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The Moon
- A History for the Future
- By: Oliver Morton
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Every generation has looked up from the Earth and wondered at the beauty of the moon. 50 years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse - with the whole world watching through their eyes. In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the moon. A counterpoint in the sky, it has shaped our understanding of the Earth from Galileo to Apollo. Its gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic.
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Changed my understanding of the moon forever.
- By Yojitheman on 14-06-23
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The Moon
- A History for the Future
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-07-19
- Language: English
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- By: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly everyone swears - whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.
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Great book well done!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-12-25
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- By: Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein - foreword, Stillman Drake - preface
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessibility, it remains as accessible now as when it was published.
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, Fabiola Gianotti, S. James Gates, Frank Wilczek
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-04-22
- Language: English
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The Graft
- How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants
- By: Edmund O. Lawler
- Narrated by: Edmund O. Lawler
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has made in organ transplantation.
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The Graft
- How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants
- Narrated by: Edmund O. Lawler
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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American Eclipse
- A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
- By: David Baron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.
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American Eclipse
- A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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Cosmic Bullsh*t
- A Guide to the Galaxy's Worst Life Hacks
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways.
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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- By: Helen Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Illness is not simply a matter of biology. Our thoughts, conscious or otherwise, can make us feel pain or become unwell. If you experienced side effects from your Covid vaccine, the chances are that these were caused by your belief that you would experience them. When a nurse tells you 'this is...
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Creation
- Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
- By: Bill Mesler, H. James Cleaves II
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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How did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's most revolutionary advances, including van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, Darwin's theory of evolution, and Crick and Watson's unveiling of DNA.
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Fantastic History Book
- By Andrew Golightly on 05-09-21
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A Brief History of Creation
- Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-12-15
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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Great book to place Fleck and others in context.
- By Sara on 15-07-22
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-14
- Language: English
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Pseudoscience
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael D. Gordin
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements—both of which display allegations of "pseudoscience" on all sides—there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation.
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Pseudoscience
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics
- The Complete Guide to Quantum Physics, Including Wave Functions, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Gravity
- By: Sten Odenwald
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Quantum theory is at the heart of modern physics, but how does it actually work? NASA scientist and communicator Sten Odenwald demystifies the subject and makes this crucial topic accessible to everyone. Featuring topics such as Schrodinger's cat, the wave-particle duality and the newly emerging theories of quantum gravity, as well as the personalities behind the science, such as Max Planck, Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Feynman and many more, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics provides an essential introduction to cutting edge science.
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics
- The Complete Guide to Quantum Physics, Including Wave Functions, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Gravity
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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The History of Astronomy
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael Hoskin
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-19th century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to the Latin West via Islam and led to Copernicus's claim that the Earth is in motion.
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The History of Astronomy
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table
- Its Story and Its Significance
- By: Eric Scerri
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor to van Spronsen, but goes further in giving an evaluation of the extent to which modern physics has, or has not, explained the periodic system. The book is written in a lively style to appeal to experts and interested lay-persons alike.
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Interesting but not good as audiobook
- By Davide Di Maio on 22-01-12
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The Periodic Table
- Its Story and Its Significance
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-12-11
- Language: English
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Galileo
- By: J. L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a "hurried little masterpiece" in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope, Galileo dramatically challenged our idea of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth in the universe. Indeed, the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the great moments in the history of science.
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Hard Going
- By Dave on 10-04-11
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Galileo
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-02-11
- Language: English
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- By: Lucy Cooke
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Award-winning broadcaster, best-selling author and zoologist Lucy Cooke has produced and presented numerous natural history shows on TV and radio, and has been tipped by The Times as 'the next David Attenborough'. In this BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast under the title The Power Of..., she delves into the animal kingdom, exploring what gives certain species the evolutionary edge over their rivals.
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- By: Christopher Dewdney
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth’s atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm - at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible rivers in the sky that affect how our weather works and the structure of clouds and storms and seasons, the rollercoaster of climate.
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roc Filella Montfort, Albino Santos Mosquera
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
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¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto. El éxito de Google y YouTube, y hasta el 11-S, son “cisnes negros”. Para Nassim Nicholas Taleb, los cisnes negros son parte integrante de nuestro mundo, desde el auge de las religiones hasta los acontecimientos de nuestra vida personal. ¿Por qué no podemos identificar este fenómeno hasta que ya ha sucedido?
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El cisne negro
- El impacto de lo altamente improbable
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: Spanish
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Galileo's New Universe
- The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
- By: Stephen P. Maran, Laurence A. Marschall
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings a seemingly flat moon magically transformed into a dynamic, crater-filled orb and a large, black sky suddenly held millions of galaxies would have on civilizations.
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Galileo's New Universe
- The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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