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Best Sellers
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- By: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 422
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story5 out of 5 stars 381
A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems....
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5 out of 5 stars
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paradigm shifting
- By Alistair on 29-03-2017
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Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science
- By: Bill Bryson
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Bill Bryson teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious....
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- By: Stephen Hawking, Professor Kip Thorne - foreword
- Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon - foreword, Lucy Hawking - afterword
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story5 out of 5 stars 116
The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the best-selling author of A Brief History of Time and arguably the most famous scientist of our age....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking, inspiring, moving
- By Wayne Wang on 01-03-2019
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The Order of Time
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Timely
- By J. A. Varzaly on 13-11-2018
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- By: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 422
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story5 out of 5 stars 381
A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems....
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5 out of 5 stars
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paradigm shifting
- By Alistair on 29-03-2017
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Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science
- By: Bill Bryson
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Bill Bryson teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious....
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- By: Stephen Hawking, Professor Kip Thorne - foreword
- Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon - foreword, Lucy Hawking - afterword
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story5 out of 5 stars 116
The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the best-selling author of A Brief History of Time and arguably the most famous scientist of our age....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking, inspiring, moving
- By Wayne Wang on 01-03-2019
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The Order of Time
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Timely
- By J. A. Varzaly on 13-11-2018
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
- How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
- By: Steven Novella
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story5 out of 5 stars 46
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is your guide through this maze of modern life. It covers essential critical thinking skills as well as giving insight into how your brain works and how to avoid common pitfalls in thinking....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful
- By John Trimble on 28-01-2019
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How Not to Die
- Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease
- By: Dr Michael Greger, Gene Stone
- Narrated by: Michael Greger
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story5 out of 5 stars 180
Why rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when the right decisions can prevent you from falling ill to begin with? Find out more....
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3 out of 5 stars
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food for thought
- By michelle Fischer on 19-02-2018
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The Moral Landscape
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 215
Sam Harris has discovered that most people, from secular scientists to religious fundamentalists, agree on one point....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sam Harris is the tits.
- By Amazon Customer on 19-09-2016
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The Future of Humanity
- Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku, read by Feodor Chin....
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5 out of 5 stars
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womderful collection of wisdom
- By Anonymous User on 15-03-2018
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Unnatural Causes
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead....
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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 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration kills science
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-2019
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Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- By: Joshua Foer
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything....
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic
- By Anonymous User on 12-05-2017
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Stress-Proof
- By: Mithu Storoni
- Narrated by: Katharine McEwan
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
This practical and groundbreaking guide reveals seven paths to fighting the effects of stress to strengthen our natural defences so that our minds remain sharp, and our bodies resilient, no matter the circumstances....
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
- By: Chris Hadfield
- Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 327
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime making the impossible a reality....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spectacular and humble insight into one continuous lifetime of applied dedication
- By Anonymous User on 06-09-2017
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- By: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful, elegant and enthralling
- By David Elliott Johnson on 02-08-2018
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Being Mortal
- Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 5
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice....
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1 out of 5 stars
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uninteresting book
- By Albert J. Malki on 11-03-2019
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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 71
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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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All Creatures Great and Small
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beaut book but.....
- By Nola Coulthurst on 15-11-2018
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Forces of Nature
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking audiobook accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one so far
- By Shamal on 19-06-2017
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up....
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The Beginning and the End of Everything
- By: Paul Parsons
- Narrated by: Dallas Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it - from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to its ultimate fate....
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The Science of Storytelling
- By: Will Storr
- Narrated by: Will Storr
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this scalpel-sharp, thought-provoking audiobook, Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr Men, from Booker Prize-winning literature to box set TV....
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Incognito
- The Secret Lives of the Brain
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Read by the author - renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate many surprising mysteries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 24-12-2018
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- By: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who challenged the establishment to rethink quantum physics and the nature of reality....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By ZAP22 on 30-01-2019
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The Forgotten Islands
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
The Forgotten Islands is an incredible, evocative listen that shines a light on this little-known part of Australia and its extraordinary history....
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The Lord God Made Them All
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet....
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5 out of 5 stars
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💗🐾😄👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
- By sunny on 04-02-2019
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Every Living Thing
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small....
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The Gendered Brain
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? Find out....
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Flipnosis
- By: Kevin Dutton
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
What if I were to tell you that a psychopathic arsonist might also be the person most likely to save you from a burning building? Listen to find out more....
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How to Build a Universe
- An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British science, producing an insight into the multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe....
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting but quite short
- By Anonymous User on 23-09-2018
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Do No Harm
- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
- By: Henry Marsh
- Narrated by: Jim Barclay
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason?....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brain Surgery Is Not Like You Think
- By The Lazy Book Reviewer on 28-05-2015
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The River of Consciousness
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 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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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience and the arts and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A lot to take in
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-2018
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A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
- A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
- By: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Dan Piraro
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies....
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Genome
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon....
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You Are Here
- A Portable History of the Universe
- By: Christopher Potter
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant!
- By Michael on 30-01-2015
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Bad Science
- By: Ben Goldacre
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
We are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory and sometimes misleading information-until now....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By The lad on 28-03-2015
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Other Minds
- The Octopus and The Evolution of Intelligent Life
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, informative, and thought provoking.
- By Dominic on 12-03-2018
New Releases
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The Nocturnal Brain
- Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience
- By: Dr Guy Leschziner
- Narrated by: Dr Guy Leschziner
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to our brain at night? Are we really fully asleep? And if so, how is it that some individuals end up doing what they do? Or can it be the case that perhaps the brain never fully goes to sleep and that in some individuals there is a disconnect between the sleeping part of their brain and the active part of their brain so that the two become confused? Does this happen to all of us in varying degrees, and can the reverse be the case, too - so that some individuals are actually asleep during the day while appearing to be awake?!
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Being Mortal
- Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 5
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is an audiobook about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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uninteresting book
- By Albert J. Malki on 11-03-2019
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World
- By: Catherine Whitlock, Rhodri Evans
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College. Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events.
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- By: Dr W. Thomas Boyce
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In The Orchid and the Dandelion, Dr W. Thomas Boyce - one of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of paediatric health - presents findings that children have two very different responses to their environments. While some children are like dandelions and can thrive in almost any environment, there are others who, like orchids, are much more reactive and susceptible to their surroundings. Now we finally have a scientific framework to understand these children and how to address their unique needs to help them find their fullest potential.
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Shoot for the Moon
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 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
In this remarkable audiobook, Professor Richard Wiseman presents a pioneering study of the mind-set that took humanity to the moon and shows how you can harness and use it to achieve the extraordinary in your everyday life. Combining personal interviews, mission archives and cutting-edge psychology, Wiseman embarks on the ultimate voyage through inner space. Along the way he identifies eight key principles that make up the Apollo mind-set, including how pessimism is crucial to success and how fear and tragedy can be transformed into hope and optimism.
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The Gendered Brain
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her life’s work as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains.
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The Nocturnal Brain
- Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience
- By: Dr Guy Leschziner
- Narrated by: Dr Guy Leschziner
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to our brain at night? Are we really fully asleep? And if so, how is it that some individuals end up doing what they do? Or can it be the case that perhaps the brain never fully goes to sleep and that in some individuals there is a disconnect between the sleeping part of their brain and the active part of their brain so that the two become confused? Does this happen to all of us in varying degrees, and can the reverse be the case, too - so that some individuals are actually asleep during the day while appearing to be awake?!
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Being Mortal
- Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 5
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is an audiobook about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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uninteresting book
- By Albert J. Malki on 11-03-2019
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World
- By: Catherine Whitlock, Rhodri Evans
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College. Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events.
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- By: Dr W. Thomas Boyce
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In The Orchid and the Dandelion, Dr W. Thomas Boyce - one of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of paediatric health - presents findings that children have two very different responses to their environments. While some children are like dandelions and can thrive in almost any environment, there are others who, like orchids, are much more reactive and susceptible to their surroundings. Now we finally have a scientific framework to understand these children and how to address their unique needs to help them find their fullest potential.
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Shoot for the Moon
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 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
In this remarkable audiobook, Professor Richard Wiseman presents a pioneering study of the mind-set that took humanity to the moon and shows how you can harness and use it to achieve the extraordinary in your everyday life. Combining personal interviews, mission archives and cutting-edge psychology, Wiseman embarks on the ultimate voyage through inner space. Along the way he identifies eight key principles that make up the Apollo mind-set, including how pessimism is crucial to success and how fear and tragedy can be transformed into hope and optimism.
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The Gendered Brain
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her life’s work as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains.