Best Sellers
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Not the 'history' in conventional sense
- By Raunak on 26-01-19
Written by: Bill Bryson
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Cosmos - Fascinating Listening To
- By Shinil Payamal on 27-11-18
Written by: Carl Sagan
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Shinrin-Yoku
- Written by: Dr Qing Li
- Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Shinrin-Yoku, or forest bathing, is the practice of spending time in the forest for better health, happiness and a sense of calm....
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Inspiring
- By bhavna on 31-01-21
Written by: Dr Qing Li
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Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
- Written by: Pranay Lal
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap....
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A great book ruined by the poor narration
- By M. Menon on 13-10-21
Written by: Pranay Lal
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Amazing
- By RAJA MUKHERJEA on 20-01-21
Written by: Bill Bryson
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A Life on Our Planet
- My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future
- Written by: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary....
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Eye-Opener
- By Venkata Gopala Rao Palla on 23-02-21
Written by: David Attenborough
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Not the 'history' in conventional sense
- By Raunak on 26-01-19
Written by: Bill Bryson
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Cosmos - Fascinating Listening To
- By Shinil Payamal on 27-11-18
Written by: Carl Sagan
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Shinrin-Yoku
- Written by: Dr Qing Li
- Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Shinrin-Yoku, or forest bathing, is the practice of spending time in the forest for better health, happiness and a sense of calm....
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Inspiring
- By bhavna on 31-01-21
Written by: Dr Qing Li
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Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
- Written by: Pranay Lal
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap....
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A great book ruined by the poor narration
- By M. Menon on 13-10-21
Written by: Pranay Lal
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Amazing
- By RAJA MUKHERJEA on 20-01-21
Written by: Bill Bryson
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A Life on Our Planet
- My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future
- Written by: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary....
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Eye-Opener
- By Venkata Gopala Rao Palla on 23-02-21
Written by: David Attenborough
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The Science of the Ocean
- The Secrets of the Seas Revealed
- Written by: DK
- Narrated by: Amy Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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The Science of the Ocean offers up riches from every corner of the ocean, from coral reefs and mangrove swamps to icy fjords and deep-ocean trenches, and from great whales to the microscopic beauty of plankton....
Written by: DK
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Otherlands
- A World in the Making
- Written by: Dr Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this mesmerizing debut, award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant....
Written by: Dr Thomas Halliday
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Storm in a Teacup
- The Physics of Everyday Life
- Written by: Helen Czerski
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is for only specialists and academics. Not so, insists Helen Czerski....
Written by: Helen Czerski
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Oxygen
- The Molecule That Made the World
- Written by: Nick Lane
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
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Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death....
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Excellent. A little scientific knowledge helps
- By Rajiv Chopra on 26-11-22
Written by: Nick Lane
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Remnants of Ancient Life
- The New Science of Old Fossils
- Written by: Dale Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life....
Written by: Dale Greenwalt
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Underworld
- The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
- Written by: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
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From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....
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must read for truth searchers
- By cassiano on 23-11-21
Written by: Graham Hancock
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Himalaya
- Exploring the Roof of the World
- Written by: John Keay
- Narrated by: Nick Holbek
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....
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A must read for all Himalaya lovers
- By Hiren Yagnik on 02-12-22
Written by: John Keay
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The Great Derangement
- Climate Change and the Unthinkable
- Written by: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change....
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An excellent book
- By DIY apprentice on 01-02-22
Written by: Amitav Ghosh
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us....
Written by: Carl Sagan
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Written by: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....
Written by: Tom Higham
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A Grown-Up Guide to Planet Earth
- Written by: Prof. Christopher Jackson
- Narrated by: Prof. Christopher Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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Audible takes you on a journey through the Earth, to experience our planet in a way you’ve never encountered before....
Written by: Prof. Christopher Jackson
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
Written by: Steven E. Koonin
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- Written by: Svante Pääbo
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are....
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A worthy peep into the rigours of ancient genetics.
- By MS on 23-01-23
Written by: Svante Pääbo
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Liquid
- The Spellbinding Substances That Guide Our Lives
- Written by: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Find out....
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Amazing Book on Material Science
- By Arunkumar Jagadeesan on 14-12-21
Written by: Mark Miodownik
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte weaves together the history and evolution of our mammal forebears with stories of the scientists whose fieldwork and discoveries underlie our knowledge....
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Enchanting story with powerful narration
- By Raghav on 21-11-22
Written by: Steve Brusatte
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The First Fossil Hunters
- Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
- Written by: Adrienne Mayor
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered fossilized bones of long-extinct species, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain them, expressed in mythological stories....
Written by: Adrienne Mayor
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The Second Kind of Impossible
- The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
- Written by: Paul J. Steinhardt
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom....
Written by: Paul J. Steinhardt
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Salt
- A World History
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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A quaint yet daunting human history
- By Amit Mittal on 15-09-19
Written by: Mark Kurlansky
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Origins
- How the Earth Made Us
- Written by: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? Find out....
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Geological history knitted well
- By Raghav on 30-12-22
Written by: Lewis Dartnell
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- The Untold Story of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth....
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Interesting subject, narration not so much
- By Allen on 11-01-21
Written by: Steve Brusatte
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Notes from Deep Time
- A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
- Written by: Helen Gordon
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together our planetary drama....
Written by: Helen Gordon
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The Fourth Phase of Water
- Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
- Written by: Gerald H. Pollack
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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World renowned scientist, Dr. Gerald Pollack, takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity - providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably seen but not really understood....
Written by: Gerald H. Pollack
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo,
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
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Life on a Young Planet
- The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
- Written by: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg....
Written by: Andrew H. Knoll
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Remnants of Ancient Life
- The New Science of Old Fossils
- Written by: Dale Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life.
Written by: Dale Greenwalt
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- Written by: John Foster
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.
Written by: John Foster
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Vida, la gran historia. Un viaje por el laberinto de la evolución
- Written by: Juan Luis Arsuaga
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Hace unos 4.000 millones de años apareció la vida en la Tierra. ¿Cuál es la historia de su evolución? ¿Era inevitable la vida? ¿Y la raza humana? ¿La habría habitado algún otro ser inteligente, si no hubiera habido humanos? ¿Qué patrones usa el mecanismo evolutivo? ¿La evolución avanza hacia adelante como una flecha?
Written by: Juan Luis Arsuaga
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The Great Fossil Enigma
- The Search for the Conodont Animal
- Written by: Simon J. Knell
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries. Simon J. Knell takes the listener on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.
Written by: Simon J. Knell
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Der lebendige Planet
- Wie alles mit allem vernetzt ist
- Written by: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: Alexander Bandilla
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Nur zwei große Lebensräume unserer Erde sind scheinbar über lange Zeiträume hinweg gleich geblieben: der Dschungel und das Meer. Doch selbst die Landmassen, auf denen der Urwald liegt, haben sich aufgrund der Kontinentalverschiebungen verändert, und die Aufspaltung und Verschmelzung der Kontinente hatten Auswirkungen auf die Ausdehnung der warmen, flachen Küstenmeere.
Written by: David Attenborough
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Drawing Out Leviathan
- Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Life of the Past Series)
- Written by: Keith M. Parsons
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs.
Written by: Keith M. Parsons
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Remnants of Ancient Life
- The New Science of Old Fossils
- Written by: Dale Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life.
Written by: Dale Greenwalt
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- Written by: John Foster
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.
Written by: John Foster
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Vida, la gran historia. Un viaje por el laberinto de la evolución
- Written by: Juan Luis Arsuaga
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Hace unos 4.000 millones de años apareció la vida en la Tierra. ¿Cuál es la historia de su evolución? ¿Era inevitable la vida? ¿Y la raza humana? ¿La habría habitado algún otro ser inteligente, si no hubiera habido humanos? ¿Qué patrones usa el mecanismo evolutivo? ¿La evolución avanza hacia adelante como una flecha?
Written by: Juan Luis Arsuaga
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The Great Fossil Enigma
- The Search for the Conodont Animal
- Written by: Simon J. Knell
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries. Simon J. Knell takes the listener on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.
Written by: Simon J. Knell
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Der lebendige Planet
- Wie alles mit allem vernetzt ist
- Written by: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: Alexander Bandilla
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Nur zwei große Lebensräume unserer Erde sind scheinbar über lange Zeiträume hinweg gleich geblieben: der Dschungel und das Meer. Doch selbst die Landmassen, auf denen der Urwald liegt, haben sich aufgrund der Kontinentalverschiebungen verändert, und die Aufspaltung und Verschmelzung der Kontinente hatten Auswirkungen auf die Ausdehnung der warmen, flachen Küstenmeere.
Written by: David Attenborough
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Drawing Out Leviathan
- Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Life of the Past Series)
- Written by: Keith M. Parsons
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs.
Written by: Keith M. Parsons