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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
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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, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a profound, accessible and timely reflection on the biggest questions in science. Professor Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist, an influential author and thinker and a great popular communicator.
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Funny, informative, and a must read!
- By Lowesse on 03-08-2019
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon - foreword, Lucy Hawking - afterword
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean, The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. The story of the nutmeg becomes a parable revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials.
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fascinating history and information
- By Anonymous User on 21-01-2023
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2021
- Language: English
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Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- By: Dr Brian Klaas
- Narrated by: Dr Brian Klaas
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives - and our societies - could be radically different. Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events.
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best argument I've heard for hard determinism
- By Simon J Griffiths on 02-03-2024
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Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- Narrated by: Dr Brian Klaas
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.
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Fantastic
- By Inge Buchanan on 24-01-2017
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The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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This Book Will Blow Your Mind
- Journeys at the Extremes of Science
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time, and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers. From quantum weirdness to freaky cosmology (like white holes - which spew out matter instead of sucking it in), This Book Will Blow Your Mind takes you on an epic journey to the furthest extremes of science, to the things you never thought possible.
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This Book Will Blow Your Mind
- Journeys at the Extremes of Science
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2018
- Language: English
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Next to Nature
- A Lifetime in the English Countryside
- By: Ronald Blythe
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year, and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries. Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year's Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in church, Next to Nature invites us to witness a simple life richly lived.
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Next to Nature
- A Lifetime in the English Countryside
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2022
- Language: English
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Climate Capitalism
- Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions
- By: Akshat Rathi
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. Through stories that bring people, policy and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable.
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Awesome book that summarise the current effort on climate change
- By Anonymous User on 30-01-2024
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Climate Capitalism
- Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2023
- Language: English
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Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar system has been visited by advanced alien technology. His provocative and persuasive argument (and internationally bestselling book Extraterrestrial) has opened thousands of minds to the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. This book tackles the huge question of what happens next?
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Excellent
- By A.L. Bailey on 20-09-2023
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Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-08-2023
- Language: English
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Think of a number between one and 10. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions, and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?). And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends.
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2018
- 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: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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From the ancient Greeks to Buddhism, our ability to check reality and recalibrate has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years. Yet it is only recently that we've developed the technology to create a rigorous science of self-awareness, what we call metacognition. Head of the Metacognition Lab at University College London, Stephen Fleming is the world's leading expert in this new field of neuroscience. In Know Thyself, he explains both the vast potential of metacognition and why it is that we still so often get it wrong.
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Fascinating but little opportunity to apply
- By Matthew Anderw Swan on 22-08-2021
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Know Thyself
- How the New Science of Self Awareness Gives Us the Edge
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2021
- Language: English
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Extraterrestrial
- The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed a strange object soaring through our inner solar system. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb conclusively showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit and leaving no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilisation.
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Too little substance
- By Irrelevant Something on 24-07-2021
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Extraterrestrial
- The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Race to the Future
- The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- By: Kassia St Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St Clair
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution. An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Updates on their progress, sent by telegram, are eagerly devoured by millions in one of the first ever global news stories. Their destination: Paris.
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The Race to the Future
- The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Kassia St Clair
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2023
- Language: English
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Einstein in Time and Space
- A Life in 99 Particles
- By: Samuel Graydon
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really? The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for element 99, Albert Einstein was also a high school dropout with an FBI file 1,400 pages long. In this audiobook, Samuel Graydon's writing brings history's most famous scientist back to life.
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Einstein in Time and Space
- A Life in 99 Particles
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: English
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Futureproof
- 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
- By: Kevin Roose
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the centre of our lives. The world's biggest corporations are racing to automate jobs and some experts predict that A.I could put millions of people out of work. But all is not lost. With a little effort, we can become futureproof.
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Superb review of AI challenges
- By Salman on 11-08-2021
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Futureproof
- 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2021
- Language: English
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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
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who challenged the establishment to rethink quantum physics and the nature of reality. Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the reality underlying quantum physics as meaningless.
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Fantastic survey of the observation problem, albeit biased.
- By Mike on 31-08-2019
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2018
- Language: English
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New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything
- From the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
- By: New Scientist, Graham Lawton, Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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A journey through life, the universe and everything. From what actually happened in the big bang to the accidental discovery of Post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the invention of the wheel was less important to civilisation than the bag (think about it)? New Scientist does.
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Fascinating and a lot of fun
- By Chris Pedder on 04-04-2018
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New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything
- From the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2017
- Language: English
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This Is Planet Earth
- Your Ultimate Guide to the World We Call Home
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known universe. The ancient Greeks called it Gaia, the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most amazing place in the known universe.
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This Is Planet Earth
- Your Ultimate Guide to the World We Call Home
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2018
- Language: English
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Lost to the Sea
- A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland
- By: Lisa Woollett
- Narrated by: Amy Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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On a series of coastal walks, Lisa Woollett takes us on an illuminating journey, bringing to life the places where mythology and reality meet at the very edges of Britain and Ireland. From Bronze Age settlements on the Isles of Scilly and submerged prehistoric forests in Wales, to a Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight and castles in the air off County Clare, Lisa draws together archaeology, meetings with locals and tales from folklore to reveal how the sea has forged, shaped and often overwhelmed these landscapes and communities.
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Lost to the Sea
- A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland
- Narrated by: Amy Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2024
- Language: English
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Super Senses
- The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them
- By: Emma Young
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually have at least 32. We take our senses for granted but what would be possible if we properly understood how they all work? Award-winning science Writer Emma Young has spent over a decade finding out, and in Super Senses she takes us on an exhilarating sensory journey.
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Super Senses
- The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2021
- Language: English
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Lapidarium
- The Secret Lives of Stones
- By: Hettie Judah
- Narrated by: Nina Wadia
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Lapidarium weaves the surprising stories of the 60 most fascinating stones into a rich cultural history: from the red ground hematite pigment our cave-painting ancestors used and the mystery behind the tuff Easter Island heads, to the columbite that caused the Playstation War and the intriguing history of the cairngorm crystal ball, to the scandalous story of Flint Jack, whose forgeries still populate many museums in the UK today.
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Lapidarium
- The Secret Lives of Stones
- Narrated by: Nina Wadia
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2022
- Language: English
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