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Native American DNA
- Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
- By: Kim TallBear
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations.
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Native American DNA
- Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Life Scientific: Explorers
- By: Anna Buckley
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The explorers featured in this volume include: Michele Dougherty, the mathematician who persuaded the Cassini mission to Saturn to make a diversion; Richard Fortey on his love of trilobites; Monica Grady, Meteorite Lady; neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on slicing through our thoughts; the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; Brian Cox on quantum mechanics; and Nobel Prize winner John Sulston on why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.
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The Life Scientific: Explorers
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2018
- Language: English
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Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India
- By: Arun Mohan Sukumar
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwahi
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country's crown...
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Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwahi
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2020
- Language: English
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- By: Andreas Wagner
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species—but there's a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these 'sleeping beauties' crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently and cheaply to nature, well before they are needed.
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2023
- Language: English
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- By: Stephen M. Sagar MD
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology. Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns.
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2022
- Language: English
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The Drug Hunters
- The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
- By: Donald R. Kirsch PhD, Ogi Ogas PhD
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.
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The Drug Hunters
- The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2017
- Language: English
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Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- By: Joe Herbert
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past - none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: It changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved not only in sexuality but in driving aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking - all elements that were needed for successful survival and reproduction in the past. But these ancient systems are carried forward into a modern world.
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Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2015
- Language: English
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Going Rogue
- An American Life
- By: Sarah Palin
- Narrated by: Sarah Palin
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America’s most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves...
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Going Rogue
- An American Life
- Narrated by: Sarah Palin
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2009
- Language: English
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Pope Francis
- From the End of the Earth to Rome
- By: The Staff of The Wall Street Journal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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On March 13, the cardinals of the Catholic Church, gathered to elect a successor to a living Pope for the first time in 600 years, announced a dramatic shift. By elevating Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become Pope Francis the 266th Pontiff, the cardinals were naming the...
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Pope Francis
- From the End of the Earth to Rome
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2013
- Language: English
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- By: George Szpiro
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
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Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 29-11-2011
- Language: English
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Warriors of the Cloisters
- The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
- By: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science.
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Warriors of the Cloisters
- The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2012
- Language: English
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roc Filella Montfort, Albino Santos Mosquera
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto. El éxito de Google y YouTube, y hasta el 11-S, son “cisnes negros”. Para Nassim Nicholas Taleb, los cisnes negros son parte integrante de nuestro mundo, desde el auge de las religiones hasta los acontecimientos de nuestra vida personal. ¿Por qué no podemos identificar este fenómeno hasta que ya ha sucedido?
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: Spanish
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius.
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2021
- Language: English
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12 Seconds Of Silence
- How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
- By: Jamie Holmes
- Narrated by: Chris Mayers
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II—and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war 12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a ragtag group of American scientists overcame...
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12 Seconds Of Silence
- How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
- Narrated by: Chris Mayers
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2014
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Eric R. Scerri
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Eric R. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the table and shows how the deeper meaning of the table's structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory.
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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, Michael D. Gordin
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era—Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory.
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2025
- Language: English
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
- By: Ersilia Vaudo, Vanessa Di Stefano - translator
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind's cosmic awareness. When we gain a new perspective, a transformation begins, profoundly altering the understanding of the world our human experience had previously granted us.
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2025
- Language: English
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- By: John Dvorak
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- By: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the...
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2017
- Language: English
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