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The Book of Why
- The New Science of Cause and Effect
- By: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.
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Is the narrator a robot?
- By Nigel Warburton on 06-09-19
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The Book of Why
- The New Science of Cause and Effect
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
- By: Tim James
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Nominated for the best popular science book of 2024 by Smart Book. 'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how to get his audience's attention' Wall...
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4th tim james book
- By Gavin on 30-04-24
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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance152
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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 and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.
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A simply told story of complexity
- By Tim on 21-07-20
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- By: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall266
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science - a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will delight anyone interested in the world of ideas.
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All you want to hear is already in the first book.
- By Fritz on 07-01-17
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-04-13
- Language: English
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One Small Step: A BBC Moon Landing Collection
- The Apollo Missions, Their Lasting Significance and Our Age-Old Fascination with the Moon
- By: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, James Burke, and others
- Narrated by: Matthew Bannister, Pennie Latin, Richard Hollingham, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of BBC radio documentaries celebrating the lunar landings and their legacy. On July 20th 1969, for the first time in history, man walked on the moon. Over 50 years later, this 'giant leap for mankind' still captures our imagination, and in this four-part collection, we bring together some of the most fascinating and insightful BBC documentaries about our ever-changing relationship with our only natural satellite.
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Fascinating Collection
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-21
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One Small Step: A BBC Moon Landing Collection
- The Apollo Missions, Their Lasting Significance and Our Age-Old Fascination with the Moon
- Narrated by: Matthew Bannister, Pennie Latin, Richard Hollingham, James Burke, Brian Cox, Dr Lucie Green, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
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Very enjoyable, interesting primer
- By Production on 25-07-25
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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-08-24
- Language: English
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The Laws of Thought
- The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
- By: Tom Griffiths
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds. Everyone has a basic understanding of...
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Good ideas and presentation, would've liked more complexity
- By Production on 08-03-26
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The Laws of Thought
- The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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Indistinguishable from Magic: How Science Shapes Our Future
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Ewan James Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Across centuries, humanity has not abandoned wonder but translated it, replacing incantations with equations and rituals with methods, without dissolving the astonishment that once animated myth and faith. What appears today as advanced science often occupies the same psychological and cultural space once reserved for miracles.
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Indistinguishable from Magic: How Science Shapes Our Future
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: Ewan James Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-04-26
- Language: English
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance106
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Brought to you by Penguin. Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet...
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More vaccine propaganda
- By Anonymous on 11-08-21
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance88
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Author of the New York Times best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections. Taken together, these four strands reveal a deeply integrated, rational, and optimistic worldview. It describes a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, in which human action and thought are central.
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Disappointing
- By Dmitry Popov on 29-06-19
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-12-18
- Language: English
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance112
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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book.
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Essential reading for thoughtful people
- By Isolde on 04-09-12
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-01-16
- Language: English
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Quirkology
- The Curious Science of Everyday Lives
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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'Quirkology is stuffed with the kind of offbeat insight that people find irresistible' – The Times Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on...
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Quirkology
- The Curious Science of Everyday Lives
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Into the Unknown
- The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
- By: Kelsey Johnson
- Narrated by: Kelsey Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions—about the universe’s origins, destiny, and fundamental nature—and how it contends with the limits of our knowledge Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the...
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Absolutely brilliant and highly insightful
- By Mr.M on 09-12-24
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Into the Unknown
- The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Kelsey Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- By: Tobias Hürter
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time.
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Highly interesting and informative throughout
- By Mike on 25-11-22
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Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Metaphors We Live By
- By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.
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Metaphors We Live By
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-11-25
- Language: English
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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some really interesting bits, but jumped about
- By Dean Petters on 07-04-13
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-02-11
- Language: English
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011 ‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT ‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN ‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Riveting, audacious and now more urgent...
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-12-25
- Language: English
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Why We Die
- The groundbreaking must-read exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The unmissable account of how science can help us live better and longer - loved by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Siddhartha Mukherjee and more 'Changed my perspective on the whole living world' - Chris Van Tulleken We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being...
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Title Gives Authors Opinion & Anti Health Extension Ideas
- By LMN on 08-03-26
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Why We Die
- The groundbreaking must-read exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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The Facemaker
- One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands...
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Great book, less sure about the narration
- By BBette on 04-01-23
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The Facemaker
- One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- By: S. Frederick Starr
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects.
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Fascinating, surprising and beautifully written
- By Jim on 23-11-13
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-10-13
- Language: English
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