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Title: Cancer: Bolinda Beginner Guides

Author: Paul Scotting

Narrator: Kelly Birch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world, but few of us understand how it works or how we treat it. In this illuminating introductory audiobook, Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores why some of us are more likely to develop it than others. Arguing that we're in a new age of understanding that will revolutionise the fight against cancer, Scotting discusses cutting-edge developments and maps out the promising future strategies for its prevention, treatment, and cure.

Editorial Reviews:

Cancer is a harsh reality that most people, either directly or indirectly, have to deal with at some point throughout the course of their lives, and it is largely perceived as a sinister force that arbitrarily invades and wreaks havoc on the body. Kelly Birchs entrancing, gentle delivery assuages any trepidation one may have in learning more about this mysterious disease in her reading of Paul Scottings primer, which provides a bottom-up deep-dive into the biological foundation of cancer, debunks the myths surrounding it, and touts the advancements made in treating it in this accessible and informative audiobook.

Members Reviews:

This is ice knowledge to share in an audible form.

This is an audio presentation of knowledge that needs distributed so that good ideas from everywhere can be contributed. The presentation was plain and at points hard to understand because of a beautiful accent without accessible enunciation. Call this audiobook a fine version one and continue to improve organically how it's done.

awesome educational lesson

this is a great beginner's guide to learning about cancer and it even takes you a little bit beyond and into the science and DNA and what's coming.

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Title: Children of Prometheus

Subtitle: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution

Author: Christopher Wills

Narrator: Richard Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Christopher Wills is Professor of Biology at the University of California. In his popular books, which include Yellow Fever, Black Goddess, he offers fascinating insights into the world of biological science and how it affects our daily lives. Children of Prometheus answers three basic but intriguing questions: Are we still evolving? If so, how? What are we evolving into? As Wills traces the many forms of natural selection in Part I, he considers examples ranging from Sherpas to British civil servants. Part II examines the stormy evolutionary history that moved us beyond chimpanzees and gorillas. The final section looks ahead to the sorts of diversity the future holds for our species as we live longer and challenge our minds and bodies in new ways. Clearly written, touched with humor, and soundly reasoned, Children of Prometheus will delight anyone who is curious about who we are and where we are going. Narrator Richard M. Davidsons lucid performance complements Christopher Wills accessible work and its provocative conclusion.

Members Reviews:

I had higher hopes than this book delivered.

As an evolutionary biologist working on insects, I had turned to this book to help fill in some gaps in my conceptualization of how evolution and selection may be affecting humans today. But while I don't think this book is poorly written or of no merit, I had a hard time getting much from it. In fact, I got more from the review of the anthropological research regarding fossil discoveries than from any of Will's attempts at synthesis.

For me, the biggest flaw of the book is a lack of a true vision of what "evolution" actually MEANS in this context. As obvious or as simple as it sounds, there is never much discussion of this fundamentally key issue. Instead, examples and speculation are given that the gene pool of Homo sapiens is changing, and allele frequencies of many genes are undoubtedly different than they were millenia ago. It takes a whole book to make this one point, yet from there, the only synthesis Will can make is that because allele frequencies are changing, therefore selection MUST be acting on them. Mostly speculative with little in the way of support, his treatment of an interesting topic just falls short. In other words, it's all bun and no burger. It may still be worth reading, as it is written very clearly and without the pitfalls of scientific jargon...making it a brief read. But I think you could do much better than to use this as your source for intellectual inquiry...I'm going to look around from something better.

A complex and rewarding look at the state of human evolution

Christopher Wills puts to rest a common belief that humans, having mastered their environment, have brought their own evolution to a standstill, now exempted from the pressures of natural selection. Humans, through their manipulation of the environment both deliberate and unintended, have actually increased the pace of evolution, both their own and that of other animals. Wills brings the professional knowledge of population genetics to this subject to write a popular science book which will challenge the reader far more than many other popular science books.

He fills the beginning of the book with many insightful examples which hold the attention and educate the reader.

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Title: Investigating the Human Genome

Subtitle: Insights into Human Variation and Disease Susceptibility

Author: Moyra Smith

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Leading medical genetics scholar Moyra Smith reviews current prospects and progress in medical genetics and genomics, arising from the growth of gene mapping and human genome sequencing. She addresses recent investigations into human origins, migrations, and diversity; psychiatric diseases; Alzheimer's, Parkinsonism, and ALS; protein misfolding; gene-environment interactions; mRNA; epigenetics; and much more.

Members Reviews:

Written for Experts in Human Genomics

I expected this book to be aimed at the scientifically aware public, but instead this book seems to be written for genomics researchers. People without training in molecular biology will find this book difficult to understand.

Unfortunately, this book is not very good even for genomics researchers. Although the information is up to date, it is presented without much organization, background, or context, and the author makes heavy use of scientific jargon without much explanation.

The narrator, Karen White, tries hard, but her delivery is halting, she mispronounces some words (e.g., kilobase, polymerase, etiology), and she sounds as if she doesn't understand what she's reading.

Terminologies and not enough explanation

I would like to know the author's target audience. It feels like the author is throwing research paper abstracts at readers. Normally, that's the beginning of a book. Then explanations would follow. Author did not appear to have interviewed anyone to create this book. I would recommend the author to check out nessa Carey's 'epigenetic revolution'. Here is a great example for readers who would like to learn and not a total scientific novice. there were lots of terms but the concept were explained very well. If I haven't read her book, I would have no idea what you are talking about related to epigenetic. She explained what is imprinting. Explained with how experiment were done to prove the point. Unfortunately your book only mentioned the fact or the results. Lots of paragraphs just says ' xxx et al, demonstrated this and that'. This is really not the most interesting or explanatory about a topic.

Rather disappointed about this book. The topic is so interesting in itself

Your book is too clinical to layman and yet it is not in depth enough as a text book. I hope you can produce a better book next time with these in mind perhaps.

How about listening to et. al. all the time

Funnily enough, I have opted to read (listen?) the audio version of this book drung my long drives. It is a resource of anecdotal evidence rather than a "popular science book" (it is funny to hear et. al. all the time -- the audio book producer and the reader must be dumb -- in the audio version ingenuity is to convert the claptrap on the paper version to a storey). 10% of the book is readable/listenable, rest are probably useful as a reference list (to look up when physically turning the pages of the book). It does update you though.

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Title: Future Science

Subtitle: Essays from the Cutting Edge

Author: Max Brockman

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-11

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Editor Max Brockman introduces the work of some of todays brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating and exciting collection of writings that describe the very boundaries of our knowledge.

Future Science features nineteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience for the first time. Featured 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; and Anthony Aguirre, a physicist, who gives readers a tantalizing glimpse of infinity.

Critic Reviews:

I would have killed for books like this when I was a student! (Brian Eno, Musician, Producer, U2, Cold Play, Paul Simon)

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, Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Better Angels of Our Nature)

This remarkable collection of fluent and fascinating essays reminds me that there is almost nothing as spine-tinglingly exciting as glimpsing a new nugget of knowledge for the first time. These young scientists give us a treasure trove of precious new insights. (Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen and Rational Optimism)

Members Reviews:

Cutting Edge Research for the General Reader

Max Brockman in Future Science provides essays by a number of cutting edge researchers about their work. Some of the essays will thrill, some will raise questions, some will disturb and others will spur the reader to read even further. The essays are readily available to the general reader and actually read as though they were edited by a single person to the readers benefit. In this volume Kevin Hand writes about ocean exploration, Felix Warneken the origins of human altruism, William McEwan DNA, and Jon Kleinberg reveals what data sets can teach us about society and ourselves. Others follow a similar path and there is something for every taste. Each essay is read by a different narrator corresponding to the gender of the writer. Each is very good.

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Title: The Emperor of All Maladies

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2011

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011

A comprehensive history of cancer one of the greatest enemies of medical progress and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness.

In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years.

The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.

From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteenth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjees own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.

Riveting and magisterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic exiting scientific story telling

Would you consider the audio edition of The Emperor of All Maladies to be better than the print version?

Possibly but I think both versions has value. I use the audioversion in my car spending 2 hours on tranport from home to work. Some of the more philosofistic quotes i would like to read and grasp by seeing the text not meerely hearing the words.

What did you like best about this story?

The story about cancer is told in a very passionate way building drama in the story so you cannot wait to hear the end of that drama. The scientific data is transformed to personalized stories that we can identify us with. Very exiting and well told stories that hold the red thread.

Which character as performed by Stephen Hoye was your favorite?

All characters were well perfomed and escribed as collaborate workers in the scioentific community. The story of the cancer mascot Jimmy and the raise of the Jimmy foundation was very well described.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Many chapters moved me - the efforts and strengh in these deeply commited doctors and workers in the battlefield against cancer. The way of thinking and the changes in the way of thinking.

So many people took a stand so many used their lives in the battle against diseases - so very well written and told.

Any additional comments?

I am not native english spoken but live in Denmark as a medical oncologist.I can so closely identify the struggle described in the book.

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Title: Waiting for Aphrodite

Subtitle: Journeys into the Time before Bones

Author: Sue Hubbell

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

After 25 years on a farm in the Ozarks, award-winning writer and naturalist Sue Hubbell moved to a small town on the coast of Maine. There, in the pools, tides, and thickets, she found a vast array of creatures that aroused her considerable curiosity. Join Hubbell on a unique tour of the world of invertebrates. From humpbacked camel crickets to glow worms, from horseshoe crabs to elegantly-furred sea mice, Hubbell offers vivid descriptions and fascinating details about these superb examples of survival. She also introduces some experts in the fieldscientists who share their enthusiasm and knowledge. Waiting for Aphrodite grew from hours of field observation and reflects the days Hubbell spent at the Library of Congress augmenting her information. Entertaining for layman and scientist alike, it is both warmly personal and carefully researched.

Members Reviews:

Personal Invertebrate Zoology

This is a very easy to read and an enjoyable light wondering over the life and loves of a bunch of invertebrates. This book opens jars and cans of slugs and bugs to answer simple questions about the invertebrates we know, if not love. This was a pleasurable and edifying romp through a subject I dont very well. The book is not very technical and just looks into questions that come up while looking at invertebrates. I will certainly listen to the other books by Sue Hubble available on audible.

Love of smaller majority

Hubbel tells about invertebrates inspiringly One can really feel her enthusiasm and love of knowledge between lines. She can tell about these fascinating creatures very clearly and yet offers lots of information ; even I - biologist interested in invertebrates - found many morsels of information new to me.

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Title: Dolphin Mysteries

Subtitle: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication

Author: Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Toni Frohoff

Narrator: Kym Dakin-Neal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-10

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling book, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins' aquatic world to witness firsthand how they live their lives, communicate, and interact with one another and with other species, including people.

Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff are scientists who have collectively dedicated more than 40 years to studying dolphins below the ocean's surface, frequently through a close-up underwater lens. Drawing on their own experiences and on up-to-the-minute research, the authors show that dolphins are decidedly not just members of a group but distinct individuals, able to communicate with one another and with humans. Dudzinski and Frohoff introduce a new way of looking at, and listening to, the vocabulary of dolphins in the sea, and they even provide an introductory "dolphin dictionary", listing complex social signals that dolphins use to share information among themselves and with people. Unveiling an intimate and scientifically accurate portrait of dolphins, this book will appeal to everyone who has wanted a closer glimpse into the hearts and minds of these amazing creatures. The book is published by Yale University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"A fascinating journey into the complex social, emotional, and cognitive world of dolphins. Everyone who is interested in animal behavior should read this wonderful book." (Temple Grandin, Ph.D., author of Animals in Translation)

Members Reviews:

A great introduction to dolphin behavior

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about these mysterious mammals. It delves into topics of dolphin biology, behavior, communication, interaction with humans, and public perception.

As an audiobook, it's occasionally hard to follow. There is a lot of information to absorb, and the narrator speeds along at a relentless clip. Also, the printed edition of the book has many photos and drawings which are missed here.

But aside from those minor drawbacks, this is a fascinating and thorough introduction to dolphins, which proves that the more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know. And if you're interested in learning still more, I highly recommend you seek out the printed book.

Great book narration mechanical

Fantastic book full of facts and fascinating subject matter. Narration though sounded like a sat nav very mechanical and robotic

Thoroughly Enlightening, a great book:-)

Well read, so full of information, I intend to get the hardcopy aswell, a fascinating insight into the lives and skills of Cetaceans.

Essential reading. Not just once, but many times. Thrilled to have found it on audio, def want the book or kindle download.

So well written it doesn't conflict with existing information available, it confirms knowledge in depth. I am a Cetacean defender, so to be fair, it might not be everyones ideal read as it is a reference book, but if you love and care for Dolphins it's worth trying to fully understand them.

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Title: The Genial Gene

Subtitle: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Author: Joan Roughgarden

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-10

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universial sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution.

Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of new-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.

This book is published by University of California Press.

Critic Reviews:

"Roughgarden's new theory is likely to end up an important extension to existing thought." (New Scientist)

"This may be the most important book, philosophically speaking, on evolutionary theory in a decade. If Roughgarden is right, males and females evolved as allies, not enemies, and evolutionary theory needs a rethink because competition evolves in a cooperative world, not the other way around." (James Griesemer, President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology)

Members Reviews:

Great for biologists, ecologists, and evolutionary

...theorists.

Joan take a great approach at examining and dismantlement some of the main dogma of evolutionary biological theory. Unlike many people who challenge the accepted norms in biology her arguments are direct, to the point, and backed up with a lot of empirical research which is also explained in the book. Also unlike many, she presents an alternative hypothesis to those theories that she discredits, also back up with empirical studies detailed in the book.

Great book. Looses a little bit in audio format as you cant have diagrams, but a great lessen nonetheless!

Not for audio

There is nothing wrong with the book or the reading, really. This just isn't really one of those books that translates well to audio. At least not for the lay-reader.

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Title: Water: The Past, Present, and Future of our Most Precious Resource

Subtitle: Panel 1081

Author: Michael Hiltzik, Jenny Price, Steve Solomon, D.J. Waldie

Narrator: Thomas Curwen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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Title: What's Eating You?

Subtitle: People and Parasites

Author: Eugene H. Kaplan

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 119 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:

In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite.

Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally acquiring parasites in his gut. Here, he leads listeners on an unforgettable journey into the bizarre yet oddly beautiful world of parasites.

In a narrative that is by turns frightening, disgusting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Kaplan describes how drinking contaminated water can cause a three-foot-long worm to burst from your arm; how he "gave birth" to a parasite the size and thickness of a pencil while working in Israel; why you should never wave a dead snake in front of your privates; and why fleas are attracted to his wife.

Kaplan tells stories about leeches feasting on soldiers in Vietnam; sea cucumbers with teeth in their anuses that seem to encourage the entry of symbiotic fish; the habits of parasites that cause dysentery, river blindness, and other horrifying diseases--and much, much more. Along the way, he explains the underlying science, including parasite evolution and host-parasite physiology.

Informative, frequently lurid, and hugely entertaining, this audiobook is a must-listen for health-conscious travelers and anyone who has ever wondered if they picked up a tapeworm from that last sushi dinner.

Members Reviews:

Squirm-inducing, horribly fascinating stories

This book made me shudder, cringe, and occasionally laugh out loud at some of the anecdotes related by Professor Kaplan.

Definitely not a book for the squeamish--I have a fairly high tolerance for gore and ick, as some of my other non-fiction selections will testify, but some of the anecdotes in this book really pushed my limits. Now, I never want to visit Africa or South America, and I haven't been able to face raw sushi for a couple of weeks now! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

So, in short, this book delivers exactly what it promises--hair-raising and stomach-turning details of various parasites, but it's definitely not a comfortable read. For the strong of heart--and stomach.

Entertaining Book on an Interesting Subject

Dr. Kaplan does an excellent job of communicating his passion for this subject. You can tell he just loves talking about parasites. Though he is obviously trying to write a book to make the reader smile and even laugh, he doesn't skimp on hard information. If I were forced to find one shortcoming in the book it would be the author's emphasis on the "ick factor" inherent in the subject, and the only reason I object to that is that as a biology geek my own "ick factor" tolerance is extremely high, so his attempts to entertain by the "gross out" often falls flat for me. However I realize that many of his readers, particularly young ones, this would be a plus. The narrator also does a great job of communicating the author's enthusiasm.

style a bit odd, but a worthwhile read

What made the experience of listening to What's Eating You? the most enjoyable?

The book gave a good overview of the kinds of parasites that are out there ready to feast on those who do not take them seriously.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The author.