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Brought to you by Penguin. Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship. 65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to up to fifty Aircraft. HMS Queen...

Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War - the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions - taking us closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before. This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The Ride of Her Life and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the “winningly readable” (The Christian Science Monitor) true story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II. “Hard to put down . . . One need not...

Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In 12 minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 other spent four horrific days and five nights in the ocean with no water to drink, savaged by a pitiless sun and swarms of sharks. Incredibly, no one knew they were there until a navy patrol plane accidentally discovered them. In the end, only 316 crewmen survived. How could this have happened - and why?

Intended to bring leading thinkers in areas such as longevity, transhumanism, futurism, artificial intelligence, politics, philosophy, art, and culture – making connections among disciplines to facilitate breakthroughs in understanding and a more rational, advanced, and informed society. In the spirit of the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, the Enlightenment Salons make possible in-depth, long-form conversations that enable the exploration of ideas about humankind’s future in unprecedented ways.

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields.

Druga w historii noblistka z fizyki urodziła się w Katowicach, uczennica Skłodowskiej-Curie przyszła na świat w Sosnowcu, ojciec paraolimpiady pochodził z Toszka koło Gliwic, a jeden z najsłynniejszych neurologów pierwsze kroki stawiał w Tarnowskich Górach. Astronom-amator jedną ręką tworzył zwierciadła do teleskopów, a średniowieczny mnich stworzył podwaliny optyki. Tych opowieści próżno szukać w podręcznikach. Jednak pewne historie zaczynają się znacznie bliżej niż mogłoby nam się wydawać. Znani na całym świecie, choć dziś lokalnie nieco zapomniani. Czasem ...

The Big Ship: The Story of the S.S. United States is the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of one of the fastest ships in the world and one of the most luxurious passenger liners to cross the Atlantic. With new introductory material by the SS United States Conservancy, this classic volume includes photographs of celebrity passengers and of the majestic liner from her golden years, when she spurred the rebirth of America’s maritime glory, to her twilight years. Follow Frank Braynard, one of the great American maritime historians, as he chronicles the life of the S.S.

The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age is a groundbreaking book that exposes why math education is in crisis worldwide and how the only fix is a fundamentally new mainstream subject. It argues that today's math education is not working to elevate society with modern computation, data science, and AI. Instead, students are subjugated to compete with what computers do best and lose.

Signs is a podcast that explores one sign per episode, selected by each guest. Guests come from semiotics, linguistics, and beyond, and choose a sign, any sign: visual or auditory; icon, symbol, index, gesture, inscription, object, or sound.Host Sophia Burnett guides each conversation through how the sign operates, the contexts in which it appears, and the meanings it produces or unsettles. Episodes are recorded in French or English, with transcripts and translations available on the website: www.signspodcast.com

In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the components and causes of religious belief in the same way any scientist would investigate the movement of astronomical bodies.

The sinking of the submarine S-51 was one of the greatest tragedies in American naval history. Due to a miscommunication and subsequent collision between the sub and a passing steamship on a September night, the S-51, including 33 of its crew of 36, sank to the ocean depths. The tragedy of the S-51 captivated the nation, and was a fixture in the pages of American newspapers. The story took on a whole new dimension when the navy decided to take over the salvage of the 1,000-ton behemoth from a civilian company.

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes - creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world's most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of many-legged creatures

On the morning of October 24, 1944, in the Sibuyan Sea amidst the Philippine Islands, VT-18, a close-knit squadron of six young American torpedo bomber pilots, departed the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid on a search and destroy mission. Their target: the super-battleship Musashi, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The pilots were tasked with preventing the immense enemy warship and the huge naval armada of which she was a part from inflicting unspeakable damage.

A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the...

Kan man forbedre sin hukommelse ved at spise "hjernemad"? Kan man træne sin hjerne? Kan man smile sig glad? "HJERNEN ER STJERNEN" indvier os i alle hemmelighederne om vores mest utrolige organ. Hjernen er årsagen til, at der findes musik, kunst, sport ... Hjernen er stjernen! Din hjerne gør dig til den, du er. I kontakten mellem hjernens 100 milliarder nerveceller ligger vores intelligens, men også vores glæde, fascination, foragt, hukommelse, læring, musiksmag og meget mere. Du ville ikke være dig uden din hjerne. Vores hjerne lærer, den forelsker sig, og den tolker komplicerede sammenhænge.

Nesta co-produção da Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) e da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) o ouvinte é levado a um passeio pela história geológica da Terra, da formação do planeta à atual crise climática. Unindo ficção e ciência para tratar das urgências ambientais que ameaçam o planeta.

Der Podcast rund um das Thema sexuelle Selbstbestimmung und gegen sexualisierte Gewalt.Wir sprechen hier über ein Thema, das oft gemieden wird - obwohl es so viele betrifft. Vielleicht hast du selbst Erfahrungen gemacht, arbeitest im sozialen Bereich oder willst einfach besser verstehen, worum es bei sexualisierter Gewalt eigentlich geht.Wir nehmen dich mit in Gesprächen über Definitionen, Mythen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und persönliche Erfahrungen. Mal ernst, mal nachdenklich, manchmal auch mit einer Portion Alltag – aber immer mit Respekt. Denn: sexualisierte Gewalt ist kein ...