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The Science of Discworld III
- Darwin's Watch
- Written by: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail.
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Awesome
- By D on 2023-02-07
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The Science of Discworld III
- Darwin's Watch
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-27
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld IV
- Written by: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with the really big questions, Terry Pratchett’s brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job – and indeed the truth of words – very seriously. She doesn’t know it, but her world and ours – Roundworld – is in big trouble.
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The Science of Discworld IV
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-11
- Language: English
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- Written by: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty - indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact - and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong.
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-03
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Art of Mentoring
- Written by: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Jason Huggins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Mathematician Ian Stewart tells listeners what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical - what mathematics is and why it’s worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical community, and many others.
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Art of Mentoring
- Narrated by: Jason Huggins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-29
- Language: English
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
- Written by: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred on an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village.
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Not as interesting or engaging
- By Chinazam on 2023-04-25
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-05
- Language: English
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Written by: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth being snuffed out by an asteroid.
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-18
- Language: English
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What's the Use?
- How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
- Written by: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: If we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights into our world, allowing us to accomplish feats as significant as space exploration and organ donation.
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What's the Use?
- How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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Lost Souls of Paradise
- Written by: Ian Ritchie Stewart
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the island's homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants that live under the bridges, behind the hedges, and on the edge of sanity in this tourist-island mecca.
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Lost Souls of Paradise
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-10
- Language: English
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Mentes maravillosas
- Los matemáticos que cambiaron el mundo
- Written by: Ian Stewart, Joan Lluís Riera - translator
- Narrated by: Enric Puig
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Ian Stewart presenta las vidas extraordinarias y los sorprendentes descubrimientos de 25 de los mejores matemáticos de la historia, desde Arquímedes y Liu Hui hasta Benoit Mandelbrot y William Thurston. Sus sujetos son personas inspiradoras que han hecho contribuciones cruciales a las Matemáticas.
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Mentes maravillosas
- Los matemáticos que cambiaron el mundo
- Narrated by: Enric Puig
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-18
- Language: Spanish
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