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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

(and other lessons from history from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power)

by Naomi Alderman ...

Narrated by Naomi Alderman ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Brought to you by Penguin.What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.The internet ... Read more

£14.00

Brought to you by Penguin.What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.The internet
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The Proving Ground

The Brand New Blockbuster Lincoln Lawyer Thriller

by Michael Connelly ...

Narrated by Peter Giles ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Mickey Haller Series
Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together ... Read more

£29.99

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together
... Read more
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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

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez.Imagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescri... ... Read more

£12.00

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez.Imagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescri...
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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

£16.48

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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Homo Deus

The million-copy bestseller from the author of Nexus

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

£16.00

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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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

What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?**The Instant Sunday Times bestseller**Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary ... Read more

£13.00

What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?**The Instant Sunday Times bestseller**Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary
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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 42 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 ab... ... Read more

£16.00

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 ab...
... Read more
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century

by Bill Bryson ...

Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Bryson
Abridged

5 hours 47 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the authorA Radio 4 Book Club Selection.The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant tr... ... Read more

£14.00

Brought to you by Penguin.Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the authorA Radio 4 Book Club Selection.The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant tr...
... Read more
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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

“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.” — Wall Street Journal“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.” — Scientific American“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.” — Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on ... Read more

£31.99

“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.” — Wall Street Journal“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.” — Scientific American“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.” — Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on
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Technofeudalism

What Killed Capitalism

by Yanis Varoufakis ...

Narrated by Yanis Varoufakis ...

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

£16.99

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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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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This is Marketing

You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See

by Seth Godin ...

Narrated by Seth Godin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 2 min

Brought to you by Penguin.*Narrated by Seth Godin***#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller & Instant New York Times BestsellerA game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising.**For the first time Seth Godin offers the core of his marketing wisdom in one compact, accessible, timeless package. This is Marketing shows you how to do work you're proud of, whether you're a tech startup f... ... Read more

£12.99

Brought to you by Penguin.*Narrated by Seth Godin***#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller & Instant New York Times BestsellerA game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising.**For the first time Seth Godin offers the core of his marketing wisdom in one compact, accessible, timeless package. This is Marketing shows you how to do work you're proud of, whether you're a tech startup f...
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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

£12.00

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
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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

£12.99

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
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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

£12.99

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
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Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

by Carl Sagan ...

Narrated by LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan, Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

Unabridged

14 hours 31 min

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into ... Read more

£31.50

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into
... Read more
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The Coming Wave

AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar ...

Narrated by Mustafa Suleyman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman ... Read more

£14.00

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman
... Read more
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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

£18.99

*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
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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

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the ... Read more

£25.61

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the
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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

£13.99

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
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Forces of Nature

by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...

Narrated by Samuel West ...

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min

Sunday Times BestsellerA breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the ... Read more

£15.99

Sunday Times BestsellerA breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the
... Read more
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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

£13.99

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
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A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0

The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century, now fully updated

by Bill Bryson ...

Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

Abridged

10 hours 26 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.Journey through time and space with Bill Bryson in the best-selling popular** science book of the 21st century, exploring the history of the Earth, the universe, and everything in between.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED IN THIS NEW ABRIDGED EDITION, READ BY THE AUTHOR.Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays at home, he can't contain ... Read more

£14.00

**Brought to you by Penguin.Journey through time and space with Bill Bryson in the best-selling popular** science book of the 21st century, exploring the history of the Earth, the universe, and everything in between.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED IN THIS NEW ABRIDGED EDITION, READ BY THE AUTHOR.Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays at home, he can't contain
... Read more
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Determined

The Science of Life Without Free Will

by Robert M Sapolsky ...

Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

Unabridged

13 hours 42 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.**What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by ... Read more

£14.99

**Brought to you by Penguin.One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.**What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by
... Read more

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