Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in History & Philosophy
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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
- Unabridged
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Performance462
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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, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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Test Your Little Grey Cells
- By Simon Gibson on 30-03-14
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-01-14
- Language: English
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance12
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that...
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I've never read a book better than this one
- By VDS on 27-09-20
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
- By: Janna Levin
- Narrated by: Janna Levin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance31
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The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the...
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expecting something else completely
- By tom bunge on 24-12-20
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
- Narrated by: Janna Levin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. “Brims with strange and amazing facts...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-05-03
- Language: English
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance85
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Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio. Ignition!...
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better to read
- By tom bunge on 04-10-19
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance34
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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...
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Covers a lot more than Turing
- By Mr on 04-05-17
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance18
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From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time...
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Terrible Narrator
- By Paul Stansfield on 23-01-21
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-02-04
- Language: English
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- By: Neil Shubin
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity...
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Great and fascinating story
- By Kindle Customer on 27-05-20
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance83
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Story79
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...
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Informative but temporarily boring as an audiobook
- By Christos on 25-12-12
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-11
- Language: English
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- By: Sam Apple
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the...
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Detail
- By F Dee on 15-01-26
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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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...
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Great
- By Anonymous 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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Chaos
- Making a New Science
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall115
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Performance80
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Story80
James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos...
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Perfect Listening Experience (for a walker)
- By Kris on 26-02-15
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Chaos
- Making a New Science
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-02-11
- Language: English
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Toms River
- A Story of Science and Salvation
- By: Dan Fagin
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award “A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative...
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Toms River
- A Story of Science and Salvation
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-03-13
- Language: English
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Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- By: Dava Sobel, Neil Armstrong - introduction
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, LONGITUDE is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. During the great ages of exploration, "the longitude problem" was...
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Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-03-09
- Language: English
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to...
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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The Shape of Wonder
- How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
- By: Alan Lightman, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us. “Remarkable. . . . Illuminating...
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The Shape of Wonder
- How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-09-25
- Language: English
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- By: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the...
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Very plain way of telling a good story.
- By DM on 20-06-17
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-03-17
- Language: English
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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"Eagleman renders the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner “Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn...
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Electric Universe
- How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
- By: David Bodanis
- Narrated by: Del Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more...
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Electric Universe
- How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
- Narrated by: Del Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-02-05
- Language: English
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- By: Rachel Swaby
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Performance9
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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle In 2013, the New York...
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Perfect Summary
- By K. McCormack on 23-03-17
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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