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The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins ...

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

Unabridged

13 hours 53 min

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the ... Read more

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The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the
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The Order of Time

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of timeTime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have lon... ... Read more

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Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of timeTime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have lon...
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

by Stephen Hawking ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Unabridged

4 hours 27 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thirteen extraordinary essays shed new light on the mystery of the universe—and on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time.“[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far reaches of the cosmos, but into the inner philosophical world as well.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thirteen extraordinary essays shed new light on the mystery of the universe—and on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time.“[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far reaches of the cosmos, but into the inner philosophical world as well.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn
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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

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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
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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

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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
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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green ...

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5 hours 36 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast
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Technofeudalism

What Killed Capitalism

by Yanis Varoufakis ...

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Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.But ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.But
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The Nutmeg's Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

by Amitav Ghosh ...

Narrated by Sam Dastor ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingFrom the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg.The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural ... Read more

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'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingFrom the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg.The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural
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Nexus

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

Narrated by Vidish Athavale ...

Unabridged

17 hours 28 min

Brought to you by Penguin.**The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories** brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What will <strong... ... Read more

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What Is to Be Done

Political Engagement and Saving the Planet

by Barry Jones ...

Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

Unabridged

13 hours 9 min

When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since—especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age—and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.Jones sees climate change as the ... Read more

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When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since—especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age—and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.Jones sees climate change as the
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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

15 hours 18 min

Brought to you by Penguin.What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari
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Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 42 min

Brought to you by Penguin.The highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History.With original archival interviews and musical scoring, this enhanced audiobook edition of Talking to Strangers brings Gladwell's renowned storytelling to life in his unparalleled narrating style.The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.The highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History.With original archival interviews and musical scoring, this enhanced audiobook edition of Talking to Strangers brings Gladwell's renowned storytelling to life in his unparalleled narrating style.The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years
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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.**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.The world-renowned historian and intellectual 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 t... ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.The world-renowned historian and intellectual 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 t...
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Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor ...

Narrated by James Nestor ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by James Nestor.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations' Dr Rangan ChatterjeeNo matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by James Nestor.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations' Dr Rangan ChatterjeeNo matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it
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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon

by Dr. Joe Dispenza ...

Narrated by Adam Boyce ...

Unabridged

14 hours 6 min

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to ... Read more

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The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson ...

Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

Series 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

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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
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Burke and Wills

The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

by Peter FitzSimons ...

Narrated by Michael Carman ...

Unabridged

23 hours 43 min

'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, ... Read more

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'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off,
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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 54 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

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James Cook

The story behind the man who mapped the world

by Peter FitzSimons ...

Narrated by Michael Carman ...

Unabridged

21 hours 23 min

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were ... Read more

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The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were
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A Brief History Of Time

From Big Bang To Black Holes

by Stephen Hawking ...

Narrated by John Sackville ...

Unabridged

7 hours 18 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers.It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers.It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton
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Desert Star

The Blockbuster Ballard & Bosch Thriller

by Michael Connelly ...

Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver ...

Series series Ballard and Bosch
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9 hours 37 min

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.OTHERS YOU CAN'T FORGIVE.Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance to revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is she must first unravel an unsolved murder, or lose this opportunity of a lifetime...<p... ... Read more

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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

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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
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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

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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...
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When Breath Becomes Air

The ultimate moving life-and-death story

by Paul Kalanithi ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra ...

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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

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