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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- By: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Today, taxonomy is viewed by many as an outdated field, one nearly irrelevant to the rest of science and of even less interest to the rest of the world. Now, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon reminds us in Naming Nature, taxonomy is critically important, because it turns out to be much more than mere science. It is also the latest incarnation of a long-unrecognized human practice that has gone on across the globe, in every culture, in every language since before time: the deeply human act of ordering and naming the living world.
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-09-10
- Language: English
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- By: Theresa Levitt
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for science. Spurned by the scientific establishment, the pair ended up working out of Edouard's family perfume shop, Laugier père et fils. By day they prepared the revitalizing elixirs and rejuvenating eaux it was famous for, but by night using the ingredients of the perfumery and the principles of alchemy, they pursued the secret of life itself.
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Excellent-my favourite book this year
- By Felicity Coudre on 21-12-24
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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Synchronicity
- The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
- By: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world. For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen...
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Pleasantly Surprised
- By Ash Roskell on 28-08-22
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Synchronicity
- The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Genentech
- The Beginnings of Biotech
- By: Sally Smith Hughes
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology.
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Genentech
- The Beginnings of Biotech
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
- By: Phillip E. Johnson
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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In the best-selling and critically acclaimed Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance, Phillip Johnson took on the academic elites and exposed the misleading claims of evolutionary naturalism. Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds provides a new and powerful treatment of these issues for high-school students, parents, teachers, pastors, youth advisers, and ordinary listeners. Johnson aims not just to defeat a bad theory, but to defeat it in the right way - by opening minds to the truth.
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what a load of nonsense
- By Kirsty on 25-01-26
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Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar, Andreas Wirthensohn - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritischen Punkt in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Künstliche Intelligenz steht noch am Anfang, doch die Welle baut sich auf, und wir sind darauf nicht vorbereitet. Mustafa Suleyman ist Mitbegründer von DeepMind, dem KI-Pionier, der nun Teil von Alphabet ist, dem Google-Mutterkonzern. Er ist der ultimative KI-Insider. Sein Buch zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht, und fragt, wie wir von den neuen Technologien profitieren können, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren.
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-03-24
- Language: German
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- By: Tim Coulson
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he leads us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered – the staggering complexity of the modern human mind. Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet written to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this book takes the biggest story of all and tells it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly.
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Eric R. Scerri
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Eric R. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the table and shows how the deeper meaning of the table's structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory.
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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Abridged
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Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush...
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-04-07
- Language: English
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate.
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Insightful, thought provoking and very readable
- By Anonymous on 10-08-24
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-07-10
- Language: English
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.
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Excellent book
- By Mr. X. Dijo on 18-08-24
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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The Caretakers of the Cosmos
- Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation. Lachman brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument to the nihilism that permeates the twenty-first century.
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Thought provoking and enjoyable
- By G W on 17-10-22
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The Caretakers of the Cosmos
- Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-05-20
- Language: English
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AI Ethics
- By: Mark Coeckelbergh
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.
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Poorly written and even more poorly executed
- By Anonymous on 25-04-25
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AI Ethics
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- By: Naomi Oreskes, M. Susan Lindee, Ottmar Edenhofer, and others
- Narrated by: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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insightful
- By Lara Reusch on 02-03-20
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, Nancy Crane, Richard Lyddon, Jon Krosnick
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Breaking the Chains of Gravity written and read by Amy Shira Teitel. The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But...
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-10-22
- Language: English
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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- By: René Descartes
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words "I think therefore I am," his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies; that these are totally distinct "substances"; that God exists and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses.
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Contains Discourse, Meditations, and Principles.
- By Josh on 27-02-23
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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-10-09
- Language: English
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A Pox on Fools
- The Grifters and Cynics Who Want Us to Reject Vaccines
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Bloomsbury presents A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson, read by Mike Cooper. An urgent and timely history of anti-vaccine arguments and the dangers of their proliferation. The promise of Robert F. Kennedy, the incoming Health Secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, to revoke the validation...
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A Pox on Fools
- The Grifters and Cynics Who Want Us to Reject Vaccines
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- By: Jessica Riskin
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORKER “A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore “A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava Sobel The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history...
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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Flashes of Creation
- George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
- By: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes...
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Flashes of Creation
- George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Living Systems
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 56 mins
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Topics explored in this dialogue include: how you can address the greatest challenge of our times, the role of the arts in deep ecology, how the shift from linear thinking to systems thinking in the sciences affects us now and in the future, understanding the complexity of living systems and life itself, why creativity is the driving force of evolution, what religion and deep ecology have in common, what's really behind the information age, and the mathematics of complexity.
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informative listen
- By Jussie on 08-12-16
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Living Systems
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 24-12-08
- Language: English
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