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Crick
- A Mind in Motion
- By: Matthew Cobb
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A major new biography of Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick’s, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the...
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Crick
- A Mind in Motion
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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The Devil's Element
- Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
- By: Dan Egan
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital...
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The Devil's Element
- Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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The Matter of Everything
- How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
- By: Suzie Sheehy
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it "A book about the fundamental problems of physics written from a viewpoint I hadn’t come across...
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The Matter of Everything
- How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-01-23
- Language: English
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Why Time Flies
- A Mostly Scientific Investigation
- By: Alan Burdick, Alan Burdick - introduction
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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“An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time…A highly illuminating intellectual investigation” (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience time. “Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it...
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Why Time Flies
- A Mostly Scientific Investigation
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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Panic in Level 4
- Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
- By: Richard Preston
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by...
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Panic in Level 4
- Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 29-08-08
- Language: English
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The Optimism Bias
- A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
- By: Tali Sharot
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives. Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often...
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The Optimism Bias
- A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 14-06-11
- Language: English
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The Knife Man
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared. From humble origins, John Hunter rose...
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The Knife Man
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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Chasing Venus
- The Race to Measure the Heavens
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a...
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Chasing Venus
- The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- 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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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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What Is Intelligence?
- Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera)
- By: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
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Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, "What Is Intelligence?" argues—quite against the grain—that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.
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so interesting
- By Paola on 29-01-26
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What Is Intelligence?
- Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera)
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-12-25
- 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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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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Apollo 11
- The Inside Story
- By: David Whitehouse
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance49
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In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players. This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets' launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space, through President Kennedy's enthusiasm and later doubts, to the astronauts' intense competition to leave the first footprint.
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Uninteresting and dull
- By Mark on 25-06-19
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Apollo 11
- The Inside Story
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance75
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists...
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Not as satisfying
- By AZ767594 on 11-01-23
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition
- How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future
- By: John C. Lennox
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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Read by the author. Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily...
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Very articulate to the point.
- By John Murphy on 19-06-25
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2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition
- How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Charles Seife
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Very clever
- By elissaple on 01-02-23
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall982
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Performance820
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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A Magnum Opus in every sense!
- By Jeremy on 14-05-12
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
- By: Ben Goldacre
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall376
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Performance344
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The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600...
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Interesting articles but thats about it
- By J on 18-02-15
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I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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The Science Book
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and inertia, why Isaac Newton gets the credit for them, and what the discovery of DNA meant. All the big scientific ideas are brought to life with pithy quotes and step-by-step 'mind maps' - from evolution and continental drift to black holes and genetic engineering, showing how the ideas of famous scientists have affected our understanding of the world.
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Fantastic noise
- By Alan spiller on 15-03-26
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The Science Book
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-12-19
- Language: English
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY)
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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An exploration of two geniuses with limitless minds and the conflict that has lasted beyond their lifetimes. Every Living Thing centres on the rivalry pledged between two scientists, Linnaeus and Buffon, who, from 1743 to 1778 raced each other to complete an inventory of all life on Earth. Their...
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY)
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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The Last Dive
- A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
- By: Bernie Chowdhury
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall31
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Performance27
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Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay...
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Macho BS
- By Jim Robb on 04-11-19
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The Last Dive
- A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-06-16
- Language: English
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