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Gemini and Mercury Remastered
- By: Andy Saunders
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Embark on a captivating journey beyond Earth, from the dawn of human space exploration, through the untold story of the Mercury and Gemini missions When we think of the history of space exploration, we can’t help but think of the Apollo missions and Neil...
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Gemini and Mercury Remastered
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- 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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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
- By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. From building rockets to the handheld technology that governs our day-to-day lives, we are all in debt to the mathematical geniuses of the past. But the history of mathematics is warped; it looks like a sixteenth-century map that enlarges Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. The Secret Lives of Numbers introduces listeners to a new group of mathematical boundary-smashers, those who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
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The reader's soothing voice
- By Anonymous on 13-10-24
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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Histoire de France, de Clovis à Napoléon
- By: Jacques Bainville
- Narrated by: Philippe Colin
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Quand il était au collège, Jacques Bainville n'aimait pas l'histoire. Que discerner dans ce tissu de drames sans suite, cette mêlée, ce chaos...
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Histoire de France, de Clovis à Napoléon
- Narrated by: Philippe Colin
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: French
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This Idea is Brilliant
- Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Charles Constant
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science informs public policy, decision making...
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206 Chapters!!
- By slipperychimp on 12-09-19
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This Idea is Brilliant
- Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Charles Constant
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-01-18
- Language: English
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.
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Informative
- By James King on 31-05-23
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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Eureka Man
- The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
- By: Alan Hirshfeld
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and measure the spillage to determine the object's weight. That seemingly simple observation not only proved to King Hieron II of Syracuse that a certain amount of silver had been used in what was supposed to be his solid-gold crown, it established the key principles of buoyancy that govern the flotation of hot-air balloons, ships, and denizens of the sea.
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Great book
- By C M Pihl on 26-06-19
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Eureka Man
- The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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The Elements We Live By
- How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
- By: Anja Røyne
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know that we depend on elements for survival - from oxygen in the air we breathe to carbon in the molecular structures of all living things. But we seldom appreciate how, say, phosphorus holds our DNA together or how potassium powers our optic nerves enabling us to see.
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The Elements We Live By
- How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-06-20
- Language: English
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Racism, Not Race
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- By: Joseph L. Graves Jr., Alan H. Goodman
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee, Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference.
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Racism, Not Race
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee, Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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Collisions
- A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
- By: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of...
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Collisions
- A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- By: George Pendle
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.
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Uncomfortable narration
- By Bookish on 17-10-21
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- 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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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
- A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
- By: Luke O'Neill
- Narrated by: Luke O'Neill
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In our muddled era of conspiracy theories, fake news and groupthink, science's only goal is truth. Like all human pursuits it can go wrong, but it has the great strength of being self-correcting. At its best, what lasts - after much deliberation, rigour and sweat - is the truth. The story of science is how we get there. Standing on the shoulders of giants, world-renowned immunologist Luke O'Neill (aka the People's Immunologist) tells the zigzag story of how we got to this moment in human history, and what the future might hold.
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Riveting
- By David on 03-11-23
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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
- A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
- Narrated by: Luke O'Neill
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- By: Stuart Firestein
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance - not knowledge - that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room.
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Calling all Science Teachers!
- By Neil B on 23-05-20
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-10-13
- Language: English
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Informative, but often dry
- By OtterSpotter on 02-02-17
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-10
- Language: English
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- By: Robert M. Hazen, Michael L. Wong
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Of the codified laws of nature, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that miraculous order constantly emerges, too: children grow and learn; spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolution?
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Bad Astronomy
- Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
- By: Philip C. Plait
- Narrated by: Kevin Scullin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Dr. Philip C. Plait sets the record straight on many modern hoaxes and myths. Appalled that millions of Americans don't believe in the moon landing, or that an egg stands on its end only on the vernal equinox, Plait hilariously spills the truth and informs us of scientific inaccuracies in our everyday vernacular.
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I loved it!
- By Anonymous on 20-12-25
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Bad Astronomy
- Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
- Narrated by: Kevin Scullin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Enchanted Creatures
- Our Monsters and Their Meanings
- By: Natalie Lawrence
- Narrated by: Natalie Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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'Fascinating . . . a riveting tour' MERLIN SHELDRAKE 'Game of Thrones meets the Natural History Museum meets Grimm fairytales . . . fascinating, enthralling and definitely enchanting' CHRIS PACKHAM 'Thrilling, wide-ranging and profound' CASPER HENDERSON The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry...
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Enchanted Creatures
- Our Monsters and Their Meanings
- Narrated by: Natalie Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- By: Jonah Lehrer
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-09-08
- Language: English
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The Apothecary's Wife
- The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
- By: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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A revelatory history of medicine, The Apothecary’s Wife challenges the myths of the triumph of science and instead uncovers the fascinating truth. Drawing on a vast body of archival material, Karen Bloom Gevirtz depicts the extraordinary cast of characters who brought about this transformation. She also explores domestic medicine’s values in responses to modern health crises, such as the eradication of smallpox, and what benefits we can learn from these events.
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The Apothecary's Wife
- The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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