Showing results by publisher "Fourth Estate" in Science & Engineering
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The Glass Universe
- The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science In the...
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The Glass Universe
- The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-12-16
- Language: English
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Albert & the Whale
- By: Philip Hoare
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In Albert & the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Dürer's art endures. He encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmatic pop artists. He witnesses the miraculous birth of Dürer's fantastical rhinoceros and his hermaphroditic hare, and he traces the fate of the star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. And as the author swims from Europe to America and beyond, these prophetic artists and downed angels provoke awkward questions.
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Interesting book which can’t completely satisfy without the google engine
- By Vaclav Ceska on 13-07-21
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Albert & the Whale
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Riverman
- An American Odyssey
- By: Ben McGrath
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns. ‘The peace of mind...
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Riverman
- An American Odyssey
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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Luck
- By: David Flusfeder
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as ‘luck’—some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes or hastens it? To answer these questions, David Flusfeder sets out on a search for the definition of luck.
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Luck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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The Number Mysteries
- A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
- By: Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of ‘The Music of the Primes’ and ‘Finding Moonshine’ comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved – and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take a flight across the...
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About as enthralling as a reading of the phone book
- By Sam Melwis on 07-01-22
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The Number Mysteries
- A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-11-19
- Language: English
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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
- By: Philip Hoare
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery...
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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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Birds Art Life Death
- A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
- By: Kyo Maclear
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’ One winter...
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Simply beautiful
- By Shakaroo on 09-07-18
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Birds Art Life Death
- A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-02-17
- Language: English
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What If We Stopped Pretending?
- By: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’ The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated.
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This is not a book
- By Paul R on 20-02-21
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What If We Stopped Pretending?
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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Epitaph for the Ash
- In Search of Recovery and Renewal
- By: Lisa Samson
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by her uncle, Lisa Samson has communed with trees since her childhood. Tragically, a disease from mainland Europe now poses a very serious threat to the ash tree’s survival. Epitaph for the Ash explores how barren our landscape could become without the ash’s familiar branches...
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Epitaph for the Ash
- In Search of Recovery and Renewal
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-03-18
- Language: English
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