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Philosophy & Social Aspects Audiobooks

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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

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    The Frontiers of Knowledge

    What We Know About Science, History and The Mind

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Narrated by Richard Goulding ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Self-Confidence: A Philosophy

    by Charles Pépin ...
    Narrated by Chris Courtenay ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence.Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? Why are some people more confident than others? On the surface, these seem like simple questions – but answers can feel hard to come by when we need them most.In this bestselling book, Charles Pépin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence. Pépin ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Invisible Women

    Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    by Caroline Criado Perez ...
    Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Invisible Women, read by Caroline Criado Perez.**Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019****Winner of the Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019****Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019 Book of the Year Award 2019****The Times Current Aff... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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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

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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian

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

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins.**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do abo... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Four Thousand Weeks

    Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

    by Oliver Burkeman ...
    Narrated by Oliver Burkeman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The instant Sunday Times bestsellerA FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts?We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    The Big Picture

    On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

    by Sean Carroll ...
    Narrated by Sean Carroll ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 22 min

    *An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." — Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings ... ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Waking Up

    Searching for Spirituality Without Religion

    by Sam Harris ...
    Narrated by Sam Harris ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 51 min

    For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the increasingly large numbers of people who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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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

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    Digital Minimalism

    Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

    by Cal Newport ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard'An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time' The Times'An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life' Ryan Holiday... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro.We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionize our collective future - and there's nobody better ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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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

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    Human Universe

    by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...
    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    How Emotions Are Made

    The Secret Life of the Brain

    by Lisa Feldman Barrett ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 32 min

    A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind.Emotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today, however, the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in ... Read more

    $63.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Free Will

    by Sam Harris ...
    Narrated by Sam Harris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will**—and the implications that it is an illusion.**A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Demon-Haunted World, The

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    by Carl Sagan ...
    Narrated by Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 23 min

    How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Endurance

    A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

    by Scott Kelly ...
    Narrated by Scott Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 39 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Endurance, written and read by Scott Kelly.From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station – what it’s like out there and what it’s like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently.The veteran of four space flights and the American record ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Irresistible

    Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching

    by Adam Alter ...
    Narrated by Adam Alter ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Irresistible, written and read by Adam Alter.'Truly addictive' Malcolm Gladwell * 'Brilliant' Susan Cain * 'Essential' Charles DuhiggHow many times have you checked your phone today? Why are messaging apps, email and social media so hard to resist? How come we always end up watching another episode?In r... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

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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

  • Audiobook

    Scary Smart

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

    by Mo Gawdat ...
    Narrated by Mo Gawdat ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    **This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat.One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year**Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – **Mo Gawdat'From a ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
    Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 17 min

    Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism–in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.In a time when our political and cultural perspectives feel more divisive than ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley ...
    Narrated by Gavin Osborn ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic.This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, sickened hundreds of millions and affected the lives of almost every person on the planet. We now know ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD