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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Premonition
- A Pandemic Story
- By: Michael Lewis
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.
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The Premonition
- A Pandemic Story
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-05-2021
- Language: English
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The Proof is in the Plants
- How Science Shows a Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Life (and the Planet)
- By: Simon Hill
- Narrated by: Simon Hill
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What if there was a way of eating that may help us live healthier for longer and protect the future of our planet, too? The good news is that evidence now shows a plant-based diet may offer us exactly that – and straight-talking nutritionist Simon Hill has done the hard work translating the science into actionable advice for everyday life. Before transitioning to a plant-based diet Simon held many of the common misconceptions.
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The Proof is in the Plants
- How Science Shows a Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Life (and the Planet)
- Narrated by: Simon Hill
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-05-2021
- Language: English
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Books do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- By: Richard Dawkins
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Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work.
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Books do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-05-2021
- Language: English
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 10 hrs
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for - sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber - surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable.
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-07-2021
- Language: English
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Uncommon Sense Teaching
- Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
- By: Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, Terrence J. Sejnowski
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs
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Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education.
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Uncommon Sense Teaching
- Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Opium—Caffeine—Mescaline
- By: Michael Pollan
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Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollan explores three drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and the equally powerful taboos.
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Opium—Caffeine—Mescaline
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 08-07-2021
- Language: English
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Shape
- The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
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Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most important scientific, political and philosophical conundrums we face. The word 'geometry', from the Greek, means 'measuring the world'. If anything, geometry doesn't just measure the world - it explains it. Shape shows us how.
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Shape
- The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 25-05-2021
- Language: English
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Know Thyself
- How the New Science of Self Awareness Gives Us the Edge
- By: Stephen M. Fleming
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 10 hrs
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Metacognition is the key to bridging our understanding of consciousness and intelligence and enables our astonishing abilities both as individuals and as a group. Know Thyself is cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Fleming's unprecedented, definitive and endlessly fascinating examination of this essential human ability. A groundbreaking work of scholarship, Know Thyself sheds new light on how to be a self-aware human in our modern world.
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Know Thyself
- How the New Science of Self Awareness Gives Us the Edge
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 29-04-2021
- Language: English
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Saving Us
- A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- By: Katharine Hayhoe
- Length: 6 hrs
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Called “one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past 15 years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it - and she wants to teach you how.
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Saving Us
- A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 21-09-2021
- Language: English
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The Upgrade
- How the Female Brain Remakes Itself in the Second Half of Life
- By: Louann Brizendine
- Length: 8 hrs
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Female Brain explains how the female brain changes for the better in midlife, reframing the patriarchal term "menopause" as "The Upgrade" and inspiring women to unlock their full potential.
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The Upgrade
- How the Female Brain Remakes Itself in the Second Half of Life
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 05-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- By: Ambra Edwards, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
- Length: 10 hrs
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The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure.
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 27-05-2021
- Language: English
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Length: 17 hrs
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Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: what is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilised egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 19-08-2021
- Language: English
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Outlandish
- Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
- By: Nick Hunt
- Length: 10 hrs
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In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary.
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Outlandish
- Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 27-05-2021
- Language: English
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Empire of Ants
- The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
- By: Olaf Fritsche, Susanne Foitzik
- Length: 10 hrs
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Ants have been walking the Earth since the age of the dinosaurs. Today there are one million ants for every one of us. The closer you get to ants, the more human they look: they build megacities, grow crops, raise livestock, tend their young and infirm, and even make vaccines. They also have a darker side: they wage war, enslave rivals and rebel against their oppressors. From fearsome army ants, who stage 12-hour hunting raids where they devour thousands, to gentle leafcutters gardening in their peaceful underground kingdoms, every ant is engineered by nature to fulfil a role.
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Empire of Ants
- The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-05-2021
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 13 hrs
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-05-2021
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- By: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing 21st-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
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Miseducation
- How Climate Change Is Taught in America
- By: Katie Worth
- Length: 4 hrs
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Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science teachers who teach global warming are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful have they been?
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Miseducation
- How Climate Change Is Taught in America
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 16-11-2021
- Language: English
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Back to Earth
- What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet - and Our Mission to Protect It
- By: Nicole Stott
- Length: 8 hrs
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When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home. In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that each of us can practice to make change. She knows we can overcome differences to address global issues, because she saw this every day on the International Space Station. Stott shares stories from her spaceflight and insights from scientists, activists, and changemakers working to solve our greatest environmental challenges.
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Back to Earth
- What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet - and Our Mission to Protect It
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 12-10-2021
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Information
- Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
- By: Caleb Scharf
- Length: 10 hrs
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One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive - an aggregate lifeform.
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The Ascent of Information
- Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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