Women Biology

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    • A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 568 ratings
    • For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....

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    • How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
    • By: Cat Bohannon
    • Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters....

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    • The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....

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    • 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 16,698 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....

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    • By: Nancy Wake
    • Narrated by: Christine Jeffery
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling....

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    • An Unauthorized Biography
    • By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social phenomena, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation of men in prisons to male dominance in business and politics. It's a lot to pin on a simple molecule....

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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

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    • How Stories Make Us Human
    • By: Jonathan Gottschall
    • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives....

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    • Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
    • By: Shelley Emling
    • Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Mary Anning was only 12 years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton - of an ichthyosaur - while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct....

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    • The Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

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    • The Evolution of Human Sexuality
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • There's no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status....

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    • Making of the Human Mind
    • By: Colin Renfrew
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In this passionately argued work, Colin Renfrew offers a concise summary of prehistory while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself....

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    • Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Sue Black
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Hope Jahren
    • Narrated by: Hope Jahren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,010 ratings
    • An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants....

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    • The Real Story of Menstruation
    • By: Kate Clancy
    • Narrated by: Kate Clancy
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Kate Clancy shares a bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation....

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    • Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
    • By: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space....

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    • Women Scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
    • By: Kathleen Weston
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Weston
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK is a world-leading scientific institution. This book, by LMB alumna Kathy Weston, is a collective portrait of women scientists who, as staff members, visitors, and trainees, helped build the LMB’s reputation....

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    • The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
    • By: Lauren E. Oakes
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....

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    • The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
    • By: Susan Mattern
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the positive light it deserves - not only as an essential life stage, but also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing....

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