Ciencia e Ingeniería
45,048 títulosBestsellers
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Not the End of the World
- How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
- De: Hannah Ritchie
- Narrado por: Hannah Ritchie PhD
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children....
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Environmental Sustainability Analysis
- De RM en 04-16-24
De: Hannah Ritchie
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Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- De: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrado por: Peter Attia MD
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health....
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Too Much Filler
- De J. Badaracco en 04-09-23
De: Peter Attia MD, y otros
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- De Blue Zion en 12-22-18
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- De: Nate Silver
- Narrado por: Nate Silver
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes.
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A primer on risk, reward, and thriving in the face of uncertainty
- De Eric en 08-17-24
De: Nate Silver
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- De: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrado por: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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Interesting but feels incomplete
- De Chris en 09-02-21
De: Dr. Anna Lembke
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Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- De: James Nestor
- Narrado por: James Nestor
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....
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Does NOT coincide with Book text
- De FamAzz en 07-13-20
De: James Nestor
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Not the End of the World
- How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
- De: Hannah Ritchie
- Narrado por: Hannah Ritchie PhD
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children....
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Environmental Sustainability Analysis
- De RM en 04-16-24
De: Hannah Ritchie
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Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- De: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrado por: Peter Attia MD
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health....
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Too Much Filler
- De J. Badaracco en 04-09-23
De: Peter Attia MD, y otros
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- De Blue Zion en 12-22-18
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- De: Nate Silver
- Narrado por: Nate Silver
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes.
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A primer on risk, reward, and thriving in the face of uncertainty
- De Eric en 08-17-24
De: Nate Silver
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- De: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrado por: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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Interesting but feels incomplete
- De Chris en 09-02-21
De: Dr. Anna Lembke
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Breath
- The New Science of a Lost Art
- De: James Nestor
- Narrado por: James Nestor
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....
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Does NOT coincide with Book text
- De FamAzz en 07-13-20
De: James Nestor
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
- Duración: 27 h y 20 m
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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Could be shorter
- De Evan Snow en 01-03-22
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Hope for Cynics
- The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- De: Jamil Zaki
- Narrado por: Jamil Zaki
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did.
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Persuasive, inspiring, and, yes, hopeful
- De Tina en 09-06-24
De: Jamil Zaki
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The Comfort of Crows
- A Backyard Year
- De: Margaret Renkl
- Narrado por: Margaret Renkl
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural.
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Unlistenable
- De maia simon en 04-07-24
De: Margaret Renkl
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- De: Matthew Walker
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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Professor Matthew Walker reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better....
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I recommend this to EVERYONE
- De meggiemine en 12-11-17
De: Matthew Walker
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The Confident Mind
- A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
- De: Dr. Nate Zinsser
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very highest—on the battlefield....
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Redundant and uninsightful
- De Chris Rogers en 06-06-23
De: Dr. Nate Zinsser
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Doug Ordunio
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- De Doug en 08-25-11
De: Jared Diamond
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- De: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come....
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victory lap
- De Anonymous User en 06-30-24
De: Ray Kurzweil
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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Disappointing - not much physics
- De Rob Hahn en 07-15-17
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- De: Ethan Mollick
- Narrado por: Ethan Mollick
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI....
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great intro book marred by poor narration
- De Amazon Customer en 04-14-24
De: Ethan Mollick
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Behave
- The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- De: Robert Sapolsky
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 26 h y 27 m
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From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic....
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Insightful
- De Doug Hay en 07-27-17
De: Robert Sapolsky
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How the Mind Works
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 26 h y 5 m
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In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind....
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Excellent, but a difficult listen.
- De David Roseberry en 12-11-11
De: Steven Pinker
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- De: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrado por: Mikael Naramore
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....
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You won't learn anything you didn't know
- De Dennis E. Alwine en 12-26-20
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Mind Magic
- The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
- De: James R. Doty MD
- Narrado por: James R. Doty MD
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James Doty explores the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams....
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Good content. Terrible narration.
- De Narine Harrylall en 05-14-24
De: James R. Doty MD
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain
- How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
- De: Catherine M. Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS
- Narrado por: Susannah Mars
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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Overcome anxiety and rewire your brain with tested advice from psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle.
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Accurate info, well explained
- De rebekah higgins en 01-31-20
De: Catherine M. Pittman PhD, y otros
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- De Gillian en 02-22-17
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Algorithms to Live By
- The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- De: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Narrado por: Brian Christian
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....
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Great listen, just don't expect tips!
- De Adam Hosman en 08-07-17
De: Brian Christian, y otros
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The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom....
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Mind-blowing
- De Roger Henderson en 05-22-24
De: Zoë Schlanger
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- De: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known....
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Tree Hugger
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-19
De: Peter Wohlleben
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Determined
- A Science of Life Without Free Will
- De: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences.
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Abridged - no Appendix!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-02-23
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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Ultra-Processed People
- Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
- De: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrado por: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....
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ridiculously biased take on data
- De Brit_TV_fan en 11-25-23
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The Secret Life of Plants
- A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
- De: Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
- Narrado por: D. Michael Hope
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial best seller....
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Skeptics beware. Lots of psychobabble.
- De Aardvarkmikey en 03-08-21
De: Peter Tompkins, y otros
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- De: Nate Silver
- Narrado por: Nate Silver
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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A primer on risk, reward, and thriving in the face of uncertainty
- De Eric en 08-17-24
De: Nate Silver
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Life as No One Knows It
- The Physics of Life's Emergence
- De: Sara Imari Walker
- Narrado por: Sara Imari Walker
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like. In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is.
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very interesting
- De Sequoia Spencer en 08-09-24
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- De: Annie Dillard
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou.
De: Annie Dillard
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Love Triangle
- How Trigonometry Shapes the World
- De: Matt Parker
- Narrado por: Matt Parker
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it. In Love Triangle, Matt Parker argues we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with all the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable.
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Ouch. I miss Humble Pi
- De R. MCRACKAN en 09-02-24
De: Matt Parker
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Hope for Cynics
- The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- De: Jamil Zaki
- Narrado por: Jamil Zaki
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties can’t seem to agree on anything, except that they all think human virtue is evaporating.
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Persuasive, inspiring, and, yes, hopeful
- De Tina en 09-06-24
De: Jamil Zaki
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
- Music as Medicine
- De: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrado por: Daniel J. Levitin
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- De: Nate Silver
- Narrado por: Nate Silver
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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A primer on risk, reward, and thriving in the face of uncertainty
- De Eric en 08-17-24
De: Nate Silver
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Life as No One Knows It
- The Physics of Life's Emergence
- De: Sara Imari Walker
- Narrado por: Sara Imari Walker
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like. In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is.
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very interesting
- De Sequoia Spencer en 08-09-24
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- De: Annie Dillard
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou.
De: Annie Dillard
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Love Triangle
- How Trigonometry Shapes the World
- De: Matt Parker
- Narrado por: Matt Parker
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it. In Love Triangle, Matt Parker argues we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with all the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable.
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Ouch. I miss Humble Pi
- De R. MCRACKAN en 09-02-24
De: Matt Parker
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Hope for Cynics
- The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- De: Jamil Zaki
- Narrado por: Jamil Zaki
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties can’t seem to agree on anything, except that they all think human virtue is evaporating.
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Persuasive, inspiring, and, yes, hopeful
- De Tina en 09-06-24
De: Jamil Zaki
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
- Music as Medicine
- De: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrado por: Daniel J. Levitin
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.
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Puppy Kindergarten
- The New Science of Raising a Great Dog
- De: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrado por: Isabella Rossellini, Daniel Henning
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods hoped to answer when they enrolled one hundred and one puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten. With the help of a retired service dog named Congo, Brian, Vanessa, and their team set out to understand the secrets of the puppy mind: What factors might predict whether a puppy will grow up to change someone’s life?
De: Brian Hare, y otros
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- De: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrado por: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms—bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest—done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet.
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Making Sense of Chaos
- A Better Economics for a Better World
- De: J. Doyne Farmer
- Narrado por: J. Doyne Farmer
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Many books have been written about J. Doyne Farmer and his work, but this is the first in his own words. It presents a manifesto for how to do economics better. In this tale of science and ideas, Farmer fuses his profound knowledge and expertise with stories from his life to explain how we can bring a scientific revolution to bear on the economic conundrums facing society.
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Doyne Farmer is brilliant but...
- De dmh00000 en 08-25-24
De: J. Doyne Farmer
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Limits to Growth
- The 30-Year Update
- De: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.
De: Jorgen Randers, y otros
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Lucid Dying
- The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death
- De: Sam Parnia MD PhD
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Today, for the first time in history, the scientific exploration of death and what happens when we die is real, active and ongoing. Contrary to popular perceptions, this subject is no longer the remit of philosophy, religion, or personal opinion. Truly remarkable scientific discoveries that will fundamentally affect everyone’s lives now and in the future are taking place, yet very few people are aware of them. Most people—including scientists and doctors—maintain strong beliefs about death and its experience. Those beliefs are rooted in traditional, and often cultural, notions of death.
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Excited to See Scientific Rigor Applied to This Vital Topic
- De Mav en 08-27-24
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On Trails
- An Exploration
- De: Robert Moor
- Narrado por: Robert Moor
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.
De: Robert Moor
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The Secret Life of the Universe
- An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
- De: Nathalie A. Cabrol
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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We are living in a golden age in astronomy and in the search for life the universe. Over the last few decades, space exploration has shown that not only are there habitable environments within our solar system, but there are millions of exoplanets within our galaxy that could support life. We are on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. In The Secret Life of the Universe, astrobiologist and the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life.
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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Celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland.
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Interesting history
- De Beth en 08-27-24
De: Edward Dolnick
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Four Ways of Thinking
- A Journey into Human Complexity
- De: David Sumpter
- Narrado por: Sam Woolf
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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What is the best way to think about the world? How often do we consider how our own thinking might impact the way we approach our daily decisions? Could it help or hinder our relationships, our careers, or even our health? As acclaimed mathematician David Sumpter shows, thinking about thinking is something we rarely do, yet it is something science questions all the time. He has spent decades studying what we could all learn from the mindsets of scientists, and Four Ways of Thinking is the result.
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A Woman in the Polar Night
- De: Christiane Ritter, Jane Degras - translator, Sara Wheeler - foreword
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gallagher
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.
De: Christiane Ritter, y otros
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Race for a Remedy
- The Science and Scientists Behind the Next Life-Saving Cancer Medicine
- De: Makhdum Ahmed MD
- Narrado por: Pat Grimes
- Duración: 8 h
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How does a mere molecule—a chemical structure—become a drug? And how do we know that it works safely? In a one-trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry with high-stakes profits and perils, battles are raging every day to successfully bring a molecule to its birth: an FDA-approved medicine. In Race for a Remedy, Makhdum Ahmed, MD, an internationally renowned expert in cancer treatment and drug development, takes listeners behind the scenes of the fascinating and intense world of cancer drug development.
De: Makhdum Ahmed MD
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Turning to Stone
- Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
- De: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrado por: Rebecca Stern
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround us. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud believes that our lives can be enriched by understanding our heritage on this old and creative planet. Contrary to their reputation, rocks have eventful lives—and they intersect with our own in surprising ways.
De: Marcia Bjornerud
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Why Animals Talk
- The New Science of Animal Communication
- De: Arik Kershenbaum
- Narrado por: John Hastings
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Why Animals Talk is an exhilarating journey through the untamed world of animal communication. Following his international bestseller, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, acclaimed zoologist Arik Kershenbaum draws on extensive original research to reveal how many of the animal kingdom’s most seemingly confusing or untranslatable signals are in fact logical and consistent—and not that different from our own.
De: Arik Kershenbaum
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Charge
- Why Does Gravity Rule?
- De: Frank Close
- Narrado por: Perry Daniels
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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The charges of the proton and electron are opposite and equal, even though the proton is bigger. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of physics. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the quantum subatomic world of particles. He describes the strong and weak forces that operate alongside electromagnetism, the color and flavor charges, as well as the parallels between them, giving hints of a deeper unity.
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Life Lessons from a Parasite
- What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity's Most Difficult Problems
- De: John Janovy Jr.
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Though you may not be able to see them with the naked eye, parasites inhabit our everyday lives. From headlice to bird droppings, litterboxes to unfiltered water, you have brushed up against the most common way of life on our planet. In this unique book, John Janovy Jr., one of the world's preeminent experts on parasites, reveals what can humans learn from the most reviled yet misunderstood animals on Earth: lice, tapeworms, flukes, and maggots that can eat a lizard from the inside, and how these lessons help us negotiate our own complicated world.
De: John Janovy Jr.
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Our Future Is Biotech
- A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
- De: Andrew Craig
- Narrado por: Andrew Craig
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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The Apples, Amazons and Googles of the next few decades will be biotech companies. The tech companies of the last few years have changed how we do things but the businesses driving the biotech revolution are about making life better. These companies will solve many of our most intractable problems: cancer, dementia, diabetes, elderly care, mental health challenges, even power generation and agricultural production. The audiobook explains what biotech is, what is coming next, and in a final section, how interested investors can profit from it.
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Cowpuppy
- An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows
- De: Gregory Berns
- Narrado por: Derek Dysart
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful operation. But that was where his knowledge of cattle ended. As Berns and his small herd of three miniature zebus acclimated to each other and Berns received a crash course in being a cattleman, he turned his powers of scientific observation and innovation on his new charges. Cowpuppy offers a deeper understanding of these complex creatures and what we humans can learn from them.
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Biology of Dogs
- From Gonads Through Guts to Ganglia
- De: Tim Lewis PhD
- Narrado por: Dr. Tim Lewis
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Biology of Dogs takes you on a series of tours through all the major biological systems–reproductive, nervous, musculoskeletal, digestive and more. Tim leads these tours in a fun and irreverent manner, offering insights that will enhance your dog-human relationships so much that you will abandon all of your human friends to spend more time with your dog!
De: Tim Lewis PhD
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Bite
- An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, roughly half a billion years ago, was an adaptation that allowed animals with backbones, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs and mammals—including us—to chow down in pretty much every conceivable environment.
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Our Green Heart
- The Soul and Science of Forests
- De: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
- Narrado por: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.
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The Wisdom of Sheep
- Observations from a Family Farm
- De: Rosamund Young
- Narrado por: Rosamund Young
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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We talk a lot about sheep: following the herd, counting sheep to fall asleep and looking out for wolves in sheep’s clothing. But, just like people, animals don’t always follow the pack. Some are affectionate while others butt heads; some follow the leader while some guide the whole flock home. With startling beauty and tenderness, Rosamund Young reveals the remarkable emotional and intellectual complexity of the animals she lives with on her family farm, and the story of her life’s work, with the intimacy of a personal diary.
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Blood Memory
- The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
- De: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals.
De: Dayton Duncan, y otros
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The Age of Loneliness
- Essays
- De: Laura Marris
- Narrado por: Laura Marris
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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How do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what’s missing in the landscapes closest to us? In her debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental loss by setting aside the catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, which is marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species.
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Heart of the Hive
- Inside the Mind of the Honey Bee and the Incredible Life Force of the Colony
- De: Hilary Kearney
- Narrado por: Hilary Kearney
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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Listeners will be awestruck by the hive as superorganism and how the individual bee lives and behaves within it, perfectly suited to each specific job it performs. From their intricate dances and information-rich pheromones to how they sense and respond to their environment, learn, and remember, this immersive journey into the world of bees offers an entirely new perspective on the wisdom of nature and our relationship to it.
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Loved it!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-04-24
De: Hilary Kearney