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  • The Catalyst

    RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

    by Thomas R. Cech ...
    **Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist unveils the RNA age."Lively and entertaining.…Biology will never be the same." —Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street JournalAn Economist Best Book of the Year**For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Catalyst

    RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

    by Thomas R. Cech ...
    Narrated by Joshua Saxon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaking discoveries, the biochemist Thomas R. Cech and a diverse cast of brilliant scientists have revealed that RNA—long overlooked as the passive servant of DNA—sits at the center of biology's greatest ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Infectious Forest Diseases

    by J Stenlid, Robert Edmonds, Lilja Arija, Helen Griffiths, Robert Mathiasen, Naoto Kamata, Jean Guillaumin, Kathy Lewis, Caroline Mohammed, Rimvydas Vasaitis, Thomas Harrington, Thomas Kirisits, William Otrosina, Bernard Slippers, Daniel Rigling, Marieka Gryzenhout, Roberto Danti, Thomas Cech, Michael Ostry, Paolo Capretti, Rosie Bradshaw, Tadeusz Kowalski, Matteo Garbelotto, Richard Hamelin, Michael Wingfield, Libor Jankovský ...
    Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches. A comprehensive range of diseases caused by ... Read more

    $251.89 USD

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    Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    by Elizabeth Margulis ...
    Narrated by Holly Adams ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    A revelatory work—grounded in the author's own pathbreaking research—that explores the capacity for meaning-making and connection through "musical daydreams."We've all had the experience: a song comes on, and suddenly we're not where we were. We're back in the past, or living out a future that never happened, or imagining a scene that never existed. In Transported, Elizabeth Margulis explores the ... Read more

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  • Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    by Elizabeth Margulis ...
    **A Wall Street Journal Best Book To ReadA song comes on—and suddenly, you’re somewhere else.**Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds.In Transported, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

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    Alien Oceans

    The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

    by Kevin Hand ...
    Narrated by Kevin Hand ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    This audiobook narrated by pioneering NASA scientist Kevin Peter Hand takes you inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may ... Read more

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    Beyond Inheritance

    Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

    by Roxanne Khamsi ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Khamsi ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    **“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Beyond Inheritance

    Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

    by Roxanne Khamsi ...
    **“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Almighty Dollar

    500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

    by Brendan Greeley ...
    Narrated by Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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    Churn

    The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

    by Claude M. Steele ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    With Malcolm Gladwell–like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multifaceted democracy and how to minimize their corrosive effects in everyday life.A pioneer of social psychology, Claude M. Steele is renowned for Whistling Vivaldi, a runaway bestseller that analyzed societal stereotypes—from beliefs about racial and gender test score gaps to the athletic prowess of ... Read more

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    Why Do We Exist?

    The Nine Realms of Universe that Make You Possible

    by Hakeem Oluseyi ...
    Narrated by Hakeem Oluseyi ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 16 min

    A boundary-breaking astrophysicist reimagines the universe—and our place within it—in this audacious journey through the Nine Realms of the cosmos.The universe gave rise to everything: stars and cells, minds and memories, purpose and pain. But it doesn’t care about us. It follows its own rules. And now, according to Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, we finally understand enough about those rules to ask the big ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    The Conscious Mind

    by Zoltan Torey ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 32 min

    How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind. Drawing ... Read more

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