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The Optimistic Environmentalist
- Progressing Towards a Greener Future
- By: David R. Boyd
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved while substantial progress is ongoing on others. The Optimistic Environmentalist chronicles these remarkable success stories. Endangered species - from bald eagles to gray whales - pulled back from the precipice of extinction.
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What a wonderful inspiring book
- By Anonymous on 16-05-24
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The Optimistic Environmentalist
- Progressing Towards a Greener Future
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-01-16
- Language: English
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Fueling the Planet
- The Past, Present, and Future of Energy
- By: Prof. Michael B. McElroy
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael B. McElroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned professor Michael B. McElroy leads a comprehensive examination of energy, including its history, use in the world today, and environmental consequences. Whether discussing the "oil shocks" of the 1970s, the current reliance on imported oil, or the growing buildup of carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere, it is clear that energy represents one of the world's most daunting challenges.
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Fueling the Planet
- The Past, Present, and Future of Energy
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael B. McElroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-12-09
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Global Warming, Global Threat
- By: Michael B. McElroy
- Narrated by: Professor Michael B. McElroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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The Modern Scholar series offers you college-level courses taught by the world's most respected professors. As these expert teachers guide you through the course material, you become more knowledgeable and better versed in the subject. Learning has never been easier or more enjoyable!
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Important subject made clear
- By Mister Peridot on 29-09-14
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The Modern Scholar
- Global Warming, Global Threat
- Narrated by: Professor Michael B. McElroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-07-04
- Language: English
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Immortality, Inc.
- Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
- By: Chip Walter
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This gripping narrative explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death. We live in an age when billionaires are betting their fortunes on laboratory advances to prove aging unnecessary and death a disease that can be cured.
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Immortality, Inc.
- Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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The Science Delusion
- Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
- By: Curtis White
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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One of our most brilliant social critics - author of the best-selling The Middle Mind - presents a scathing critique of the "delusions" of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the "big" questions. With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you' re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder "Why is there something instead of nothing?" or "What is our purpose on Earth?"
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The Science Delusion
- Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-07-14
- Language: English
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If/Then
- How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge - decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine that it has no past, but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their “People Machine” from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon.
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If/Then
- How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Wonders in Motion
- The Story of Dynamics
- By: David Acheson
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a popular introduction to the science of motion. It tells the story of mechanics, from Galileo's time to the present day, with an emphasis throughout on surprising phenomena that most challenge our physical intuition. What makes an aeroplane fly? Why aren't rollercoasters circular?...
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Wonders in Motion
- The Story of Dynamics
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-12-26
- Language: English
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The Genius Checklist
- Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius
- By: Dean Keith Simonton
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses that range from Isaac Newton to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Simonton's checklist gives us a new, integrative way to understand geniuses - and perhaps even to nurture your own genius.
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The Genius Checklist
- Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Apollo's Legacy
- Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- By: Roger D. Launius
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world, and thus they loom large in our collective memory. Many have detailed the exciting events of the Apollo program, but Launius offers unique insight into its legacy as seen through multiple perspectives.
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Apollo's Legacy
- Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, Michael D. Gordin
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era—Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory.
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Every Creeping Thing
- True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife
- By: Richard Conniff
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Every Creeping Thing is a fascinating look at some of nature’s most misunderstood creatures. Traveling the world over, Conniff shatters popular myths and shares extraordinary truths about unfairly maligned animals. For instance, little brown bats help curb mosquito numbers by eating one every six seconds. Despite a reputation as maneaters, sharks ignore all but two or so of the 20 million people who use Hawaiian beaches each year....
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Every Creeping Thing
- True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-06-14
- Language: English
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DNA USA
- A Genetic Portrait of America
- By: Bryan Sykes
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics. In DNA USA, Sykes examines the unique fabric of the population of the United States - one of the world’s most genetically variegated countries. His fascinating discoveries offer new insights into the biological profile of the great melting pot.
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DNA USA
- A Genetic Portrait of America
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-05-12
- Language: English
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Waiting for Aphrodite
- Journeys into the Time before Bones
- By: Sue Hubbell
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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After 25 years on a farm in the Ozarks, award-winning writer and naturalist Sue Hubbell moved to a small town on the coast of Maine. There, in the pools, tides, and thickets, she found a vast array of creatures that aroused her considerable curiosity. Join Hubbell on a unique tour of the world of invertebrates. From humpbacked camel crickets to glow worms, from horseshoe crabs to elegantly-furred sea mice, Hubbell offers vivid descriptions and fascinating details about these superb examples of survival.
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Love of smaller majority
- By Lea on 15-07-12
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Waiting for Aphrodite
- Journeys into the Time before Bones
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-07-11
- Language: English
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Once a Wolf
- The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
- By: Bryan Sykes
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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The author of Seven Daughters of Eve returns with a lively account of how all dogs are descended from a mere handful of wolves.
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Once a Wolf
- The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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My Robot Gets Me
- How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human
- By: Carla Diana
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.
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My Robot Gets Me
- How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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Performance All the Way Down
- Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
- By: Richard O. Prum
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates.
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Performance All the Way Down
- Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-12-23
- Language: English
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In Search of the Old Ones
- An Odyssey Among Ancient Trees
- By: Anthony D. Fredericks
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Ancient trees stand as sentinels against all odds while Earth and its people have changed around them. Award-winning author Anthony D. Fredericks examines their awe-inspiring longevity and evolutionary intelligence, drawing on expert interviews, scientific research, and a remarkable reverence for the environment. Fredericks focuses on ten of the oldest trees in the United States and marvels at the complexity of roots, the determination of growth, and the wisdom of forests.
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In Search of the Old Ones
- An Odyssey Among Ancient Trees
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-12-23
- Language: English
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Mercies in Disguise
- A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
- By: Gina Kolata
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times reporter and best-selling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an upstanding family in small-town South Carolina. Many of them were doctors, but still, they are struck down by an inscrutable illness. Finally they discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of providential events. Meanwhile science, progressing for 50 years along a parallel track, handed the Baxleys a question - not a cure but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease.
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Mercies in Disguise
- A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-03-17
- Language: English
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Cow Hug Therapy
- How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me About Life, Death, and Everything in Between
- By: Ellie Laks
- Narrated by: Ellie Laks
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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In Cow Hug Therapy, Ellie Laks recounts the extraordinary journey that started with her first teacher, Buddha—not the religious figure, but a rescued miniature Hereford cow. One evening Buddha wrapped her neck around an exhausted and upset Ellie and transferred a singular form of healing and comfort with an incredible impact. Understanding that this was something to be shared with others, Ellie developed Cow Hug Therapy, a groundbreaking approach to emotional healing that has proved effective for trauma, illness, disabilities, addiction, grief, and stress.
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Cow Hug Therapy
- How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me About Life, Death, and Everything in Between
- Narrated by: Ellie Laks
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- By: Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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As advances in AI spark fear and confusion, The Mind’s Mirror reminds us that in spite of the very real and pressing challenges, AI is a force with enormous potential to improve human life. Computer scientist and AI researcher Daniela Rus, along with science writer Gregory Mone, offers an expert perspective as a leader in the field who has witnessed many technological hype cycles. Rus and Mone illustrate the ways in which AI can help us become more productive, knowledgeable, creative, insightful, and even empathetic, as well as the many risks associated with misuse.
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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