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Becoming Earth
- How Our Planet Came to Life
- By: Ferris Jabr
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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The notion of a living world is one of humanity’s oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its surroundings – it also shapes them in dramatic and enduring ways. Over billions of years, life transformed a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis, breathing oxygen into the atmosphere, concocting the modern oceans, and turning rock into fertile soil. Life is intertwined with Earth’s capacity to regulate its climate and maintain balance.
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Becoming Earth
- How Our Planet Came to Life
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- By: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science.
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Not what I expected
- By N. Booth on 22-10-20
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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challenging!
- By coz on 04-12-20
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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The Mind of a Bee
- By: Lars Chittka
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Most of us are aware of the hive mind—the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness.
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Who on earth chose this narrator?
- By Terry Miles on 07-12-23
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The Mind of a Bee
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
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Good but short
- By Mr Ben Bland on 04-07-18
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-06-18
- Language: English
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A Crack in Creation
- Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
- By: Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos.
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Clear and informative
- By Allan Paterson on 28-04-19
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A Crack in Creation
- Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-06-17
- Language: English
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Count Down
- How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
- By: Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino - contributor
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe - but the story didn’t end there.
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Illuminating
- By Fin Hunt on 28-02-21
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Count Down
- How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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Life on the Edge
- The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
- By: Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics.
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I wish Jim had narrated this book.
- By S. Churchill on 14-07-17
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Life on the Edge
- The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- By: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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fascinating book
- By zoltan csete on 13-09-20
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Cure
- The New Science of Immune Health
- By: Daniel M Davis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works - and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind - and explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.
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How amazing is the body
- By J. Drew on 31-10-21
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The Beautiful Cure
- The New Science of Immune Health
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- By: James Lovelock
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In this classic work that continues to inspire its many fans, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of threats to its existence, the book explores the hypothesis that the Earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.
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Community service
- By D. T. Price on 21-04-18
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-05-13
- Language: English
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Pathogenesis
- How Germs Made History
- By: Jonathan Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam. How did an Indonesian volcano help cause the Black Death, setting Europe on the road to capitalism? How could 168 men extract the largest ransom in history from an opposing army of eighty thousand? The latest science reveals that infectious diseases are not just something that happens to us, but a fundamental part of who we are.
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Truly Outstanding
- By Dr RE Hodgson on 15-05-24
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Pathogenesis
- How Germs Made History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind
- In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
- By: Richard Fortey
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Professor Richard Fortey has been a devoted field mycologist all his life. He has rejoiced in the exuberant variety and profusion of mushrooms since reading as a boy of nuns driven mad by ergot (a fungus). Drawing on decades of experience doing science in the woods and fields, Fortey starts with the perfect ‘fungus day’ – eating ceps in Piedmont. He introduces brown rotters and the white, earthstars and death caps; fungal annuals and perennials, dung lovers and parasites, even fungi that move through the trees like mycelial monkeys.
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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind
- In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- By: Addy Pross
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: What is life?. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology?
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Such a complete experience
- By Anonymous User on 29-04-20
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons - essentially mini-brains - Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Delving into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life, he offers a new perspective on how humans think about ourselves.
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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A comprehensive history of cancer – one of the greatest enemies of medical progress – and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years.
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I had no idea how little I knew about Cancer
- By Judy Corstjens on 15-09-11
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-08-11
- Language: English
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The Web of Life
- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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For the past 25 years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and have developed revolutionary theories with profound implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution and now, in The Web of Life, he offers a brilliant synthesis of these exciting breakthroughs.
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The Web of Life
- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 31-03-00
- Language: English
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Fantastic Fungi
- How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
- By: Paul Stamets
- Narrated by: Eugenia Bone
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Mushrooms and fungi will change your life—and save the planet. Paul Stamets, the world’s preeminent mushroom and fungi expert, is joined by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers such as Michael Pollan, Dr. Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and many more. Together these luminaries show how fungi and mushrooms can restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our physical health, and renew humanity’s symbiotic relationship with nature.
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Fantastic
- By msw194 on 21-06-24
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Fantastic Fungi
- How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
- Narrated by: Eugenia Bone
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- By: Edward Slingerland
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.
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Delectable
- By Lizzie Lay on 15-02-24
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Biography of Resistance
- The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
- By: Muhammad H. Zaman
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the US of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions.
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Biography of Resistance
- The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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