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Pseudoscience

An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...

A visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science from the authors of Quackery**.**From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of ... Read more

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A visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science from the authors of Quackery**.**From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of
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Patient Zero

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular ... Read more

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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular
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Quackery

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen ...

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, ... Read more

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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor,
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Quackery

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

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10 hours 29 min

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, ... Read more

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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor,
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Pseudoscience

An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

9 hours 51 min

A visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science from the authors of Quackery**.**From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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A visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science from the authors of Quackery**.**From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of
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Patient Zero

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

14 hours 17 min

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular
... Read more

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Blood Memory

The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American BuffaloThe American buffalo—our nation's official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors ... Read more

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The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American BuffaloThe American buffalo—our nation's official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors
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The Power of Life

The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

by Jessica Riskin ...

Narrated by Ellen Adair ...

Unabridged

13 hours 40 min

**A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world**In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first ... Read more

$36.00 CAD

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**A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world**In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first
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The Fate of the World

A history and future of the climate crisis

by Bill McGuire ...

Narrated by Kaffe Keating ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.A warning and a rallying-cry.'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris PackhamA global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions — and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why.< ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.A warning and a rallying-cry.'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris PackhamA global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions — and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why.<
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Economica

A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power

by Victoria Bateman ...

Narrated by Victoria Bateman ...

Unabridged

17 hours 23 min

In a book that “sets a new standard in economic history” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world richHow many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until very recently, there were none at all.But what ... Read more

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In a book that “sets a new standard in economic history” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world richHow many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until very recently, there were none at all.But what
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What We Knew

Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband ...

Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of ... Read more

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An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of
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The Call of the Honeyguide

What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life

by Rob Dunn ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

11 hours 34 min

How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankindIn the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species’ past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human presence, but to call attention to herself. Having found a beehive, that bird—a honeyguide—sought human aid to break in. The behavior can seem almost ... Read more

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How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankindIn the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species’ past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human presence, but to call attention to herself. Having found a beehive, that bird—a honeyguide—sought human aid to break in. The behavior can seem almost
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