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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military.
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2022
- Language: English
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The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887.... This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio", was discovered by Euclid more than 2,000 years ago. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places.
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Historical but full of insights
- By Shakes on 26-08-2016
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The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2013
- Language: English
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- By: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every...
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2025
- Language: English
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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Excellent and expansive communication
- By Phillip Goucher on 08-11-2024
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2019
- Language: English
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- By: David Kaiser
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-06-2011
- Language: English
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- By: César A. Hidalgo
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The celebrated scientist and author of Why Information Grows reveals how knowledge moves, drives progress and shapes the world We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern...
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2025
- Language: English
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean B. Carroll
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.
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complexity simplified
- By Anonymous on 04-09-2024
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- Narrated by: Sean B. Carroll
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- By: Tracey Spicer
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. Winner, 2023 Australian...
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So eye opening - a must read for everyone in tech
- By YnotSL on 01-01-2025
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2023
- Language: English
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Crush
- Close Encounters with Gravity
- By: James Riordon
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Gravity is at once familiar and mysterious. It's the reason for the numbers on your bathroom scale, the intricate dance of the stars and planets, and the evolution and eventual fate of the universe. In Crush, James Riordon takes listeners on a tour of gravity from its vanishing insignificance on the microscopic scale to its crushing extreme inside black holes.
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Crush
- Close Encounters with Gravity
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2025
- Language: English
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Red Moon Rising
- How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier
- By: Greg Autry, Peter Navarro
- Narrated by: Greg Autry
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Space Race 2.0 has started, and the winner—America or Communist China—will define the future of humanity. The space race was a critical determining factor in the Cold War. After its Sputnik miracle, the Soviets’ loss of the race to the Moon undermined the international mystique of Communism and crushed the USSR’s dreams of world domination. America’s wildly successful Apollo program, by sharp contrast, brought America global glory and prestige—along with a plethora of “miracle technologies” that accelerated economic growth and strengthened US national security for half a century.
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Red Moon Rising
- How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier
- Narrated by: Greg Autry
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 04-09-2025
- Language: English
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The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
- The Science of Success
- By: Richard Koch
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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In this follow-up to his best-selling The 80/20 Principle, the power law that helped hundreds of thousands achieve more by doing less, Richard Koch puts science to work, applying 92 other natural laws to promote the "science of success" within the ever-changing world of business. What does Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection prove about developing a niche product line? How can Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity help in a crowded marketplace?
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Fascinating
- By Anonymous on 17-07-2024
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The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
- The Science of Success
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2015
- Language: English
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete.
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An important challenge to the current orthodoxy
- By Anonymous on 06-10-2019
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Blind Spot
- Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
- By: Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.
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The Blind Spot
- Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- By: Anika Burgess
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2025
- Language: English
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Staying with the Trouble
- Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- By: Donna J. Haraway
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.
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Love it
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-2022
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Staying with the Trouble
- Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Germ in the Dairy Pail
- The 200-Year War on the World’s Most Amazing Food–Milk
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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From the author of The Moth in the Iron Lung comes a riveting exploration of how science, technology, and fear transformed our relationship with one of humanity's most ancient foods. Once revered as nature's perfect nourishment, milk became public enemy number one as germ theory unleashed collective panic about the invisible world within our food. Forrest Maready uncovers the fascinating, forgotten story of how this fear—epitomized by the notorious "swill milk" scandal—reshaped our food landscape forever.
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The Germ in the Dairy Pail
- The 200-Year War on the World’s Most Amazing Food–Milk
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2025
- Language: English
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Collisions
- A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
- By: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation.
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Collisions
- A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2025
- Language: English
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Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Cette "Brève histoire de l'humanité" déroule notre histoire globale, des premiers hominidés à aujourd'hui et interroge l'avenir qui nous attend. Comment l'"Homo Sapiens" a-t-il réussi à dominer la Terre ? Quelle singularité nous a permis de s'unir pour créer villes et empires, l'idée de religion, les concepts politiques de nation ou plus récemment des droits de l'homme ? Pourquoi cette dépendance et cette croyance que notre bonheur dépend de l'argent et de la possibilité de consommer ?
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Greatest mind of early 21st cent?
- By Christine on 14-04-2019
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Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Series: Sapiens
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2017
- Language: French
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Becoming Human
- A Theory of Ontogeny
- By: Michael Tomasello
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Tomasello assembles nearly three decades of experimental work with chimpanzees, bonobos, and human children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. Becoming Human places human sociocultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory and shows how biology creates the conditions under which culture does its work.
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What makes us human?
- By Reuben on 26-06-2024
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Becoming Human
- A Theory of Ontogeny
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2018
- Language: English
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