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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Astronomy and so much more
- By Andrei S. on 23-01-18
By: Carl Sagan
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The Universe
- The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
- By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart....
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A real effort to listen to.
- By MR DAVID PETER HARTLEY on 20-10-21
By: Andrew Cohen, and others
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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Fascinating, if a little short
- By ian on 23-06-17
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Arguments remain as valid as ever
- By Crosby on 05-09-20
By: Carl Sagan
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The Planets
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before....
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Worthwhile Update
- By Majicat on 25-05-19
By: Professor Brian Cox, and others
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....
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Worst speaker ever
- By Bastscho on 31-03-16
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Astronomy and so much more
- By Andrei S. on 23-01-18
By: Carl Sagan
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The Universe
- The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
- By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart....
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A real effort to listen to.
- By MR DAVID PETER HARTLEY on 20-10-21
By: Andrew Cohen, and others
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....
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Fascinating, if a little short
- By ian on 23-06-17
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Arguments remain as valid as ever
- By Crosby on 05-09-20
By: Carl Sagan
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The Planets
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before....
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Worthwhile Update
- By Majicat on 25-05-19
By: Professor Brian Cox, and others
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....
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Worst speaker ever
- By Bastscho on 31-03-16
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Space
- The Human Story
- By: Tim Peake
- Narrated by: Tim Peake
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson....
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Captivating
- By Paul on 20-02-24
By: Tim Peake
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people....
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First Time Read and Disappointed
- By Sarah on 20-02-18
By: Carl Sagan
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....
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Interesting, complex and sometimes flawed!
- By Jim Vaughan on 11-10-12
By: David Deutsch
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The Big Picture
- On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....
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More about Philosophy and its history than science
- By Amazon Customer on 06-04-20
By: Sean Carroll
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A Brief History of Black Holes
- And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong
- By: Dr Becky Smethurst
- Narrated by: Dr. Becky Smethurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects—Dr Becky explains all, and why nearly everything you know about them is wrong....
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Better than Prof Cox attempt
- By Nick73 on 19-11-22
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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The best one so far...
- By Sam on 30-01-17
By: Andrew Chaikin
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The Elegant Universe
- Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions....
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Brilliant
- By Jj on 17-05-21
By: Brian Greene
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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A truly superb book
- By Bob Upndown on 23-06-23
By: John Nichol
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It's Not Rocket Science
- By: Ben Miller
- Narrated by: Ben Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep....
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Simply excellent
- By Iain on 09-11-16
By: Ben Miller
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Jet Man
- The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
- By: Duncan Campbell-Smith
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Jet Man is the story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero....
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Fascinating despite issues
- By Nick Anderson on 19-07-21
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work....
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Test Your Little Grey Cells
- By Simon Gibson on 30-03-14
By: Max Tegmark
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- By: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists....
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Graphic!
- By polestar on 07-03-17
By: Michael A. Strauss, and others
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Oh dear!
- By Anonymous User on 30-04-21
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Under Alien Skies
- A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
- By: Phil Plait
- Narrated by: Phil Plait
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, revealing the sky as never seen before―from everywhere but Earth....
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if you like hearing about space, read this
- By Anonymous User on 31-07-23
By: Phil Plait
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Great
- By Niall Grimley on 18-09-23
By: David McCullough
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Life in Our Universe
- By: Laird Close, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: The Great Courses
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the most profound issues facing mankind - and one of the unresolved questions that science may finally be able to answer in this century....
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This is a good one. Credit worthiness
- By Jim evans on 14-08-20
By: Laird Close, and others
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The Theory of Everything
- The Origin and Fate of the Universe
- By: Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Hawking takes us on a fascinating journey through the telescopic lens of modern physics to gain a new glimpse of the universe....
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Brilliant!
- By Adrian on 14-04-13
By: Stephen Hawking
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Parallel Worlds
- A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku takes listeners on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe....
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Insight into Nature of that thing we live in
- By Ergonet on 08-09-16
By: Michio Kaku
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First Light
- Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
- By: Emma Chapman
- Narrated by: Emma Chapman
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the universe’s history, from recording the afterglow of the big bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole....
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Great book, but with some production problems
- By Julie McDermott on 14-09-22
By: Emma Chapman
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- By: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these twenty-four lectures....
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this is NOT the 2nd edition as advertised
- By wizzaw on 22-07-18
By: Richard Wolfson, and others
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The First Three Minutes
- A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
- By: Steven Weinberg
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic....
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some problems but overall good.
- By Anonymous User on 15-02-23
By: Steven Weinberg
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The Beauty of Falling
- A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
- By: Claudia de Rham
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
By: Claudia de Rham
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How to Build a Universe
- An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British science, producing an insight into the multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe....
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Must listen to the entire book - brilliant
- By Anon on 02-11-17
By: Professor Brian Cox, and others
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Forces of Nature
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking audiobook accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions....
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Diagrams are the Death of Audiobooks
- By Amy on 15-10-17
By: Professor Brian Cox, and others
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Alien Earths
- Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
- By: Lisa Kaltenegger
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Lisa Kaltenegger
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a uniquely specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search. With infectious enthusiasm, she takes us on an eye-opening journey to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview.
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
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The Jupiter Sun
- The Greatest Achievement in Human History
- By: Michael Mathiesen
- Narrated by: Michael Mathiesen
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, we go over the details of how NASA and hopefully Spacex and Blue Origins can get together and create a mission to create a 2nd sun in the sky. Imagine how other civilizations all around the universe who are able to look up into the sky around their planets with telescopes and instruments as powerful as ours and they notice a completely new star blazing into the night sky. They might even be able to conclude that this star had to have been created by an intelligent life form, a life form that may have achieved something no other life form had ever done before.
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The 2024 Solar Eclipse
- Impact on Earth and its Creatures
- By: Anthony Farrior
- Narrated by: Chris O'Neill
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The 2024 solar eclipse promises to be a momentous event, uniting communities and sparking scientific curiosity across North America. As the moon's shadow sweeps across the continent, observers will gather to witness nature's grand spectacle, pondering the mysteries of the cosmos and their place within it. From scientific research to cultural celebrations, the 2024 solar eclipse serves as a reminder of the profound connections between Earth and the cosmos, inspiring wonder and awe in all who behold it.
By: Anthony Farrior
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The Beauty of Falling
- A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
- By: Claudia de Rham
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
By: Claudia de Rham
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Space Oddities
- The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
- By: Dr Harry Cliff
- Narrated by: Dr Harry Cliff
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Something strange is going on in the cosmos. Scientists are uncovering a catalogue of weird phenomena that simply can’t be explained by our long-established theories of the universe. Particles with unbelievable energies are bursting from beneath the Antarctic ice. Unknown forces seem to be tugging on the basic building blocks of matter. Stars are flying away from us far faster than anyone can explain. In Space Oddities, Harry Cliff provides a riveting look at the universe’s most confounding puzzles.
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I utterly regret not knowing more sooner
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-24
By: Dr Harry Cliff
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Our Accidental Universe
- Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
- By: Chris Lintott
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The BBC presenter of 'Sky at Night', and Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Chris Lintott, takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents, big characters, and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years.
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An original take on popular astronomy.
- By David Ridge on 26-04-24
By: Chris Lintott
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Alien Earths
- Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
- By: Lisa Kaltenegger
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Lisa Kaltenegger
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a uniquely specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search. With infectious enthusiasm, she takes us on an eye-opening journey to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview.
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
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The Jupiter Sun
- The Greatest Achievement in Human History
- By: Michael Mathiesen
- Narrated by: Michael Mathiesen
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, we go over the details of how NASA and hopefully Spacex and Blue Origins can get together and create a mission to create a 2nd sun in the sky. Imagine how other civilizations all around the universe who are able to look up into the sky around their planets with telescopes and instruments as powerful as ours and they notice a completely new star blazing into the night sky. They might even be able to conclude that this star had to have been created by an intelligent life form, a life form that may have achieved something no other life form had ever done before.
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The 2024 Solar Eclipse
- Impact on Earth and its Creatures
- By: Anthony Farrior
- Narrated by: Chris O'Neill
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The 2024 solar eclipse promises to be a momentous event, uniting communities and sparking scientific curiosity across North America. As the moon's shadow sweeps across the continent, observers will gather to witness nature's grand spectacle, pondering the mysteries of the cosmos and their place within it. From scientific research to cultural celebrations, the 2024 solar eclipse serves as a reminder of the profound connections between Earth and the cosmos, inspiring wonder and awe in all who behold it.
By: Anthony Farrior
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The Beauty of Falling
- A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
- By: Claudia de Rham
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
By: Claudia de Rham
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Space Oddities
- The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
- By: Dr Harry Cliff
- Narrated by: Dr Harry Cliff
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Something strange is going on in the cosmos. Scientists are uncovering a catalogue of weird phenomena that simply can’t be explained by our long-established theories of the universe. Particles with unbelievable energies are bursting from beneath the Antarctic ice. Unknown forces seem to be tugging on the basic building blocks of matter. Stars are flying away from us far faster than anyone can explain. In Space Oddities, Harry Cliff provides a riveting look at the universe’s most confounding puzzles.
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I utterly regret not knowing more sooner
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-24
By: Dr Harry Cliff
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Our Accidental Universe
- Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
- By: Chris Lintott
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The BBC presenter of 'Sky at Night', and Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Chris Lintott, takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents, big characters, and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years.
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An original take on popular astronomy.
- By David Ridge on 26-04-24
By: Chris Lintott