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Uncertainty, Lags and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent Worl…

In Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Read by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Nick Bostrom


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Catastrophic dehumanization

In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Thomas Homer-Dixon


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Study In Scarlet (version 5)

Read by Robert Dixon


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"A Study in Scarlet" is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from …

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008

In Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

Read by Nick Bostrom


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Showcase: Future Humanity Institute

In Oxford Martin School: Interviews and Commentaries

Read by Nick Bostrom


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Status Quo Bias

In Bio-Ethics Bites

Read by Nick Bostrom


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Read by Nick Duncan


William Blake


The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…

The Children of the New Forest (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Frederick Marryat


The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

Walden, Version 2

Read by Nick Bulka


Henry David Thoreau


Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…

The Sea Wolf - Version 2

Read by Nick Bulka


Jack London


The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collisio…

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3)

Read by Nick Bulka


Jerome K. Jerome


A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are base…

The Warden (version 3)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of E…

Barchester Towers (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…

Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Read by Nick Duncan


William Blake


The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…

Plague of Pythons

Read by Nick Bulka


Frederik Pohl


In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…

Doctor Thorne (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some charac…

The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Read by Nick Bulka


Thomas Jefferson


The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the lat…