Gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours
-
The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- Narrateur(s): P.J. Ochlan
- Durée: 9 h et 37 min
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
Acheter pour 23,31$
Aucun mode de paiement valide enregistré.
Nous sommes désolés. Nous ne pouvons vendre ce titre avec ce mode de paiement
Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
-
Empires of the Steppes
- Auteur(s): Kenneth Harl
- Narrateur(s): Corey M. Snow
- Durée: 17 h et 13 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East.
Auteur(s): Kenneth Harl
-
The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- Auteur(s): Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 21 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.
Auteur(s): Bart van Loo, Autres
-
Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- Auteur(s): Janine M. Benyus
- Narrateur(s): Callie Beaulieu
- Durée: 14 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
Auteur(s): Janine M. Benyus
-
The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
-
-
An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
-
The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 18 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....
-
-
Fantastic! ...but not as an audiobook.
- Écrit par Alexandre L'Écuyer le 2019-06-26
Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
-
Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- Auteur(s): Edward Slingerland
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 10 h et 27 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.
-
-
Great book
- Écrit par Scott R le 2023-10-03
Auteur(s): Edward Slingerland
-
Empires of the Steppes
- Auteur(s): Kenneth Harl
- Narrateur(s): Corey M. Snow
- Durée: 17 h et 13 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East.
Auteur(s): Kenneth Harl
-
The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- Auteur(s): Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 21 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.
Auteur(s): Bart van Loo, Autres
-
Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- Auteur(s): Janine M. Benyus
- Narrateur(s): Callie Beaulieu
- Durée: 14 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
Auteur(s): Janine M. Benyus
-
The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
-
-
An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
-
The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 18 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....
-
-
Fantastic! ...but not as an audiobook.
- Écrit par Alexandre L'Écuyer le 2019-06-26
Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
-
Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- Auteur(s): Edward Slingerland
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 10 h et 27 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.
-
-
Great book
- Écrit par Scott R le 2023-10-03
Auteur(s): Edward Slingerland
Description
An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse and destroy the world's power grids and electronic communications
A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization.
Award-winning science journalist Alanna Mitchell tells in The Spinning Magnet the fascinating history of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism. From investigations into magnetism in 13th-century feudal France and the realization 600 years later in the Victorian era that electricity and magnetism were essentially the same, to the discovery that Earth was itself a magnet, spinning in space with two poles and that those poles aperiodically reverse, this is a utterly engrossing narrative history of ideas and science that listeners of Stephen Greenblatt and Sam Kean will love.
The recent finding that Earth's magnetic force field is decaying 10 times faster than previously thought, portending an imminent pole reversal, ultimately gives this story a spine-tingling urgency. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other things, wipe out all electromagnetic technology. No satellites, no Internet, no smartphones - maybe no power grid at all. Such potentially cataclysmic solar storms are not unusual. The last one occurred in 2012, and we avoided returning to the Dark Ages only because the part of the sun that erupted happened to be facing away from Earth. One leading US researcher is already drawing maps of the parts of the planet that would likely become uninhabitable.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"The Earth's magnetic field -- an invisible cloak that shields our bodies and our technologies from deadly harm -- tends to be taken for granted. In reality it's a fickle, ill-understood phenomenon. Alanna Mitchell delves into the mystery, in an engrossing book that features a new surprise on every page." (Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself)
"In The Spinning Magnet, Alanna Mitchell weaves a scientific mystery in the best possible way, exploring the ancient puzzle of our planet's electromagnetic field, following scientists as they attempt to decipher its clues, leading us to a better understanding of Earth's invisible and powerful electromagnetic field. The result is a compelling tale of unseen and unforeseen natural forces - and a reminder that we've staked our home on a planet that remains infinitely strange, dangerous - and ever full of wonder." (Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York)
"A fascinating untold story of science that is full of mystery and intrigue, and written with a great deal of style." (Mark Miodownik, New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters; winner of the Royal Society’s Winton Prize)
D'autres livres audio du même...
narrateur:
Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Spinning Magnet
Moyenne des évaluations de clientsÉvaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- clevrgrl
- 2018-06-01
Worth a credit!!
If any part of you is a bit of a science nerd, or like me, has spent many, many hours loving sci-fi, but wishing there was a bit more sci to round out and bolster up the fi, you will probably love this narrative as much as me. My science knowledge is limited mostly to life sciences, so none of the material in this book is in my wheelhouse at all, but it is well explained and accessible to the average science-interested reader. Highly recommended!!
#Audible1
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile