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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Music as Medicine

by Daniel J. Levitin ...

Narrated by Daniel J. Levitin ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores ... Read more

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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores
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Thinking in Systems

A Primer

by Donella Meadows ...

Narrated by Tia Rider ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the ... Read more

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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the
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Exploring The Intersection Between Science And Shamanism

by Claude Poncelet, Ph.D. ...

Narrated by Justine Willis Toms ...

Unabridged

57 min

Physicist Poncelet resides in two seemingly different worlds: the world of physics and the world of shamanism. He inspires us with the story of the universe as told by modern science, and also reaffirms indigenous methods and wisdom that ancient spiritual traditions have always taught. ... Read more

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Physicist Poncelet resides in two seemingly different worlds: the world of physics and the world of shamanism. He inspires us with the story of the universe as told by modern science, and also reaffirms indigenous methods and wisdom that ancient spiritual traditions have always taught.
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .

Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

by Steven Pinker ...

Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic
... Read more
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Dad Brain

The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives

by Darby Saxbe, PhD ...

Narrated by Yael Rizowy, Darby Saxbe, PhD ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

A groundbreaking exploration of the science and significance of fatherhood that shows great dads are made, not bornOver the last decade, we’ve learned more about the transformative power of parenthood—biologically, psychologically, and socially—than ever before. But while the experience of motherhood has attracted well-deserved attention, fatherhood has remained overlooked and, often, ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

A groundbreaking exploration of the science and significance of fatherhood that shows great dads are made, not bornOver the last decade, we’ve learned more about the transformative power of parenthood—biologically, psychologically, and socially—than ever before. But while the experience of motherhood has attracted well-deserved attention, fatherhood has remained overlooked and, often,
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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

$30.99 CAD

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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Death by Black Hole, and Other Cosmic Quandaries

by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

12 hours 6 min

“[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects…with great humor, humility, and—most important—humanity.” —Entertainment WeeklyNeil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History magazine across a myriad of cosmic topics, from astral ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

“[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects…with great humor, humility, and—most important—humanity.” —Entertainment WeeklyNeil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History magazine across a myriad of cosmic topics, from astral
... Read more
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Hothouse Earth

by Bill McGuire ...

Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

Series series Hot Science
Unabridged

5 hours 8 min

"Providing a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate-change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow to global society and economy. Bill McGuire, ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

"Providing a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate-change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow to global society and economy. Bill McGuire,
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Lost in Curiosity

Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown

by Roberta Kwok ...

Narrated by Jensen Olaya ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

The real story of science isn’t a triumphant breakthrough. It’s messy, mysterious, and deeply human.In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.Chronicling researchers’ struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending ... Read more

$24.00 CAD

The real story of science isn’t a triumphant breakthrough. It’s messy, mysterious, and deeply human.In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.Chronicling researchers’ struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending
... Read more
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I Told You So!

Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

by Matt Kaplan ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted—from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.“[Narrator] Sean Pratt’s performance is brilliant. His pacing is measured, so the scientific concepts are easily communicated, but he also mixes in perfectly timed pauses and tonal shifts that generate ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted—from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.“[Narrator] Sean Pratt’s performance is brilliant. His pacing is measured, so the scientific concepts are easily communicated, but he also mixes in perfectly timed pauses and tonal shifts that generate
... Read more
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The Body

A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson ...

Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

Unabridged

14 hours 4 min

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington PostBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington PostBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green ...

Narrated by John Green ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

**#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

**#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun
... Read more
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Unsavory Truth

How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

by Marion Nestle ...

Narrated by Norah Tocci ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit.Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat. Yet, as Marion ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit.Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat. Yet, as Marion
... Read more
Audiobook

The Information

A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

16 hours 37 min

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon
... Read more
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Fire Weather

The Making of a Beast

by John Vaillant ...

Narrated by Alan Carlson ...

Unabridged

14 hours 17 min

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in
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Audiobook

Hidden Figures

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known
... Read more
Audiobook

The Promise That Changes Everything

I Won’t Interrupt You

by Nancy Kline ...

Narrated by Nancy Kline ...

Unabridged

9 hours 25 min

Brought to you by Penguin.How often do you interrupt? How often do people interrupt you? Can you remember the last time someone listened to you all the way through your thinking?In her new book, Nancy Kline, bestselling author of Time To Think, makes this radical proposal: 'I won't Interrupt you' is a promise that changes everything. It deepens relationships, spawns dignity, raises the ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Brought to you by Penguin.How often do you interrupt? How often do people interrupt you? Can you remember the last time someone listened to you all the way through your thinking?In her new book, Nancy Kline, bestselling author of Time To Think, makes this radical proposal: 'I won't Interrupt you' is a promise that changes everything. It deepens relationships, spawns dignity, raises the
... Read more
Audiobook

To Engineer Is Human

The Role of Failure in Successful Design

by Henry Petroski ...

Narrated by Matthew Boston ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s—the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s—the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of
... Read more
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Why We Run

A Natural History

by Bernd Heinrich ...

Narrated by Jonathan Beville ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

When Bernd Heinrich decided to write a memoir of his ultramarathon running experience he realized that the preparation for the race was as important, if not more so, than the race itself. Considering the physiology and motivation of running from a scientific point of view, he wondered what he could learn from other animals.In Why We Run, Heinrich considers the flight endurance of birds, the ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

When Bernd Heinrich decided to write a memoir of his ultramarathon running experience he realized that the preparation for the race was as important, if not more so, than the race itself. Considering the physiology and motivation of running from a scientific point of view, he wondered what he could learn from other animals.In Why We Run, Heinrich considers the flight endurance of birds, the
... Read more
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 41 min

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the
... Read more
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Wired for Intimacy

How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain

by William M. Struthers ...

Narrated by Claton Butcher ...

Unabridged

6 hours 24 min

Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women, and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability groups are often of limited help.In this book, neuroscientist and researcher William ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women, and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability groups are often of limited help.In this book, neuroscientist and researcher William
... Read more
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The Lost Family

How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are

by Libby Copeland ...

Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

Unabridged

11 hours 12 min

A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual livesYou swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual livesYou swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of
... Read more
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Mind Magic

The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

by James R. Doty MD ...

Narrated by James R. Doty MD ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

**A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams“Powerful and profound . . . James Doty explains how intention is manifested in the brain and offers six steps each of us can use to create the life we want.”—Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, CEO of Thrive Global**For decades the practice of manifestation has ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

**A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams“Powerful and profound . . . James Doty explains how intention is manifested in the brain and offers six steps each of us can use to create the life we want.”—Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, CEO of Thrive Global**For decades the practice of manifestation has
... Read more
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The Intention Experiment

Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

by Lynne McTaggart ...

Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min

Award-winning science journalist and author Lynne McTaggart invites listeners to take part in the world's largest mind-over-matter experiment in The Intention Experiment. By thinking positively about life and consciousness, people can, in fact, change their lives. "If you want to empower yourself ... read this book."-Deepak Chopra ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Award-winning science journalist and author Lynne McTaggart invites listeners to take part in the world's largest mind-over-matter experiment in The Intention Experiment. By thinking positively about life and consciousness, people can, in fact, change their lives. "If you want to empower yourself ... read this book."-Deepak Chopra
... Read more

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