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Radiation
- What It Is, What You Need to Know
- By: Robert Peter Gale, Eric Lax
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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The essential guide to radiation: the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet; without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Robert Peter Gale, M.D. - the doctor to whom concerned governments turned in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima - in collaboration with medical writer Eric Lax draws on an exceptional depth of knowledge to correct myths and establish facts.
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Great
- By Anonymous User on 22-01-22
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Radiation
- What It Is, What You Need to Know
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-01-13
- Language: English
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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some really interesting bits, but jumped about
- By dean on 07-04-13
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-02-11
- Language: English
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization. Water, Ball shows, is a key that unlocks much of Chinese culture.
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Better off with the paper copy
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-19
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-04-17
- Language: English
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Into the Great Emptiness
- Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
- By: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level.
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Almost unbelivable history of grut and endurance.
- By Kevin McAleer on 26-02-24
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Into the Great Emptiness
- Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.
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Story of everything electronic told brilliantly
- By Chris on 31-03-24
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-03-20
- Language: English
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.
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A laughable take on the british defeat in the race for the pole
- By aksel samuelsberg on 19-04-24
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-06-11
- Language: English
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- By: Dave Farina
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies.
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Needs to be heard by many
- By Hawkir on 26-05-23
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Meltdown
- Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
- By: Joel Levy
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power
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Anti Nuclear tree hugging biased grot-rot
- By Mul on 22-11-21
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'.
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20 hours very well spent
- By Judy Corstjens on 21-09-17
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Spies
- America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
- By: Vince Houghton
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?
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Fascinating
- By Charles Howard on 16-11-22
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The Nuclear Spies
- America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-19
- 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
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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 Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- By: Jim Bell
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission, told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries--11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them decades after their launch.
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loved it
- By Marty on 03-12-21
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The Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-02-15
- Language: English
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Modern
- By: Richard Munson
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. Strikingly handsome and impeccably dressed, he was germophobic and never shook hands. He required nine napkins when he sat down to dinner. In later years, he ate only white food and conversed with the pigeons in Bryant Park. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life.
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Loved this
- By Greglarr on 17-09-23
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Modern
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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Third Thoughts
- By: Steven Weinberg
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and author of the classic The First Three Minutes, Weinberg shares his views on some of the most fundamental and fascinating aspects of physics and the universe. But he does not seclude science behind disciplinary walls or shy away from politics, taking on what he sees as the folly of manned spaceflight, the harms of inequality, and the importance of public goods. His point of view is rationalist, realist, reductionist, and devoutly secularist.
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third thoughts
- By Gareth Richards on 30-07-22
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Third Thoughts
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-08-18
- Language: English
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The Myth of Race
- The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
- By: Robert Wald Sussman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Wald Sussman explains why - when it comes to race - too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
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Should be taught in every school
- By peter on 15-12-19
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The Myth of Race
- The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon
- Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process.
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THE BEST AUDIO BOOK IVE EVER LISTENED TO!
- By Hannah Harris on 08-10-21
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The Icepick Surgeon
- Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Size is the most fundamental structural variable of the universe. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards. Grounded in history and drawing on the latest science, with much recourse to art and classic literature, Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life, the Earth, technical advances and societies and economies.
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thought provoking
- By jayjay on 28-07-23
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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Cosmosapiens
- Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
- By: John Hands
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
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Who are we, and how did we get here? These are two of the most fundamental and far-reaching questions facing scientists and cosmologists alike and have rested at the center of human intellectual endeavor since its beginning. They are questions that stretch across numerous disciplines. Philosophy, theology, evolutionary biology, and mathematics are just some of the fields looking to explain the emergence of human life.
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you need the 'bonus' materials
- By Chris Edmondson on 09-03-16
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Cosmosapiens
- Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-02-16
- Language: English
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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New developments in statistics breathlessly told
- By David Steinsaltz on 08-08-15
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-03-12
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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