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Author Angela Saini
Narrator Angela Saini
Duration 11h 28m
In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present. At its heart, race is the belief that we are born different, in character and intellectually as well as in appearance. It's the notion that as groups of people we have certain innate qualities that are not only visible but which may also have...
View BookAuthor Angela Saini
Narrator Tania Rodrigues
Duration 9h 6m
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes listeners on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are...
View BookThe Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 6h 32m
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks, and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny...
View BookAuthor John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 1h 51m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Roy McMillan. 'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the...
View BookAuthor Andrew Cunningham
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 47m
The Making of Modern Medicine covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. From classical beliefs about illness that would dominate medical thinking for centuries, through to the...
View BookAuthor David George Haskell
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Duration 10h 26m
David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fun...
View BookAuthor Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Duration 16h 44m
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 oldes...
View BookAuthor David Adam
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 9h 15m
Award-winning science writer David Adam reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence.What if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, best-selling author David Adam explores the groundbreaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement. Shari...
View BookAuthor Naomi Klein
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 21h 55m
We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begi...
View BookAuthor Monty Don
Narrator Monty Don
Duration 7h 38m
Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's int...
View BookNo One Is Too Small To Make A Difference
Author Greta Thunberg
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Duration 1h 15m
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning he...
View BookFingers In the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Author Chris Packham
Narrator Chris Packham
Duration 8h 47m
An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham was only at home in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyri...
View BookWhat Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Author Nicci Gerrard
Narrator Nicci Gerrard
Duration 8h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What Dementia Teaches Us About Love written and read by Nicci Gerrard. Dementia is an unmaking, a de-creation - an apocalypse of meaning. Since my father's slow-motion dying, and his actual death in November 2014, I have been much preoccupied with dementia: by those who have it, by those who look after them...
View BookAuthor Bill Lucas
Narrator Francis Greenslade
Duration 8h 40m
Much work-based training is a waste of time and money because the majority of people are neither emotionally ready to learn nor practically inclined to apply their learning to the way they behave. This book offers a new model of learning - READY, GO, STEADY - which could revolutionise the way one learns and performs. The author shows that by concen...
View BookA Guide To British Coastal Birds and Their Sound
Author Stephen Moss
Narrator
Duration 1h 4m
oin Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the sounds of our most popular coastal birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In the fourth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood is joined by keen birdwatcher Stephen Moss on the north coast of Devon, and with the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they offer a practical a...
View BookMe/chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
Author Of Excellence Centre
Narrator Jane Branch
Duration 3h 46m
We live in a world of stressors and many people go into a state of burnout at some point. If the stress that the individual must deal with on a long-term basis outweighs their chance and ability to rest; ME or CFS may very well be the result. This course aims to help with the understanding of these conditions. The first and third modules focus on k...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage: How To Build A Universe
Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 44m
From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels - a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British scienc...
View BookJust Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Author Paul Bloom
Narrator Mike Chamberlain
Duration 6h 41m
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society-and especially parents-to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans...
View BookAuthor Mark Henderson
Narrator Tom Lawrence
Duration 10h 24m
The geeks are coming. And our world needs them. Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down...
View BookA Guide To British Farmland Birds
Author Stephen Moss
Narrator
Duration 1h 3m
Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this absorbing guide to the sounds of our most popular farmland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In the fifth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood is joined once again by enthusiastic birdwatcher Stephen Moss, and with the help of recordings made by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they present th...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author Simon Schama
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SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
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