Science & Technology

The Property Species

by Bart J. Wilson; read by Mike Lenz

What is property, and why does our species have it? In The Property Species, Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Learn More

Pro-Aging Playbook

by Paul Jarrod Frank, MD; read by Daniel Henning

Hailed as "the Beauty Guru" by his celebrity and international patients, renowned cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank has written a book designed to help people of all ages navigate the latest technologies and lifestyle choices in the beauty and wellness industry so they can positively transform the way they look and feel. Learn More

Pregnant While Black

by Monique Rainford, MD; read by Monique Rainford, MD

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A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. In this book, Dr. Monique Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them. Learn More

Poor Economics

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; read by Brian Holsopple

Financial Times’ Best Business Book of the Year
Library Journal Best of Year Selection

Two highly regarded economists relay 15 years of research into a smart, engaging investigation of the real nature of global poverty and why current approaches to addressing miss the mark. Learn More

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching

by Rosemary Mosco; read by Janet Metzger

Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Learn More

Poached

by Rachel Love Nuwer; read by Christina Delaine

Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the listener into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation. Learn More

Playing God

by Anthony Youn, MD with Alan Eisenstock; read by Kyle Tait

In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. Learn More

The Planter of Modern Life

by Stephen Heyman; read by Robertson Dean

How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America's most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement. Learn More

Planta Sapiens

by Paco Calvo; with Natalie Lawrence

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Learn More

Picnic Comma Lightning

by Laurence Scott; read by Laurence Scott

What does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century? In this innovative examination of our present reality, award-winning writer Laurence Scott charts the ways our traditional mental models of the world have started to fray. Learn More

The Physics of Superheroes

by James Kakalios; Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss; read by Kevin T. Collins

A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Learn More

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Jessica Wapner; read by Heather Henderson

Science journalist Jessica Wapner goes beyond the headlines to share the fascinating backstory on ground-breaking cancer research and the genetic science behind it.

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The Petroleum Papers

by Geoff Dembicki; read by Steve Menasche

Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More

Personality

by Daniel Nettle; read by Matthew Waterson

Written by Daniel Nettle—author of the popular book Happiness—this brief volume takes the listener on an exhilarating tour of what modern science can tell us about human personality. Learn More

Permanent Present Tense

Suzanne Corkin; read by Pam Ward

The riveting story of the man who couldn’t remember: H. M., the famous brain-damaged patient whose case afforded untold advances in the study of memory. Learn More

The Perfect Bet

Adam Kucharski; read by Jonathan Yen

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

by Richard A. McKay; read by Paul Woodson

The search for a "patient zero"—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? Learn More

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