Discovery World

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    • The Discovery of Modern Science
    • By: Steven Weinberg
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries, from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford....

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    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

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    • The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life
    • By: Deborah Harkness
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Deborah Harkness, Steve West, Jennifer Ikeda
    • Series: All Souls Series
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 483 ratings
    • All Souls fans have been captivated from the start by the many sources of inspiration Harkness draws on in her novels. Here, with her signature historian's touch, she offers an encyclopedic look at the series, complete with synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and more....

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    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,525 ratings
    • The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,340 ratings
    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
    • By: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....

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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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    • Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 681 ratings
    • In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon....

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    • Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
    • By: Fei-Fei Li
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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    • How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • Within a short time span, a tiny country whose population did not exceed a million created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki....

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    • Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bergreen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 861 ratings
    • In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities flourished....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
    • By: David K. Randall
    • Narrated by: Roman Howell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it....

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    • A New History
    • By: Valerie Hansen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....

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    • Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
    • By: Anthony Galvin
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims....

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    • The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
    • By: Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions....

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    • Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
    • By: Charles Hudson, Robbie Ethridge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites....

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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