Just in time for summer lounging, we invite you to browse a selection of our audiobooks, brought to you through our publishing program, 91桃色 Audio. Our commitment to quality is central to our audio publishing, and we deliver the finest narration and sound editing as well as a broad distribution network that allows us to reach scholars, students, and engaged listeners everywhere. We invite you to browse our featured titles below, visit our audiobooks page where you can learn more about our audio publishing program and read about featured narrators, or check out our full list of 91桃色 Audio titles.
Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature鈥檚 pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature reveals what researchers are now learning about the medical wonders of the animal world. In this visionary book, Jaap de Roode argues that we have underestimated the healing potential of nature for too long and shows how the study of self-medicating animals could impact the practice of human medicine.
Most of us think we know the story of Bambi鈥�but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers鈥� images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film鈥攁n idealized look at a fawn who represents nature鈥檚 innocence鈥攚hich was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator.
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money鈥攐r work for justice? To run marathons鈥攐r sing in a choir? To have children鈥攐r travel the world? The things we care about in life鈥攆amily, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals鈥攐ften conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don鈥檛 always know what we really want, or how to define success. Blending personal stories, philosophy, and psychology, this insightful and entertaining book offers invaluable advice about living well by understanding your values and resolving the conflicts that frustrate their fulfillment.
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy鈥攁nd from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today鈥檚 fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.
In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope鈥攍ittle studied in economics at present鈥攁s an independent dimension of well-being. Given America鈥檚 current mental health crisis, thrown into stark relief by COVID, hope may be the most important measure of well-being, and researchers are tracking trends in hope as a key factor in understanding the rising numbers of 鈥渄eaths of despair鈥� and premature mortality.
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous Desert shares the stories and sayings of these ancient spiritual seekers, tracing how the ambient sounds of wind, thunder, water, and animals shaped the emergence and development of early Christian monasticism.
Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.
Drawing on Ghaziani鈥檚 immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body鈥檚 buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth鈥檚 pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity鈥檚 irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein鈥檚 general theory of relativity. In The Beauty of Falling, de Rham shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. Her life鈥檚 pursuit led her from a twist of fate that snatched away her dream of becoming an astronaut to an exhilarating breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational physics.
Today鈥檚 world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically.
It鈥檚 hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now.
In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn鈥檛, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil鈥攑roducts that don鈥檛 work, and probably never will. The audiobook comes with a bonus track featuring an illuminating discussion by the authors.
When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America鈥檚 strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times鈥攆rom poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation鈥檚 uniquely disastrous health care system鈥攁nd narrates Deaton鈥檚 own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.