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Take Me To Your Leader
- Practical Advice for Your First Alien Encounter
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* America's favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with...
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Excelent
- By Anonymous on 15-06-26
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Take Me To Your Leader
- Practical Advice for Your First Alien Encounter
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Free Will
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, “brilliant and witty” (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to...
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mind blowing book
- By Dom on 22-04-15
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Free Will
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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“A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama” (The Christian Science Monitor). When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and...
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Far too fast, kindle only has 0.75 to reduce speed
- By Macksparky on 22-05-17
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-03-14
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
- Abridged
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret...
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Essential history
- By Y. Syed on 16-06-15
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 01-03-10
- Language: English
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On the Equality of All Things
- Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
- By: Carlo Rovelli
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A radical new vision of reality from one of the great minds of our time, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy. We are living in an age of scientific advancement on par with that of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton: a period of discovery that has so fundamentally...
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On the Equality of All Things
- Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 15-09-26
- Language: English
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Fire in the Sky
- Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
- By: Gordon L. Dillow
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This “accessible and always entertaining” (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and in-depth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us now, as well as how prepared we are against asteroid-caused catastrophe. One of...
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Informative and entertaining
- By Cryptochimp on 30-06-20
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Fire in the Sky
- Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .
- Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but “superlatively gifted science writer”...
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .
- Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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A Universe from Nothing
- Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss, Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...
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A Universe from Nothing
- Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
- Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss, Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-06-26
- Language: English
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books...
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- By: Jennet Conant
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War...
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Wonderful insiders account
- By Michael on 24-12-12
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-06-05
- Language: English
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The Language of God
- A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- By: Francis S. Collins
- Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational...
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Language of God a unique perspective
- By Shaheer on 26-11-15
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The Language of God
- A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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The Magic of Reality
- How We Know What's Really True
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of...
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The Magic of Reality
- How We Know What's Really True
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush...
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-04-07
- Language: English
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
- By: Ken Alder
- Narrated by: Brian Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona...
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
- Narrated by: Brian Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-10-02
- Language: English
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The Human Instinct
- How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
- By: Kenneth R. Miller
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution). Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on...
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The Human Instinct
- How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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The Religion of Sports
- Navigating the Trials of Life through the Games we Love
- By: Gotham Chopra
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people’s lives all over the world. Featuring never-before-heard stories about Tom Brady...
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The Religion of Sports
- Navigating the Trials of Life through the Games we Love
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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Why Time Flies
- A Mostly Scientific Investigation
- By: Alan Burdick, Alan Burdick - introduction
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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“An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time…A highly illuminating intellectual investigation” (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience time. “Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it...
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Why Time Flies
- A Mostly Scientific Investigation
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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The Moral Landscape
- How Science Can Determine Human Values
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to...
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The Moral Landscape
- How Science Can Determine Human Values
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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The Sentient Machine
- The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Amir Husain
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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“A must-read for anyone looking to understand how artificial intelligence is poised to transform human society and life.” —Paul Scharre, Author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how...
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The Sentient Machine
- The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-11-17
- Language: English
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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In the now-classic Forensics, internationally bestselling and award-winning “queen of crime” (CrimeReads) Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has...
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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