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    When Breath Becomes Air

    THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

    by Paul Kalanithi ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York TimesAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.When Breath Becomes ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Unexplained Deaths

    How one woman changed homicide investigation forever

    by Bruce Goldfarb ...
    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances Glessner Lee - a pivotal figure in police science.'Disturbing dioramas created by an American millionairess revolutionised the art of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    2084: Audio Lectures

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

    by John C. Lennox ...
    Narrated by John C. Lennox ...
    series Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures

    Unabridged

    4 hours 9 min

    You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going.What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s 1984?In 2084, scientist and philosopher John Lennox will introduce you to a kaleidoscope of ideas: the key ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    You Don't Want to Know

    The grisly, jaw-dropping and most macabre moments from history, nature and beyond

    by James Felton ...
    Narrated by James Buckley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Read by James Buckley aka unforgettable Jay from The Inbetweeners'With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Facemaker

    One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    by Lindsey Fitzharris ...
    Narrated by Daniel Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...
    Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 30 min

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMERJ. Robert Oppenheimer is one of ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Narrated by Bill Bryson ...
    Audiobook 5 - Bryson

    Abridged

    5 hours 47 min

    A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    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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    Reality Is Not What It Seems

    The Journey to Quantum Gravity

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 11 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan.From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universePenguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook book edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Origin Story

    A Big History of Everything

    by David Christian ...
    Narrated by Jamie Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How to Be Human

    The Manual

    by Ruby Wax ...
    Narrated by Gelong Thubten, Ash Ranpura, Ruby Wax ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be Human: The Manual written and read by Ruby Wax with Ash Ranpura and Gelong Thubten.A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

    The Stories in Our Genes

    by Adam Rutherford ...
    Narrated by Adam Rutherford ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you.It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Quantum

    A Guide For The Perplexed

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world.Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How the World Really Works

    A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Magic of Reality

    How we know what's really true

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever told you that ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics.Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces, most of which were first ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Physics Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...
    series Big Ideas

    Unabridged

    15 hours 45 min

    Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives.The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    by Andrew H. Knoll ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    ***How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?***A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    Narrated by Paul Hodgson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    When We Cease to Understand the World

    by Benjamín Labatut, Benjamín Labatut ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA GUARDIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William BoydSometimes discovery brings destructionWhen We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.<br /... ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Helgoland

    The Sunday Times bestseller

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Narrated by David Rintoul ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physicsIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts: quantum theory ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    American Sherlock

    Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

    by Kate Winkler Dawson ...
    Narrated by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on ... Read more

    $29.99 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