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What Science Knows About Cancer
- By: David Sadava, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: David Sadava
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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The landscape of cancer treatment and prevention is a vastly different place than it was even a decade ago. Thanks to a relatively new focus on molecular medicine, researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved in the disease, poising them on the brink of huge breakthroughs. What Science Knows About Cancer reports from the front lines of the war on cancer with a clear and scientifically precise - yet thoroughly accessible - guide to how the disease develops, thrives, and can potentially be conquered.
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Outdated
- By Tomas Parra on 28-10-24
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What Science Knows About Cancer
- Narrated by: David Sadava
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-03-19
- Language: English
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A Planet of Viruses
- Third Edition
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, an invisible germ - a virus - wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.
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A shame about the narration
- By Sable on 17-10-24
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A Planet of Viruses
- Third Edition
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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A great flowing history of humankind.
- By Mr T J Lynass on 29-01-24
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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The Secret Body
- How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live
- By: Daniel M Davis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Secret Body is a gripping drama of discovery and a landmark account of the dawning revolution in human health that reveals a hitherto invisible universe within each of us.
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The Secret Body
- How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You
- How Brains Evolved
- By: Rogier B. Mars
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and cognitive capacities of animals from the humble sea squirt to the socially minded fox and the tiny shrew.
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You
- How Brains Evolved
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come - and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-06-16
- Language: English
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- By: Sharon Moalem
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain From birth, genetic females are better at fighting viruses...
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absolutely fascinating
- By Kelly Hassard on 27-02-24
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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Pleased to Meet Me
- Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
- By: Bill Sullivan
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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We’re constantly seeking answers to these fundamental human questions, and now, science has the answers. The foods we enjoy, the people we love, the emotions we feel, and the beliefs we hold can all be traced back to our DNA, germs, and environment. This witty, colloquial book is popular science at its best, describing in everyday language how genetics, epigenetics, microbiology, and psychology work together to influence our personality and actions.
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Disappointing
- By boo-bircharoo on 15-03-23
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Pleased to Meet Me
- Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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The Soul of the White Ant
- By: Eugene Marais
- Narrated by: David Major
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook by Eugène Marais is a passionate, insightful account into the world of termites. It is a meticulously researched expose of their complex, highly structured community life.
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A delight!
- By hotteststickofglue on 19-09-19
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The Soul of the White Ant
- Narrated by: David Major
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 24-12-18
- Language: English
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Quantum Biochemistry: Quantum Effects in Living Systems
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Lance V Sanchez
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A world normally hidden beneath equations and laboratory instruments unfolds here as a living, dynamic foundation of existence. This book reveals how tunneling, coherence, entanglement, and quantum uncertainty shape the deepest processes of biology—from photosynthesis and enzymatic catalysis to genetic variation, neural complexity, and the evolution of life itself.
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Quantum Biochemistry: Quantum Effects in Living Systems
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: Lance V Sanchez
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-02-26
- Language: English
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- By: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Balcombe
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors Choice Pick "After reading Super Fly, you will never take a fly for granted again. Thank you, Jonathan Balcombe, for reminding us of the infinite marvels of everyday creatures." —Sy Montgomery, Author of...
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- Narrated by: Jonathan Balcombe
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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The Self-Assembling Brain
- How Neural Networks Grow Smarter
- By: Peter Robin Hiesinger
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in AI strive to achieve this through technology. The Self-Assembling Brain tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern approaches taken by the scientists pursuing answers to the quandary: What information is necessary to make an intelligent neural network? As Peter Robin Hiesinger argues, "the information problem" underlies both fields.
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I learned a great deal
- By B. Gaskell-Denvil on 30-12-23
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The Self-Assembling Brain
- How Neural Networks Grow Smarter
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately give form to our bodies.
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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The Human Brain
- A Guided Tour
- By: Susan Greenfield
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Locked away, remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brain research. Susan Greenfield begins by exploring the roles of different regions of the brain.
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Desynchronization Issues Between Audiobook and Book
- By Ricardo Marques on 19-11-24
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The Human Brain
- A Guided Tour
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new. What is new is that where once we shaped evolution through brute force, we can now do it as artisans. That power comes not a moment too soon. If we are going to survive in the next few centuries, we must revise the book of life.
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Informative & Consice
- By Stewart on 26-09-25
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Eagle Dreams
- Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
- By: Stephen J. Bodio
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When Stephen Bodio was a young boy in the early '50s, he saw an image in National Geographic that became forever etched in his mind: It was a photograph of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge tame eagle on his fist. And a lifelong fascination with Central Asia was born.
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Interesting trip to Mongolia and Altai Mountains
- By tyto14 on 22-04-25
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Eagle Dreams
- Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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Compost Science for Gardeners
- Simple Methods for Nutrient-Rich Soil
- By: Robert Pavlis
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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With breathtaking clarity, Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies composting practices and helps listeners determine the best technique for their unique situation. This comprehensive science-based book is your key to building healthier soil and growing better plants.
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Dishonest and musleading
- By Tout en chantant on 02-02-24
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Compost Science for Gardeners
- Simple Methods for Nutrient-Rich Soil
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-04-23
- Language: English
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Lucky Planet
- Why Earth Is Exceptional - and What That Means for Life in the Universe
- By: David Waltham
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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We have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it remains clear that Earth is exceptional. The question is: Why? In Lucky Planet, astrobiologist David Waltham argues that Earth’s climate stability is what makes it uniquely able to support life, and it is nothing short of luck that made such conditions possible. The four-billion-year stretch of good weather that our planet has experienced is statistically so unlikely that chances are slim that we will ever encounter intelligent extraterrestrial others.
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Lucky Planet
- Why Earth Is Exceptional - and What That Means for Life in the Universe
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-04-14
- Language: English
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Super Senses
- The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them
- By: Emma Young
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually have at least 32. We take our senses for granted but what would be possible if we properly understood how they all work? Award-winning science Writer Emma Young has spent over a decade finding out, and in Super Senses she takes us on an exhilarating sensory journey.
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Peel meal array of irrelevant studies boringly presented
- By Tout en chantant on 22-11-22
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Super Senses
- The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Enzymes
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Paul Engel
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Enzymes are the astonishing tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes that collectively we recognize as life, from making DNA to digesting food. This Very Short Introduction explains the why and the how of speeding up these reactions - catalysis - before going on to reveal how we have evolved these catalysts of such extraordinary power and exquisite selectivity.
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Enzymes
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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