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The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Norman Doidge
• Narrated By Jim Bond
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In this revolutionary look at the brain, best-selling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they've transformed.

Introducing principles we can all use, as well as a riveting collection of case histories, The Brain That Changes Itself has "implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history."

The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Alison Weir
• Narrated By Rosalyn Landor
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Best-selling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England's most intriguing and powerful queen. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time - whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.

East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Susan Butler
• Narrated By Anna Fields
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The image we have of Amelia Earhart today - a tousle-haired, androgynous flier clad in shirt, silk scarf, leather jacket, and goggles - is only one of her many personas, most of which have been lost to us through the years. Through years of research and interviews with many of the surviving people who knew Amelia, Susan Butler has recreated a remarkably vivid and multifaceted portrait of this enigmatic figure.

The Modern Scholar: Behold the Mighty Dinosaur

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 19 mins)
• By John Kricher

Before their extinction, dinosaurs dominated Earth's terrestrial habitats for about 160 million years. They present the ultimate puzzle in forensic science, but we have learned a great deal about them in the last 50 years. This lecture series will explain the evolutionary and ecological relationships among dinosaurs, what it might have been like to be present in their time, and the question of what ultimately brought about the total extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Adam Leith Gollner
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye

Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal - fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of the earth's most desired foods.

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 1 min)
• By Sean B. Carroll
• Narrated By Patrick Lawlor
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DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed: it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is a living chronicle of how the marvelous creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest.

The Demon Under The Microscope

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Thomas Hager
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic medication. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By George Guidall
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.

A Life Decoded: My Genome - My Life

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 54 mins)
• By J. Craig Venter
• Narrated By Dick Hill

Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the Navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing his advanced degrees, Venter quickly established himself as a brilliant and outspoken scientist.