James Poskett
JAMES POSKETT is Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick. He has written for the Guardian, Nature, and BBC History Magazine, among other publications, and was shortlisted for the BBC New Generation Thinker Award and won the Newcomer of the Year Award from the Association of British Science Writers. He lives in Warwickshire, England.
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Horizons
- By: James Poskett
- Narrator: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.
When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember... Read more
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Civil Disobedience and The Liberator
Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau’s arguments for civil disobedience: the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau’s concept is based on the belief that no law should command blind obedience and that non-cooperation with unjust laws is both morally correct and socially beneficial.
The Liberator was a leading voice for abolitionism in the nineteenth century. ...
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Spliced
Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what’s about to happen to her best friend, Del. Del is obsessed with becoming a chimera: a person who pays back-alley geneticists, known as “genies,” to illegally splice animal genes into their own. The resulting physical changes have scared lawmakers into drafting legislation declaring chimeras officially ...
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Born of Defiance
Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be.But when his companion’s brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own beliefs of justice and ...
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Sales Management That Works
In this practical and research-based guide for sales managers, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes offers essential strategies for thriving in an industry that never stops changing.The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there’s no doubt that sales is changing. But much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by ...
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Holy Wild
Can God be trusted? Canadian pastor and author Buchanan (Things Unseen; Your God Is Too Safe) argues yes in this hard-hitting evangelical book, which brandishes vivid imagery and biblical truth. Writing in colorful, expressive terms, Buchanan engages readers’ hearts and attention as he challenges them to trust in three divine attributes: God’s benevolent nature, his saving nature and his ...
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The Diet Fix
With The Diet Fix, weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff offers a groundbreaking, useable guide to begin living happily while losing weight permanently.
It is time to break the cycle of traumatic dieting. Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can we fix the way we lose weight so that we make results ...
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Perelandra
Perelandra, la segunda novela de la trilogia de ciencia ficcion de Lewis, narra el viaje del Dr. Ransom al planeta paradisiaco de Perelandra, o Venus, que resulta ser un hermoso mundo parecido al Eden. Se horroriza al descubrir que su viejo enemigo, el Dr. Weston, tambien ha llegado y lo pone en grave peligro una vez mas. Mientras el cuerpo del loco Weston es tomado por las fuerzas del mal, ...
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Adventures in Biblical Thinking-Study Series-Volume Two
collection of studies of Biblical concepts and principles. These studies have appeared as studies in my audiobooks. Most of my audiobooks contained several individual topical studies. My goal in creating the Biblical Thinking Study Series was gather the many topical studies in three larger volumes. Volume One contains twenty-two short- length studies. Volume Two contains thirteen medium-length ...
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Bring the Noise
JA 1/4Klopp’s coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 05, whom he steered to the Bundesliga for the first time in forty-one years. In 2008, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he achieved back-to-back league titles and took the club to the UEFA Champions League final. He left Germany for one of the England’s most challenging jobs: to manage ...
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant, a poor boy who worked in a cotton mill, a man who amassed a great fortune as a steel baron and then became one of the most generous and influential philanthropists the world has ever known. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired philanthropists and philanthropic enterprises for generations. During his own lifetime, he put his ideas ...
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