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    • By: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,126 ratings
    • In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most illuminating scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity....

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    • Excursions to the Edge of Thought
    • By: Jim Holt
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
    • From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author, comes this entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries....

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    • (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
    • By: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
    • Narrated by: Samuel West
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible - and fascinating - to everyone....

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    • Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
    • By: Donald Goldsmith, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our universe, our planet, and our everyday lives....

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    • The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
    • By: Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 591 ratings
    • Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,771 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means - and what it doesn't....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
    • By: Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize-winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, but he became intrigued by astronomy during the 1960s....

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    • The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
    • By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
    • Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart....

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    • By: Jon Butterworth
    • Narrated by: Wayne Forester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Atom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking listeners on a guided journey through the subatomic world. Listeners will sail the subatomic seas....

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    • How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
    • By: Sean Carroll
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found....

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    • In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
    • By: Harry Cliff
    • Narrated by: Harry Cliff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins....

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    • The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Charles Seife
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics....

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    • The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment That Einstein Could Not Explain
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 598 ratings
    • You are reading the word now right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers....

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    • The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
    • By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....

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    • Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
    • By: Lawrence M. Krauss
    • Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 814 ratings
    • A gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize–winning physicist (and curious character) Richard Feynman....

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    • The Hidden 95% of the Universe
    • By: Brian Clegg
    • Narrated by: Mark Cameron
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything....

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