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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
- How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It
- By: Byron Reese
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
- How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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The Einstein Effect
- How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
- By: Benyamin Cohen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Award-winning author and journalist Benyamin Cohen has a bizarre side hustle as the manager of Einstein's official social media accounts, which have 20 million followers—more than most living celebrities. In The Einstein Effect, Cohen embarks on a global quest to unearth Einstein's ongoing relevance today. Along the way, he meets scientists and celebrities, speaks to dozens with the last name Einstein (including two rabbis), and even tracks down the brain of Einstein, stolen from his body during the autopsy
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The Einstein Effect
- How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-07-23
- Language: English
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Tesla's Words
- A Stunning Utopia of the Future
- By: Ellis Oswalt
- Narrated by: Ellis Oswalt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Tesla’s Words is a creative nonfiction audiobook that utilizes exhaustive research and recreation of drama to enrich a classic text with additional information, context, and immersive flare in order to highlight the previously unexplored aspects of Nikola Tesla's life and also reinforce his genius.
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excellent
- By Kindle Customer on 08-10-22
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Tesla's Words
- A Stunning Utopia of the Future
- Narrated by: Ellis Oswalt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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The La Brea Tar Pits
- The History and Legacy of One of the World’s Most Famous Fossil Sites
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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The acrid stench of asphalt and sulfur singes the hairs of people’s nostrils, and when the blustering winds subside, the potent miasma lingers in the air. To the untrained eye, the La Brea Tar Pits seem to be nothing more than simply pools of thick, viscous black sludge...The pit’s contents have spelled the doom for a countless number of creatures both large and small, from legions of insects to mighty mastodons, mammoths, and snarling saber-toothed cats from the Pleistocene Era. La Brea Tar Pits are considered by many scientists to be among the greatest finds in modern history.
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The La Brea Tar Pits
- The History and Legacy of One of the World’s Most Famous Fossil Sites
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
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Einstein: His Space and Times (Jewish Lives)
- By: Steven Gimbel
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong moral principles. An avowed pacifist, Einstein’s mistrust of authority and outspoken social and scientific views earned him death threats from Nazi sympathizers in the years preceding World War II.
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Einstein: His Space and Times (Jewish Lives)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-12-23
- Language: English
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Quirk
- Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
- By: Hannah Holmes
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents, our children, our co-workers, our neighbors. As a highly social species, humans have to navigate among an astonishing variety of personalities.
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Of Mice and Men
- By TAG on 08-02-18
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Quirk
- Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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Losing Earth
- A Recent History
- By: Nathaniel Rich
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours.
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Losing Earth
- A Recent History
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Gazing at the Night Sky
- 5,000 Years of Humanity's Quest to Find Our Place in the Universe
- By: Bruce Wilson Jr.
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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The wonders of the universe never seemed so close. Who named the planets? Why isn't Pluto a planet? And what's the future of space? From ancient cave paintings to flying drones on Mars, humanity's relationship with the skies has changed dramatically. Gazing at the Night Sky looks back at over 5,000 years of history, from ancient Mesopotamian astronomers to the next horizons in space travel.
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Gazing at the Night Sky
- 5,000 Years of Humanity's Quest to Find Our Place in the Universe
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-09-22
- Language: English
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Questa è Scienza! 2
- By: Massimo Polidoro
- Narrated by: Vanni de Luca, Massimo Picozzi, Beatrice Mautino, and others
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Arriva su Audible la seconda stagione del podcast "Questa è Scienza!". Massimo Polidoro, scrittore e divulgatore scientifico, incontrando ricercatori, divulgatori e studiosi provenienti dai campi più diversi, fisica, biologia, psicologia, medicina, chimica, matematica..., ci conduce alla scoperta dei tanti modi in cui la scienza attraversa la nostra vita quotidiana, aiutandoci a capire quello che ognuno di noi dovrebbe conoscere. La scienza è qualcosa di incredibilmente affascinante.
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Life on Mars
- What to Know Before We Go
- By: David A. Weintraub
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032. As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the planet - and whether we have the right to invite ourselves in.
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Life on Mars
- What to Know Before We Go
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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Of Ice and Men
- How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
- By: Fred Hogge
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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An exploration of humanity’s relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet—and perhaps ourselves.
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Of Ice and Men
- How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-01-23
- Language: English
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our Universe. The collider is now crashing protons at record energy levels never created by scientists before, and it will reach even higher levels by 2013.
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Excellent book, ruined by the narrator
- By Catherine on 17-06-12
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Zombies
- A Completely Scientific Guide to the Lives of the Undead
- By: Mac Montandon
- Narrated by: Dickson Lane
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Here is a scientific look at zombies - and the ultimate guide to how the other half lives (or not). How fast and far would a zombie infection spread? What would a nutritionist say about an all-brain diet? Why are the undead so pissed off? Here are the answers to all of your essential zombie questions (you know you've asked them), with a lively, science-based exploration of every aspect of the undead.
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Amusing way to incorporate zombies into life
- By Katya on 01-12-15
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Zombies
- A Completely Scientific Guide to the Lives of the Undead
- Narrated by: Dickson Lane
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-10-10
- Language: English
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The Scientific Revolution
- Ringing In a New World
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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The Scientific Revolution was a chain of events that unfolded during the 16th and 17th centuries, which brought about drastic changes in scientific thought. Modern science emerged as advances in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics transformed society’s perceptions of nature.
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The Scientific Revolution
- Ringing In a New World
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 15-07-20
- Language: English
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- By: Chris Impey, Holly Henry
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it
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It didn't need to be so long
- By Preselector on 20-07-15
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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This scientific writing, which was considered to be the groundwork of evolutionary biology, presented the theory that species developed over a line of originations through a method of natural selection. It imparted evidence that the variety of life resulted from a common descent via a branching model of evolution.
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-10-10
- Language: English
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Darwin - In a Nutshell
- By: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Naxos AudioBooks launches a new introductory series 'In a Nutshell' with Darwin, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English naturalist. Peter Whitfield explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance to publish his findings.
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Darwin - In a Nutshell
- Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-02-09
- Language: English
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When the Sun Became the Center: How Copernicus Transformed Astronomy
- By: Dorothy Stimson
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Essentially, most religions believe they already have the revealed truth and thus all future discoveries must, in some sense, comport with that revelation. Otherwise, the very core of such belief systems can be upended. Witness Christianity's reliance on the Bible and Islam's total acceptance of the Koran. Science, in contrast, doesn't hold to such priori dogmas, and thus is a new and open-ended quest for understanding how the universe operates. Because of this it is consistently free to being wrong and hence it is intrinsically progressive.
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When the Sun Became the Center: How Copernicus Transformed Astronomy
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-04-18
- Language: English
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Cercatori di meraviglia
- Storie di grandi scienziati e curiosi del mondo
- By: Amedeo Balbi
- Narrated by: Valerio Amoruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Tutti i grandi protagonisti della storia della scienza hanno qualcosa in comune: un'ingenua, entusiastica curiosità, l'abitudine di osservare, la consapevolezza di non possedere a priori la verità. È l'atteggiamento dei "cercatori di meraviglia" che da sempre anima chi tenta di capire il mondo interrogando direttamente la natura (con risultati migliori dopo Galileo, grazie all'uso sistematico del metodo sperimentale). Per mostrare questo approccio in azione, Amedeo Balbi, astrofisico e brillante divulgatore, ha individuato sei grandi domande che potrebbe porre anche un bambino.
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Cercatori di meraviglia
- Storie di grandi scienziati e curiosi del mondo
- Narrated by: Valerio Amoruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-12-20
- Language: Italian
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
- How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
- By: Stephen B. Heard PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the 18th century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxonomic nomenclature, from Linnaeus himself naming a small and unpleasant weed after a rival botanist to the recent influx of scientific names based on pop-culture icons-including David Bowie's spider, Frank Zappa's jellyfish, and Beyonce's fly.
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
- How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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