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Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics
- Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge
- By: Vic Mansfield, His Holiness the Dalai Lama - foreword
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In a clear and engaging way, this book shows how the principle of emptiness, the philosophic heart of Tibetan Buddhism, connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics. Detailed connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time are also explored. For Tibetan Buddhists, the profound interconnectedness implied by emptiness demands the practice of universal compassion.
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Outstanding
- By dawn on 13-04-13
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Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics
- Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-07-12
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- By: Damien Hirst, Charles Darwin, William Bynum - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by accomplished voice actor Ben Arogundade who is known for his voice work in Doctor Who and Horizons. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by William Bynum and the cover design is by Damien Hirst. The Origin of Species...
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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El error de Descartes
- La emoción, la razón y el cerebro humano
- By: Antonio Damasio, Joandomènec Ros - translator
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Tras el éxito de Y el cerebro creó al hombre, Destino incorpora dos clásicos de Antonio Damasio. Publicado originalmente en 1994, El error de Descartes es un libro de referencia en la literatura sobre ciencia y filosofía. ¿Y cuál es el error de Descartes? Pues creer que la mente existe de...
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El error de Descartes
- La emoción, la razón y el cerebro humano
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-03-25
- Language: Spanish
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The Enchiridion:
- Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- By: Epictetus, James Harris
- Narrated by: Jason Sprenger
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus (Enchiridion is Greek for "that which is held in the hand") is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice. This manual has been carefully adapted in to modern English to allow for easy listening. Enjoy.
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Interesting stuff, but the narrator is disengaged.
- By Hubabakanda on 06-09-20
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The Enchiridion:
- Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- Narrated by: Jason Sprenger
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 16-06-17
- Language: English
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Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race
- Human Cusp, Book 1
- By: Peter J. Scott
- Narrated by: Peter J. Scott
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The human race is caught in the crosshairs of twin threats stemming from exponential advances in technology. In Crisis of Control, Peter Scott lays out the stark choices and consequences facing us in clear, provocative, and sometimes humorous language.
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Brilliant
- By Joe Panes on 09-06-19
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Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race
- Human Cusp, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter J. Scott
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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Einstein and the Quantum
- The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
- By: A. Douglas Stone
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light - the core of what we now know as quantum theory - than he did about relativity.
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ONLY FOR THE INITIATED
- By H. L. Mason on 09-04-15
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Einstein and the Quantum
- The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-10-13
- Language: English
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- By: Rachel Swaby
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle In 2013, the New York...
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Perfect Summary
- By K. McCormack on 23-03-17
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
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Important and thought-provoking book
- By Amazon Customer on 28-07-16
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-07-16
- Language: English
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The Next Great Migration
- The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
- By: Sonia Shah
- Narrated by: Sonia Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild...
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Well told and we'll researched.
- By Anonymous on 15-05-21
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The Next Great Migration
- The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
- Narrated by: Sonia Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Mending the Mind
- The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
- By: Oliver Kamm
- Narrated by: Oliver Kamm, Roger May
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN PINKER 'Reminds us that, despite our hazy understanding of depression, and despite the true horror of the illness, some hope for recovery remains' THE TIMES 'Extremely...
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Could have been an essay
- By Bangorboy on 21-05-23
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Mending the Mind
- The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
- Narrated by: Oliver Kamm, Roger May
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- By: Jeremy England
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded...
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Religion not science
- By Redd on 14-04-22
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Rosalind
- By: Jessica Mills
- Narrated by: Rosalind Lailey
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be invisible. In the 1940s science is a gentleman's profession, and it appears there are plenty of colleagues who want to keep it that way. After being segregated at Cambridge, then ignored and put down in the workplace, she has no intention of being seen as a second-class citizen and throws everything into proving her worth. But despite her success in unlocking the very secret of life, the ultimate glory is claimed by the men she left in her wake.
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Rosalind
- Narrated by: Rosalind Lailey
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- By: Stuart Bradwel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-24
- Language: English
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Les Lumières
- Histoire de la littérature française 4
- By: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Daniel Mesguich, Alain Viala
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Les "Presses Universitaires de France" et "Frémeaux & Associés" proposent des cours particuliers sur l'histoire de la littérature française, racontée, expliquée et analysée par Alain Viala, professeur émérite à l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, avec des extraits lus par Daniel Mesguich, comédien, metteur en scène et directeur du Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.
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Les Lumières
- Histoire de la littérature française 4
- Narrated by: Daniel Mesguich, Alain Viala
- Series: Histoire de la littérature française, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-14
- Language: French
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Rights of Man
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality. Using the French Revolution and its ideals as an example, he demonstrates his belief that any government must put the inherent rights of its citizens above all else, especially politics.
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Rights of Man
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-01-09
- Language: English
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- By: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Today, taxonomy is viewed by many as an outdated field, one nearly irrelevant to the rest of science and of even less interest to the rest of the world. Now, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon reminds us in Naming Nature, taxonomy is critically important, because it turns out to be much more than mere science. It is also the latest incarnation of a long-unrecognized human practice that has gone on across the globe, in every culture, in every language since before time: the deeply human act of ordering and naming the living world.
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-09-10
- Language: English
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Denial
- A Memoir
- By: Jessica Stern
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, comes an intimate and astonishingly frank examination of her own rape at 15, the life of her rapist, and how both shaped her life and work. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on...
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Denial
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- By: Theresa Levitt
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for science. Spurned by the scientific establishment, the pair ended up working out of Edouard's family perfume shop, Laugier père et fils. By day they prepared the revitalizing elixirs and rejuvenating eaux it was famous for, but by night using the ingredients of the perfumery and the principles of alchemy, they pursued the secret of life itself.
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Excellent-my favourite book this year
- By Felicity Coudre on 21-12-24
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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Le Moyen Age : La France de la guerre de Cent Ans
- Histoire de France 3
- Narrated by: Claude Gauvard
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-01-13
- Language: French
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In her graceful, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles the history of the Copernican Revolution, relating the story of astronomy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages. In its midst will be her play, And the Sun Stood Still, imagining the dialogue that would have transpired between Rheticus and Copernicus in their months together. As she achieved with her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel expands the bounds of science writing, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement.
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Not as good as I'd hoped
- By Edward on 09-09-14
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A More Perfect Heaven
- How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-09-11
- Language: English
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