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How to Find a Higgs Boson
- And Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
- By: Ivo van Vulpen, David McKay - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired.
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How to Find a Higgs Boson
- And Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: English
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Escape from Earth
- A Secret History of the Space Rocket
- By: Fraser MacDonald
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Escape from Earth is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket. It's a wild ride.
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not much info about rockets
- By Anonymous on 20-09-19
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Escape from Earth
- A Secret History of the Space Rocket
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- By: Tom Bethell
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a 19th-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory. Bethell's account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era's leading scientists and thinkers.
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A great trove of quotes
- By Pink Pearl on 20-08-21
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- By: Stephen M. Sagar MD
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology. Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns.
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- By: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Like F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, "remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-02-16
- Language: English
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
- By: George Johnson
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply. Johnson takes us to...
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-08-08
- Language: English
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- By: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Land of Wondrous Cold
- The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
- By: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering 19th-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.
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Land of Wondrous Cold
- The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- By: Jay Ingram
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall? Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he's here to put our scientific quandaries to rest.
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The Science of Why
- Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
- Narrated by: Jay Ingram
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in...
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Interesting subject... horribly boring book...
- By Amazon Customer on 07-05-20
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 16-03-06
- Language: English
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The Triassic Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. The Triassic Period: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs looks at the development of the era, the extinction events that preceded it, and how dinosaurs began to evolve in the Late Triassic. You will learn about the Triassic Period like never before.
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An interesting overview
- By Jim outa Liverpool on 26-05-22
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The Triassic Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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Temps et espace. De l'antiquité à nos jours
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Une histoire des notions d'espace et de temps. Des visions du cosmos dans la Grèce ancienne aux théories récentes sur la gravité quantique, Carlo Rovelli explore les métamorphoses de la notion d'espace et de temps. Une approche lumineuse de l'histoire des sciences par le biais de ces " coordonnées fondamentales de notre description du monde ". L'espace et le temps dans la physique contemporaine.
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Temps et espace. De l'antiquité à nos jours
- Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-01-24
- Language: French
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Meet the Neighbors
- Life on Mars and How to Find It
- By: Steven A. Benner
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The search for life in the Universe is one of the biggest questions for humanity. In this explosive book, Steven Benner argues we've been looking in the wrong place. In 1976, NASA landed two Viking missions on Mars specifically tasked with looking for current (or...
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Meet the Neighbors
- Life on Mars and How to Find It
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 23-07-26
- Language: English
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A Universe of Earths
- Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA
- By: Dennis Danielson, Christopher M. Graney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo...
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A Universe of Earths
- Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Shores of Knowledge
- New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
- By: Joyce Appleby
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World’s people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation.
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Shores of Knowledge
- New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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Look Up
- Our story with the stars
- By: Sarah Cruddas, Michael Collins - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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‘Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.’ Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever existed, fewer than 600 humans have ever...
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Inspirational
- By M Henderson on 19-09-20
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Look Up
- Our story with the stars
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote in a letter to philosopher Robert Hooke, "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." By the time he died, Newton had become science's greatest giant, and every scientist who has followed him has stood on his shoulders. Newton is widely considered the most influential scientist in history, best known for the discovery of gravity and the subsequent laws of motion that he theorized.
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-06-15
- Language: English
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Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction
- A Journey to the Birthplace of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
- By: Roy Chester
- Narrated by: Bill Weideman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Over the past few years, devastating tsunamis off the coast of the Indian Ocean have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Even more alarmingly, scientists predict that these tsunamis, as well as a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, will be striking with even greater frequency and may eventually threaten Hawaii, California, and Oregon.
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Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction
- A Journey to the Birthplace of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
- Narrated by: Bill Weideman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-07-08
- Language: English
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- By: John Dvorak
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- By: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. Part II focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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