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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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Facing Infinity
- Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
- By: Jonas Enander
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the 18th century vicar who was the first to look up at the night's sky and suggest there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the stars, to the first actual photograph of a black hole, 250 years later, Jonas Enander has travelled the world, visited telescopes and observatories, interviewed world-leading space researchers, and delved deep into the archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over time.
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Facing Infinity
- Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about - seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics.
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A journey through the history of science
- By Anonymous on 07-07-20
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The Physics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-04-20
- Language: English
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- By: Anthony Grafton
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks. Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse.
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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Silent Witnesses
- By: Nigel McCrery
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us. Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation, and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection.
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Oh dear.
- By GG on 26-04-19
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Silent Witnesses
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-08-13
- Language: English
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
- The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
- By: Iwan Rhys Morus
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Victorians invented the idea of the future. They saw it as an undiscovered country, one ripe for exploration and colonization. And to get us there, they created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilization of the resources of the British Empire.
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Not Really an Audio Book
- By Stewart Webb on 12-04-24
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
- The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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On the Equality of All Things
- Physics and Philosophy
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell - translator
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. What can we really know about the world around us? With clarity and lightness, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli guides us through the speculative depths of modern physics, unafraid to test their limits, not least because, as he suggests, there may be no final ground...
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On the Equality of All Things
- Physics and Philosophy
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 15-09-26
- Language: English
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- By: Jessica Riskin
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORKER “A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore “A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava Sobel The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history...
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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The Blind Spot
- Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
- By: Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.
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The Blind Spot is humanity's perpetual 'innocently ignorant collective belief' in its 'infallibility'
- By Tom O'Rourke on 01-05-26
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The Blind Spot
- Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- 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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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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Battle of the Big Bang
- The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
- By: Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science communicator Phil Halper offer a tour of the peculiar possibilities: bouncing and cyclic universes, time loops, creations from nothing, multiverses, black hole births, string theories, and holograms. Along the way, they offer both a call for new physics and a riveting story of scientific debate.
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Battle of the Big Bang
- The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 23-06-26
- Language: English
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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- By: Hannah Critchlow
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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New technology is helping us share our wisdom and knowledge much more diversely across race, class, gender and borders. And AI is sparking a revolution in our approach to intelligent thinking—linking us into fast-working brainnets for problem solving. Hannah Critchlow brings us an enlightening, invaluable guide to our future through the evolving new science of collective intelligence. She reveals what it says about us as human beings, shares compelling examples and stories, and shows us how best we can work collectively at work, in families and in any team situation.
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Full of nuggets and insight
- By Amazon Customer on 21-09-23
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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- By: Dave Farina
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies.
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I wanted to like this book
- By Anonymous on 10-08-25
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Chain Reaction
- The Wondrous Chemistry of Everyday Life
- By: Ijeoma Uchegbu
- Narrated by: Ijeoma Uchegbu
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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All around us are ever-evolving strings of chain reactions, of bonds forged and broken, of connections made and unmade in less than the blink of an eye. In Chain Reaction, Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu dives into the chemistry that underpins our everyday existence. With warmth and personal anecdotes...
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Chain Reaction
- The Wondrous Chemistry of Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Ijeoma Uchegbu
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.
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A Decent Intro
- By A on 12-09-24
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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bully for Brontosaurus and learn about natural history.
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Significant and entertaining
- By veyza on 29-11-23
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
- By: Janna Levin
- Narrated by: Janna Levin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the...
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expecting something else completely
- By tom bunge on 24-12-20
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
- Narrated by: Janna Levin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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The Great Shadow
- A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history...necessary and timely...engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended." ―Library Journal, starred "[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful if unsettling." ―Kirkus...
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The Great Shadow
- A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 27-01-26
- Language: English
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roc Filella Montfort - translator, Albino Santos Mosquera - translator
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
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¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto. El éxito de Google y YouTube, y hasta ell...
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: Spanish
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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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