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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred on an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village.
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Amazing book (not a Discworld nowel)
- By Vlad S. on 09-25-12
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-05-12
- Language: English
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The Globe
- The Science of Discworld II: A Novel
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Steven Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Globe goes beyond science to explore the development of the human mind. Terry Pratchett and his acclaimed co-authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen combine the tale of the wizards rewriting human history with discussions of the origins and evolution of culture, language, art, and science, offering a fascinating and brilliantly original view of the world we live in.
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Sneaky Science
- By G. Fischer on 03-31-15
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The Globe
- The Science of Discworld II: A Novel
- Narrated by: Steven Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-20-15
- Language: English
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty - indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact - and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong.
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A very fine book
- By Sooch San Souci on 05-09-20
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-03-19
- Language: English
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Darwin's Watch
- The Science of Discworld III: A Novel
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated, and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail.
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more of an essay with a little Terry Pratchett
- By Viv on 09-12-15
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Darwin's Watch
- The Science of Discworld III: A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-09-15
- Language: English
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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Beware
- By Anton Kurtz on 12-08-18
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-12-17
- Language: English
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth being snuffed out by an asteroid.
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Crank alert: rejects modern cosmology
- By James Weisner on 03-20-17
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld
- Revised Edition
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 'fantasy' universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle physics does not.
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The science
- By Siri on 10-26-14
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The Science of Discworld
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-03-12
- Language: English
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Judgment Day
- Science of Discworld IV: A Novel
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Marjorie Dawe is a librarian and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics.
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Not for everyone
- By Manie on 11-06-20
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Judgment Day
- Science of Discworld IV: A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-22-15
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld
- A Novel
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
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Not the best Pratchett, but gets there in the end
- By Rachel on 07-30-14
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The Science of Discworld
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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Mentes maravillosas
- Los matemáticos que cambiaron el mundo
- By: Ian Stewart, Joan Lluís Riera - translator
- Narrated by: Enric Puig
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Ian Stewart presenta las vidas extraordinarias y los sorprendentes descubrimientos de 25 de los mejores matemáticos de la historia, desde Arquímedes y Liu Hui hasta Benoit Mandelbrot y William Thurston. Sus sujetos son personas inspiradoras que han hecho contribuciones cruciales a las Matemáticas.
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Mentes maravillosas
- Los matemáticos que cambiaron el mundo
- Narrated by: Enric Puig
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-18-20
- Language: Spanish
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Art of Mentoring
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Jason Huggins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Mathematician Ian Stewart tells listeners what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical - what mathematics is and why it’s worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical community, and many others.
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An Introduction to a mathamatician
- By Jean on 03-19-17
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Art of Mentoring
- Narrated by: Jason Huggins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-29-14
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld IV
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with the really big questions, Terry Pratchett’s brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job – and indeed the truth of words – very seriously. She doesn’t know it, but her world and ours – Roundworld – is in big trouble.
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Mostly just condesending
- By Mikael on 12-27-23
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The Science of Discworld IV
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-11-13
- Language: English
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What's the Use?
- How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: If we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights into our world, allowing us to accomplish feats as significant as space exploration and organ donation.
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Wonderful book!
- By Sooch San Souci on 01-23-23
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What's the Use?
- How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-17-21
- Language: English
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty....
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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Nature's Numbers
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Ian Stewart
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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A bite-sized mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of The Magical Maze. Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence of radio waves.
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Only wish there was more
- By T. Kirby-Green on 01-15-19
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Nature's Numbers
- Narrated by: Ian Stewart
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-26-15
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld III
- Darwin's Watch
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail.
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A good popular science book, paired with fantasy
- By Jarno on 01-09-13
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The Science of Discworld III
- Darwin's Watch
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-27-12
- Language: English
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What's the Use?
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital, often in surprising ways, behind the scenes of daily life. How politicians pick their voters. How an absurd little puzzle solved 300 years ago leads to efficient methods for kidney transplants. How an Irish mathematician's obsession with a new number system improves special effects in movies and computer games. How SatNav relies on at least six mathematical techniques.
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What's the Use?
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-19-21
- Language: English
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Lost Souls of Paradise
- By: Ian Ritchie Stewart
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the island's homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants that live under the bridges, behind the hedges, and on the edge of sanity in this tourist-island mecca.
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Captivating and highly anticipatory
- By Alina on 02-23-24
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Lost Souls of Paradise
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-10-21
- Language: English
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