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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; they're right behind our eyes. This book is not simply about what the brain is but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research.

David Christian, historian and best-selling author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the predictive mechanisms of single-celled organisms and tomato plants to the merging of colossal galaxies billions of years from now. 

Insight into the lives of people who work on the edge. Jobs That Could Kill You is a fascinating collection of candid and intimate conversations with 42 men and women who describe in gripping detail how physical risk is a familiar companion in their working lives, and how they deal with it.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of...

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025*** Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to...

The captivating story of football told through 100 amazing objects collected from its rich history – a must-read for any football fan What do a Paul Gascoigne puppet, the 1895 British Ladies’ kit, John Motson’s coat, an inflatable unicorn or the 1966 World Cup Final ball tell us about the...

Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 'This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' Sunday Times 'Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' -...

Brought to you by Penguin. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive and interpret information, with practical suggestions for how to think more critically Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies are everywhere...

Welcome to my collection of extraordinary life stories where we dive deep into personal journeys that touch your soul and inspire you to embrace your own story. Each episode takes you on a transformative journey, through the "Belly of the Beast" pattern, allowing you to reflect on your true nature and discover the courage to live a fuller life. From overcoming challenges to finding purpose, these extraordinary stories will leave you feeling empowered and ready to embrace the next chapter of your own story. Tune in and let the wisdom of others guide you on your own extraordinary path.

COOL STORY with David J. MacNeil is a podcast series which features one on one conversations with some of the amazing people I've met throughout my travels.

Welcome to my collection of extraordinary life stories where we dive deep into personal journeys that touch your soul and inspire you to embrace your own story. Each episode takes you on a transformative journey, through the "Belly of the Beast" pattern, allowing you to reflect on your true nature and discover the courage to live a fuller life. From overcoming challenges to finding purpose, these extraordinary stories will leave you feeling empowered and ready to embrace the next chapter of your own story. Tune in and let the wisdom of others guide you on your own extraordinary path.

Welcome to Stories From The Rock! Listen to the stories that hold Gibraltar together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of...

In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century.

This is a collection of fairy tales by Rev. David Bearne. The stories take place in the "Bright Ages" as opposed to the more common epithet "dark ages", where heroes saved the world, saints performed miracles, and also anything else was possible. Most of those stories are based on half-forgotten legends and footnotes to the history of England, charmingly retold by Mr. Bearne. - Summary by Carolin

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Brought to you by Penguin. Wildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they can drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals. This sounds like fiction but it isn’t. The climate is turning far more hostile than many...

Discover Britain's lost ghost stories. Author David Paul Nixon has spent over a decade collecting supernatural horror stories that have never been told before. Are these tales of madness, lies, or self-deception? Or could they be the real thing? The only way to find out, is to listen.We will return for new episodes in the autumn. You can listen to each ghost story in any order, but always reserve your judgement until you've heard all the way to the end.

Hear the best stories of our lives, where things always go wrong, yet it somehow turns out perfectly right. Experience smiles, laughter, and breath-holding as host, David Krohse, shares guests' rollercoaster proposal stories. This show is perfect if you love great stories or need advice and inspiration for your own upcoming wedding proposal!