Modern Science

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    • The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
    • By: David Hatcher Childress
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the amazing world of ancient technology, from computers in antiquity to the flying machines of the gods....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
    • By: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations....

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    • A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure
    • By: Michael G. Munz
    • Narrated by: Travis Baldree
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Nine months ago, Zeus' murder catapulted the Greek gods back into public life. Each day is now a living hell for Apollo, who has a bursting portfolio of godly duties to attend to. Yet there may be hope, if only he can return Zeus to life....

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    • Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Gary Gutting
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Gary Gutting presents a wide-ranging but nonsystematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics
    • By: Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Butler
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Tanner
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • With his well known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring....

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    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Peter Singer
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on 20th-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A. C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general listener....

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