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The Great Acceleration
- By: Robert Colvile
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new audiobook, Robert Colvile explains how the cult of disruption in Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology and our own fundamental appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect of daily life.
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The Great Acceleration
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-06-16
- Language: English
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Cuckoo
- Cheating by Nature
- By: Nick Davies
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo", has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: How does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring?
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Thoroughly enjoyable.
- By John on 05-05-15
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Cuckoo
- Cheating by Nature
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-03-15
- Language: English
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- By: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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Poor introduction to an important subject
- By Terra72 on 09-01-17
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- By: David Hone
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Adored by children and adults alike, tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, triceratops, or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right and are among the best-studied of all dinosaurs.
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Thoroughly enjoyable for any dino fan
- By I_Like_Juice on 24-08-16
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-06-16
- Language: English
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- By: Jerry Grayson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever to serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.
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A very enjoyable but too brief account of SAR life
- By J. A. Hill on 07-07-15
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-06-15
- Language: English
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Titanic on Trial
- The Night the Titanic Sank, Told Through the Testimonies of Her Passengers and Crew
- By: Nic Compton
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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April 15, 2012, marked 100 years since the Titanic sank. Since that fateful night, stories about the sinking have become legendary - how the band played to the end, how lifeboats were lowered half-empty - but amongst the films, novels and academic arguments, only those who were there can separate truth from fiction. After the sinking, inquiries into the loss of 1,517 lives (out of 2,223 aboard) were held in both the UK and US. The proceedings produced 1,000 pages of transcripts.
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Poor narration of an excellent book
- By David Darrell on 24-01-19
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Titanic on Trial
- The Night the Titanic Sank, Told Through the Testimonies of Her Passengers and Crew
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 07-03-13
- Language: English
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The Winner Effect
- How Power Affects Your Brain
- By: Ian Robertson
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The “winner effect” is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident, and more aggressive. The effect is as strong as any drug. And the more you win, the more you will go on to win. But the downside is that winning can become physically addictive.
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Fantastic book, power changes brain chemistry...
- By katie-helen on 14-05-17
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The Winner Effect
- How Power Affects Your Brain
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature.
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Impeccable research, choppy narrative
- By Greg Gauthier on 17-06-17
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-03-16
- Language: English
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Antarctica
- An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Myserious Continent
- By: Gabrielle Walker
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the Earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, most of which focus on only one aspect of its unique strangeness. None has managed to capture the whole story - until now. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, in Antarctica Gabrielle Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into an intricate tapestry, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people.
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Fake voice should be stated on purchase
- By amazonjohn on 10-04-18
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Antarctica
- An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Myserious Continent
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-03-13
- Language: English
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- By: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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Listen to this if you want to become vegan
- By Sarah on 21-07-15
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-04-14
- Language: English
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Sunk Without Trace
- 30 Dramatic Accounts of Yachts Lost at Sea
- By: Paul Gelder
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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By the same author as the best-selling Total Loss, this is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take their toll, and Paul Gelder has compiled firsthand accounts of shipwreck and sinking caused by collision, gear failure, stress of weather, faulty navigation, fire, crew failure, and exhaustion. The moving, emotionally charged descriptions of shipwrecked sailors abandoning their yachts at sea will have you on the edge of your seat.
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Sunk Without Trace
- 30 Dramatic Accounts of Yachts Lost at Sea
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Walking Home
- A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
- By: Lynn Schooler
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Lynn Schooler had recently lost a dear friend and was feeling his marriage slipping away from him when he set out on a daring journey - first by boat, then on foot - into the Alaskan wilderness to clear his head. His solo expedition, recounted in Walking Home, is filled with the awe and danger of being on one's own in the wild, being battered by the elements and even, for two harrowing days, becoming the terrified quarry of a grizzly bear. But the formidable, lonely landscape is also rich with human stories....
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Walking Home
- A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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The Real Global Warming Disaster
- Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
- By: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before.
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A brilliant summary of climate denier rubbish
- By Stuart lloyd on 15-06-20
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The Real Global Warming Disaster
- Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-01-14
- Language: English
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The Most Perfect Thing
- By: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shapes they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of eggshells created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first - the blunt end or the pointy end?
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A really brilliant book
- By Trevor J on 01-12-16
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The Most Perfect Thing
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-06-16
- Language: English
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Terrible narration ruins the book
- By Lero on 27-05-19
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- By: Patrick Nunn
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Using Australia as a springboard, this book explores the science in folk history. It looks at ancient tales and traditions that may in all probability be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the biblical flood. Nowadays the majority of our historical knowledge comes from the written word, but in The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the largely untapped resource of the collective human memory that is held in stories. This important book explores the wider implications for our knowledge of how human society has developed through the millennia.
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Fascinating
- By Susan Harvey on 30-03-20
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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Bird Sense
- What It's Like to Be a Bird
- By: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other.
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Birds’ Eye
- By veyza on 04-10-23
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Bird Sense
- What It's Like to Be a Bird
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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Last Ape Standing
- The Seven Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
- By: Chip Walter
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark, Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Why did the line of ancient humans who eventually evolved into us survive when the others were shown the evolutionary door? Chip Walter draws on new scientific discoveries to tell the fascinating tale of how our survival was linked to our ancestors being born more prematurely than others, having uniquely long and rich childhoods, evolving a new kind of mind that made us resourceful and emotionally complex; how our highly social nature increased our odds of survival; and why we became self aware in ways that no other animal seems to be.
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Last Ape Standing
- The Seven Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark, Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-01-14
- Language: English
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The Man of Numbers
- Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
- By: Keith Devlin
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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In 1202, a 32-year-old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential.
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nice
- By massimiliano balsamo on 19-08-17
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The Man of Numbers
- Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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Big Data
- Does Size Matter?
- By: Timandra Harkness
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data? You've probably seen the phrase in newspaper headlines, at work in a marketing meeting, or on a fitness-tracking gadget. But can you understand it without being a Silicon Valley nerd who writes computer programs for fun? Yes. Yes, you can.
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Intelligent, humorous introduction
- By David Bowden on 31-07-16
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Big Data
- Does Size Matter?
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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