Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge Author: Max Brockman Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 9, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the very latest theories and discoveries in science, editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young researchers.    Future Science features eighteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their work and ideas to a general audience for the first time. Included in this collection are * William McEwan, a virologist, discussing his research into the biology of antiviral immunity * Naomi Eisenberger, a neuroscientist, wondering how social rejection affects us physically * Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist, showing what massive datasets can teach us about society and ourselves * Anthony Aguirre, a physicist, who gives readers a tantalizing glimpse of infinity “Future Science shares with the world a delightful secret that we academics have been keeping—that despite all the hysteria about how electronic media are dumbing down the next generation, a tidal wave of talent has been flooding into science, making their elders feel like the dumb ones. . . . It has a wealth of new and exciting ideas, and will help shake up our notions regarding the age, sex, color, and topic clichés of the current public perception of science.” —Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Author: Matt Ridley Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 18, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven Pinker In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls cultural evolution—will inevitably increase human prosperity. Fans of the works of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) will find much to ponder and enjoy in The Rational Optimist. For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Religion, Myth, and Magic: The Anthropology of Religion Author: Susan Johnston Narrator: Susan Johnston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 30, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Anthropologist Susan Johnston turns a scholarly eye on one of humankind's primary interests throughout history: the spiritual belief system. Beginning her lectures with an attempt to define religion, Professor Johnston continues this intriguing study with an examination of mythology and symbols, rituals and witchcraft, gender, politics, and religion's place in the many customs surrounding death. A continuing and often contentious presence in the world today, religion, from its origins to the present, is a key component for understanding communities and cultures all over the globe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation Author: Chris Turner Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 11, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.71 of Total 7 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Partly Cloudy Patriot Author: Sarah Vowell Narrator: Seth Green, Conan O'brien, Norman Lear, Stephen Colbert, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 38 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot? Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration. The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and We Do): How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives Author: Eric P. Widmaier Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 1, 1999 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Imagine being able to consume 250,000 calories daily without gaining weight. If you had the metabolism of a shrew you could. And while most of us can't hold our breath for more than a few minutes, the Weddell seal can remain underwater for a full 75 minutes! Learn how humans and other creatures have evolved to gauge their need for food, water and oxygen; regulate body temperature and respond to stressful situations.