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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
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
The Parrot and the Igloo
by David Lipsky; read by Mike Chamberlain
The New York Times bestselling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life―through a history of climate denial and its consequences. Learn More
The Pandemic Century
by Mark Honigsbaum; read by John Lee
A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease. Learn More
Pan Am at War
by Mark Cotta Vaz & John H. Hill; read by Mike Chamberlain
Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. Learn More
Oxford Handbook of Medical Education in Practice
edited by Gabrielle Finn, Helen Church, Megan Brown, Matthew Byrne, and Neel Sharma; read by Bruce Mann
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The Oxford Handbook of Medical Education is a practical, accessible guide on medical education for busy doctors and healthcare professionals. Tailored for medical practitioners at all levels who wish to engage in education but may lack the time or expertise for in-depth research, this handbook offers practical advice alongside case studies and scenarios based on experts' educational experiences. Learn More
Overdiagnosed
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, Dr. Steven Woloshin; read by Sean Runnette
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Exposing the overdiagnosis of everything from high blood pressure to prostate and breast cancers , Dr. Welch traces the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of some of the worst excesses of American medical practice. Learn More
Our Data, Ourselves
by Jacqueline D. Lipton; read by Corinne Davies
A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Learn More
Origin Story
by Howard Markel; read by Mike Cooper
A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More
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