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Author: Sarah Everts
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Author Sarah Everts
Narrator Sophie Amoss
Duration 18h 4m
An Outside Magazine 2021 Science book pickOne of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2021A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating. Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pollan
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Author Michael Pollan
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Duration 7h 40m
Brought to you by Penguin. Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and thro...
View BookAuthor: Ben Lynch
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Author Ben Lynch
Narrator Kaleo Griffith
Duration 8h 33m
A leading expert in epigenetics—how genes switch on and off—provides a revolutionary, holistic, and personalized approach to better health by improving how your genes behave to prevent and reverse common ailments, chronic illnesses, and life-threatening diseases, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depressio...
View BookAuthor: Florence Wilkinson
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Author Florence Wilkinson
Narrator Shazia Nicholls
Duration 8h 39m
The badgers of Brighton's most exclusive postcode. The water voles of Glasgow. The Black Country bats who have found a haven in old industrial tunnels. The peregrine falcons nesting on the ledges of tower blocks. The mosquitoes found on the London Underground and nowhere else on earth. In Wild City, Florence Wilkinson takes us on a fascinatin...
View BookAuthor: Sam Lee
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Author Sam Lee
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Duration 6h 7m
Brought to you by Penguin. As featured on The Today Programme'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL______________________________Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale hera...
View BookAuthor: Dr Sabina Brennan
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Author Dr Sabina Brennan
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Duration 9h 23m
If you complain of brain fog to a medical professional, you're likely to be told that it isn't a recognised condition. But if you mention brain fog to your friends, they'll know exactly what you mean: fuzzy thinking, trouble concentrating, a sense of grasping for the right word, feeling like your brain is somehow slowed down. In truth, brain fog is...
View BookAuthor: Charlie Corbett
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Author Charlie Corbett
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Duration 6h 56m
Brought to you by Penguin.Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds.Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful, haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely deat...
View BookAuthor: Rahul Jandial
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Author Rahul Jandial
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Duration 6h 23m
When Dr Rahul Jandial operated on Karina, an eleven-year-old girl whose spinal cord was splitting in two, he had to make an impossible decision. He followed his head over his gut and Karina was left permanently paralysed, altering both patient and surgeon's lives for ever. This decision would haunt Rahul for decades, a constant reminder of the fine...
View BookAuthor: Richard Dawkins
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Author Richard Dawkins
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Duration 11h 51m
Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kindsKeats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of sc...
View BookAuthor: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrator Katharine K. Wilkinson
Duration 15h 5m
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativit...
View BookAuthor: Jeff Rediger
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Author Jeff Rediger
Narrator Jeff Rediger
Duration 14h
When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules.Dr Jeff Rediger, a world-leading Harvard psychiatrist, has spent the last fifteen years studying thousands of individuals from around the world, examining the stories behind extraordinary cases of recovery from...
View BookAuthor: Jeff Lowenfels
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Author Jeff Lowenfels
Narrator Chris Lutkin
Duration 8h 7m
When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You'll discover that...
View BookA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Author: Adam Rutherford
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Author Adam Rutherford
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Duration 12h 15m
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in each of our genomes we carry the history of the whole of our species. Since scientists first read the human genome...
View BookAuthor: Merlin Sheldrake
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Author Merlin Sheldrake
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Duration 9h 32m
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. These endlessly su...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 8h 50m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and...
View BookAuthor: Mark Miodownik
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Author Mark Miodownik
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 6h 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, read by Daniel Weyman. A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists Everything is made of something... From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matter...
View BookAuthor: David Eagleman
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Author David Eagleman
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Duration 9h 18m
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream? The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; the...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Gladwell
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Author Malcolm Gladwell
Narrator Malcolm Gladwell
Duration 8h 47m
The highly anticipated new book from Malcolm Gladwell, host of Revisionist History and No.1 international bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath. The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of...
View BookAuthor: Charles Darwin
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Author Charles Darwin
Narrator Richard Dawkins
Duration 6h
In this work Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western World, and therefore it is high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. This audiobook has been abridged to remove those chapters that are now known to be wrong, notably those concerned with genetics.
View BookAuthor: Peter Whitfield
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Author Peter Whitfield
Narrator Peter Whitfield
Duration 1h 13m
Charles Darwin, father of evolution, was one of the greatest pioneers in science. Here, Peter Whitfield explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance to publish his findings.
View BookAdam Hart-davis Presents the Eureka Years
Author: Adam Hart-Davis
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Author Adam Hart-Davis
Narrator Adam Hart-Davis
Duration 1h 47m
Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science.
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