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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity....

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    • The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
    • By: Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink
    • Narrated by: William Elsman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life—but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that understanding....

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    • Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
    • By: Samuel Arbesman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Whatwe know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,980 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
    • By: Ian Stewart
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

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    • By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 892 ratings
    • In this unprecedented account, The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,843 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
    • By: Dan Baum
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,837 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,383 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood
    • By: Michael Walker
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties....

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    • By: Jacob Riis
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
    • By: Carl Zimmer
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world - from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses - the harder they find it is to locate life’s edge....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age
    • By: Greg Jenner
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • The History of the Disc Jockey
    • By: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • This is the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a cult classic now updated with five new chapters and substantial additional material. It's the definitive account of DJ culture, from the first record played over airwaves to house, hip-hop, techno, and beyond....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
    • By: Barbara Mertz
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968.

    Regular price: $18.91

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