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The Apothecary's Wife
- The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
- By: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Apothecary's Wife by Karen Bloom Gevirtz, read by Rachel Handshaw. The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal...
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The Apothecary's Wife
- The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca. Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth Kolbert Merchants of...
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Performance58
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For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
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I just can't get past the condescending tone
- By Mark on 11-03-14
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 28-10-13
- Language: English
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
- How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
- By: Jim Marrs
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance59
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“Jim Marrs can’t be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he.” —Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a terrifying proposition: that the...
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Packed with information!
- By Anonymous on 12-07-20
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
- How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-06-10
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)
- By: Sarah Alam Malik
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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We have always looked up at the sky and wondered. The desire to explore and understand what lies beyond us is at the heart of scientific discovery. Ever since the ancient Babylonians tracked celestial objects on clay tablets, the search for meaning in an infinitely vast universe has been a...
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A short but sweet overview
- By Robert H on 12-04-26
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A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Performance181
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- By: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance19
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Read this?
- By S. O'NEILL on 24-06-10
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-08-08
- Language: English
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At Work in the Ruins
- Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
- By: Dougald Hine
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance28
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Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question. He delves deeply into what he discovered during the globally shared isolating Covid moment, why the virus and the measures taken against it drove so many of us to despair, and how we can re-find our bearings if the pandemic is not the big event that changes everything but simply one in a chain of emergencies that are bringing about the end of the world as we knew it.
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Dancing badgers
- By Jeremy Le Fèvre on 13-02-23
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At Work in the Ruins
- Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-02-23
- Language: English
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Science and Spiritual Practices
- Reconnecting Through Direct Experience
- By: Rupert Sheldrake
- Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall182
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Performance156
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By the author of The Science Delusion, a detailed account of how science can authenticate spirituality. In this pioneering audiobook, Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built and which are part of our common human heritage. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier.
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Sheldrake beautifully and effortlessly pulls the rug from under the feet of the philosophical materialists
- By Pat Prunty on 10-11-19
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Science and Spiritual Practices
- Reconnecting Through Direct Experience
- Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-11-17
- Language: English
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Waking Up
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Performance2,205
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For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the increasingly large numbers of people who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds.
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This is Important.
- By Lucas on 15-02-15
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Waking Up
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-10-14
- Language: English
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the demarcation problem, or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability -- that scientific systems are ones open to empirical disconfirmation -- against the prevailing views of his day.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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Theory and Reality
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Overall49
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Performance43
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How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the listener on a grand tour of 100 years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science.
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Excellent intro to philosophy of science, and nuanced defence of scientific realism
- By J. Jong on 07-01-20
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Theory and Reality
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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Planting the World
- Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
- By: Jordan Goodman
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Performance7
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‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting –...
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Very monotonous
- By Mrs. Aster L. Sadler on 25-10-20
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Planting the World
- Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Overall5,694
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Performance5,063
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From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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Not too bad for a Jon Ronson book
- By M. S. on 20-08-19
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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You Don't Know What You're Missing
- The science of what’s lost, and how to find it
- By: Kit Yates
- Narrated by: Kit Yates
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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We all like to think we're making decisions based on reality, but in fact, we're almost always working from incomplete information. And when 'you don't know what you don't know', it can be impossible to navigate successfully. In You Don't Know What You're Missing mathematician Kit Yates explores...
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You Don't Know What You're Missing
- The science of what’s lost, and how to find it
- Narrated by: Kit Yates
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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The Shape of Things Unseen
- A New Science of Imagination
- By: Adam Zeman
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman, read by Ciaran Saward. ‘Fascinating, absorbing and educative’ A. C. Grayling ‘Highly original and beautifully written’ Dominic Lawson A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research...
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Fascinating, eye-opening.
- By Holly E on 10-03-26
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The Shape of Things Unseen
- A New Science of Imagination
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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A Little History of Archaeology
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Performance7
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What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history - more than three million years! This Little History tells the riveting stories of some of the great archaeologists and their amazing discoveries around the globe.
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irritating narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 24-01-21
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A Little History of Archaeology
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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The Arrogant Ape
- And A New Way To See Humanity
- By: Christine Webb
- Narrated by: Christine Webb
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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*A book of the year in the New York Times* 'I wish this book had been published five hundred years ago and been compulsory reading ever since' Jay Griffiths, author of How Animals Heal Us 'A crucial and transformative read' Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast 'Will leave you in awe' Justin...
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The Arrogant Ape
- And A New Way To See Humanity
- Narrated by: Christine Webb
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- By: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Performance573
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Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.
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Knowledge is power
- By Sigrin on 07-09-21
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Chaos
- Making a New Science
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance80
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James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos...
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Perfect Listening Experience (for a walker)
- By Kris on 26-02-15
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Chaos
- Making a New Science
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-02-11
- Language: English
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