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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-01-11
- Language: English
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The Hidden Reality
- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different “multiverse” proposals emerges from theories developed to explain the most refined observations of both subatomic particles and the dark depths of space.
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A great book.
- By Diana Varela on 05-05-20
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The Hidden Reality
- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-01-11
- Language: English
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- By: Neil Shubin
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened.
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Great and fascinating story
- By Kindle Customer on 27-05-20
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- By: Sam Apple
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the 20th century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it.
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Wonderful book!
- By Ally Forbes on 17-08-23
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Cathedral of the Wild
- An African Journey Home
- By: Boyd Varty
- Narrated by: Boyd Varty
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than 80 years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. But it wasn’t just a sanctuary for the animals; it was also a place for ravaged land to flourish again and for the human spirit to be restored.
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A master storyteller. An authentic story of hope.
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-24
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Cathedral of the Wild
- An African Journey Home
- Narrated by: Boyd Varty
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-03-14
- Language: English
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Parallel Worlds
- A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku - an author who "has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth" (Wall Street Journal) - takes listeners on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.
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Insight into Nature of that thing we live in
- By Ergonet on 08-09-16
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Parallel Worlds
- A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-07-16
- Language: English
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The Wave
- In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
- By: Susan Casey
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories - waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet’s waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea - including several that approached 100 feet.
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The description on the waves
- By Mr P D Airey on 27-04-24
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The Wave
- In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-09-10
- Language: English
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Now
- The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment That Einstein Could Not Explain
- By: Richard A. Muller
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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You are reading the word now right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time is affected by both velocity and gravity, yet he despaired at his failure to explain the meaning of now. Equally puzzling: Why does time flow? Some physicists have given up trying to understand and call the flow of time an illusion.
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Physicist is incompetent philosopher
- By Amazon Kunde on 02-12-16
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Now
- The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment That Einstein Could Not Explain
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-09-16
- Language: English
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The Elegant Universe
- Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.
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Brilliant
- By Jj on 17-05-21
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The Elegant Universe
- Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-12-08
- Language: English
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The Devil's Teeth
- A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
- By: Susan Casey
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping 18 feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast.
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Brilliant!
- By kmcca5 on 17-09-12
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The Devil's Teeth
- A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-05-05
- Language: English
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Trying Not to Try
- The Art and Science of Spontaneity
- By: Edward Slingerland
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who seems wooden or a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who chokes? In all of these cases, striving seems to backfire. In Trying Not To Try, Edward Slingerland explains why we find spontaneity so elusive, and shows how early Chinese thought points the way to happier, more authentic lives.
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Oo-Wei?
- By David Kinsella on 30-12-19
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Trying Not to Try
- The Art and Science of Spontaneity
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-03-14
- Language: English
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The Botany of Desire
- A Plant's-Eye View of the World
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin?
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The Botany of Desire
- A Plant's-Eye View of the World
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
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Brilliant, educational and eye opening
- By Haydn on 25-01-22
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American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the moon - in just four months.
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Best Apollo book I've listened to
- By Angus Fitton on 09-08-18
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
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I've never read a book better than this one
- By VDS on 27-09-20
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results....
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Covers a lot more than Turing
- By Mr on 04-05-17
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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Edison
- By: Edmund Morris
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
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Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light. His invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world - already reeling from his invention of the phonograph and dozens of other revolutionary devices - that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius patented 1,093 inventions, not including others, such as the X-ray fluoroscope, that he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.
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Not worth your time
- By A. Khajehali on 04-09-23
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Edison
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- By: Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - foreword
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
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One of the best investing books out there
- By Ronan Patrick on 14-08-20
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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Beyond the Mountain
- By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty.
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Not Great
- By Peter Page on 23-05-23
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Beyond the Mountain
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Series: Patagonia
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Incerto, Book 1
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur has penned a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill - the world of trading - Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives.
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Smug
- By Anonymous User on 17-12-19
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Incerto, Book 1
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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