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Biology Audiobooks

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    The Lives of Bees

    The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

    by Thomas D. Seeley ...
    Narrated by William Hope ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 31 min

    This captivating audiobook narrated by William Hope reveals why wild honey bees may hold the key to saving the world’s managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Drink?

    The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health

    by Professor David Nutt ...
    Narrated by Professor David Nutt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    World-renowned Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, David Nutt - breaks down the science and effect of alcohol on our health, mood, sleep, productivity, how it travels through our bodies and brains - and explains on a practical level how we can make changes to positively impact our relationship with it and understanding of it; thereby improving our quality of life for the long-term.He will ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Silent Fire

    The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease

    by Shilpa Ravella ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Hidden inflammation lies behind many modern diseases. Shilpa Ravella, an expert in nutrition and the gut, explains why our immune systems are turning against us and what we might do about it.'Controlling Inflammation is the key to good health and this beautifully written and researched book is the best way to understand it' TIM SPECTOR, #1 bestselling author of Food for ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Otherlands

    A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    Narrated by Adetomiwa Edun ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to beWhat would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Emperor of All Maladies

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 49 min

    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 ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Behave

    The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

    by Robert M Sapolsky ...
    Narrated by Michael Goldstrom ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 27 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom.The New York Times best sellerWinner of the 2017 LA Times Book PrizeWhy do human beings behave as they do?We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over... ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • Audiobook

    New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

    from the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff

    by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    DOES ANYTHING EAT WASPS meets INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL: A journey through life, the universe and everything.From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)

    by Ed Yong ...
    Narrated by Ed Yong ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' - The Times, Book of the WeekHumans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with biological vision as we currently understand it. ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When the Dogs Don't Bark

    A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth

    by Professor Angela Gallop ...
    Narrated by Sandra Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Kathy Reichs meets Fragile Lives in this fascinating and compelling memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on.'Finding the right answers is what forensic science is all about. What often matters even more, however, is asking the right questions.'Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The End of Gender

    Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

    by Debra Soh ...
    Narrated by Debra Soh ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 38 min

    International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not onlyeminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital” (Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author).Is our gender something we’re born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The ... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Exercised

    The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

    by Daniel Lieberman ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing.In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Blueprint

    How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

    by Robert Plomin ...
    Narrated by Robert Plomin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin.The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Burn

    The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism

    by Herman Pontzer ...
    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Why do so many diets lead to more weight gain?Do more active people have faster metabolisms?Is exercise essential for weight loss?Over the past twenty years, evolutionary biologist Herman Pontzer has conducted ground-breaking studies across a range of settings, including pioneering fieldwork with Hadza hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania.This book draws on h... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Apollo's Arrow

    The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

    by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD ...
    Narrated by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker)Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Explaining Humans

    Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

    by Camilla Pang ...
    Narrated by Camilla Pang ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020Diagnosed 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, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Life on the Edge

    The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

    by Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden ...
    Narrated by Pete Cross ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Anxiety is Your Superpower

    Using anxiety to think better, feel better and do better

    by Dr Wendy Suzuki ...
    Narrated by Dr Wendy Suzuki ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    This is cutting-edge science packaged as a practical guide on how to flip anxiety on its head and harness it as a superpower - by world-renowned neuroscientist, Dr Wendy Suzuki.We live in an age of anxiety. Like an omnipresent yet invisible odour you've grown used to, anxiety has become a constant condition, a fact of life, and a distraction that undermines our quality of life. Dr Wendy Suzuki's ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Connections

    The New Science of Emotion

    by Karl Deisseroth ...
    Narrated by Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion, and examines what mental illnesses reveal about all of us - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.Why do we feel what we feel?Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Intact

    A Defence of the Unmodified Body

    by Clare Chambers ...
    Narrated by Alix Dunmore ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In an age of social media and selfies, of pixel-perfect pictures and surgically-enhanced celebrities, the pressure to change our bodies can often seem overwhelming. We are told we should conceal the signs of ageing and get our bodies back after pregnancy. We ought to perfect our complexions, build our biceps, trim our waistlines, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Life's Edge

    The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    Narrated by Joe Ochman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us? - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The GeneWe all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world – from protocells to brains, from ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Ancestor's Tale

    A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

    by Prof Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong ...
    Narrated by Prof Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

    Abridged

    8 hours 54 min

    One of the most brilliant scientists of our age gives us his definitive work: a synthesis of his comprehensive vision of life.THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Biology Book

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Charles Armstrong ...
    series Big Ideas

    Unabridged

    13 hours 42 min

    An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of biology.Why do bees know how to dance? Where do plants get sugar? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs?The science of biology is the story of our quest to understand the living world and explain how its organisms work and interact - whether microbes, mushrooms, or mammals. In ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial