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The Upshift
- Wiser Living on Planet Earth; A Handbook for Urgent Action
- By: Ervin Laszlo
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The pandemic, climate change, poverty, conflict and violence, and the refugee emergency: global crises that have an unsuspected silver lining. They bring us to a tipping point where we can choose our destiny. This book outlines the nature of that crucial point and suggests what you—as each and every conscious and responsible human being—can and must do to choose a future of thriving for the human family, rather than one of crises and chaos.
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The Upshift
- Wiser Living on Planet Earth; A Handbook for Urgent Action
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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Patterns of Connection
- Essential Essays from Five Decades
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection. First introduced in the late 1950s to the work of Werner Heisenberg, a founder of quantum mechanics, Capra quickly intuited the connections between the discoveries of quantum physics and the traditions of Eastern philosophy - resulting in his first book, the best-selling The Tao of Physics.
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Patterns of Connection
- Essential Essays from Five Decades
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- By: John Dvorak
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- By: Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations.
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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The Probiotic Planet
- Using Life to Manage Life
- By: Jamie Lorimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations.
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The Probiotic Planet
- Using Life to Manage Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Ice Age
- The History and Legacy of the Glacial Period during the Pleistocene Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. What humans commonly refer to as the “Ice Age” is actually a series of fluctuating climate events that have occurred throughout the planet’s history. These ongoing historical phenomena are difficult to conceptualize because of both the time frame involved and the natural process by which they cyclically unfold.
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The Ice Age
- The History and Legacy of the Glacial Period during the Pleistocene Era
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
- By: Lucretius
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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The Nature of Things was written in the 1st century BC by Roman polymath Lucretius. It is written as a didactic poem, and explains Epicurean physics.
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The Nature of Things
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In her graceful, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles the history of the Copernican Revolution, relating the story of astronomy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages. In its midst will be her play, And the Sun Stood Still, imagining the dialogue that would have transpired between Rheticus and Copernicus in their months together. As she achieved with her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel expands the bounds of science writing, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement.
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-09-11
- Language: English
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- By: John Tresch
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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Dieu, la science, les preuves
- L'aube d'une révolution
- By: Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies
- Narrated by: Fabien Albanese
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Trois ans de travail avec plus de vingt scientifiques et de spécialistes de haut niveau : Voici révélées les preuves modernes de l'existence de Dieu. Pendant près de quatre siècles, de Copernic à Freud en passant par Galilée et Darwin, les découvertes scientifiques se sont accumulées de façon spectaculaire, donnant l'impression qu'il était possible d'expliquer l'Univers sans avoir besoin de recourir à un dieu créateur.
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Dieu, la science, les preuves
- L'aube d'une révolution
- Narrated by: Fabien Albanese
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: French
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- By: Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein - foreword, Stillman Drake - preface
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessibility, it remains as accessible now as when it was published.
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, Fabiola Gianotti, S. James Gates, Frank Wilczek
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-04-22
- 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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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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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field - but each also stumbled badly. These five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on Earth, the evolution of the Earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error.
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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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Opium
- How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
- By: John H. Halpern, David Blistein
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Opium tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artifacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an addiction epidemic.
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Opium
- How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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Carbon Technocracy
- Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
- By: Victor Seow
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality.
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Carbon Technocracy
- Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-06-23
- Language: English
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The ABC of Relativity
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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The ABC of Relativity is still considered today, nearly 90 years after its first appearance, as an authoritative and accessible introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. While there's nothing particularly easy about understanding the Theory of Relativity, many have found that Russell's explanation is easier to understand than Einstein's own writings on the topic. Russell covers topics such as time dilation and curved space-time, using non-scientific examples of train travel and aerial views of the terrain.
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The ABC of Relativity
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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God According to God
- A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
- By: Gerald Schroeder
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Fans of Jack Miles' God: A Biography, Francis Collins' The Language of God, and Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible will find much to contemplate in God According to God.
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God According to God
- A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-01-20
- Language: English
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Keep Calm and Trust the Science
- An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist
- By: Luke O'Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Professor Luke O’Neill has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as the media and public desperately grappled to make sense of a crisis that saw the country grind to a halt. In these high-octane diaries, Professor Luke reveals what life was like behind the scenes.
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Keep Calm and Trust the Science
- An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-10-21
- 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
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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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