Showing titles in History & Philosophy
-
-
The Nuclear Spies
- America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
- By: Vince Houghton
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?
-
-
Fascinating
- By Charles Howard on 16-11-22
-
The Nuclear Spies
- America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £13.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £13.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- By: Luke O’Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O’Neill explains how it all began, how it will all end and everything in between. Listeners will benefit from Luke’s insatiable curiosity for life when they dive into this ultimate journey through life and death. Among other fascinating facts, you’ll discover the science behind how we got to be so smart, why sex with a caveman was a good idea, the science of finding love, why we follow religions and how robots will become part of everyday life.
-
-
Incredibly fascinating and humbling
- By Iain on 03-03-20
-
Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-02-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £13.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £13.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Elting E. Morison
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.
-
-
Still relevant, but no longer new
- By JCM on 18-10-23
-
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £18.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £18.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Of a Fire on the Moon
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer - the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction - wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine
-
-
Top notch audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 23-02-23
-
Of a Fire on the Moon
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-12-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £23.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £23.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
-
-
Important and thought-provoking book
- By Amazon Customer on 28-07-16
-
Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-07-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- By: Michael Marshall
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervour, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion.
-
-
An excellent review of origin of life research
- By Martin Oetiker on 28-06-23
-
The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Scientists Who Changed History
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and bold book of biographies. From mathematicians to meteorologists, geologists to geneticists, each scientist is presented through a combination of stimulating words.
-
-
Great listen
- By Anonymous User on 18-09-23
-
Scientists Who Changed History
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- By: Martin Williams
- Narrated by: Dr. Mike Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands?
-
When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- Narrated by: Dr. Mike Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Nonsense on Stilts
- How to Tell Science from Bunk
- By: Massimo Pigliucci
- Narrated by: Jay Russell
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why do people believe bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscientific beliefs and practices? Noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and - borrowing a famous phrase from philosopher Jeremy Bentham - the nonsense on stilts.
-
-
Good, but...
- By MISS on 04-01-12
-
Nonsense on Stilts
- How to Tell Science from Bunk
- Narrated by: Jay Russell
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-10-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £17.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £17.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- By: Joe Herbert
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-06-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Falling Upwards
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists. Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who in the 1860s flew seven miles above the earth - without oxygen.
-
Falling Upwards
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- By: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author’s earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no tech notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of Time Machines.
-
Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £20.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £20.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.
-
-
best book I'll read this year
- By mr david curran on 15-03-23
-
Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £21.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £21.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Poached
- Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
- By: Rachel Love Nuwer
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving the demand.
-
-
Wildlife Trafficking Awareness
- By Jaye Zara Blake on 15-07-20
-
Poached
- Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Splinters of Infinity
- Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
- By: Mark Wolverton
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Arthur Compton (1892-1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays.
-
Splinters of Infinity
- Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
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
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Breakthrough
- How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown
- By: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered is only half of science's story. Unexplained will explore the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws. Dr Camilla Pang will teach you to embrace the beauty in the unexplained and fall in love with the search for unknown answers.
-
Breakthrough
- How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Living Systems
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 56 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Topics explored in this dialogue include: how you can address the greatest challenge of our times, the role of the arts in deep ecology, how the shift from linear thinking to systems thinking in the sciences affects us now and in the future, understanding the complexity of living systems and life itself, why creativity is the driving force of evolution, what religion and deep ecology have in common, what's really behind the information age, and the mathematics of complexity.
-
-
informative listen
- By Jussie on 08-12-16
-
Living Systems
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 24-12-08
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The 4th Revolution
- How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
- By: Luciano Floridi
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere".
-
The 4th Revolution
- How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-11-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £14.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
-
-
Informative, but often dry
- By OtterSpotter on 02-02-17
-
Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit
-