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Author: John Valiant
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Author John Valiant
Narrator Alan Carlson
Duration 14h 18m
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90,000 peop...
View BookAuthor: Clive Oppenheimer
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Author Clive Oppenheimer
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Duration 8h 44m
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. They have long shaped the path of humanity, provoked pioneering explorations and fired up our imaginations. They are fertile ground for agriculture, art and spirituality, as well as scientific advances, and they act as time capsules, capturing the footprints of those who came bef...
View BookAuthor: Roma Agrawal
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Author Roma Agrawal
Narrator Roma Agrawal
Duration 8h 21m
In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity t...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Carthew
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Author Natasha Carthew
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Duration 7h 29m
Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes. In the roc...
View BookAuthor: Dean Burnett
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Author Dean Burnett
Narrator Matt Addis
Duration 14h 20m
Recommended by the New Scientist. 'Brilliant.' Stylist 'Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' Gina Rippon 'An affecting and illuminating book for anyone who has feelings, and who wants to know why.' Katie Mack Emotions can be a pain. After losing his dad to Covid-19, Dean Burnett found himself wondering what life would be l...
View BookAuthor: Nicklas Brendborg
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Author Nicklas Brendborg
Narrator Elizabeth de Noma
Duration 7h 15m
The international best seller. A journey into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity. Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge research to explore what nature has to teach us about longevity. From immortal lobsters, backwards-aging jellyfish and the centuri...
View BookAuthor: Jahan Khamsehzadeh
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Author Jahan Khamsehzadeh
Narrator Nathan Agin
Duration 10h 12m
A comprehensive guide to psilocybin mushrooms and their impact on our psychology, biology, and social development.How—and why—do psychedelics exist? Did psilocybin catalyze our early human ancestors’ social evolution? And how can an integral understanding of psychedelics quite literally change the world? In an ambitious and c...
View BookAuthor: Ed Yong
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Author Ed Yong
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Duration 14h 17m
Brought to you by Penguin.'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' - The Times, Book of the WeekHumans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with...
View BookAuthor: Monty Don
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Author Monty Don
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Duration 14h 30m
A year at home in the country with Monty Don - the UK's favourite gardener, dog owner, writer and broadcaster - on a personal journey through the natural year, season by season, month by month. My Garden World by Monty Don is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more abou...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
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Author Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
Narrator Heather Long
Duration 10h 37m
On 1st January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she and her team had designed a vaccine against a pathogen that no one had ever seen before. Less than 12 months later, vaccination was rolled out across the world to save millions...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Rundell
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Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 3h 8m
'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson 'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.' Observer'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday TimesThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.In this passionately persuasive and sharply fun...
View BookAuthor: Ed Yong
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Author Ed Yong
Narrator Charlie Anson
Duration 9h 52m
Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In I Contain Mult...
View BookAuthor: Sue Black
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Duration 11h 20m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of All That Remains by Professor Sue Black, read by the author. Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalitie...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pollan
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Author Michael Pollan
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Duration 13h 35m
Brought to you by Penguin.How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan. When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Halliday
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Author Thomas Halliday
Narrator Adetomiwa Edun
Duration 11h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to beWhat would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning...
View BookAuthor: Davina McCall, Dr Naomi Potter
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Author Davina McCall, Dr Naomi Potter
Narrator Dr Nighat Arif, Michael Douglas, Cheryl Phelps-Gardiner, Maryam Grace, Kristin Atherton, Richard Hughes, The Authors
Duration 8h 59m
Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising. Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence. Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it? That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the tr...
View BookAuthor: James Lovelock
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Author James Lovelock
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 3h 20m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene written by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan. James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale...
View BookAuthor: Lissa Rankin
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Author Lissa Rankin
Narrator Subhadra Newton
Duration 14h 34m
"Sacred Medicine is a book of inclusion. It does not prescribe nor preach nor proselytize: it illustrates, informs, and illuminates." —From the foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts In 2007, Lissa Rankin left a promising career in medicine to tend to her own health and well-being....
View BookAuthor: Lynne Farrow
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Author Lynne Farrow
Narrator Suzie Althens
Duration 6h 2m
Thanks to environmental pollutants Iodine deficiency has become a worldwide epidemic. Everybody knows pollutants cause cancer. What they don't know is that these pollutants cause a deficiency that can make us sick, fat, and stupid. Iodized salt-supposedly a solution to iodine deficiency-is actually a nutritional scam which provides a false sense of...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Jones
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Author Lucy Jones
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Duration 6h 57m
Brought to you by Penguin. A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARToday many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in th...
View BookAuthor: Lissa Rankin
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Author Lissa Rankin
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Duration 9h 26m
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION We've been led to believe that when we get sick, it's our genetics. Or it's just bad luck-and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she...
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