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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex
- Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life
- By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes.
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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex
- Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Well-Connected Animal
- Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies
- By: Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this tour of the animal kingdom, evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin reveals a new field of study, uncovering social networks that existed long before the dawn of human social media. He accessibly describes the latest findings from animal behavior, evolution, computer science, psychology, anthropology, genetics, and neurobiology, and incorporates interviews and insights from researchers he finds swimming with manta rays, avoiding pigeon poop, and stopping monkeys from stealing iPads.
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The Well-Connected Animal
- Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Power of Prions
- The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases
- By: Michel Brahic
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins. Research links various types of prion proteins to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's—and this has fueled the search for new drugs that could halt the progression of these terrible disorders. Other discoveries have revealed the essential roles prion proteins play in memory and immunity, and the part they may have played in the beginnings of life on our planet.
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The Power of Prions
- The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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The Wild Dark
- Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Seeking not the absence of light, but the presence of the universe, master storyteller Craig Childs sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. A fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, Childs guides us on a quest to rediscover the heavens and to ask: "What does it do to us to not see the night sky?"
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The Wild Dark
- Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 28-04-2026
- Language: English
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The History of Life (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael J. Benton
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. Where did humans come from? Where did life come from? New fields of study, such as molecular biology and astrobiology, are shedding remarkable new light on the origin of life and the origin of sex. In this Very Short Introduction Michael J. Benton covers all the main fossil groups, including dinosaurs, and the upheavals such as mass extinctions that have beset our planet and life on Earth.
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The History of Life (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-2026
- Language: English
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The Trees Are Speaking
- Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
- By: Lynda V. Mapes
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life. In a time of climate catastrophe, old-growth and other natural forests face existential threats caused by...
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The Trees Are Speaking
- Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 07-04-2026
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Sex
- Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
- By: David Baker, Simon Whistler - foreword
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical, anatomical, behavioral, social—come from. Chasing down our evolutionary family tree, from the first aquatic creatures to primate societies, David Baker sheds light on our baffling array of passions, impulses, and fetishes, and guides us toward a clear understanding of one of the deepest, most abiding forces of human nature.
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The Shortest History of Sex
- Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2024
- Language: English
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Curious Species
- How Animals Made Natural History
- By: Whitney Barlow Robles
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment—a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and the field.
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Curious Species
- How Animals Made Natural History
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2023
- Language: English
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The Unity of Science
- Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Irwin Shapiro
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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For Irwin Shapiro, science starts with questions. This book provides a broad and entertaining survey of major scientific discoveries that have changed our views of nature and, in turn, spawned further questions. Shapiro, an award-winning scientist and beloved teacher, separates his inquiry into three parts: looking up at the universe; looking down at the earth and its fossils; and looking in at the story of life. His framework encourages listeners to view science as a detective story—to observe and question nature and natural phenomena, and to base all conclusions on scientific evidence.
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The Unity of Science
- Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-10-2023
- Language: English
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Secret Life of the City
- How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild
- By: Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas, Matt Bagguley - translator
- Narrated by: Mary Helen Gallucci
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way, she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, fungi, and linden trees—and the experts who study their surprising abilities to survive, and thrive, in the city.
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Secret Life of the City
- How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild
- Narrated by: Mary Helen Gallucci
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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Attraction, Love, Sex
- The Inside Story
- By: Simon LeVay
- Narrated by: Dan Calley
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Sex, after hunger, may be the most powerful motivating force in our lives. It drives us to seek intimate contact with others and to form relationships that may be fleeting or lifelong, blissful or troubled. Yet many mysteries surround sex and sexuality: Why don't we reproduce by virgin birth? Why does so much of our sexual behavior have nothing to do with reproduction? Why isn't everyone heterosexual? How does the brain create sexual arousal? How do sexual kinks develop? Is porn harmful? What is the relationship between sex and love?
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Attraction, Love, Sex
- The Inside Story
- Narrated by: Dan Calley
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2023
- Language: English
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Halcyon Journey
- In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
- By: Marina Richie
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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More than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not all are fishing birds. They range in size from the African dwarf kingfisher to the laughing kookaburra of Australia. This first book to feature North America's belted kingfisher is a lyrical story of observation, revelation, and curiosity in the presence of flowing waters.
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Halcyon Journey
- In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-09-2023
- Language: English
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Invasive Species
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Julie Lockwood, Dustin J. Welbourne
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Today there is no place on Earth that does not harbor invasive exotic species. Invasive plants and animals can be found on every continent, including Antarctica, and within all waterbodies, including all oceans. This Very Short Introduction provides a clear definition of an invasive species, and considers the myriad ways they are moved around the globe, and the ecological, social, and economic impacts they often impose.
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Invasive Species
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 31-08-2023
- Language: English
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Walleye
- A Beautiful Fish of the Dark
- By: Paul J. Radomski
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Among the more than 34,000 species of fish, few have the walleye's following—among anglers and diners, states conferring official status on the fish, and towns battling for recognition as the Walleye Capital of the World. And among those passionate fans, few know the walleye as well as Paul J. Radomski does—a fisheries biologist, lake ecology scientist, and old fisherman. In Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark he unspools the mysteries of this fascinating fish.
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Walleye
- A Beautiful Fish of the Dark
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Accidental Ecosystem
- People and Wildlife in American Cities
- By: Peter S. Alagona
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities—the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems—grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet?
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The Accidental Ecosystem
- People and Wildlife in American Cities
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-07-2023
- Language: English
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Genes
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jonathan Slack
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development. Explaining the nature of genetic variation in the human population, how hereditary factors were identified as molecules of DNA, and how certain specific mutations can lead to disease, Slack highlights how DNA variants are used to trace human ancestry and migration, and can also be used by forensic scientists to identify individuals in crime.
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Genes
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2023
- Language: English
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Backvalley Ferrets
- A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau
- By: Lawrence Lenhart
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Twice declared extinct, North America's most endangered mammal species, the black-footed ferret (BFF), is making a comeback thanks to an evolving conservation regimen at more than thirty reintroduction sites across the continent. Lawrence Lenhart lingers at one such site in his proverbial backyard, the Aubrey Valley in northern Arizona.
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Backvalley Ferrets
- A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Wanderer
- An Alaska Wolf's Final Journey
- By: Tom Walker
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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The Wanderer is the first book ever to chart a wolf's movement, almost to the day, for an extended period of time. Informed by unique access to research and field notes, award-winning author, photographer, and naturalist Tom Walker shares the story of Wolf 258, nicknamed "the Wanderer," part of a research project that studied wolves in Alaska's Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than two decades.
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The Wanderer
- An Alaska Wolf's Final Journey
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2023
- Language: English
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Planting Our World
- By: Stefano Mancuso, Gregory Conti - translator
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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From the chance to live on this planet to the pleasure of listening to the sound of a violin—every story begins with a plant. We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet's biomass while plants add up to 85%. It is obvious that every story on this planet has a plant as its protagonist. Our world is a green world; Earth is the planet of plants. Neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso is back with a book to tell us about the greenprint of our world. He does it through unforgettable stories starring plants; stories combining an inimitable narrative style and remarkable scientific rigor.
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Planting Our World
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2023
- Language: English
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Under the Sacred Canopy
- Working Magick with the Mystical Trees of the World
- By: JD Walker
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Explore sacred trees from around the world and learn how to use their spiritual energy in your magickal practice. From the Norse Yggdrasil and the Christian Tree of Knowledge to the Jewish Sephiroth and the Buddhist Bodhi Tree, this book features the mythology of mystical trees and their influence on societies throughout history. Under the Sacred Canopy introduces you to Universe Trees, as well as Trees of Life and Wisdom from an array of cultures, including the Mayan ceiba tree, Mesopotamian huluppa tree, and Greek oracle oaks.
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Under the Sacred Canopy
- Working Magick with the Mystical Trees of the World
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2023
- Language: English
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