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Biotechnology Audiobooks

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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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    The Gene

    An Intimate History

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

    Unabridged

    19 hours 21 min

    ***Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016*The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.**Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Sounds of Life

    How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Toren takes you on an amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.At once meditative and ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Future of the Mind

    The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind

    by Michio Kaku ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 38 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku, The international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible. Read by the actor Feodor Chin.Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Prescription for Change

    The Looming Crisis in Drug Development

    by Michael Kinch ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes—and indeed because of them—our ability to deliver new medicines may be quickly coming to an end. Moving from the twentieth century to the present, A Prescription for Change reveals how ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Smoke & Mirrors

    How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

    by Gemma Milne ...
    Narrated by Gemma Milne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    La biotecnología al servicio del cannabis: genética y fitomejoramiento

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Melissa Tercero ...

    Unabridged

    49 min

    En los últimos años, se ha incentivado numerosas investigaciones con el fin de descubrir la importancia de la especie Cannabis sativa para el control de diferentes enfermedades en el sistema inmune y nervioso, gracias a esto, se ha considerado la implementación de la biotecnología vegetal para el mejoramiento en la producción de cannabinoides, los cuales,hasta el momento, han generado excelentes ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Future Rising

    A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow

    by Andrew Maynard ...
    Narrated by Dan Mellins-Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 44 min

    A Compelling Vision of the Future. If you enjoy nonfiction like Homo Deus, Sapiens, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, then you'll love FUTURE RISING. Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr. Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Forever Young

    How Scientists Are Learning to Keep Us From Getting Old

    by Dr. Jill Helms ...
    Narrated by Dr. Jill Helms ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Longevity: the ambition of kings, super villains, and pretty much all of us that enjoy waking up each ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Higher Animals

    Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life

    by Michael Specter ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    In Higher Animals, New Yorker science writer Michael Specter explores how MRNA vaccines have transformed the scientific landscape and helped spark a biotechnology revolution.Biology is information, and increasingly, that means digital information. We need to think of biology the way we think about computer code, only instead of bits and bytes, we use the genetic letters: ACGT. The widely-used mRNA ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Programming The Future

    A Look Into How Technology Will Change the World as We Know It

    by Edward Graham ...
    Narrated by John York ...
    Audiobook 2 - Enough Is Enough

    Unabridged

    2 hours 19 min

    Have you ever looked at movies depicting the future, both utopias and dystopias alike, and wondered, “Could that truly be our future?”In this book, we will be looking at how technology has progressed through the years to get a glimpse of the future. Here, you will learn how humans lived their lives in the past and how technology has influenced that way of life and transformed it into what it is ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Aliens are Already Among Us

    by Martin K. Ettingotn ...
    Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 50 min

    The focus of this book is on Aliens having visited or living on this Earth. There is lots of evidence that not only are Aliens on Earth during the present, but have been here for thousands if not millions of years.There are lots of stories and some good evidence that this is all true. Even today there are videos of alien craft, and stories in the news about our government still studying and ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    La biotecnologia al servizio della cannabis: genetica e fitomiglioramento

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Victoria Ferullo ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    Negli ultimi anni, numerose ricerche sono state incentivate per scoprire l'importanza della specie Cannabis sativa per il controllo di diverse malattie del sistema immunitario e nervoso, grazie a questo, l'implementazione della biotecnologia vegetale è stata considerata per il miglioramento della produzione di cannabinoidi, i quali, finora, hanno generato ottimi risultati per la moltiplicazione e ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Uncertain Peril

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

    by Claire Hope Cummings ...
    Narrated by David Henry ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining our food supply and our ability to cope with a changing climate.In Uncertain Peril, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    On the Future

    Prospects for Humanity

    by Lord Martin Rees ...
    Narrated by Samuel West, Lord Martin Rees ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    This audiobook narrated by Martin Rees and Samuel West offers a provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and scienceHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes—good and bad—are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Distrust that Particular Flavor

    Encounters with a Future that's already here

    by William Gibson ...
    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And as his stories bled into reality so he became one of the first to report on the real-world consequences of cyberspace's growth and development. Now, with the dust settling on the first internet revolution, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The genetics of cannabis: a microscopic view

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Sandra Loaiza ...

    Unabridged

    50 min

    In this book, you will learn about cannabis from its fundamental unit, in other words, what identifies it and gives it these important characteristics, making it a unique species, based on its genetic material or the information present in the plant's genes. This network of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid), controls all the processes of defense, nutrition, and communication ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last sixty years, from two eminent scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Biotechnology in the service of cannabis: genetics and breeding

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Sandra Loaiza ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    In recent years, numerous researches have been encouraged in order to discover the importance of the Cannabis sativa species for the control of different diseases in the immune and nervous system, thanks to this, the implementation of plant biotechnology has been considered for the improvement in the production of cannabinoids, which, so far, have generated excellent results for the multiplication ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Immortality, Inc.

    Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever

    by Chip Walter ...
    Narrated by Graham Winton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    This gripping narrative explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death. We live in an age when billionaires are betting their fortunes on laboratory advances to prove aging unnecessary and death a disease that can be cured. Researchers are ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genentech

    The Beginnings of Biotech

    by Sally Smith Hughes ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading. Coming at a time of economic recession and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Billion Dollar Molecule

    One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

    by Barry Werth ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 25 min

    Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing-atom by atom-both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Age of Living Machines

    How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

    by Susan Hockfield ...
    Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives. A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers, the Internet, and a host of still-evolving digital tools. These technologies so radically ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Homo Deus

    Breve historia del mañana

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Luis David García Márquez ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 6 min

    Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos.Bestseller del New York Times con 1 millón de ejemplares vendidosYuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial