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Memory
- By: Fergus Craik, Larry Jacoby
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our keys five minutes ago? How can a scent take us back fifty years while a colleague's name eludes us? In this compact introduction, two leading psychological researchers describe memory—how it works and why it sometimes doesn't; how it can be tricked, trained, or improved; and what changes with time. In a manner as engaging as it is informative, Fergus Craik and Larry Jacoby explain the strengths and weaknesses of memory.
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Memory
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-09-2023
- Language: English
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Good Thinking
- What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
- By: Guy P. Harrison
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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By explaining how the human brain works and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that will help you make better decisions, ask the right questions (at the right time), know what to look for when evaluating information, and understand how your own brain subconsciously clouds your judgment. Think you're too smart to be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research showing how easily even intelligent and well-educated people can be fooled.
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Good Thinking
- What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2016
- Language: English
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- By: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs' clinic to the present.
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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The Depths
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
- By: Jonathan Rottenberg
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly widespread. Why are we losing this fight?
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The Depths
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- By: Carl J. Lavie
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with explosive news: Overweight and even moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases - from heart disease to cancer - often live longer and fare better than normal-weight individuals with the same ailments. In this groundbreaking audiobook, Carl Lavie, MD, reveals the science behind the obesity paradox and shows us how to achieve maximum health rather than minimum weight.
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2014
- Language: English
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Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment (3rd Edition)
- By: Peter M. Curtis
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment provides in-depth coverage of operating, managing, and maintaining power quality and emergency power systems in mission critical facilities. This extensively revised third edition provides invaluable insight into the mission critical environment, helping professionals and students alike understand how to sustain continuous functionality, minimize the occurrence of costly unexpected downtime, and guard against power disturbances.
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Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment (3rd Edition)
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 16-12-2025
- Language: English
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Arrival the Fittest
- Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
- By: Andreas Wagner
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Arrival of the Fittest, renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner draws on over 15 years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
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Arrival the Fittest
- Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2014
- Language: English
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Internal Time
- Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
- By: Till Roenneberg
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns are the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. By understanding and respecting our internal time, we can live better.
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Internal Time
- Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Distraction Addiction
- Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
- By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: Can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all?
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powerfully relevant
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The Distraction Addiction
- Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-08-2013
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- By: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning - a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things - from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-01-2014
- Language: English
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- By: Michael J. Neufeld
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than 12 years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the moon.
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2019
- Language: English
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Space to Grow
- Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
- By: Brendan Rosseau, Matthew Weinzierl
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs are unlocking opportunities that fire the imagination. No, it's not hotels on Mars or day trips to orbit (yet), but it's an awe-inspiring transformation driven by innovative technologies, creative approaches, hard work, and—for the first time—market forces.
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Space to Grow
- Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2025
- Language: English
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Biological Rhythms
- By: Daniel B. Forger
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the firing of neurons in a fraction of a second to the monthly cycle of ovulation to a seasonal shift in sleep patterns, the human body runs on rhythms—all more knowable now than ever, thanks to wearables. Making sense—and making use—of these signals is something else, and this is precisely what Daniel Forger explains in Biological Rhythms. Sorting through a plethora of data gathered over the past decade, this practical, user-friendly book gives listeners the tools for reading and interpreting the rhythms that regulate physiological processes.
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Biological Rhythms
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2026
- Language: English
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Terrible Beauty
- Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
- By: Auden Schendler
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of this will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change.
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Terrible Beauty
- Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2024
- Language: English
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Drinking Water
- A History
- By: James Salzman
- Narrated by: Lee Hahn
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future? In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time.
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Drinking Water
- A History
- Narrated by: Lee Hahn
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2012
- Language: English
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Waves
- By: Fredric Raichlen
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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In Waves, Fredric Raichlen traces the evolution of waves, from their generation in the deep ocean to their effects on the coast. He explains, in a way that is readily understandable to nonscientists, both the science of waves themselves and the technology that can be used to protect us against their more extreme forms, including hurricanes and tsunamis.
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Waves
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2015
- Language: English
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Nature's Nether Regions
- What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves
- By: Menno Schithuizen
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before. What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution. Menno Schilthuizen invites listeners to join him as he uncovers the ways the shapes and functions of genitalia have been molded by complex Darwinian struggles.
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Nature's Nether Regions
- What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2014
- Language: English
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Extraterrestrials
- By: Wade Roush
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activity - but we don't. Where is everybody? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: Is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?
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Extraterrestrials
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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Brain Bytes
- Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
- By: Eric Chudler, Lise Johnson
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Neuroscience in small bits for the brain-curious. From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and center. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears.
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Brain Bytes
- Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2017
- Language: English
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