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Vital Organs
- A History of the World's Most Famous Body Parts
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance170
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The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and...
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Loved it
- By lucylocket on 29-09-23
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Vital Organs
- A History of the World's Most Famous Body Parts
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Mutants
- On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
- By: Armand Marie Leroi
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it - a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity.
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One of the most fascinating nonfiction books I've ever read/heard
- By Will on 05-09-25
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Mutants
- On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- By: David Berlinski
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought.
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Atheism's highjack of science debunked
- By Charles on 16-05-15
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-08-13
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance111
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Story110
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman. From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the...
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Beautiful book
- By S K. on 28-08-17
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-01-17
- Language: English
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 22-25
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Celebrating the wonders of the universe since 2009, The Infinite Monkey Cage combines wit and wisdom to explore scientific concepts in an entertaining, accessible way. In these four series, physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are back to 'put a smile on the face of science' (The Independent). They're joined by a wealth of boffins, brainiacs and celebrity science enthusiasts, all keen to share their hard facts, soft theories and bold comic deviations.
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Sheer brilliance and massively entertaining
- By Krisstian on 22-02-23
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 22-25
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince
- Series: Infinite Monkey Cage, Book 22-25
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- 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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Against Method
- By: Paul Feyerabend
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Paul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.
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Excellent iconoclastic work but let down by editing
- By imakubex on 15-01-24
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Against Method
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-12-22
- Language: English
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- By: Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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This audiobook includes forewords read by the authors, Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert. The International Bestseller 'Ambitious . . . pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics - New Scientist 'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill...
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- 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
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life
- Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
- By: Howard Markel
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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The discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Howard Markel skillfully recreates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin - fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s - who becomes a focal point for Markel.
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The Secret of Life
- Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Framework
- In Defence of Science and Rationality
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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In a career spanning 60 years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the 20th century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.
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Did not listen to it
- By Anonymous on 06-11-22
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The Myth of the Framework
- In Defence of Science and Rationality
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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Silent Witnesses
- By: Nigel McCrery
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance67
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A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us. Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation, and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection.
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Oh dear.
- By GG on 26-04-19
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Silent Witnesses
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-08-13
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how...
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance15
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The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about - seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics.
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A journey through the history of science
- By Anonymous on 07-07-20
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-04-20
- Language: English
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Spark
- The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
- By: Timothy J. Jorgensen
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices - or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than an external source of power, heat, or illumination. Life at its essence is nothing if not electrical.
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Spark
- The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- By: Steve Olson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs.
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Disappointing narration
- By ligsy on 26-03-22
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Breaking Together
- A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse
- By: Jem Bendell
- Narrated by: Matthew Slater
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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This audiobook describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously and creatively. They demonstrate we can be breaking together, not apart, in this era of collapse. Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world. Escaping the efforts of panicking elites, we can advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics and practical action in a broken world.
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Highly recommend. Content gives superb value
- By Meg22 on 27-07-23
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Breaking Together
- A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse
- Narrated by: Matthew Slater
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-06-23
- Language: English
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Proof
- The Uncertain Science of Certainty
- By: Adam Kucharski
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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For over two thousand years, from the Medieval Arabic world to the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Achieve logical perfection, the reasoning went, and you would be rewarded with ultimate, universal truth. But there is far more to proof than axioms, theories and laws: when demonstrating that a new medical treatment works, persuading a jury of someone's guilt, or deciding whether you trust a self-driving car or a financial transaction, the weighing up of evidence is far from simple.
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A real insight into the world of what is true?
- By David Ridge on 20-10-25
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Proof
- The Uncertain Science of Certainty
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- By: Kunal K. Das
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance25
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The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization. It achieves the impossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to all listeners - even those with no interest in science. With a lively and engaging tone, author Kunal Das ponders the underlying truths and patterns in our shared and common life experiences, using insights derived from the fundamental laws of physics.
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Insightful
- By amazoncustomer on 23-09-22
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-07-15
- Language: English
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Metaphors We Live By
- By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.
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Metaphors We Live By
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-11-25
- Language: English
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