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Three Stones Make a Wall
- The Story of Archaeology
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things". Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall.
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Three Stones Make a Wall
- The Story of Archaeology
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bully for Brontosaurus and learn about natural history.
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Significant and entertaining
- By veyza on 29-11-23
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
- Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos
- By: William A. Dembski, Casey Luskin, Joseph M. Holden, and others
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 30 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Science and Christianity are often presented as opposites, when in fact the order of the universe and the complexity of life powerfully testify to intelligent design. With this comprehensive resource that includes the latest research, you'll witness how the findings of scientists provide compelling reasons to acknowledge the mind and presence of a creator.
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A brilliant, comprehensive summary of ID
- By Martin Kentish on 21-02-22
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The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
- Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 30 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Charles Seife
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Very clever
- By elissaple on 01-02-23
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Seven Ages of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 History of Science in Britain
- By: Lisa Jardine
- Narrated by: Lisa Jardine
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In Britain, we're sometimes inclined to think of science as happening far away from us - in labs or universities or even in the past - and having little impact on our lives. In this groundbreaking series, Lisa Jardine weaves science back into the everyday by showing how the concerns of scientists have always been the concerns of us all. Starting in Restoration England, we travel through seven ages to examine Britain's unparalleled contribution to science.
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Seven Ages of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 History of Science in Britain
- Narrated by: Lisa Jardine
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- By: René Descartes
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words "I think therefore I am," his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies; that these are totally distinct "substances"; that God exists and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses.
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Contains Discourse, Meditations, and Principles.
- By Josh on 27-02-23
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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-10-09
- Language: English
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- By: Nicola Twilley
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the James Beard Award for Literary Writing "Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times Book Review “Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary...
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a mind-blowing book that's made me see the world differently
- By Kindle-klant on 27-07-24
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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AI Ethics
- By: Mark Coeckelbergh
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance32
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Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.
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Poorly written and even more poorly executed
- By Anonymous on 25-04-25
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AI Ethics
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- 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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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 story...
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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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When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- By: Martin Williams
- Narrated by: Michael J. Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands?
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Fascinating
- By Marilyn Weston on 16-03-26
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When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- Narrated by: Michael J. Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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What's Gotten Into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- By: Dan Levitt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of...
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What's Gotten Into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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The Knowledge Machine
- How Irrationality Created Modern Science
- By: Michael Strevens
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.
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interesting but repetitive
- By Kindle Customer on 01-08-25
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The Knowledge Machine
- How Irrationality Created Modern Science
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- By: Alex Boese
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ...
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Really fun listening
- By Joshua on 23-12-24
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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The Matter of Everything
- Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
- By: Suzie Sheehy
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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For millennia, people have asked questions about the nature of matter. In the 20th century, this curiosity led to an unprecedented outburst of scientific discovery that changed the course of history. In The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged these groundbreaking experiments.
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An interesting book
- By Mikey on 01-06-22
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The Matter of Everything
- Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
- Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Jürgen Holdorf
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance23
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Vor 100.000 Jahren war der Homo sapiens noch ein unbedeutendes Tier, das unauffällig in einem abgelegenen Winkel des afrikanischen Kontinents lebte. Unsere Vorfahren teilten sich den Planeten mit mindestens fünf weiteren menschlichen Spezies und die Rolle, die sie im Ökosystem spielten, war nicht größer als die von Gorillas, Libellen oder Quallen. Vor 70.000 Jahren dann vollzog sich ein mysteriöser und rascher Wandel mit dem Homo sapiens.
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- Narrated by: Jürgen Holdorf
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-09-13
- Language: German
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.
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best book I'll read this year
- By mr david curran on 15-03-23
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military.
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-10-22
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
- The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine
- By: Jeff Goldberg
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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A true scientific pause-resister that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race - not only with their fellow scientists - but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical companies. This audiobook chronicles the fascinating discovery of endorphins, the body's natural painkiller.
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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
- The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-13
- Language: English
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The Eureka Years
- A BBC History of Science
- By: Adam Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The long history of science is illuminated by eureka moments - occasional and startling breakthroughs that change the way we think about ourselves and our universe. Adam Hart-Davis guides us through the history of science by examining 16 of the most formative years for our understanding of astronomy, medicine, biology, space and time. Episodes include 1965, in which Adam examines how mankind's peculiar gift for self-destruction fuelled the race to the moon. He leafs through a book published in 1628, which described, for the first time, how blood circulates around the human body.
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Excellent
- By Mr Alexander R Gill on 20-08-25
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The Eureka Years
- A BBC History of Science
- Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Death by Shakespeare
- Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die.
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Fascinating!
- By Ian Smith on 31-03-20
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Death by Shakespeare
- Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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