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Atomic Adventures
- Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
- By: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance211
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Story210
Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's new book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future.
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Excellent
- By AJB on 23-09-21
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Atomic Adventures
- Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them
- By: Neil Bradbury
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall225
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Performance189
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Story187
'Indecently entertaining' A Daily Mail Book of the Week As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring — and popular — weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even...
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A brilliant wee gem of a book
- By Lee on 05-04-22
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Brought to you by Penguin. In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the...
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An incredible book
- By Liza79 on 19-05-21
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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Dangerous Miracle
- A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them
- By: Liam Shaw
- Narrated by: Liam Shaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. Antibiotics: one of humanity’s greatest achievements – but invented by microbes. An epic narrative of discovery and innovation – but also of extraction and exploitation. This is the spellbinding story of how we have burned through the fossil fuels of medicine...
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Brilliant
- By Razzamuffin on 03-04-26
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Dangerous Miracle
- A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them
- Narrated by: Liam Shaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-08-25
- Language: English
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In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Quantum Physics and Reality
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Nicholas Masters-Waage
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance68
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Story68
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In...
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Great performance !
- By Alexander on 10-06-22
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In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Quantum Physics and Reality
- Narrated by: Nicholas Masters-Waage
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- 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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Overall1,002
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Performance867
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Story861
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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The Science Book
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story14
Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and inertia, why Isaac Newton gets the credit for them, and what the discovery of DNA meant. All the big scientific ideas are brought to life with pithy quotes and step-by-step 'mind maps' - from evolution and continental drift to black holes and genetic engineering, showing how the ideas of famous scientists have affected our understanding of the world.
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Fantastic noise
- By Alan spiller on 15-03-26
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The Science Book
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-12-19
- Language: English
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall494
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Performance438
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Story438
Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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Fascinating!
- By Amazon Customer on 22-07-20
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- By: Tobias Hürter
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time.
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Highly interesting and informative throughout
- By Mike on 25-11-22
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Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- 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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The Song of the Cell
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance77
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Story77
Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists...
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Not as satisfying
- By AZ767594 on 11-01-23
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The Song of the Cell
- How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- By: Neil Shubin
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity...
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Great and fascinating story
- By Kindle Customer on 27-05-20
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance79
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Story78
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- 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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Humboldt's Cosmos
- Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World
- By: Gerard Helferich
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance2
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The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called "the true discoverer of South America" and the daring expedition that altered the course of science. From 1799 to 1804 German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt conducted the first extensive scientific exploration of Latin America.
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Humboldt's Cosmos
- Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-01-10
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- By: David N. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of...
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Wonderful story- especially if you like physics
- By Brian on 23-02-18
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- By: Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance93
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Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin. The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors.
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New information instead of another history lesson
- By Kindle Customertg on 09-05-18
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Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- 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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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
- The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
- By: Lisa Randall
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall94
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Performance83
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In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times best-selling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the farthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.
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Lisa lacks self awareness.
- By Carl Finnerty on 17-05-17
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
- The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-03-16
- Language: English
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- By: Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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This audiobook includes forewords read by the authors, Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert. The International Bestseller 'Ambitious . . . pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics - New Scientist 'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill...
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Certainly Wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 15-04-26
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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