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Apocalypse Never

Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger

Narrated by Stephen Graybill

Unabridged

12 hours 18 min
Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, ... Read more
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

by Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by Mike Grady

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min
Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to ... Read more
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Spying on Whales

The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

by Nick Pyenson

Narrated by Nick Pyenson

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min
“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —NatureCalled “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving ... Read more
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A Mind at Play

How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

by Rob Goodman and 1 more

Narrated by Jonathan Yen

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min
Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as ... Read more
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The Mind's Eye

by Oliver Sacks

Narrated by Oliver Sacks and 1 more

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min
In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically ... Read more
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The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould

Narrated by Arthur Morey

Unabridged

16 hours 27 min
When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition ... Read more
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The Education of Will

A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

by Patricia B. McConnell

Narrated by Ellen Archer

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min
Bestselling author and internationally renowned animal psychologist and dog trainer Patricia McConnell “gives a voice to those who can’t speak in words and provides hope for fearful animals everywhere” (Temple Grandin) in this powerful and uplifting memoir about healing.World-renowned as a source of science and soul, Patricia McConnell combines brilliant insights into canine behavior with ... Read more
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

by Alex Epstein

Narrated by Alex Epstein

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We're taught to think only of the negatives of ... Read more
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh

The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

by Carl Zimmer

Narrated by Joe Ochman

Unabridged

20 hours 32 min
2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist"Science book of the year"—The GuardianOne of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018**“Extraordinary”—**New York Times ... ... Read more
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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by Derek Perkins

Unabridged

15 hours 17 min
New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark ZuckerbergFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”One hundred thousand years ago, at ... 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
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
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Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by Derek Perkins

Unabridged

15 hours 3 min
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to ... Read more
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LIFT

by Dan Ward

Narrated by Dan Ward

Unabridged

5 hours 11 min
LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800’s and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers.Blending light-hearted pop culture whimsy with well-grounded engineering pragmatism, LIFT introduces five inventors who tackled the seemingly impossible challenge of human flight ... Read more
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Bathing In The Intelligent Force Of The Universe

by Gregg Braden

Narrated by Michael Toms

Unabridged

57 min
At the crux of Braden’s experience is the observation, now scientifically verified, that there is an intelligent field of energy that bathes all of creation and connects everything in ways most of us in the West are only beginning to understand. ... Read more
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist

Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

by Ozan Varol

Narrated by Ozan Varol

Unabridged

10 hours 44 min
* One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies that will empower you to turn the seemingly impossible ... Read more
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Hidden Valley Road

Inside the Mind of an American Family

by Robert Kolker

Narrated by Sean Pratt

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min
**OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.**Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve ... Read more
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Origin Story

A Big History of Everything

by David Christian

Narrated by Jamie Jackson

Unabridged

12 hours 23 min
A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of ... Read more
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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
**The New York Times bestseller“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal"It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times"Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington PostNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington ... Read more
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Miraculous Abundance

One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World

by Perrine Hervé-Gruyer and 2 more

Narrated by Tim Bruce

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min
The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuelsWhen Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been circumnavigating the globe by sail, operating a floating ... Read more
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Lifespan

Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair, PhD and 1 more

Narrated by David A. Sinclair, PhD

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min
Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people.It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?In this ground... ... Read more
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Plant Spirit Medicine

A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants

by Eliot Cowan

Narrated by Paul Brion

Unabridged

7 hours 32 min
Whether you live in a mountain cabin or a city loft, plant spirits present themselves to us everywhere. Since its first edition in 1995, Plant Spirit Medicine has passed among countless readers drawn to indigenous spirituality and all things alive and green. In this updated edition, Eliot Cowan invites us to discover the healing power of plants-not merely their physical medicinal properties, but ... Read more
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The Sea Around Us

by Rachel Carson

Narrated by Kaiulani Lee

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min
Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a ... Read more
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All Creatures Great and Small

The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the Worlds Most Beloved Animal Doctor

by James Herriot

Narrated by Christopher Timothy
series All Creatures Great and Small
Unabridged

15 hours 41 min
These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year, the book became recognized as a masterpiece. And in the three decades that followed, Dr. Herriot has become one of the most universally loved authors of our time.In this first volume of memoirs, ... Read more
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Silent Witnesses

by Nigel McCrery

Narrated by William Gaminara

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this ... Read more
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