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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- By: Hannah Critchlow
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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New technology is helping us share our wisdom and knowledge much more diversely across race, class, gender and borders. And AI is sparking a revolution in our approach to intelligent thinking—linking us into fast-working brainnets for problem solving. Hannah Critchlow brings us an enlightening, invaluable guide to our future through the evolving new science of collective intelligence. She reveals what it says about us as human beings, shares compelling examples and stories, and shows us how best we can work collectively at work, in families and in any team situation.
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Full of nuggets and insight
- By Amazon Customer on 21-09-23
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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Reality Is Not What It Seems
- The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan. From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe Penguin presents the unabridged...
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Eye opening and mind expanding
- By Stefan on 28-11-16
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Reality Is Not What It Seems
- The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- By: Seb Falk
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we...
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Medieval Science
- By Elke on 23-07-25
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
- By: Ben Goldacre
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600...
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Interesting articles but thats about it
- By J on 18-02-15
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I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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Portals to a New Reality
- Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics
- By: Vlatko Vedral
- Narrated by: Will Bowdery
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. An acclaimed physicist signposts a new revolution in fundamental physics, and with it a new description of reality For the last century, physics has been following the paths set out by the same two theories—quantum mechanics and general relativity—and, let’s face...
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Very well explained
- By Chris on 02-12-25
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Portals to a New Reality
- Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics
- Narrated by: Will Bowdery
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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We feel that the present is everything; all we can know. Yet physics finds no universal ’now’. To explore what a moment really is, In Search of Now draws on state-of-the-art discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, cosmology and quantum physics, revealing a dynamic, creative process in which we all play a part.
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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I've Been Thinking
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance12
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Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers. Dennett's restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in Beirut to Harvard, and from Parisian jazz clubs to 'tillosophy' on his tractor in Maine. Along the way, he encounters and debates with a host of legendary thinkers, and reveals the breakthroughs and misjudgments that shaped his paradigm-shifting philosophies.
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Brilliant book with very few flaws
- By Benny on 02-01-24
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I've Been Thinking
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance35
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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some really interesting bits, but jumped about
- By Dean Petters on 07-04-13
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-02-11
- Language: English
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance180
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How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? Throughout history, people have sought to...
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Thought provoking, enlightening, & horrifying
- By Bufster on 11-10-22
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- 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 History of Magic
- From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- By: Chris Gosden
- Narrated by: Clarke Peters
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe, and that the universe responds to us - has developed a bad reputation. But it...
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A 'history of magic' which is devoid of any magic
- By Alias Grace on 19-01-21
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The History of Magic
- From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- Narrated by: Clarke Peters
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Anaximander
- And the Nature of Science
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Marion Lignana Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. In this elegant work, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked legacy to modern science. He examines Anaximander as a scientist interested in shedding light on the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in his rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again.
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Cleverly Challenging
- By William on 28-12-24
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Anaximander
- And the Nature of Science
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 23-02-23
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists...
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Not as satisfying
- By AZ767594 on 11-01-23
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The Song of the Cell
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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Chemtrails Exposed
- A New Manhattan Project, Second Edition
- By: Peter A. Kirby
- Narrated by: Peter A. Kirby
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Every applicable government agency and almost all mainstream media outlets claim that chemtrails are merely a "conspiracy theory". They say that the lines in the sky are harmless condensation trails and that jet aircrafts have always produced emissions that can linger in the sky for hours as they spread out and form a hazy cloud-cover. They say that anybody who asserts that aircraft are routinely spraying us with toxic materials is crazy. If this is so, then why are we consistently seeing anomalously high levels of toxins in rainwater samples as well as in ambient air samples?
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Amazing detailed research by the author
- By Alan B in Billington on 24-01-25
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Chemtrails Exposed
- A New Manhattan Project, Second Edition
- Narrated by: Peter A. Kirby
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-02-21
- Language: English
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- By: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance24
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We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen.
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Marvellous
- By Joye C. on 10-12-21
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-04-16
- Language: English
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- By: Arthur Firstenberg
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before - from an environmental point of view - by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet.
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At must read for all
- By Kalpna B. on 29-08-21
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-08-21
- Language: English
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about - seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics.
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A journey through the history of science
- By Anonymous on 07-07-20
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-04-20
- Language: English
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- By: Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments - using such low-tech tools such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and dime-store mirrors.
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next best thing to Oliver Sacks
- By Elena on 28-06-17
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete.
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Brilliant! A Theory of Life, Universe & Everything
- By Jim Vaughan on 12-06-16
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-02-14
- Language: English
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Surrounded by Setbacks
- Or, How to Succeed When Everything's Gone Bad
- By: Thomas Erikson
- Narrated by: James Macnaughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. How to handle everything (and everyone) around you when all hell breaks loose, from the international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots. Not everything goes the way we want it to - the world or people around us sometimes just spin out of control. Just consider...
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Not impressed at all
- By Oksana M. on 19-01-22
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Surrounded by Setbacks
- Or, How to Succeed When Everything's Gone Bad
- Narrated by: James Macnaughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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