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Under the Skin

by Leslie Perri ...

The road to Ul was paved with danger, difficulty, and good intentions—and it's an open question which of the three was most disastrous! Includes a new introduction by John Betancourt. ... Read more

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The road to Ul was paved with danger, difficulty, and good intentions—and it's an open question which of the three was most disastrous! Includes a new introduction by John Betancourt.
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Other Tales: Volume VI

by Antoinette Van Sluytman, Jack Vance, George MacDonald, Leslie Perri, Poul Anderson ...

Narrated by Adriel Brandt ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Other Tales
Unabridged

5 hours 13 min

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume VI contains five bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale by George MacDonald (mentor and precursor to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), the complete text of Poul Anderson's sword & sorcery novella Witch of the Demon Seas, and an original afrofuturist fable by Antoinette Van Sluytman, ... Read more

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Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume VI contains five bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale by George MacDonald (mentor and precursor to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), the complete text of Poul Anderson's sword & sorcery novella Witch of the Demon Seas, and an original afrofuturist fable by Antoinette Van Sluytman,
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Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania

Local Communities, Land Use Change, and Management Challenges

Edited by Jeffrey O. Durrant, Emanuel H. Martin, Kokel Melubo, Ryan R. Jensen, Leslie A. Hadfield, Perry J. Hardin, Laurie Weisler ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands. This book, Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania, brings to the forefront research on significant issues and developments in conservation and management in national parks and protected lands in northern Tanzania. The book draws attention to issues at the intersection of conservation, tourism, and ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands. This book, Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania, brings to the forefront research on significant issues and developments in conservation and management in national parks and protected lands in northern Tanzania. The book draws attention to issues at the intersection of conservation, tourism, and
... Read more
Black Cat Weekly #28

by Larry Niven, Bruce Arthurs, Hal Charles, Elizabeth Elwood, Mildred Davis, Linda D. Addison, Leslie Perri, Randall Garrett, Lester del Rey ...

Black Cat Weekly #28 features another interview by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzer—this time with Larry Niven.. It originally appeared in Thrust, a review and critical essay magazine published by Doug Fratz in the 1970s. As Darrell has observed, these old interviews fall “somewhere between oral history and paleontology.” It’s always interesting to compare where at author was in his career ... Read more

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Black Cat Weekly #28 features another interview by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzer—this time with Larry Niven.. It originally appeared in Thrust, a review and critical essay magazine published by Doug Fratz in the 1970s. As Darrell has observed, these old interviews fall “somewhere between oral history and paleontology.” It’s always interesting to compare where at author was in his career
... Read more
Women and Music in the Age of Austen

by Pierre DuBois, Kelly M. McDonald, Danielle Grover, Penelope Cave, Simon Fleming, Alison C. DeSimone, Jane Girdham, Leslie Ritchie, Jeffrey A. Nigro, Ruth Perry, Devon R. Nelson, Gayle Magee, Juliette Wells ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience
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The Importance of Being Educable

A New Theory of Human Uniqueness

by Leslie Valiant ...

Narrated by Rachel Perry ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. The Importance of Being Educable puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable "educability" of the human brain can be understood as an ... Read more

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If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. The Importance of Being Educable puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable "educability" of the human brain can be understood as an
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Our Hidden Lives

The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

by Simon Garfield ...

Narrated by Simon Garfield, Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perry, Joan Walker, Moir Leslie ...

Abridged

3 hours 9 min

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, ... Read more

$12.99 USD

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today,
... Read more

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Psych

The Story of the Human Mind

by Paul Bloom ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

15 hours 4 min

A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale’s most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain—a three-pound wrinkly mass—give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale’s most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain—a three-pound wrinkly mass—give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist
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Invention and Innovation

A Brief History of Hype and Failure

by Vaclav Smil ...

Narrated by Tim Fannon ...

Unabridged

7 hours 56 min

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of invention.Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions ... Read more

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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of invention.Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions
... Read more

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How We Change

(And Ten Reasons Why We Don't)

by Ross Ellenhorn ...

Narrated by Nathan Agin ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by encouraging us to understand and embrace our resistance to it.We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit or negative behavior pattern, we feel a sense of failure when we don’t succeed. This often sets ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by encouraging us to understand and embrace our resistance to it.We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit or negative behavior pattern, we feel a sense of failure when we don’t succeed. This often sets
... Read more

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Noise

A Flaw in Human Judgment

by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

13 hours 28 min

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give
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The Willpower Instinct

How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

by Kelly McGonigal PhD ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 20 min

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The
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