How The World Works (Science, Math, Sociology, History, Economics)
Why Fish Don't Exist
A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By: Lulu Miller
Narrated by: Lulu Miller
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Half memoir, half biography, Lulu Miller's examination of David Starr Jordan and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going is phenomenal. Nuanced and unputdownable. (And especially great on audio!) Read more
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Drawdown
The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
By: Paul Hawken
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 18 hours 52 minutes
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world
In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate... Read more
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I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016A Bill Gates “Gates Notes” PickMPR Best Books of 2016Chicago Public Library... Read more
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more
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Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I have always considered myself to be a very open-minded person. But Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" is a revelation in the mistakes we humans make in interpreting each other's motives and intentions. The common assumptions that we make in order to navigate daily life often lead us to grossly err in our decisions and judgments... Read more
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Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
By: Annie Lowrey
Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Imagine if every month... Read more
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How Emotions Are Made
The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.” — Wall Street Journal“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.” — Scientific American
“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.”... Read more
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The Sixth Extinction
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass... Read more
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We Have No Idea
A Guide to the Unknown Universe
By: Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson
Narrated by: Daniel Whiteson
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe
Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have... Read more
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How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
By: Ryan North
Narrated by: Ryan North
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“If you ever need to rebuild civilization from the ground up, make sure you have Ryan North with you. If kidnapping is not your thing, then at least make sure you have this book. I wouldn't recommend taking the audio though, because if the power to your portable (music) listening device dies before you get around to "inventing" electricity and/or... Read more
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I don't own many books. I read books and give them away. However, I will NOT be giving away my copy of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. It's a keeper! Sapiens was an intense read for me. I found myself taking breaks every dozen pages or so. Not because I was bored - just the opposite. I needed time to let the author's perspective on the... Read more
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