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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,767
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,062
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but brilliant!
- By Michael on 27-11-2015
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Behave
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Find out...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- By Peter on 17-04-2021
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- By: Dagogo Altraide
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 31
Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great audii
- By Tony on 23-02-2022
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The Matter of Everything
- Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
- By: Suzie Sheehy
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy tells the astonishing story of 20th-century physics, told through the 12 experiments that changed our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple questions that changed our lives
- By KJ on 25-07-2022
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,767
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,062
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but brilliant!
- By Michael on 27-11-2015
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Behave
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Find out...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- By Peter on 17-04-2021
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- By: Dagogo Altraide
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 31
Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great audii
- By Tony on 23-02-2022
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The Matter of Everything
- Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
- By: Suzie Sheehy
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy tells the astonishing story of 20th-century physics, told through the 12 experiments that changed our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple questions that changed our lives
- By KJ on 25-07-2022
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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? Listen to find out more....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 242
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational and awe-inspiring
- By zenihama on 02-10-2017
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- By: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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....
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic narrator
- By Styff on 21-10-2017
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Stories in Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By Ryan on 10-02-2017
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
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....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative but Simple
- By Shane on 29-05-2016
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The Secret of Life
- Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
- By: Howard Markel
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- By Monique Prior on 03-08-2022
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Origins
- How the Earth Made Us
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? Find out....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book
- By Kym Angrave on 15-03-2019
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
- The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
- By: Lisa Randall
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing read
- By Amazon Customer on 20-09-2021
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Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book but please spare us the accents!
- By Pierz Newton-John on 12-07-2018
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- By: Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you know....
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The Chemistry Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them....
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- By: Neil Shubin
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- By Doug Tyler on 11-04-2022
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
- How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- By: Graham Farmelo
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
One of the great mysteries of science is that its fundamental laws are written in the language of mathematics....
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4 out of 5 stars
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a dense narrative but interesting
- By Clancy on 18-07-2019
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Superior
- The Return of Race Science
- By: Angela Saini
- Narrated by: Angela Saini
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A depressing window into scientific racisim
- By Jasmine Lee on 18-05-2022
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- By: M. Mitchel Waldrop
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 9
In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The first few hours was interesting the rest was really boring
- By Anonymous User on 14-12-2020
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Tesla
- Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
- By: Marc J. Seifer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book read this years
- By Chrisitne Nielsen on 21-05-2022
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story5 out of 5 stars 132
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and relatively accessibly presented
- By Emily on 21-06-2022
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh
- By chris on 22-07-2019
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important than Kindness
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller....
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate....
