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Latitude
- The astonishing adventure that shaped the world
- By: Nicholas Crane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth. They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine. The survivors won't return for ten years. An almost forgotten moment in...
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Maps, or lack of…
- By Mr P A Atkinson on 05-07-22
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Latitude
- The astonishing adventure that shaped the world
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- By: Todd Zwillich
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Overall59
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Performance57
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Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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Inspirational
- By James Frank on 26-03-26
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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The Contrarian
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
- By: Max Chafkin
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance74
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Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, Thiel has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of contemporary life. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.
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Entertaining yellowish book, bad biography
- By foufoutos on 30-10-21
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The Contrarian
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall718
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Performance585
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A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman’s cells – taken without her knowledge – have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating...
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Extremely over hyped, and in no way a science book
- By Philip on 25-02-11
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-02-11
- Language: English
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Albert Einstein
- The Mind That Reshaped Our Universe
- By: Jasmine Dyggan
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance50
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In Albert Einstein, Jasmine Dyggan explores the defining breakthroughs and moments that made Einstein an icon—not just of science, but of human intellect and courage. With clarity and depth, this book delves into Einstein’s groundbreaking theories, including special and general relativity, quantum theory, and E=mc², tracing how these radical ideas not only transformed physics but redefined our understanding of reality itself. It also explores the lesser-known dimensions of his legacy—his commitment to human rights, pacifism, and intellectual freedom.
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Decoding the Mind of a Maverick Genius
- By Oscar on 01-08-25
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Albert Einstein
- The Mind That Reshaped Our Universe
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-07-25
- Language: English
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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The Voyage of the Beagle - or, to give it its full title, Journal of researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage round the World of H.M.S. Beagle under command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N. - is much more than merely an account of Darwin's scientific observations in his 1831 - 36 travels across the globe: it is fine travel writing in its own right.
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fantastic tales of Darwin's infamous voyage
- By P. Winter on 14-02-15
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 28-09-09
- Language: English
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Starchild
- The inspirational memoir from the space scientist and bestselling author - My Life Under the Night Sky
- By: Maggie Aderin
- Narrated by: Maggie Aderin
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'I'd toast the moon and look at the sky... I think it draws us to it; we wonder what lies beyond.' Maggie Aderin-Pocock’s destiny was always written in the stars. From the age of three, inspired by The Clangers, her dream was to go into space. Throughout a chaotic...
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A joyful and inspiring journey through life
- By Michael C. on 04-04-26
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Starchild
- The inspirational memoir from the space scientist and bestselling author - My Life Under the Night Sky
- Narrated by: Maggie Aderin
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-02-26
- Language: English
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Gifted Hands
- The Ben Carson Story
- By: Ben Carson M.D., Cecil Murphey
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance34
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Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for...
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Inspirational and riveting
- By Anne on 12-02-12
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Gifted Hands
- The Ben Carson Story
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
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The Incurable Romantic
- and Other Unsettling Revelations
- By: Frank Tallis
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance40
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'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book' Ian McEwan Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone...
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Brilliant read
- By MJ Zielinska-Moyce on 11-05-19
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The Incurable Romantic
- and Other Unsettling Revelations
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung
- The Complete Guide to the Great Psychoanalyst, Including the Unconscious, Archetypes and the Self
- By: Gary Bobroff
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology who revolutionized the way we approached the human psyche. Drawing on Eastern mysticism, mythology and dream analysis to develop his theories, Jung proposed many ideas which are still influential today, including introversion, extroversion and the collective unconscious.
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung
- The Complete Guide to the Great Psychoanalyst, Including the Unconscious, Archetypes and the Self
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- By: James D. Watson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance57
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.
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Great Book on the Discovery o DNA
- By Amuzun on 26-07-22
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The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-08-11
- Language: English
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
- By: Chris Hadfield
- Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,992
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Performance1,822
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This audiobook is fascinatingly read by the author, Chris Hadfield. Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality...
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More memoir than diary.
- By Kez on 13-03-15
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-10-13
- Language: English
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The Quantum Labyrinth
- How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
- By: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance45
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The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and...
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Dr SJarnjak
- By Silvija Jarnjak on 21-01-19
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The Quantum Labyrinth
- How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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Very Bad People
- The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption
- By: Patrick Alley
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance102
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Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes—and the 'shadow network' that enables them. Very Bad People is about going undercover in the world's most dangerous places and bringing down the people behind the crimes.
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Self congratulatory rubbish
- By LondonBubble on 25-02-23
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Very Bad People
- The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Samsung Rising
- Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech
- By: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance51
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Based on years of reporting on Samsung for the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Time from his base in South Korea and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers the first deep look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody knows. How has this happened? Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertiliser.
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A must-read for anyone interested in Samsung
- By Ben Wood on 15-02-22
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Samsung Rising
- Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-03-20
- Language: English
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Tim Cook
- The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
- By: Leander Kahney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance102
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tim Cook written by Leander Kahney, read by Jonathan Cowley. The first biography of Apple's CEO, Tim Cook 'A rich narrative with chapters covering values and Apple's progress under Cook' Wall Street Journal In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task -...
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One dimensional and more than a tad shallow
- By M. Hubbard on 18-04-19
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Tim Cook
- The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- By: Jessica Riskin
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORKER “A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore “A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava Sobel The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history...
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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Crick
- A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain
- By: Matthew Cobb
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Francis Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner workings of the brain. Yet for all his drive, he was driven by collaboration: with Jim Watson on DNA, with artists in Cambridge and California, and with his wife Odile, who drew the figure of the double helix that illuminated his most famous discovery. It was his debates and conflicts with these collaborators that powered a mind in motion.
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Long
- By Interested on 23-12-25
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Crick
- A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance45
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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society...
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A magnificent intellectual biography!
- By Rachel Redford on 21-09-22
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- By: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall372
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Performance311
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.
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Another Great Feynman Outing
- By LilyRose on 15-12-13
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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