Pillars of Creation
How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
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Richard Panek
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The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.
Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Award-winning science writer Richard Panek stands us shoulder to shoulder with senior scientists as they conceive the mission, meet decades-long challenges to bring it to fruition, and, now, use its unprecedented technology to yield new discoveries about the origins of our solar system, to search for life on planets around other suns, and to trace the growth of hundreds of billions of galaxies all the way back to the birth of the first stars. The Webb telescope has captured the world’s imagination, and Pillars of Creation shows how and why—including through sixteen pages of awe-inspiring, full-color photos.
At once a testament to human ingenuity and a celebration of mankind’s biggest leap yet into the cosmos, Panek’s eye-opening book reveals our universe as we’ve never seen it before—through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope, a marvel that is itself a pillar of creation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quick passed and loved it!
- De Rebecca Trost en 01-03-25
De: Abe Moss
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Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- De: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrado por: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Duración: 1 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 637
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 574
Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses. Major Heathcliff Lennox, and his batman Greggs, are told to report to their new HQ. They set off on a sunlit day to fly the distance, but the enemy is never far away, and disaster strikes. They're sent crashing to the ground behind enemy lines, where life, death, and love await.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great Heathcliff Lennox
- De Katydid65 en 06-04-21
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The Mistress and the Key
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Corey Carthew
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex con Nick Patterson—fresh off uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history professor Adrian Jensen—now find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommend
- De Krista Steele en 11-07-24
De: Ben Mezrich
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The Coming Dark
- De: D.J. Molles
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
All Liam Avione ever wanted was to be a Deathbringer. Almost twenty years old now, he’s approaching the last six months of the decade-long training program, hopeful for his future as a protector of the Universe. One, slight problem: he’s got a genetic defect that he’s been keeping a secret. But as the training intensifies, so do his symptoms. Which are really hard to hide when they cause him to puke, pass out, and have a seizure in front of the training cadre.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Started out with great premise, then (literally) died a thousand deaths
- De Kitsune en 04-29-25
De: D.J. Molles
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Hold Strong
- A Novel
- De: Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, Chris Crabtree
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 609
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 573
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 573
Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historically Grounded, Amazing Book
- De MAC en 02-20-25
De: Robert Dugoni, y otros
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What Could Go Wrong?
- De: Scott Z. Burns
- Narrado por: Scott Z. Burns
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Grabación Original
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Predicting a global pandemic in a hit movie was impressive. Writing a sequel that will work for today’s world might take a whole different kind of intelligence. Join Scott Z. Burns, the acclaimed screenwriter of Contagion, as he embarks on a mind-bending quest to create a worthy follow-up to his eerily prophetic film. Reuniting with director Steven Soderbergh, members of the cast and crew, and the scientific experts who advised him on the first film, Burns also turns to an unexpected collaborator: artificial intelligence.
De: Scott Z. Burns
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The 4 Percent Universe
- Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
- De: Richard Panek
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,088
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,769
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,761
Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of the quest to find this “dark” matter and an even more bizarre substance called “dark energy”. This is perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected
- De John en 06-13-14
De: Richard Panek
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Goblins
- The X-Files, Book 1
- De: Charles Grant
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,000
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 906
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 903
Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a bad start
- De Russell B. en 04-09-15
De: Charles Grant
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The Trouble with Gravity
- Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
- De: Richard Panek
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 24
A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows - and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning author Richard Panek shows in this groundbreaking book, gravity is a cold case that we are closer to cracking than ever - and whose very investigation has yielded untold truths about the cosmos and humanity itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Panek's entertaining tour never set out to "solve
- De Z en 05-05-20
De: Richard Panek
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
- How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: Hugh Kermode
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 240
One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments. Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the world's leading physicists have looked to a different source of insight: modern mathematics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story and narration, but lacks rigor...
- De James S. en 05-31-19
De: Graham Farmelo
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- De: John Strausbaugh
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following--that seemed to achieve the impossible. It was proof, it seemed, that the USSR had manpower and collective will that went beyond America's material advantages. They had asserted themselves as a world power. But in The Wrong Stuff, John Strausbaugh tells a different story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and insightful story
- De ryan allison en 05-15-25
De: John Strausbaugh
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The Midnight Ride
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Corey Carthew
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, mediocre approach
- De Josh en 10-14-22
De: Ben Mezrich
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- De: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrado por: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good History and Historiography
- De David A en 04-19-22
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A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition
- De: Arthur Goldschmidt, Ibrahim Al-Marashi
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 21 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab–Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamist values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is robotic
- De Rana R. en 01-04-25
De: Arthur Goldschmidt, y otros
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Poland 1939
- The Outbreak of World War II
- De: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrado por: Roger Moorhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 135
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always Overlooked
- De C. G. Telcontar en 05-27-21
De: Roger Moorhouse
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All About Mars Journeys and Settlement
- The Living in Space Series, Book 2
- De: Martin K. Ettington
- Narrado por: Martin K. Ettington
- Duración: 4 h
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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A manned mission to Mars has been the dream of humanity at least since the 19th century, when we first saw details of the surface and thought there might be canals filled with water there. Here I’ve looked at the history of unmanned exploration of Mars over the last 50-plus years, proposed missions to Mars, Mars settlements, and other major issues regarding traveling to and living on Mars. Some proposals have lots of details of proposed scenarios, if you want to know all of the engineering and scientific analysis work.
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Live Your Best Life with Karan Johar
- De: Ashwini Samant
- Narrado por: Karan Johar
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Karan Johar, one of Bollywood's iconic directors and producers, is on a mission to live his best life and help listeners do the same. As the listener experiences a revealing, intimate year in his life, they hear him call his inner circle of Bollywood celebrities who are his closest friends and most trusted experts, to discuss the most important bedrocks of living your best life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen!
- De Sherri en 06-04-25
De: Ashwini Samant
The sheer scope of unknowns probably dwarfs what we already grasp.
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An enjoyable easy listen
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