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Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
- Written by: Athena Aktipis, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University is a self-professed apocalypse enthusiast, and as the host of the podcast Zombified, she knows the undead inside and out. With Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses, she’s compiled her research and insights into a fascinating Audible Original that will have you thinking deeper about all those shambling, brain-hungry corpses in pop culture—not to mention our everyday lives. Drawing on years of research on zombies and zombification, these six lessons offer a fun way to explore and understand the many forces that influence us.
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Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- Written by: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet", focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- Written by: Donald Hoffman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.
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Elaborate narrative
- By Pritha Chakravarti on 08-11-24
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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Bad Narration
- By Raktimabh on 13-04-21
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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Germs Gone Wild
- How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America
- Written by: Kenneth King
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A shocking expose of the reckless proliferation of bioweapon research and development facilities across the U.S. - and the threat this poses to everyday Americans. Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America’s biodefense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.
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Germs Gone Wild
- How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-13
- Language: English
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Written by: David Reich
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.
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Eye opening
- By Amazon Customer on 07-07-20
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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 oldest teachers.
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This book gave me peace.
- By Neelima Ramesh on 11-10-19
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 27-12-15
- Language: English
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The Secret of Our Success
- How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
- Written by: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals?
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This book is a must read/ be listened to
- By Akhil Siddharth on 05-07-21
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The Secret of Our Success
- How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Written by: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
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A Brilliant Science Book
- By Vaibhav Pujari on 16-03-21
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 29-06-10
- Language: English
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We Are the Middle of Forever
- Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
- Written by: Stan Rushworth - editor, Dahr Jamail - editor
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life.
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We Are the Middle of Forever
- Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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What Is Life?
- With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
- Written by: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. It appears here together with "Mind and Matter", his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times.
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Great Book, poor Narration
- By Pranab Roy on 25-08-20
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What Is Life?
- With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Conscience
- The Origins of Moral Intuition
- Written by: Patricia S. Churchland
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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All social groups have ideals for behavior, even though ethics vary among different cultures and among individuals within each culture. In trying to understand why, Churchland brings together an understanding of the influences of nature and nurture. She looks to evolution to elucidate how, from birth, our brains are configured to form bonds, to cooperate, and to care. Conscience delves into scientific studies, particularly the fascinating work on twins, to deepen our understanding of whether people have a predisposition to embrace specific ethical stands.
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Conscience
- The Origins of Moral Intuition
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Written by: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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Good and Logical Point of View
- By deepmoni hazarika on 01-07-19
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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The Web of Life
- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- Written by: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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For the past 25 years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and have developed revolutionary theories with profound implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution and now, in The Web of Life, he offers a brilliant synthesis of these exciting breakthroughs.
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The Web of Life
- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-00
- Language: English
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Written by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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The Wayfinders
- Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- Written by: Wade Davis
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
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The Wayfinders
- Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
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Sustainability
- A History
- Written by: Jeremy L. Caradonna
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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The best book for the Sustainability novice
- By Pooja Gopal on 29-08-21
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Sustainability
- A History
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 17-12-14
- Language: English
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The Storytelling Animal
- How Stories Make Us Human
- Written by: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems.
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Interesting takes on story
- By Ashwin Divakar on 05-02-25
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The Storytelling Animal
- How Stories Make Us Human
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-12
- Language: English
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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- Written by: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.
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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-13
- Language: English
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The Kindness of Strangers
- How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
- Written by: Michael E. McCullough
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael E. McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment nomadic humans first settled down until the aftermath of the Second World War, our species has confronted repeated crises that we could only survive by changing our behavior.
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The Kindness of Strangers
- How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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