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Timefulness
by Marcia Bjornerud; read by Tanya Eby
This compelling book presents a new way of thinking about our place in time, enabling us to make decisions on multigenerational timescales. The lifespan of Earth may seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth’s history—and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Learn More
Through a Glass Brightly
by David P. Barash; read by Charles Constant
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint—a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance—is as dangerous as it is false. Learn More
Third Ear
by Elizabeth Rosner; read by Elizabeth Rosner
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This illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us. Learn More
The Things We Make
by Bill Hammack; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. Learn More
They Are Already Here
by Sarah Scoles; read by Suzie Althens
An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery—both terrestrial and cosmic. Learn More
Theories of the Universe
Stephen Hawking, et al. ; read by Julian Lopez-Morillas
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Learn More
The 100% Solution
by Solomon Goldstein-Rose; read by Adam Lofbomm
The world must reach negative greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Yet no single plan has addressed the full scope of the problem—until now. Learn More
Tesla
by Richard Munson; read by Charles Constant
Though Tesla's inventions transformed our world, his true originality is shown in the visionary ambitions he failed to achieve. Learn More
The Terroir of Whiskey
by Rob Arnold; read by John McLain
In this book, the master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. Learn More
Technically Wrong
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher; read by Andrea Emmes
In Technically Wrong Sara Wachter-Boettcher provides a revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products―and harm us all. Learn More
Tech Generation
by Mike Brooks, PhD & Jon Lasser, PhD; read by Steven Jay Cohen
Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Learn More
Tasting the Past
by Kevin Begos; read by PJ Ochlan
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek the origins of wine. What he discovers is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. Learn More
A Taste for the Beautiful
by Michael J. Ryan; read by Eric Martin
In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our understanding of sexual selection, shedding new light on human behavior in the process. Learn More
Symphony in C
by Robert M. Hazen; read by Paul Brion
An enchanting biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth. Learn More
Swearing Is Good for You
by Emma Byrne; read by Henrietta Meire
In a sparkling debut in the entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. Learn More
Supernavigators
by David Barrie; read by David Barrie
A globetrotting voyage of discovery celebrating the navigational superpowers of animals—by land, sea, and sky. Learn More
The Sun
by Philip Judge; read by Patrick Lawlor
This Very Short Introduction explores what we know about the Sun—its physics, its structure, origins, and future evolution. Learn More
A Story of Us
by Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson; read by Mike Cooper
Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Learn More
Storming the Heavens
by Gerald Horne; read by Bill Quinn
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. Learn More
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
by Byron Reese; read by Stephen Bel Davies
What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way? This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are—and will change how you think about our future. Learn More
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