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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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Very comprehensive
- By Paul R. on 2023-11-03
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-31
- Language: English
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Synesthesia
- Written by: Richard E. Cytowic MD
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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A neurological trait that creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings, synesthesia is examined in this illuminating audiobook by pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic who reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective.
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Synesthesia
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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The Sports Gene
- Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
- Written by: David Epstein
- Narrated by: David Epstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training? In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success, Sports Illustrated senior writer David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving this great riddle.
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informative
- By Sandy M on 2019-05-30
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The Sports Gene
- Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
- Narrated by: David Epstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-01
- Language: English
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Neuroplasticity
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Written by: Moheb Costandi
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self-improvement - and has inspired countless Internet entrepreneurs who peddle dubious "brain training" games and apps. In this book, Moheb Costandi offers a concise and engaging overview of neuroplasticity for the general listener.
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Neuroplasticity
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-12
- Language: English
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The One-Minute Workout
- Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter
- Written by: Martin Gibala, Christopher Shulgan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Finally, the solution to the number-one reason we don't exercise: time. Everyone has one minute. A decade ago, Martin Gibala was a young researcher in the field of exercise physiology - with little time to exercise. That critical point in his career launched a passion for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), allowing him to stay in shape with just a few minutes of hard effort. It also prompted Gibala to conduct experiments that helped launch the exploding science of ultralow-volume exercise
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The One-Minute Workout
- Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-10
- Language: English
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Internal Time
- Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
- Written by: Till Roenneberg
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns are the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. By understanding and respecting our internal time, we can live better.
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Internal Time
- Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-06
- Language: English
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The First 20 Minutes
- Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
- Written by: Gretchen Reynolds
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Every Wednesday, Gretchen Reynolds singlehandedly influences how millions of Americans work out. In her Phys Ed column for The New York Times, she debunks myths, spurs conversation, and creates arguments among her readers by questioning widely held beliefs about exercise. Expanding upon her popular columns, Reynolds tackles the questions we all have and (sometimes) ask about exercise.
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The First 20 Minutes
- Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-24
- Language: English
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A Calm Brain
- Written by: Gayatri Devi M.D.
- Narrated by: Gayatri Devi M.D.
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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When you are calm, your mind and body are in a state of focused awareness. You are in your “zone”, performing at your peak. Now, in A Calm Brain, Dr. Gayatri Devi shows how you can cultivate this optimal mental and physical state by tapping into your body’s hard-wired natural relaxation system. Our bodies have been trained to react to the beeps and alarms of all our different technologies, be it the ever present cell phone, an angry text message, or a frantic voicemail. The result is chronic stress. There is hope.
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A Calm Brain
- Narrated by: Gayatri Devi M.D.
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-14
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- Written by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning - a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things - from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2014-01-02
- Language: English
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Arrival of the Fittest
- Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
- Written by: Andreas Wagner
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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In Arrival of the Fittest, renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner draws on over 15 years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
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Arrival of the Fittest
- Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-02
- Language: English
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- Written by: Carl J. Lavie MD
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with explosive news: Overweight and even moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases - from heart disease to cancer - often live longer and fare better than normal-weight individuals with the same ailments. In this groundbreaking audiobook, Carl Lavie, MD, reveals the science behind the obesity paradox and shows us how to achieve maximum health rather than minimum weight.
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Empowering !
- By Rosa on 2017-12-05
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-03
- Language: English
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The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- Written by: Callum Roberts
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-12
- Language: English
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Sort Your Brain Out
- Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More
- Written by: Jack Lewis, Adrian Webster
- Narrated by: Jack Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Sort Your Brain Out includes brain-powered self-help advice that will improve your mood, help you deal with stress, and be better and smarter at work or in your everyday life. You'll discover how to shape and control the most adaptable organ in your body to think more creatively, keep your memory sharp, and live a better life on a daily basis.
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Sort Your Brain Out
- Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More
- Narrated by: Jack Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-27
- Language: English
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The Last Lost World
- Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
- Written by: Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions - of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. It’s the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged.
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The Last Lost World
- Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-14
- Language: English
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The Compass of Pleasure
- How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
- Written by: David J. Linden
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.
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The Compass of Pleasure
- How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-31
- Language: English
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Faster, Higher, Stronger
- How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them
- Written by: Mark McClusky
- Narrated by: Mark McClusky
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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In Faster, Higher, Stronger, veteran journalist Mark McClusky brings listeners behind the scenes with a new generation of athletes, coaches, and scientists whose accomplishments are changing our understanding of human physical achievement and completely redefining the limits of the human body.
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Faster, Higher, Stronger
- How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them
- Narrated by: Mark McClusky
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2014-11-05
- Language: English
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Shocked
- Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
- Written by: David Casarett M.D.
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into a creek and was underwater for over an hour. When she was found she wasn't breathing, and her pupils were fixed and dilated. That drowning should have been fatal. But after three hours of persistent work, a team of doctors and nurses was able to bring her back.
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Shocked
- Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-31
- Language: English
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The Eskimo and the Oil Man
- The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future
- Written by: Bob Reiss
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may become the next Panama Canal, the next Arabian Peninsula-places on earth that remain relatively unknown in one century and become pivotal in the next.
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The Eskimo and the Oil Man
- The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-15
- Language: English
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The Chemistry Between Us
- Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
- Written by: Larry Young, Brian Alexander
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors surrounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains.
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The Chemistry Between Us
- Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-24
- Language: English
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
- Understanding Misconceptions About Our Origins
- Written by: John H. Relethford
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay audiences, listeners, and students. Includes myths such as: "Humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs"; "Lucy was so small because she was a child"; "Our ancestors have always made fire"; and "There is a strong relationship between brain size and intelligence."
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
- Understanding Misconceptions About Our Origins
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-02
- Language: English
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