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Science Fictions

How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie ...

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, ... Read more

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An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics,
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Intelligence: All That Matters

by Stuart Ritchie ...

Series series All That Matters
"A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence." Dylan Wiliam, Institute of EducationThe scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the ... Read more

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"A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence." Dylan Wiliam, Institute of EducationThe scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the
... Read more
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Science Fictions

How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie ...

Narrated by Stuart Ritchie ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, ... Read more

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An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics,
... Read more

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Multi-Species Dementia Studies

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

by Ann Madeline Toohey, David B. Hogan, Stuart Woods, Anne Crilly, Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, Richard Milne, Elizabeth Peel, Jennifer Hewson, Jayne Beselt, Damien Riggs, Lorena Sordo, Anne Rankin, Vanessa Ashall, Melanie Rock, Nik Taylor, Fiona L. Henriquez ...

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to ... Read more

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Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to
... Read more
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Lost Souls of Paradise

A Key West Novel

by Ian Ritchie Stewart ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Ashby ...

Unabridged

11 hours 32 min

This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges and on the edge of ... Read more

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This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges and on the edge of
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The Legend of Three I'd Billy

Lost Souls of Paradise, #2

by Ian Ritchie Stewart ...

Series Book 2 - Lost Souls of Paradise
There is a gaping hole in the fabric of society, too wide to stitch closed. We guard our steps and attend our way in the hope that we never slip through. Unfortunately, there are those too blinded by life's traumas to see the unraveling and the slow spiral that beckons their demise. This is the tapestry of life and the thread where heroes are woven into legends. In the mooring fields of Key West, ... Read more

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There is a gaping hole in the fabric of society, too wide to stitch closed. We guard our steps and attend our way in the hope that we never slip through. Unfortunately, there are those too blinded by life's traumas to see the unraveling and the slow spiral that beckons their demise. This is the tapestry of life and the thread where heroes are woven into legends. In the mooring fields of Key West,
... Read more
Lost Souls of Paradise

by Ian Ritchie Stewart ...

This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West Florida where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges, and on the edge of ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West Florida where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges, and on the edge of
... Read more

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The Shape of a Life

One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry

by Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 min

A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this ... Read more

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A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this
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All These Worlds Are Yours

The Scientific Search for Alien Life

by Jon Willis ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, ... Read more

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Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe,
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Losing the Long Game

The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East

by Philip H. Gordon ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents—and how it’s finally time to forge a new path forward.Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade**—**in places as diverse ... Read more

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The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents—and how it’s finally time to forge a new path forward.Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade**—**in places as diverse
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Andrew Johnson

The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

by Annette Gordon-Reed ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from officeAndrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from officeAndrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed
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Brilliant

The Evolution of Artificial Light

by Jane Brox ...

Narrated by Randye Kaye ...

Unabridged

10 hours 15 min

Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn't—through the many centuries ... Read more

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Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn't—through the many centuries
... Read more

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