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So Very Small
- How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Bloomsbury presents So Very Small by Thomas Levenson, read by Mike Cooper. In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause of the Great Plague of London to be confirmed: a...
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Informative and Entertaining
- By veyza on 29-07-25
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So Very Small
- How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- By: J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Магия мозга и лабиринты жизни
- By: Наталия Бехтерева
- Narrated by: Ольга Глушко
- Length: 13 hrs
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Книга рассказывает о жизни людей в далекой середине XX века, о формировании увлекательной науки о мозге человека, о тех, кто в мимолетных встречах на научных форумах или в теснейших контактах повседневной работы обогатил своими мыслями и трудом изучение сложнейшего создания на нашей планете — мозга человека. В книге — о расшифровке законов активности здорового и больного мозга и о приложимости этих законов не только в медицине, но и к событиям социального порядка государственного масштаба.
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Магия мозга и лабиринты жизни
- Narrated by: Ольга Глушко
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 12-01-24
- Language: Russian
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- By: Jason Steffen
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Are we alone in the universe? It's a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hidden in the Heavens, Jason Steffen, a former scientist on NASA's Kepler mission, describes how that mission searched for planets orbiting Sun-like stars—especially Earth-like planets circulating in Earth-like orbits.
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-10-24
- Language: English
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- By: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. Part II focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Ivan Pavlov
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Daniel P. Todes
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. Beyond a basic biography, Todes devotes particular attention to Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion and his iconic studies of conditional reflexes and higher nervous activity, as well as his experiments with dogs. Todes shows that Pavlov was not a behaviorist, did not use a bell, and was uninterested in training dogs. The Russian scientist sought to explain not merely external behaviors, but the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans.
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Ivan Pavlov
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-04-24
- Language: English
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- By: Priyamvada Natarajan
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.
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Science at its best
- By Grahan Price on 01-03-23
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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Temps et espace. De l'antiquité à nos jours
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Une histoire des notions d'espace et de temps. Des visions du cosmos dans la Grèce ancienne aux théories récentes sur la gravité quantique, Carlo Rovelli explore les métamorphoses de la notion d'espace et de temps. Une approche lumineuse de l'histoire des sciences par le biais de ces " coordonnées fondamentales de notre description du monde ". L'espace et le temps dans la physique contemporaine.
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Temps et espace. De l'antiquité à nos jours
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-01-24
- Language: French
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El mapa fantasma
- La EPIDEMIA que cambió la ciencia, las ciudades y el mundo moderno
- By: Steven Johnson, Cristina Mbarichi Lumu - translator
- Narrated by: Bern Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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En El mapa fantasma se cuenta la historia de la aterradora epidemia de cólera que envolvió Londres en 1854 y sus dos héroes poco probables: el anestesista doctor John Snow y el afable clérigo, el reverendo Henry Whitehead, quienes derrotaron la enfermedad mediante una combinación de...
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El mapa fantasma
- La EPIDEMIA que cambió la ciencia, las ciudades y el mundo moderno
- Narrated by: Bern Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: Spanish
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
- By: Stephen M Barr
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-05-17
- Language: English
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The Great Dead Body Teachers
- By: Jackie Dent
- Narrated by: Jackie Dent
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Weaving the personal with the history of anatomy and the dissected, Jackie Dent explores the world of whole-body donation—all the while looking for answers as to what happened to her grandparents.
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The Great Dead Body Teachers
- Narrated by: Jackie Dent
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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How to Find a Higgs Boson
- And Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
- By: Ivo van Vulpen, David McKay - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired.
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How to Find a Higgs Boson
- And Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: English
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The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- By: Thomas R. Cech
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA's spectacular powers, to Cech's own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health.
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The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 30-07-24
- Language: English
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Fire and Flood
- A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
- By: Eugene Linden
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late," their report said. They were right...
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Fire and Flood
- A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and...
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Excellent book, ruined by the narrator
- By Catherine on 17-06-12
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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The Book of the Universe, Stars, Sun, Earth, Life and Humanity
- In Three Testaments
- Narrated by: Frank Meaden
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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The Sky Is for Everyone
- Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
- By: Virginia Trimble, David A. Weintraub - editor
- Narrated by: Kaliswa Brewster, Marnie Chesterton, Katherine Fenton, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical narratives by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. This audiobook vividly describes how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a father, brother, or husband to provide entry, and how the considerable intellectual skills of women astronomers were still not enough to enable them to pry open doors of opportunity for much of the twentieth century. After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before.
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The Sky Is for Everyone
- Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
- Narrated by: Kaliswa Brewster, Marnie Chesterton, Katherine Fenton, Pooneh Ghoddoosi, Kate Harper
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E. O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world-from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- By: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it?
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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