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  • Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival cover art

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    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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    • Origin Story

    • A Big History of Everything
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

    • A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

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    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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    • On the Origin of Species

    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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    • The Age of Genius

    • The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe....

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    • Proust and the Squid

    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • Gods and Robots

    • Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Adrienne Mayor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real automated machines, Gods and Robots is a groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life....

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    • Triumphs of Experience

    • The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
    • By: George E. Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • At a time when many people around the world are living into their 10th decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age....

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    • Apollo 11

    • The Inside Story
    • By: David Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players....

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    • Einstein's Genius Club

    • The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
    • By: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced....

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    • Vital Organs

    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

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    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • Some Assembly Required

    • Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins....

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    • Frostbite

    • How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
    • By: Nicola Twilley
    • Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse....

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    • Why We Hurt

    • The Natural History of Pain
    • By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author explains the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migraines, cancer, and more....

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    • Ravenous

    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • By: Sam Apple
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

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