About Time
For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome
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Month: September 2025
What Evolution Is
At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general listener, What
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The Science Delusion
One of our most brilliant social critics – author of the best-selling The Middle Mind – presents a scathing critique of the
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The Human Age
“Our relationship with nature has changed – radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch
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Hard to Break
The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break – and how evidence-based strategies can help us change
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The Teachings of Don Juan
For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western
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Thomas Paine
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him
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Abraham Lincoln
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the greatest living Civil War historian. In this
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The Allies
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin – the three
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How Do We Look
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history
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