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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the 20th century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species.
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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2014
- Language: English
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- By: Seth S. Horowitz PhD
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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The surprising truth about how the things our ears hear affect what's between them. Every day, we are surrounded by millions of sounds - ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what we hear every day? And how does it affect our brains and our minds?
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
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Darwin's Ghosts
- In Search of the First Evolutionists
- By: Rebecca Stott
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears.
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Darwin's Ghosts
- In Search of the First Evolutionists
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2013
- Language: English
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Are We Screwed?
- By: Geoff Dembicki
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change. If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardour for change defines this generation, especially when it comes to climate change, and they are willing to consider options that their elders might think naïve and impractical....
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Are We Screwed?
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-08-2017
- Language: English
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Pig/Pork
- Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
- By: Pía Spry-Marqués
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and gastronomy, providing a close and affectionate look at the myriad causes underlying this multimillennial bond. What is it that people in all four corners of the world find so fascinating about the pig? When did the human obsession with pigs begin, how did it develop through time and where is it heading? Why are pigs so special to some of us but not to others?
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Pig/Pork
- Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2017
- Language: English
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Big Data
- Does Size Matter?
- By: Timandra Harkness
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data? You've probably seen the phrase in newspaper headlines, at work in a marketing meeting, or on a fitness-tracking gadget. But can you understand it without being a Silicon Valley nerd who writes computer programs for fun? Yes. Yes, you can.
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Big Data
- Does Size Matter?
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2016
- Language: English
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Sorting the Beef from the Bull
- The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
- By: Richard Evershed, Nicola Temple
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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This audiobook explains the scientific tools and techniques that revealed the century's biggest food fraud scams. It looks in detail at the biggest scams in recent times; drawing on the lead author's extensive experience at the forefront of the fight against these fraudsters, it goes on to explore the arms race between scientists and adulterers as better techniques for detection spur more creative and sophisticated means of adulteration.
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Sorting the Beef from the Bull
- The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2016
- Language: English
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Sex on Earth
- A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
- By: Jules Howard
- Narrated by: Jon Caruth
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Written in a brilliantly engaging style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly engaging work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males, racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong, penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits, monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and outs of animal reproduction.
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Sex on Earth
- A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
- Narrated by: Jon Caruth
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2014
- Language: English
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Looking for the Goshawk
- By: Conor Mark Jameson
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration, and conversations. The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain?
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Looking for the Goshawk
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2014
- Language: English
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Poison Spring
- The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
- By: E. G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins
- Narrated by: Michael McConnahie
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.
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Poison Spring
- The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
- Narrated by: Michael McConnahie
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2014
- Language: English
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A Slow Passion
- Snails, My Garden and Me
- By: Ruth Brooks
- Narrated by: Kelly Birch
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she got to grips with these slimy little gastropods. A Slow Passion is Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore.
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A Slow Passion
- Snails, My Garden and Me
- Narrated by: Kelly Birch
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Living Shore
- Rediscovering a Lost World
- By: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where he found something unusual. Amid the mussels, barnacles, and clams were round oysters - Olympias. Kingzett noted their presence and paddled on.
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The Living Shore
- Rediscovering a Lost World
- Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Wild Duck Chase
- Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
- By: Martin J. Smith
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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The Wild Duck Chase takes listeners into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest - the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought annually by hunters to certify their hunting license, has generated more than $750 million, and 98 cents of each collected dollar has been used to help purchase or lease 5.3 million acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S. - the core of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
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The Wild Duck Chase
- Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Carbon Age
- How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
- By: Eric Roston
- Narrated by: Carl Randolph
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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What do bubbles in a soft drink, a bullet-proof vest, a plastic chair, and our DNA have in common? Carbon. It is, and forever has been, the ubiquitous architect of life and civilization, forming the chemical backbone of every living creature. And yet, when we hear the word today, it is more often than not in a crisis situation: carbon dioxide emissions are destroying the ozone layer and warming the planet; the volatile Middle East explodes atop its stores of hydrocarbons; carbohydrates threaten obesity and diabetics.
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The Carbon Age
- How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
- Narrated by: Carl Randolph
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Tall Book
- A Celebration of Life from on High
- By: Arianne Cohen
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large - from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the professional joys of earning more money, and having others perceive you as a natural leader. The Tall Book also offers well-researched explanations into the great unanswered questions of tallness, including: Why are people tall to begin with? How have tall people figured throughout history?
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The Tall Book
- A Celebration of Life from on High
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2013
- Language: English
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Hidden Harmonies
- The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
- By: Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasons - not to mention the elusive Pythagoras himself.
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Hidden Harmonies
- The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-02-2013
- Language: English
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Mirror Earth
- The Search for Our Planet's Twin
- By: Michael D. Lemonick
- Narrated by: Carol Schneider
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than 500 planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest.
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Mirror Earth
- The Search for Our Planet's Twin
- Narrated by: Carol Schneider
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2013
- Language: English
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- By: David Rothenberg
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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Diet for a Hot Planet
- The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
- By: Anna Lappe
- Narrated by: Lori Blanchard
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food industry are willfully ignoring the issue rather than addressing it. In Anna Lapp's controversial new book, she predicts that unless we radically shift the trends of what food we're eating and how we're producing it, food-system-related greenhouse gas emissions will go up and up and up.
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Diet for a Hot Planet
- The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
- Narrated by: Lori Blanchard
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2013
- Language: English
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The Fate of the Species
- Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It
- By: Fred Guterl
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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The sixth "mass extinction event" in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. The cause of this seismic event is also the source of the single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions. But for all our talk about sea levels and biotechnology, do we really know what our future will actually look like? Will our immune systems be attacked by so-called super bugs, always evolving, and more easily spread than ever? Will the disappearance of numerous species cripple the biosphere?
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The Fate of the Species
- Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2013
- Language: English
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