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Biological Sciences Audiobooks

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    Molecule of More, The

    How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

    by Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, Michael E. Long ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?Why is addiction "perfectly logical" to an addict?Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times-and so good at figuring them out?The answer is found in a single chemical in your ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICKSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Power of Habit

    Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

    by Charles Duhigg ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life.______________________________Why do we do develop habits? And how can we change them?We can always change. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg translates cutting-edge behavioural science into practical self-improvement... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Diet Myth

    The Real Science Behind What We Eat

    by Professor Tim Spector ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 56 min

    Fully updated throughout.Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter?The answers are much more surprising - and fascinating - than we've been led to believe. The key to health and weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet, nor even in ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Humanity's Moment

    A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope

    by Joelle Gergis ...
    Narrated by Casey Withoos ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    A personal call to action from an Australian IPCC author. Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? When climate scientist JoElle Gergis set ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    All We Can Save

    Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

    Narrated by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus0, Janet Mock1, Bahni Turpin2, Alfre Woodard3 ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 5 min

    Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Homo Deus

    A Brief History of Tomorrow

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.It asks the fundamental ques... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Change Your Mind

    The New Science of Psychedelics

    by Michael Pollan ...
    Narrated by Michael Pollan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan.When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Life on Our Planet

    My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

    by David Attenborough ...
    Narrated by David Attenborough ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.See the world. Then make it better.I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dopamine Nation

    Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

    by Dr Anna Lembke ...
    Narrated by Dr Anna Lembke ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 11 min

    All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. Our world is addicted to fleeting distracting pleasures that get us nowhere. Dr Anna Lembke provides a clear way back to a balanced life.This audiobook is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most importantly, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Entangled Life

    How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

    by Merlin Sheldrake ...
    Narrated by Merlin Sheldrake ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**** WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2021 **'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland**The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Year of Living Simply

    The joys of a life less complicated

    by Kate Humble ...
    Narrated by Kate Humble ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    'Simply wonderful.' - BEN FOGLE'Kate's book has the warmth and calming effect of a log fire and a glass of wine. Unknit your brow and let go. It's a treat.' - GARETH MALONE'Kate Humble pours her enviable knowledge into attainable goals. It's a winning combination and the prize - a life in balance with nature - is definitely worth claiming.' - LUCY SIEGLE'As ever, where Kate leads, I follow. She ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Gathering Moss

    A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    David Attenborough Life On Air: Memoirs Of A Broadcaster

    by David Attenborough ...
    Narrated by David Attenborough, David Attenborough ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 23 min

    David Attenborough is one of the most influential, admired and best-liked figures in television. When, aged 26, he applied for a job in the BBC - which then meant radio - he was promptly turned down. But someone saw his rejected application letter and asked, would he like to try television? He would, and almost 60 years later he is still at it. Elegantly told and often very funny, his story ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rest

    Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

    by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang ...
    Narrated by Adam Sims ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Penguin presents the complete unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, read by Adam Sims.For most of us, overwork is the new normal. Resting means late-night TV binges or hours spent on social media. We never truly recharge.In this revelatory book, Silicon Valley consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang offers a way for us to be more productive and fulfilled in all ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who We Are and How We Got Here

    Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

    by David Reich ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human historyGeneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry.In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Immune

    The new book from Kurzgesagt - a deep dive into the immune system

    by Philipp Dettmer ...
    Narrated by Steve Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 28 min

    A deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body - how it works and why it is both your greatest ally and most dangerous enemy - from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other threats'JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Code Breaker

    Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 4 min

    **The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children.AN AUDIE AWARD 2022 FINALIST**In the spring of 2012, the Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her collaborators ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl

    History of a Tragedy

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

    How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

    by Steven Novella ...
    Narrated by Steven Novella ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 59 Seconds'Thorough, informative, and enlightening... If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes.' Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for People in a HurryAn entertaining ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Elephant in the Brain

    Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

    by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson ...
    Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better-and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial