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Playing Possum
- How Animals Understand Death
- By: Susana Monsó, Mark Rowlands - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom.
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Playing Possum
- How Animals Understand Death
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2024
- Language: English
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Robin Dunbar
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures - and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet, evolution has been, and continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many.
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2020
- Language: English
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My Caesarean
- Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
- By: Amanda Fields - Editor, Rachel Moritz - Editor
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Alongside their personal stories, the writers -decorated novelists, poets, and essayists - address the history of the C-section as well as its risks, social inequities, impact on the body, and psychological aftermath. My Caesarean is a heartfelt meditation, offering much-needed comfort through shared experience.
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My Caesarean
- Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2019
- Language: English
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A Darwinian Survival Guide
- Hope for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Salvatore J. Agosta, Daniel R. Brooks
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world’s only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain.
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A Darwinian Survival Guide
- Hope for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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Slippery Beast
- A True Crime Natural History, with Eels
- By: Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Ruppel Shell follows the elusive eel from Maine to the Sargasso Sea, stalking riversides, fishing holes, laboratories, restaurants, courtrooms, and America's first commercial eel "family farm." This is an enthralling, globe-spanning look at an animal that you may never come to love, but which will never fail to astonish you.
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Slippery Beast
- A True Crime Natural History, with Eels
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-08-2024
- Language: English
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- By: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
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- By S.Attenborough on 10-02-2022
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-01-2022
- Language: English
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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- By: Maura C. Flannery
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate. Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization today.
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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2023
- Language: English
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Bacteria
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Sebastian Amyes
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life and the most prolific of all living organisms, inhabiting every part of the Earth's surface, its ocean depths, and even such inhospitable places as boiling hot springs. In this Very Short Introduction, bacteriologist Sebastian Amyes explores the nature of bacteria, their origin and evolution, bacteria in the environment, and bacteria and disease.
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Bacteria
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2022
- Language: English
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: David W. Deamer
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections.
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2020
- Language: English
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Enzymes
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Paul Engel
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Enzymes are the astonishing tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes that collectively we recognize as life, from making DNA to digesting food. This Very Short Introduction explains the why and the how of speeding up these reactions - catalysis - before going on to reveal how we have evolved these catalysts of such extraordinary power and exquisite selectivity.
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Enzymes
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2021
- Language: English
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Poisonous Plants and Fatal Fungi
- The Lore and Lure of Deadly Botanicals
- By: Sandra Kynes
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Explore humanity's fascination with death through sixty poisonous plants and how they have affected history, magic, warfare, art, and more. Dispatching people with poisonous plants isn't just an Agatha Christie plot—it began thousands of years ago and continues to this day. Deadly Fascination presents sixty profiles divided into five themes, from classic killers to frightful fungi.
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Poisonous Plants and Fatal Fungi
- The Lore and Lure of Deadly Botanicals
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2025
- Language: English
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Resilience Thinking
- Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
- By: Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter V. Reid - Foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Bromhead
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change.
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Resilience Thinking
- Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
- Narrated by: Tom Bromhead
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-07-2019
- Language: English
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Does Coffee Cause Cancer?
- And 8 More Myths About the Food We Eat
- By: Dr. Christopher Labos
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In this fascinating, refreshingly clarifying book about food, food myths, and how sloppy science perpetuates misconceptions about food, a medical doctor on his way to a conference gets drawn into conversations that answer many questions.
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Does Coffee Cause Cancer?
- And 8 More Myths About the Food We Eat
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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Parasites
- The Inside Story
- By: Scott L. Gardner, Judy Diamond, Gabor Racz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has been, a way to survive under changing environmental conditions. From arctic oceans to tropical forests, Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz investigate how parasites survive and evolve, and how they influence and provide stability to ecosystems.
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Parasites
- The Inside Story
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2023
- Language: English
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The Illusionist Brain
- The Neuroscience of Magic
- By: Jordi Cami, Luis M. Martinez
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly impossible effects by interfering with your cognitive processes. Along the way, this lively and informative book provides a guided tour of modern neuroscience, using magic as a lens for understanding the unconscious and automatic functioning of our brains.
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The Illusionist Brain
- The Neuroscience of Magic
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2022
- Language: English
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A Dog's World
- Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans
- By: Jessica Pierce, Marc Bekoff
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog's World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive - and possibly even thrive - and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.
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A Dog's World
- Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2021
- Language: English
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Dr. Calhoun's Mousery
- The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
- By: Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, had all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predators, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces listeners to the work of rodent researcher John Bumpass Calhoun. Dugatkin shows how an ecologist-turned-psychologist-turned-futurist became a science rock star embedded in the culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dr. Calhoun's Mousery
- The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2025
- Language: English
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Cull of the Wild
- Killing in the Name of Conservation
- By: Hugh Warwick
- Narrated by: Hugh Warwick
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming, or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment.
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Cull of the Wild
- Killing in the Name of Conservation
- Narrated by: Hugh Warwick
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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Pigeons
- The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
- By: Andrew D. Blechman
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Domesticated since the dawn of man, pigeons have been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. They have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today they are reviled as "rats with wings."
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Pigeons
- The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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Methuselah's Zoo
- What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
- By: Steven N. Austad
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In Methusaleh's Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild.
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Methuselah's Zoo
- What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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