Best Sellers
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,379
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,242
How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book for those new to astrophysics.
- By TMort on 06-07-17
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,092
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,011
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,976
Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; Perfect for Adult ADHD
- By Sean on 05-13-04
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Cosmos
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,020
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,755
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,745
Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over-acting voice actors
- By Seph on 11-09-17
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Inexplicable Space
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Scientists have made astounding progress in their grasp of the universe. But what remains to be understood....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great short lecture
- By Emily on 03-29-18
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,379
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,242
How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book for those new to astrophysics.
- By TMort on 06-07-17
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,092
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,011
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,976
Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; Perfect for Adult ADHD
- By Sean on 05-13-04
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Cosmos
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,020
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,755
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,745
Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over-acting voice actors
- By Seph on 11-09-17
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Inexplicable Space
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Scientists have made astounding progress in their grasp of the universe. But what remains to be understood....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great short lecture
- By Emily on 03-29-18
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The Big Picture
- On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,495
Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Keeping this on REPEAT for months to come
- By Chris Akers on 06-10-16
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Understanding Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo
- By: Steven Pollock
- Narrated by: Steven Pollock
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Speculations on Earth's place in the universe, the nature of planets, and the structure of the solar system were at the heart of the development of classical physics....
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The Future of Humanity
- Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 309
The number-one best-selling author of The Future of the Mind offers a stunning vision of man's future in space....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A lot of the same stuff
- By Nikoly on 03-20-18
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 885
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 807
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 801
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between myth and science....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Carl Sagan is Astounding!
- By M. Nobles on 11-28-17
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- By: The Great Courses, Richard Wolfson
- Narrated by: Professor Richard Wolfson Ph.D. Dartmouth College
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,781
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,460
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,405
"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these twenty-four lectures....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great primer for hard SF fans and physics laymen
- By David on 01-05-15
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How Do We Know What's Out There?
- By: Steven L. Goldman
- Narrated by: Steven L. Goldman
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
This lecture spotlights the fascinating variety of instruments that have unveiled the universe in the course of the 20th century....
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 572
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 570
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Bryan Webb on 05-06-17
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 462
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio Quality Choices
- By JR on 05-30-17
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You Are the Universe
- Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
- By: Deepak Chopra MD, Menas C. Kafatos PhD
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 298
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4 out of 5 stars 262
New York Times best-selling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Add this one to your list of must listens.
- By Richard McClelland on 03-09-17
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The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
- Why Are We Here?
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence Krauss
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,228
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116
Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful read/listen.
- By Albert Sjoberg (PA) on 04-04-17
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A Briefer History of Time
- By: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 882
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 366
This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time: its author's wish to make its content more accessible to readers, as well as to bring it up-to-date....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stick with the original: A brief history of time
- By David Parks on 07-08-08
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 22 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,228
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,079
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,073
This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The classic chronicle of the Apollo era
- By C. Ubik on 10-31-15
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Origins
- Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,682
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,513
Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliance!
- By Max on 06-21-15
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My Favorite Universe
- By: The Great Courses, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,999
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,813
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,805
Explore how black holes are formed, how asteroids move through space, why the odds seem overwhelmingly in favor of extraterrestrial life, and much more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's Your Universe, Too!
- By Kathy on 11-21-17
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Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- By: Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Loved it.
- By Quidne IT on 10-11-17
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The Origin and Evolution of Earth
- From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
- By: The Great Courses, Robert M. Hazen Ph.D. Harvard University
- Narrated by: Professor Robert M. Hazen Ph.D. Harvard University
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 676
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 602
This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly Fantastic
- By Blokoe_Geo on 05-01-14
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Warped Passages
- Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- By: Lisa Randall
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familiar three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours....
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams, says: The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the quest for beauty in all things....
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Death by Black Hole
- And Other Cosmic Quandaries
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,174
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for explaining the mysteries of space with stunning clarity. This collection of his essays from Natural History magazine explores a myriad of cosmic topics....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for an introduction to space and astronomy
- By Charles on 10-01-08
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Rocket Men
- The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 484
A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind....
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4 out of 5 stars
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There's always more to learn
- By S. Perry on 08-30-09
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Quantum
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- By: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Run of the Mill QM Primer
- By Michael on 05-02-17
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What Einstein Got Wrong
- By: The Great Courses, Dan Hooper
- Narrated by: Professor Dan Hooper Ph.D.
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
These 12 half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong....
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5 out of 5 stars
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About More Than Just His Mistakes
- By Timothy D. Sowell on 12-22-17
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Forces of Nature
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking audiobook accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complicated in its simplicity
- By Philomath on 06-13-17
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The Universe in a Nutshell
- By: Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 849
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 376
One of the most influential thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational and yet fun.
- By Adam on 02-07-05
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The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
- By: The Great Courses, Joshua N. Winn
- Narrated by: Professor Joshua N. Winn
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 490
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 481
As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galaxy....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun across the universe
- By Mark on 01-08-16
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The Hidden Reality
- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 823
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Greene is a great writer, but not a great reader
- By Michael Carrato on 06-18-11
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Visionary Activist Astrology
- Become a Secret Agent for Transformation
- By: Caroline W. Casey
- Narrated by: Caroline W. Casey
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story5 out of 5 stars 170
Visionary Activist Astrology escorts you through the mists of time to our own century, when science has verified what ancient people knew instinctively....
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was really good!!
- By Mark on 12-09-15
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- By: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 716
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 623
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Story4 out of 5 stars 616
In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes minerals interesting
- By Gary on 07-31-12
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- By: The Great Courses, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,005
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,956
Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable....
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4 out of 5 stars
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"The Universe is in us!"
- By Kristi Richardson on 01-05-15
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The Sky Below
- A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed
- By: Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory
- Narrated by: Scott Parazynski, Homer Hickam
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life of a modern explorer
- By Robert Cummer on 10-30-17
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The Source Field Investigations
- The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies
- By: David Wilcock
- Narrated by: David Wilcock
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 725
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 722
A stunning synthesis of hidden science and lost prophecies, The Source Field Investigations exposes many great secrets...
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5 out of 5 stars
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The science behind Fringe
- By Jay on 08-25-13
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The Case for Mars
- The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
- By: Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner, Arthur C. Clarke - Foreword
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream - the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- By Michael D. Busch on 04-16-18
New Releases
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The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness
- By: Michael Brein, Rosemary Ellen Guiley
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Are aliens among us? Take a trip straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth! Here are more than 40 true eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, that describe in detail personal encounters with alien beings and their craft. The stories come from all over the world and from witnesses in all walks of life - people just like you. Every story is analyzed by a commentary that explores our involvement with alien beings - and why.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of boring. It was hard to stay focused.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-18
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A Journey Through the Universe
- A Traveler's Guide from the Centre of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A Journey Through the Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. There's a whole universe out there.... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty.
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses
- By: Anthony Aveni
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the first humans looked up and saw the sun swallowed by darkness, our species has been captivated by solar eclipses. Astronomer and anthropologist Anthony Aveni explains the history and culture surrounding solar eclipses, from prehistoric Stonehenge to Babylonian creation myths, to a confirmation of Einstein's theory of general relativity, to a spectacle that left New Yorkers in the moon's shadow, to future eclipses that will capture human imaginations.
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things." (Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams)
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Catching Stardust
- Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
- By: Natalie Starkey
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious – comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects is the 4.6-billion-year wisdom of Solar System events, and by studying them at close quarters using spacecraft we can coerce them into revealing their closely-guarded secrets. This offers us the chance to answer some fundamental questions about our planet and its inhabitants.
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Four Scientists Who Changed the World: From Astronomy to Physics to Geology to Biology
- By: David Christopher Lane
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
I recently came upon an old book entitled Famous Men in Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton that was first published in 1889. In her enjoyable and easy to read text, Bolton provides a glimpse of 14 distinguished thinkers, ranging from such luminaries as Carl Linnaeus to Louis Agassiz. Since the book is not readily available, here at the MSAC Philosophy Group we thought it might be helpful to select four biographies from Famous Men in Science and republish them in a new and readable format.
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The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness
- By: Michael Brein, Rosemary Ellen Guiley
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Are aliens among us? Take a trip straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth! Here are more than 40 true eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, that describe in detail personal encounters with alien beings and their craft. The stories come from all over the world and from witnesses in all walks of life - people just like you. Every story is analyzed by a commentary that explores our involvement with alien beings - and why.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of boring. It was hard to stay focused.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-18
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A Journey Through the Universe
- A Traveler's Guide from the Centre of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A Journey Through the Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. There's a whole universe out there.... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty.
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses
- By: Anthony Aveni
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the first humans looked up and saw the sun swallowed by darkness, our species has been captivated by solar eclipses. Astronomer and anthropologist Anthony Aveni explains the history and culture surrounding solar eclipses, from prehistoric Stonehenge to Babylonian creation myths, to a confirmation of Einstein's theory of general relativity, to a spectacle that left New Yorkers in the moon's shadow, to future eclipses that will capture human imaginations.
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things." (Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams)
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Catching Stardust
- Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
- By: Natalie Starkey
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious – comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects is the 4.6-billion-year wisdom of Solar System events, and by studying them at close quarters using spacecraft we can coerce them into revealing their closely-guarded secrets. This offers us the chance to answer some fundamental questions about our planet and its inhabitants.
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Four Scientists Who Changed the World: From Astronomy to Physics to Geology to Biology
- By: David Christopher Lane
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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I recently came upon an old book entitled Famous Men in Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton that was first published in 1889. In her enjoyable and easy to read text, Bolton provides a glimpse of 14 distinguished thinkers, ranging from such luminaries as Carl Linnaeus to Louis Agassiz. Since the book is not readily available, here at the MSAC Philosophy Group we thought it might be helpful to select four biographies from Famous Men in Science and republish them in a new and readable format.