnings of Humankind
- Narrated by: Donald C. Johanson
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall202
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Performance160
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Story156
In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....
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So much science i don't even
- By Epic Taters on 27-08-15
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-12-11
- Language: English
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The Knife’s Edge
- The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
- By: Stephen Westaby
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance118
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Story116
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019 An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during...
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Very interesting book
- By Steve H on 27-04-19
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The Knife’s Edge
- The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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