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What If?
- Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- Written by: Randall Munroe
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there were a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
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Strange questions, well thought out answers
- By Jon Ross on 2018-10-10
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What If?
- Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-02
- Language: English
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Deep Survival
- True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
- Written by: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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After her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?
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Interesting with insights into survivors mindset
- By Maral D. on 2018-09-18
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Deep Survival
- True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2006-07-28
- Language: English
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Quantum
- Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
- Written by: Manjit Kumar
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution.
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Eye opening and encouraging.
- By Ernesto R. on 2023-03-28
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Quantum
- Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2010-07-23
- Language: English
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Death by Black Hole
- And Other Cosmic Quandaries
- Written by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. This collection of his essays from Natural History magazine explores a myriad of cosmic topics. Tyson introduces us to the physics of black holes by explaining what would happen to our bodies if we fell into one; he also examines the needless friction between science and religion, and notes Earth's status as "an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos".
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Great book !!
- By Allison on 2023-06-14
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Death by Black Hole
- And Other Cosmic Quandaries
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2007-03-26
- Language: English
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A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- Written by: Walter Lord
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
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The first book ever written on the disaster!
- By Bella Amelia on 2022-01-20
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A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-19
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- Written by: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.
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Fascinating
- By Elle Penny on 2021-11-02
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-04-04
- Language: English
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The Way Home
- Tales from a Life Without Technology
- Written by: Mark Boyle
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.
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A Tamed Kaczynski
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-02-23
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The Way Home
- Tales from a Life Without Technology
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-11
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat
- How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
- Written by: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up "spread out" in a probabilistic state, neither wholly alive nor wholly dead.
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Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-21
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Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat
- How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-14
- Language: English
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Written by: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.
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Excellent book, poor sound editing
- By Pip on 2023-04-27
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2007-03-28
- Language: English
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory
- Written by: George Musser
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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We're living in the midst of a scientific revolution that's captured the general public's attention and imagination. The aim of this new revolution is to develop a "theory of everything," a set of laws of physics that will explain all that can be explained, ranging from the tiniest subatomic particle to the universe as a whole. Here, readers will learn the ideas behind the theories and their effects upon our world, our civilization, and ourselves.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Series: Complete Idiot's Guides
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2009-05-07
- Language: English
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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Fascinating walking old paths
- By Jamie Levine on 2020-06-18
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-11
- Language: English
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Atomic Adventures
- Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
- Written by: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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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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very interesting
- By Grantie on 2022-07-07
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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: 2017-06-06
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Mind
- Written by: Sylvia Nasar
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards.
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A fabulous read
- By Anonymous User on 2020-09-30
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A Beautiful Mind
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2009-03-26
- Language: English
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Written by: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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Not a Neo-Luddite Manifesto
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-16
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-11
- Language: English
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Becoming Fluent
- How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
- Written by: Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do, they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children.
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Excellent book about how adults learn languages
- By Patricia P. on 2020-05-23
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Becoming Fluent
- How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-12
- Language: English
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature
- Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things; Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 3)
- Written by: Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes listeners on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants.
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Excellent story.
- By Anna on 2020-09-18
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature
- Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things; Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-19
- Language: English
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Rabid
- A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
- Written by: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes.
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Hell of a narrator.
- By GDS on 2020-08-21
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Rabid
- A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-19
- Language: English
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West with the Night
- Written by: Beryl Markham
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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West with the Night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things: the African jungle, a certain dog, horses, airplanes, friendships with white men and black. There is no life, no story quite like it.
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One of the best books I’ve read or listened to.
- By Brooke on 2024-01-02
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West with the Night
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2006-01-01
- Language: English
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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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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Brilliant thinker worth listening to.
- By Rena on 2023-02-22
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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: 2004-12-26
- Language: English
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Overboard!
- A True Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
- Written by: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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In early May of 2005, Captain Tom Tighe and first mate, Loch Reidy, of the sailboat Almeisan welcomed three new crew members, two men and a woman, for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. While Tighe and Reidy had made the journey countless times, the rest of the crew were paying passengers learning about offshore sailing—and looking for adventure. Four days into their voyage, they got adventure but nothing that they had expected or had any training to handle.
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Favourite story theme.
- By susan on 2022-03-22
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Overboard!
- A True Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-16
- Language: English
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