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Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the development of science and religion? Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes readers on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.
Our Moon’s gravity stabilized Earth’s orbit—and its climate. It drew nutrients to the surface of the primordial ocean, where they fostered the evolution of complex life. The Moon continues to influence animal migration and reproduction, plants’ movements, and, possibly, the flow of the very blood in our veins.
While the Sun helped prehistoric hunters and gatherers mark daily time, early civilizations used the phases of the Moon to count months and years, allowing them to plan farther ahead. Mesopotamian priests recorded the Moon’s position in order to make predictions, and, in the process, created the earliest known empirical, scientific observations. In Our Moon, Boyle introduces us to ancient astronomers and major figures of the scientific revolution, including Johannes Kepler and his influential lunar science fiction.
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Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University.
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Great Professor, Hard to Follow.
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
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All About What We Know About the Universe - ALL
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth.
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Excellent course
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Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
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Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University is a self-professed apocalypse enthusiast, and as the host of the podcast Zombified, she knows the undead inside and out. With Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses, she’s compiled her research and insights into a fascinating Audible Original that will have you thinking deeper about all those shambling, brain-hungry corpses in pop culture—not to mention our everyday lives. Drawing on years of research on zombies and zombification, these six lessons offer a fun way to explore and understand the many forces that influence us.
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Good attempt, lackluster execution
- De R. MCRACKAN en 10-14-23
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The national bestseller chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 1991 is now available as an audiobook. The author of Brainstorms, Daniel C. Dennett replaces our traditional vision of consciousness with a new model based on a wealth of fact and theory from the latest scientific research.
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Confuses Consciousness with Ego
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Storytelling with Data
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Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory but made accessible through numerous real-world examples - ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.
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Very insightful and actionable
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-18
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My first love was the Moon
My earliest memory is riding in the back of the car in the evening and looking at the moon following our travels. In my 10th year, men walked on the surface of the moon for the first time. The moon has inspired my thoughts and fueled my interests for a lifetime. This wonderful book chronicles a history of our nearest celestial companion and explains that my first love had effects on everything our planet is.
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Beautiful historical account of mankind and the moon
I am not normally a non-fiction reader but Rebecca Boyle made this book so easy to read with her stories of humankind, sprinkles of humor, and relatability. A HUGE amount of historical research went into this beautiful account of earth’s companion. A great read.
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- Garrett Mccutcheon
- 03-26-24
Interesting overview of the moon
Good performance. The content was a good overview, leading you to dig deeper into topics you find interesting. I never felt that we were straying too far off theme.
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- Prof J Paul De Vierville
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Infinite Connections over and through Eternal Time
True, Good, Beautiful & Awesome, but the Big Question still remains; Who visited the Moon before July 1969 and what and where are their remains?
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- 02-03-24
Very informative, well written
This is one of those books where I purchased the Kindle version for reference. This is not a purely scientific book while it does contain enough to satisfy most people. It is rich in history and philosophy and how religion was shaped over the years by the moon.
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- Christine
- 02-17-24
Our Moon
A thorough and well-written look at our moon from a variety of disciplines (no pop culture, but a variety of sciences, history, mythology, etc.).
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- 03-15-24
The most amazing journey!
A terrific book in every way! Great writing telling a fascinating story from a different perspective!
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- J. Pegg
- 04-13-24
Interesting but with annoyances
I found the overall content to be interesting and informative. It was fascinating to learn about likely moon formation (very little new information for me but some interesting depth I wasn't aware of), effect of the moon on tides and Earth formation, ancient civilizations and how they tracked and interpreted the moon, modern concepts, travel to and from, etc. A good overall history of our celestial partner.
Two things were annoying and hard to get past, forcing me to listen in chunks with breaks between. The first was the singsong nature of the narration. I had to keep imagining how it would sound in my head if I were reading the text because the narration made it hard to take seriously. The second was the author's apparent bone to pick with Judeo-Christian faith traditions. She makes regular jabs at how various texts predate Judeo-Christian texts as if to invalidate the latter. (This is sadly common in popular science, where the writer does a great job researching the core topic (as was done by Ms. Boyle), but makes incorrect assertions about various faith traditions based on misunderstood common knowledge or personal experience.) It's not a show-stopper, but it does distract.
Overall good if you can get past the annoyances.
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- JW
- 02-19-24
This is such an entertaining book.
I’m not sure how I thought this book would open, but certainly not with a story about the author's grandfather during his service in WWII and the prediction of tides in the south Pacific. Simultaneously full of facts and profoundly entertaining, Our Moon answered questions I didn't even know I wanted to ask. This book will enlighten you and entertain you. I can't recommend it enough.
Rebecca Lowman's narration was excellent.
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- 02-12-24
Made me really enthusiastic about the moon
Made me really enthusiastic about the moon. A creative way to provide a perspective on the moon. Now I have a little better understanding of why suddenly rockets are being sent to South Pole of moon. On one level it is exciting to think people will probably be back in less than two years. I still remember the first landing and almost being bored by the last landings. I remember the Apollo fire. The moon is still worthy of study.
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