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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- By: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics.
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Great primer for hard SF fans and physics laymen
- By David on 01-05-15
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Series: The Great Courses: Physics
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
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The Irreverents
- Great Minds Who Challenged Conventional Wisdom. 29 Stories of Scientists, Artists, and Thinkers Who Questioned the Assumptions of Their Time
- By: Paula Elordi
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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History is generous to the irreverent — but usually only in retrospect. In their own time, they are more often ignored, ridiculed, or quietly pushed aside. Only later, once change becomes unavoidable, is the story rewritten to make their ideas seem obvious. The Irreverents profiles twenty-nine individuals who challenged the dominant thinking of their time. What they shared was not a rebellious temperament or a taste for conflict, but something more precise: a persistent discomfort with incomplete explanations, and an inability to accept answers that failed under honest scrutiny. Inside ...
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The Irreverents
- Great Minds Who Challenged Conventional Wisdom. 29 Stories of Scientists, Artists, and Thinkers Who Questioned the Assumptions of Their Time
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-24-26
- Language: English
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Great Catholic Scientists: Discoveries and Lives of Faith
- By: Guy Consolmagno, Michelle Francl-Donnay
- Narrated by: Guy Consolmagno, Michelle Francl-Donnay
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Two leading scientists from the Vatican Observatory explore profound questions of faith and science through the lives of contributions of great Catholic scientists. Tracing back across 1,000 years of history, you'll reflect on the role of faith in science with Dr. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, nicknamed the "Pope's Astronomer", and his friend and colleague Dr. Michelle Francl-Donnay, an award-winning professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College.
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Pondering the marvels of creation
- By Kansas Mom on 11-24-21
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Great Catholic Scientists: Discoveries and Lives of Faith
- Narrated by: Guy Consolmagno, Michelle Francl-Donnay
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-19-18
- Language: English
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Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist
- By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Despite our best efforts, we're all vulnerable to believing things without using logic or having proper evidence—and it doesn't matter how educated or well read we are.
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Dogmatic with little critical thought
- By mc2 on 03-06-15
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Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Series: The Great Courses: Professional
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
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Isaac Newton: Workman of God’s Word
- The Radical Faith of the World’s Greatest Scientist
- By: David Bergey
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Isaac Newton is remembered as the father of modern science—but few realize he was also a devoted student of the Bible. Behind the discoveries of gravity and motion stood a man who spent decades immersed in Scripture, determined to separate God’s truth from human tradition. Isaac Newton: Workman of God’s Word uncovers a side of Newton history has long obscured. While he revolutionized physics and mathematics, he also quietly penned thousands of pages of biblical commentary, convinced that Christianity had been corrupted by church councils and imperial politics. Drawing directly from ...
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controversial but accurate
- By Carl on 10-11-25
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Isaac Newton: Workman of God’s Word
- The Radical Faith of the World’s Greatest Scientist
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-17-25
- Language: English
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Six Great Scientists
- By: J.G. Crowther
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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All of the geniuses in Six Great Scientists - Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Curie, and Einstein - had one thing in common: the determination to do scientific research whatever the obstacles. They all had the imagination to conceive great ideas and the force of will not to be defeated. Their stories renew our confidence in the human spirit. They remind us of the advancements that can result when men and women have the ability and courage to achieve great things.
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Uninspired writing
- By Leigh A on 11-26-03
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Six Great Scientists
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-14-01
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter
- The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1695, Isaac Newton already renowned as the greatest mind of his agemade a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for 30 years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner.
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Terrific Historical Biography
- By Megan on 12-12-09
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Newton and the Counterfeiter
- The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-01-09
- Language: English
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Secret Warriors
- Key Scientists, Code Breakers, and Propagandists of the Great War
- By: Taylor Downing
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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A startling and vivid account of World War I, Secret Warriors uncovers how wartime code breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research laid the foundation for many of the innovations of the 20th century.
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Secret Warriors
- Key Scientists, Code Breakers, and Propagandists of the Great War
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-15-15
- Language: English
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Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
- By: Steven L. Goldman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven L. Goldman
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality.... or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.Made your choice? Welcome to the science wars. This long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has reemerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues like evolution.
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Emancipation from what you think you don't know
- By Larry on 08-08-13
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Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
- Narrated by: Steven L. Goldman
- Series: The Great Courses: History of Science
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
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Great Scientists and Their Discoveries
- By: David Angus
- Narrated by: Benjamin Soames, Clare Corbett
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different - quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn - but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. This is a fascinating account for younger listeners.
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Great Scientists and Their Discoveries
- Narrated by: Benjamin Soames, Clare Corbett
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-01-11
- Language: English
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Sharks (A Day in the Life)
- What Do Great Whites, Hammerheads, and Whale Sharks Get Up To All Day?
- By: Carlee Jackson, Chaaya Prabhat, Neon Squid
- Narrated by: Max Meyers
- Length: 31 mins
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This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Sharks (A Day in the Life). "An attractive series for kids intrigued by animals in the wild." —Booklist Set over a 24-hour period, meet deadly tiger sharks, baby lemon sharks, and gigantic basking sharks...
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Sharks (A Day in the Life)
- What Do Great Whites, Hammerheads, and Whale Sharks Get Up To All Day?
- Narrated by: Max Meyers
- Series: A Day in the Life
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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Reason for Hope
- By: Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman
- Narrated by: Jane Goodall
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope. Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve...
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Journey into a remarkably full life
- By Larry on 08-13-03
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Reason for Hope
- Narrated by: Jane Goodall
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Great King Thoth
- Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World
- By: Steve Preston
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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What King Thoth did to re-civilize the world after the Pleistocene Extinction was amazing. As things got bad again, no one else would even try to halt the calamity. What he accomplished after that was nothing less than miraculous. His subjects tried to deify him but he never accepted that level of adoration. Instead, he brought light to a darkened world and science to a forgotten civilization. He worked his wonders in Egypt, India and even in the Americas and he explained to us how to worship one God while most of the Anak people were forcing devotion, servitude, and adoration for their ...
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Great King Thoth
- Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-13-25
- Language: English
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What Is Life?
- Five Great Ideas in Biology
- By: Paul Nurse
- Narrated by: Paul Nurse
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.
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Will listen to this again!
- By angela on 10-06-21
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What Is Life?
- Five Great Ideas in Biology
- Narrated by: Paul Nurse
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-23-21
- Language: English
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The Science Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this book offers a fascinating look at the history of science. Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and...
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The title is misleading.
- By Edd Huetteman on 06-01-20
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The Science Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-06-19
- Language: English
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100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World
- By: Jon Balchin
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World introduces the giants of scientific discovery and examines their achievements - the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics.
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100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-28-21
- Language: English
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Famous in STEM
- The Greatest Physicists
- By: Javier Sanz
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Inside 'The Greatest Physicists', groundbreaking ideas meet human curiosity. This volume profiles the life and work of outstanding individuals such as Isaac Newton, whose laws of motion and gravitation laid the foundation of classical physics; Albert Einstein, who redefined our understanding of space and time with his theory of relativity; or Marie Curie, the pioneer in radioactivity. Experience the thrill of discovery as these trailblazers and many more defy boundaries, reshaping our understanding of the universe. Uncover how James Clerk Maxwell formulated the theory of electromagnetic ...
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Famous in STEM
- The Greatest Physicists
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Dinner in Camelot
- The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
- By: Joseph A. Esposito, Rose Styron - Foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed, divergent viewpoints could be respectfully discussed at the highest level, and the great minds of an age might all dine together in the rarefied glamour of "the people's house."
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Dinner in Camelot
- The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-27-19
- Language: English
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What the Future Looks Like
- Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already...
- By: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow - and beyond. Pull back the curtain on genomics, robotics, AI, the Internet of Things, synthetic biology, transhumanism, interstellar travel, colonization of the solar system, teleportation, and much more.
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Very Disappointing
- By Apisxv on 07-12-18
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What the Future Looks Like
- Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already...
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-17-18
- Language: English
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Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm
- Short Bio, Quotes, and Comments (Great Minds Series, Book 11)
- By: Peter Fritz Walter
- Narrated by: Peter Fritz Walter
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm; Great Minds Series, Vol. 11 - the 2017 revised, updated and reformatted edition - is a study about one of the greatest authorities on the discovery of the bioenergy for modern science and medical science. The author understands his engagement for Reich as a contribution to the rehabilitation of one of the greatest but also one of the most misunderstood scientists of the 20th century.
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Well done Peter Fritz Walter!
- By Paul Dion Brooks on 11-17-19
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Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm
- Short Bio, Quotes, and Comments (Great Minds Series, Book 11)
- Narrated by: Peter Fritz Walter
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-18-19
- Language: English
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By: Kevin Mitnick, and others
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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall432
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Performance369
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Story369
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually...
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Title should have been “Quantum Global Warming”
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-23
By: Michio Kaku
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The Secret Language of the Body
- Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind
- By: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance38
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Story38
“Inspiring, refreshing and practical - a delightfully lucid guide to healing yourself.” –Bessel van der Kolk, MD., New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score From two mind-body practitioners comes the new essential self-healing bible—a revolutionary body-first guide to...
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The Secret Language
- By Free Horse on 12-04-24
By: Jennifer Mann, and others
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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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Overall1,673
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Performance1,214
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Story1,194
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range...
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This book & Greene's analogies connected Qs to As
- By Blair on 02-02-11
By: Brian Greene
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The Elegant Universe
- Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,021
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Performance1,570
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Story1,565
"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as...
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Well Written, Good Narration
- By Verena on 06-12-09
By: Brian Greene
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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
- The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- By: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall433
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Performance359
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Story357
*The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix!* Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our...
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Long Long book
- By William S. Gross on 11-13-17
By: Robert D. Putnam
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Real Americans
- A novel
- By: Rachel Khong
- Narrated by: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang, Eunice Wong
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall685
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Performance635
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Story635
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are?...
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STELLAR STORYTELLING
- By Brenda C. on 05-02-24
By: Rachel Khong
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Halfway To Hollywood
- Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 28 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance27
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Story27
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life...
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Outstanding
- By Graham C. Hanson on 08-29-23
By: Michael Palin
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The Intellectual Life
- Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
- By: A.G. Sertillanges O.P.
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story11
Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of things. . . . This book is highly recommended not only for intellectuals, but also for students and those discerning their vocation in life. —New Oxford Review
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really good rules for life
- By Trevor Walker on 03-23-26
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22,887
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Performance20,667
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Story20,595
Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-28-16
By: Mary Shelley
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I Ching
- The Book of Change
- By: David Hinton
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance100
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Story96
In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting grew. Although it was and is widely used for divination, the I Ching is also a book of poetic philosophy, deeply valued by artists and intellectuals.
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The introduction is the best part...
- By Metta Bhavana on 06-17-18
By: David Hinton
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American Rule
- How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People
- By: Jared Yates Sexton
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall261
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Performance219
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Story218
From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves. Recent years have brought a reckoning in America. As rampant political corruption, stark inequality, and violent bigotry...
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Truth
- By Laurie on 09-28-20
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The Shape of a Life
- One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry
- By: Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story18
Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinguished mathematicians. With complicated ideas explained for a broad audience, listeners not only get insights into the life of an eminent mathematician, but also an accessible way to understand advanced and highly abstract concepts in mathematics and theoretical physics.
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A book full of complaints
- By Steven White on 01-17-23
By: Shing-Tung Yau, and others
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Proof of Heaven
- A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
- By: Eben Alexander M.D. M.D.
- Narrated by: Eben Alexander M.D. M.D.
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,489
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Performance4,752
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Story4,766
The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly...
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Compelling
- By Kelly on 10-27-12
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The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
- Your Journey to Mastery
- By: David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
- Narrated by: Anna Katarina
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,644
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Performance1,329
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Story1,311
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development. Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.
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An excellent and entertaining technical book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-21-20
By: David Thomas, and others
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The Next Conversation
- Argue Less, Talk More
- By: Jefferson Fisher
- Narrated by: Jefferson Fisher
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,379
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Performance2,240
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Story2,240
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything No matter who you’re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will...
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Listening and learning
- By Marco on 03-22-25
By: Jefferson Fisher
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American Impresario
- William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Elements of American Character
- By: Lawrence Perelman
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Lawrence Perelman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring pianist and son of Soviet Jewish immigrants, wrote a letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative icon, in 1994. A remarkable cross-generational friendship was sparked by Buckley's response. During their friendship Perelman would go on to learn of the timeless elements of Buckley's character and the central role of classical music in Buckley's American vision.
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Important tribute
- By Charles on 06-05-25
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Wavewalker
- A Memoir of Breaking Free
- By: Suzanne Heywood
- Narrated by: Suzanne Heywood
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall173
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Performance166
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Story165
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing.
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A wild story well told by the person who lived to tell the tale!
- By Lauren Havlick on 12-27-23
By: Suzanne Heywood
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,444
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Performance1,766
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Story1,779
The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- By Rob on 03-23-06
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First Things First
- By: Stephen R. Covey
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall1,258
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Performance871
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Story861
From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to prioritizing your personal and professional goals. I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that...
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Nothing New over the other books
- By Alton A. Ivory on 07-04-05
By: Stephen R. Covey
Most popular in Physics
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Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- By: Donella H. Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,450
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Performance2,008
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Story1,987
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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Skip to the Middle
- By John Chambers on 06-20-20
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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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Overall38,550
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Performance33,790
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Story33,508
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
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Disappointing - not much physics
- By Rob Hahn on 07-15-17
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- 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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Overall9,733
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Performance8,700
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Story8,661
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.
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Over-acting voice actors
- By John on 11-09-17
By: Carl Sagan
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The Holographic Universe
- The Revolutionary Theory of Reality
- By: Michael Talbot
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall610
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Performance555
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Story551
Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms - three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, an architect of our modern understanding of the brain, have developed a remarkable new way of looking at the universe.
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Fail
- By Vadim Tarnovsky on 05-16-21
By: Michael Talbot
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Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- By: Donella H. Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,450
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Performance2,008
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Story1,987
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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Skip to the Middle
- By John Chambers on 06-20-20
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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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Overall38,550
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Performance33,790
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Story33,508
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
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Disappointing - not much physics
- By Rob Hahn on 07-15-17
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- 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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Overall9,733
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Performance8,700
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Story8,661
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.
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Over-acting voice actors
- By John on 11-09-17
By: Carl Sagan
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The Holographic Universe
- The Revolutionary Theory of Reality
- By: Michael Talbot
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall610
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Performance555
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Story551
Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms - three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, an architect of our modern understanding of the brain, have developed a remarkable new way of looking at the universe.
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Fail
- By Vadim Tarnovsky on 05-16-21
By: Michael Talbot
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15,759
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Performance12,244
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Story12,267
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as...
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- By Henrik on 04-20-07
By: Walter Isaacson
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,251
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Performance7,226
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Story7,187
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- By NH on 03-21-19
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The Order of Time
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,164
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Performance4,502
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Story4,461
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant...
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Rovelli is a Genius
- By Mike on 05-11-18
By: Carlo Rovelli
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A Brief History of Time
- From the Big Bang to Black Holes
- By: Stephen W. Hawking
- Narrated by: Michael Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,871
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Performance6,143
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Story6,107
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and "arrows of time," of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.
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Easily Digestible Presentation of Complex Topics
- By James on 05-19-04
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Quantum Physics for Beginners, Into the Light
- The 4 Bizarre Discoveries You Must Know to Master Quantum Mechanics Fast, Revealed Step-By-Step (In Plain English)
- By: John Stoddard
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance262
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Story261
In this book, we will break through the confusion and reveal to you the most important ideas of quantum physics, told through the amazing true story of just four bizarre discoveries–many of which were made completely by accident!
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The audio book even has a commercial in it...
- By AjM on 11-26-23
By: John Stoddard
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The Great Unanswered Questions of Physics
- By: Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story12
What happened before the Big Bang? Why does time flow only forward? Do we live as part of a multiverse? Could the universe vanish in an instant? These questions and more are at the forefront of physics, cosmology, and quantum theory, and they keep some of the best minds of modern physicists awake at night. The Great Unanswered Questions of Physics gives you the chance to probe these mysteries of the universe.
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Fascinating subject matter
- By Jeffrey Severtson on 04-15-26
By: Don Lincoln, and others
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Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century
- A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen, André Santana, Bronson Pinchot, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall179
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Performance165
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Story165
In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth’s history.
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Great listen
- By Chuck J on 03-28-26
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- By: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ron B. Davis
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall545
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Performance428
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Story424
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.
- By Jen on 05-14-19
By: Ron B. Davis, and others
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Starry Messenger
- Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,072
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Performance3,592
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Story3,566
"This engaging, conversational book begs to be read aloud, and who better than its author?... Tyson’s warmth and erudition make him a superb narrator of this excellent, thought-provoking book."- Library Journal "Like a spaceship traveling the stars, Tyson's voice flows smoothly as he delivers...
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Optimistic
- By Anonymous on 09-23-22
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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 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,069
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Performance1,819
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Story1,811
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 around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
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Audio Quality Choices
- By JR on 05-30-17
By: Carl Sagan
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- By: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5,726
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Performance5,021
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Story4,928
"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics.
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Great primer for hard SF fans and physics laymen
- By David on 01-05-15
By: Richard Wolfson, and others
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,615
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Performance1,346
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Story1,341
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New...
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Uneven
- By NJ on 03-03-20
By: Brian Greene
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The Elegant Universe
- Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,021
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Performance1,570
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Story1,565
"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as...
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Well Written, Good Narration
- By Verena on 06-12-09
By: Brian Greene
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Failure Is Not an Option
- Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
- By: Gene Kranz
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,243
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Performance3,812
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Story3,805
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.
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Excellent Book!
- By Kevin on 02-19-13
By: Gene Kranz
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- By: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,408
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Performance1,235
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Story1,230
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
- By J.B. on 02-17-17
By: Michael A. Strauss, and others
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Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,202
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Performance3,732
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Story3,710
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the...
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Beware limitations of the reader
- By JFanson on 01-01-19
By: Richard Rhodes
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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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Overall3,198
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Performance2,812
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Story2,784
*An instant New York Times Bestseller* *Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016* "You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal "A tour de force." — Salon.com Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern...
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ABSOLUTE MUST READ!
- By serine on 05-12-16
By: Sean Carroll
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall1,833
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Performance1,560
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Story1,544
A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.
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Worthwhile if you have the patience
- By Scott Feuless on 08-12-19
By: David Deutsch
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,392
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Performance5,092
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Story5,101
Reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before. Not only is it one of man's crowning scientific achievements, it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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Great Book, Great Narration, But...
- By Henny Button on 09-18-10
By: Sam Kean
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Something Deeply Hidden
- Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,015
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Performance1,680
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Story1,663
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden...
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The Best Layperson Book on Quantum Physics
- By Conrad Barski on 09-11-19
By: Sean Carroll
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Quanta and Fields
- The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance76
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Story76
Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality. Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond...
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Difficult
- By Richard on 08-25-24
By: Sean Carroll
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4,365
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Performance3,978
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Story3,961
Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.
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Long, comforting book on moon exploration
- By Mark on 06-17-16
By: Andrew Chaikin
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The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
- By: Sean Carroll, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall125
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Performance93
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Story93
In a field known for startling ideas, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics may take the prize. It holds that parallel to our own world are a large number of other universes, almost identical to ours but with small variations. Copies of each of us inhabit a myriad of these worlds. But they are not us exactly; they share our past history, but they are different people who have unique futures. Although these realms are invisible and can’t communicate with each other, prominent physicists are convinced they must exist.
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Sean Carroll always has such amazing content
- By Amazon Customer on 12-26-23
By: Sean Carroll, and others
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Apollo
- By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,707
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Performance1,516
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Story1,515
Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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Best book ever for space, ops, and engineering fans
- By JDM on 10-29-19
By: Charles Murray, and others