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Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
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Excellent book but please spare us the accents!
- By Pierz Newton-John on 12-07-2018
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Energy
- A Human History
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2018
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
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Richard Rhodes' landmark history of the atomic bomb won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in this majestic new masterpiece of history, science, and politics, he tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, and traces the path by which this supreme artifact of 20th-century technology became the defining issue of the Cold War.
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 01-03-2010
- Language: English
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s, as well as the arms-reduction campaign that followed, and Reagan's famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev. Rhodes' detailed exploration of events of this time constitutes a prehistory of the neoconservatives. The story is new, compelling, and continually surprising - a revelatory re-creation of a hugely important era of our recent history.
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2007
- Language: English
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Richard Rhodes’s caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent....
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2011
- Language: English
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States—have struggled with new realities. He shows us how the stage was set for a second tragic war when Iraq secretly destroyed it's nuclear infrastructure and reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq.
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2010
- Language: English
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 10 hrs
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Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as groundbreaking, and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of being.
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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