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A Remarkable Journey
- De Michael Dowd en 03-22-09
De: Sean B. Carroll
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Maphead
- Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
- De: Ken Jennings
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 192
It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Romp through Maps
- De Lynn en 01-27-12
De: Ken Jennings
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The Horse
- The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
- De: Wendy Williams
- Narrado por: Angela Brazil
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Horses have a story to tell - one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological affinities and differences can tell us about the bond between horses and humans and what our longtime companions might think and feel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Full of science.
- De Jennifer90046 en 02-07-17
De: Wendy Williams
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Memory Craft
- Improve Your Memory with the Most Powerful Methods in History
- De: Lynne Kelly
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best
- De Phil F. en 01-31-22
De: Lynne Kelly
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Draft No. 4
- On the Writing Process
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McPhee is the Craft
- De Darwin8u en 09-19-17
De: John McPhee
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Too Big To Know
- Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
- De: David Weinberger
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ever, of course, but it's different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything.Yet this is the greatest time in history to be a knowledge seeker - if you know how.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good to know ...
- De John B. Fisher en 01-24-12
De: David Weinberger
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Evolution
- What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters: Adapted for Audio
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: John Bishop
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Over the past 20 years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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NOT WORTH THE PRICE OF ADDMISSION
- De CRAIG en 12-25-14
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- De: David Sumpter
- Narrado por: David West
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good reality check for "Cambridge Hyperbolitica"
- De Haggai Elkayam en 08-06-18
De: David Sumpter
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold History of English
- De: John McWhorter
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,994
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,374
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,350
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for casual linguists
- De Bertie en 01-11-10
De: John McWhorter
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How to Build a Dinosaur
- Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
- De: Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the 21st century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,932
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,912
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- De: Margalit Fox
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Discovery and Translation of Linear B Script
- De Sires en 01-11-14
De: Margalit Fox
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Born in Africa
- The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
- De: Martin Meredith
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about human origins made by scientists over the last hundred years, recounting their intense rivalry, personal feuds, and fierce controversies, as well as their feats of skill and endurance. The results have been momentous. Scientists have identified more than 20 species of extinct humans. They have firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind but also of modern humans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Up to date interesting
- De Simon en 02-15-12
De: Martin Meredith
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker