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Under Your Nose

The Pleasures and Politics of Smell

by Dr. Ally Louks ...

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Social media’s “smell queen” reveals the secrets of our most overlooked sense.Roses. Rotten eggs. Perfume. Sweat. Smells transport, attract, and seduce us, but they also disgust, unsettle, even anger us. Why do some smells comfort us while others repel us? And what does that reveal about who we are?We tend to think of smell as our least important sense and pay little attention to it, yet smell ... Read more

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Reasoning With An Optimist

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3 hours 25 min

This book seems short and simple, but is actually a guide to the depths of your relationship with yourself and the world. Through it, you may discover how to understand and manipulate your belief system, which will then alter (for the better) how you see yourself as part of a living, responsive world/universe. At every point, you will let your sense of health be your guide, and as you gain a sense ... Read more

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Common Rule

Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

by Justin Whitmel Earley ...

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Habits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of a thousand invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy, and depressed people. We yearn for the freedom and peace of the gospel, but remain addicted to our technology, shackled by our screens, and exhausted by our routines. But because our habits are the water we swim in, they are almost invisible to us. What can we do ... Read more

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Helgoland

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by Carlo Rovelli ...

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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

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Thinking in Systems

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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 ... Read more

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Four Thousand Weeks

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

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5 hours 54 min

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The AI Con

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by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...

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7 hours 51 min

Brought to you by Penguin.A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to
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How the World Really Works

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by Vaclav Smil ...

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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

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Braiding Sweetgrass

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by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

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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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Homo Deus

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by Yuval Noah Harari ...

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When Breath Becomes Air

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Brought to you by Penguin.THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERAt 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 Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking ... Read more

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Everything Is Tuberculosis

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by John Green ...

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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

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The Body Electric

Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

by Robert Becker, Gary Selden ...

Narrated by David Gilmore ...

Unabridged

15 hours 26 min

The perennial bestseller that you MUST READ in order to fully understand the interplay between electric energy and living organismsThe Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the field of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found ... Read more

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The perennial bestseller that you MUST READ in order to fully understand the interplay between electric energy and living organismsThe Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the field of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found
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A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

by Susan Denham Wade ...

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11 hours 20 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in distant times and places see the world? Jam-packed with fascinating stories, ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in distant times and places see the world? Jam-packed with fascinating stories,
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Hume: Philosophy in an Hour

by Paul Strathern ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

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1 hour 21 min

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hume in just one hour.Hume reduced philosophy to ruins, denying the existence of everything except our actual perceptions themselves. The world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world – a ... Read more

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hume in just one hour.Hume reduced philosophy to ruins, denying the existence of everything except our actual perceptions themselves. The world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world – a
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Einsteins Größe und Unverständlichkeit

Zwei Originalvorträge

by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch ...

Narrated by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch ...

Series series O-Ton-Wissenschaft
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1 hour 13 min

1 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Gedenkrede auf Albert Einstein anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags Sendung: 07.06.1959, SWF Einsteins Ruhm ist zwischen Größe und Unverständlichkeit. Zwar ist er einer der wichtigsten Denker des Jahrhunderts und doch versteht kaum jemand, was er eigentlich gefunden hat. Einstein kann – in Funktion und Größe korrespondierend – als Gesprächspartner von Isaac Newton ... Read more

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1 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Gedenkrede auf Albert Einstein anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags Sendung: 07.06.1959, SWF Einsteins Ruhm ist zwischen Größe und Unverständlichkeit. Zwar ist er einer der wichtigsten Denker des Jahrhunderts und doch versteht kaum jemand, was er eigentlich gefunden hat. Einstein kann – in Funktion und Größe korrespondierend – als Gesprächspartner von Isaac Newton
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Our Next Reality

How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

by Louis Rosenberg, Alvin Wang Graylin ...

Narrated by Ciaran Saward ...

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11 hours 30 min

"Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable." RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/Futurist"A wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it's a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how ... Read more

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"Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable." RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/Futurist"A wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it's a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how
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Good Enough

by Daniel S. Milo ...

Narrated by Qarie Marshall ...

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min

Why is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty ... Read more

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Why is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty
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The Day the Clouds Went Away

Tales from the Princessdom - Book One

by Richard Rieman ...

Narrated by Richard Rieman, Erin Rieman ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Tales from the Princessdom
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12 min

Princess Claudia is excited to celebrate her eighth birthday under a bright, cloudless sky. But when a spell goes wrong, Claudia longs for the clouds she wished away. Join Princess Claudia, nearly blind yet full of wonder, as she embarks on a magical journey with her wise owl and a clumsy Wizard. Along the way, she meets enchanting characters like Cyrus the Cirrus Cloud and Chrissy the Cumulus, ... Read more

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Princess Claudia is excited to celebrate her eighth birthday under a bright, cloudless sky. But when a spell goes wrong, Claudia longs for the clouds she wished away. Join Princess Claudia, nearly blind yet full of wonder, as she embarks on a magical journey with her wise owl and a clumsy Wizard. Along the way, she meets enchanting characters like Cyrus the Cirrus Cloud and Chrissy the Cumulus,
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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

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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
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Fundamental

How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity)

by Tim James ...

Narrated by Tim James ...

Unabridged

5 hours 1 min

Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.In the ... Read more

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Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.In the
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Dewey: Philosophy in an Hour

by Paul Strathern ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

Unabridged

1 hour 26 min

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour.In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his age – no mean feat when his colleagues included the likes of Russell, Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Dewey produced a distinctly American philosophy, essentially different from that of his European ... Read more

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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour.In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his age – no mean feat when his colleagues included the likes of Russell, Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Dewey produced a distinctly American philosophy, essentially different from that of his European
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Atoms and Ashes

From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

by Serhii Plokhy ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

12 hours 8 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not
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