Showing titles in History & Philosophy
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A Briefer History of Time
- By: Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
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Overall341
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Performance217
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Story214
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of...
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Too much talk of God. American market focused.
- By M. Harding on 09-02-16
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A Briefer History of Time
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-03-06
- Language: English
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- By: David Berlinski
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance74
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Story71
Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought.
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Atheism's highjack of science debunked
- By Charles on 16-05-15
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-08-13
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Universe
- How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World
- By: Jonathan Black
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Jonathan Black shows that from Marie Curie to today's architects of AI, many of our greatest scientists have been guided by...
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The Secret History of the Universe
- How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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2084: Audio Lectures
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
- By: John C. Lennox
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going. What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s...
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2084: Audio Lectures
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- 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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Overall11
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Performance11
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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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Reality Is Not What It Seems
- The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,003
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Performance868
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Story862
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan. From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe Penguin presents the unabridged...
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Eye opening and mind expanding
- By Stefan on 28-11-16
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Reality Is Not What It Seems
- The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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It's Not Rocket Science
- By: Ben Miller
- Narrated by: Ben Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall301
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Performance245
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Story241
The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a...
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Simply excellent
- By Iain on 09-11-16
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It's Not Rocket Science
- Narrated by: Ben Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-07-12
- Language: English
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall304
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Performance253
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Story246
A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.
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Interesting, complex and sometimes flawed!
- By Jim Vaughan on 11-10-12
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 18-08-11
- Language: English
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete.
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Brilliant! A Theory of Life, Universe & Everything
- By Jim Vaughan on 12-06-16
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-02-14
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance70
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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 since their launch. Voyager...
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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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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- By: David Christian
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance127
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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A Very Good Effort
- By Gareth on 22-06-18
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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Bernoulli's Fallacy
- Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
- By: Aubrey Clayton
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the 17th-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.
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Hard to follow. Essential to know.
- By Kefuddle on 09-05-23
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Bernoulli's Fallacy
- Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Mind
- By: Sylvia Nasar
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance36
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Story36
John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards.
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Very different to the movie
- By Mr. P. D. Selman on 28-06-16
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A Beautiful Mind
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-09
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development. “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times “Startling in scope and bravado...
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-12-19
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Stories in Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall990
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Performance889
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'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn...
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Brilliant
- By John Ottaway on 14-09-16
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Stories in Our Genes
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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The Strangest Idea in the World
- A Shortcut to the Future
- By: Adam Mastroianni
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this raucous tour of the history and psychology of innovation, one of today’s most entertaining science writers unpacks the five counterintuitive mental moves behind every breakthrough—and offers inspiration for anyone who dreams of inventing something new. Here’s the biggest mystery in...
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The Strangest Idea in the World
- A Shortcut to the Future
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 23-03-27
- Language: English
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Now It Can Be Told
- The Story of the Manhattan Project
- By: Leslie R. Groves
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.
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Now It Can Be Told
- The Story of the Manhattan Project
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-08-24
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Science
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Samir Okasha
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance3
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How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective"? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this very short introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.
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Philosophy of Science
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- By: Peter Brannen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the celebrated author of The Ends of the World, an epic biography of the molecule that made – and could now break – everything we know All life is made from CO2 . It was there at earth’s birth, and throughout evolution. It has kept our planet habitable for...
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Immense; A Monument
- By Ricci on 26-04-26
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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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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Overall526
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Performance464
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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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