Daniel Kahneman. Highly recommended. The biggest surprise is how little we truly know about both and just how much luck was involved that both exist in their present form. There's a problem loading this menu right now. The book does more than just talk about the science it also delves into the personalities involved with the great discoveries and illustrates how some of our greatest discoveries came about through the perseverance of smart people. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2017.

Published by Arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing Group, A Division of Random House, Inc. By: Also, a British narrator is a big plus :) This book is infectious!

The is the one book I wish I could give six stars. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.

Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

I have since lent a copy to many friends, and have yet to have most of them returned. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2017.

I really enjoyed how Bill Bryson, better than most scientists themselves, can put things into language that speaks to real people.

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies, Bill Bryson Collector's Edition: Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. This book was a great listen and aptly named. nearly up. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant.

Richard Dawkins, words that the average person doesn't understand.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017.

In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of … How do we fit within the universe?

Beautifully read by the author. Read this book, it will open new worlds and inlighten old ones. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. Derek Perkins, By: ©2003 Bill Bryson (P)2003 Random House Audiobooks. By: Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains.... By: © Copyright 2011 - 2020 RB Audiobooks USA LLC. finally. Bryson provides that in an extremely entertaining, interesting manner.

The book is less about the history, meaning and amazing potential of human understanding, than it is about the author’s ability to tell entertaining anecdotes.

Science has never been more involving or entertaining. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Orlagh Cassidy,

Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. Gave up after 2 chapters.

There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future.

There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Narrated by: In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail - well, most of it. Both my husband and I loved the educational information.

From the vantage point of the wheelchair, where he has spent the last 20 years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything Audiobook by American-British writer Bill Bryson is a well-known science book that clarifies a few territories of science, utilizing effectively open language that interests more to the overall population than numerous different books committed to the subject. Bryson’s writing is addictive but not at all nourishing, it deadens the mind in a haze of anticipation of “what comes next?”, like a pulp detective novel. I'm sorry for the folks who bought the abridged version of this title. Please type in your email address in order to receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Natural History (Audible Books & Originals), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Matthew Walker. Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise?

In my view this book should replace the free bible on Desert Island Discs! A good book to listen to here and there. Richard Dawkins, Narrated by: All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades.

It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Please try again. I found myself looking forward to getting into the car so I could continue with the story. Thank you Bill for making my morning and evening commutes to and from work so interesting and informative.

Please try again. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home.

And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find.

Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time. By: (AudioFile) "Destined to become a modern classic of science writing."

This book is certainly far better than all of my high school science courses combined (and probably college too).

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