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Wolf Island
- Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- By: L. David Mech, Greg Breining - contributor, Rolf O. Peterson - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect "laboratory" for a long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and killed the island's moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech began research that would unlock the mystery of one of nature's most revered (and reviled) animals - and eventually became an internationally renowned and respected wolf expert. This is the story of those early years.
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Repetitive and tedious
- By Jp on 18-12-2023
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Wolf Island
- Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2020
- Language: English
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Running Smart
- How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance
- By: Mariska Van Sprundel, Danny Guinan - translator
- Narrated by: Lu Banks
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Conventional wisdom about running is passed down like folklore (and sometimes contradicts itself). In Running Smart, Mariska van Sprundel, a science journalist and recreational runner who has had her fair share of injuries, sets out to explore the science behind such claims.
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Interesting ideas
- By Amazon Customer on 02-02-2024
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Running Smart
- How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance
- Narrated by: Lu Banks
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
- How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
- By: Ursula Goodenough
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age—the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity—point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us that the scientific world view need not be a source of despair. Indeed, it can be a wellspring of solace and hope. This volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity.
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
- How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Feeling of Life Itself
- Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
- By: Christof Koch
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain, three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece, give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain.
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Pretty interesting
- By Reuben on 15-10-2024
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The Feeling of Life Itself
- Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: English
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The Embodied Mind
- Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
- By: Thomas R. Verny
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In The Embodied Mind, internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas R. Verny sets out to redefine our concept of the mind and consciousness. He brilliantly compiles new research that points to the mind's ties to every part of the body.
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Content over delivery
- By Tyler Durden on 29-10-2024
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The Embodied Mind
- Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-12-2021
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Bats
- My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
- By: Merlin Tuttle
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.
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The Secret Lives of Bats
- My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Bad Advice
- Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
- By: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.
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Compelling, entertaining, factual.
- By Anonymous on 24-02-2024
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Bad Advice
- Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2019
- Language: English
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This Will Make You Smarter
- New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson, Khristine Hvam
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.
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Pomposity personified
- By Michael on 23-01-2018
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This Will Make You Smarter
- New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson, Khristine Hvam
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2013
- Language: English
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Astrobiology
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David C. Catling
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate and guide the search for life on other planets. In this Very Short Introduction, David C. Catling introduces the subject through our understanding of the factors that allowed life to arise and persist on our own planet, and for the signs we are looking for in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Astrobiology
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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A Planet of Viruses
- Third Edition
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, an invisible germ - a virus - wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.
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A Planet of Viruses
- Third Edition
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2021
- Language: English
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The Wolverine Way
- By: Douglas H. Chadwick, Rick Ridgeway - foreword
- Narrated by: John Bricker
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces that threaten its future, engagingly told by Douglas Chadwick, who volunteered with the Glacier Wolverine Project. This five-year study in Glacier National Park—which involved dealing with blizzards, grizzlies, sheer mountain walls, and other daily challenges to survival—uncovered key missing information about the wolverine's habitat, social structure, and reproduction habits.
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The Wolverine Way
- Narrated by: John Bricker
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2024
- Language: English
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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- By: Jevan Pradas
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan Pradas argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.
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Highly recommend this book.
- By Gaurang on 27-07-2023
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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2018
- Language: English
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- By: Stuart A. Kauffman
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere.
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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Spirals in Time
- The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
- By: Helen Scales
- Narrated by: Helen Scales
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. In Spirals in Time, marine biologist Helen Scales shows how seashells have been sculpted by the fundamental rules of mathematics and evolution; how they gave us color, gems, food, and new medicines. Spirals in Time shows why nature matters and reveals the hidden wonders that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
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It shell be known that this book is awesome!
- By Cameron M. on 18-05-2024
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Spirals in Time
- The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
- Narrated by: Helen Scales
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2023
- Language: English
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Out of My Skull
- The Psychology of Boredom
- By: James Danckert, John D. Eastwood
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn't bad for us. It's just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance.
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Out of My Skull
- The Psychology of Boredom
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2020
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2020
- Language: English
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What Bees Want
- Beekeeping as Nature Intended
- By: Susan Knilans, Jacqueline Freeman
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Susan Knilans and Jacqueline Freeman are in love with bees. So in love that they observe their bees - their work, communication, seasonal activity, and more - for hours each day. And with observation came realization: When bees are allowed to live as they would in nature (with smaller hives, no chemicals, freedom to swarm, and little-to-no human interference), they will thrive. Accordingly, Knilans and Freeman have spent decades perfecting the revolutionary practice of preservation beekeeping, guided by the simple question, "What do the bees want?"
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What Bees Want
- Beekeeping as Nature Intended
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2022
- Language: English
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Wicked Plants
- The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
- By: Amy Stewart
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, best-selling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.
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wonderful
- By Beau on 07-09-2017
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Wicked Plants
- The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2011
- Language: English
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Squid Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
- By: Danna Staaf
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods - the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, the ocean's former top predator became its most delicious snack. Cephalopods had to step up their game.
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second rising of the cephalopod?
- By Anonymous on 13-01-2024
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Squid Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-04-2018
- Language: English
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Biogeography
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Mark V. Lomolino
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological, and behavioral variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's surface. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the earliest naturalists, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and scientists today, the search for patterns in life has provided insights that proved invaluable for understanding the natural world.
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Biogeography
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2021
- Language: English
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