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The Invisible Universe
- By: Matthew Bothwell
- Narrated by: Matthew Bothwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the universe as we’ve never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of the stars, when we look with just our eyes we are seeing and appreciating only a tiny fraction of the universe. What does the cosmos have in store for us beyond the phenomena we can see, from black holes to supernovas?
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Thanks for this book
- By r.d.burgemeestre on 24-03-23
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The Invisible Universe
- Narrated by: Matthew Bothwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 18-21 Plus Apollo Special
- By: Professor Brian Cox
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, full cast, Robin Ince
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Four more series of Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s multi award-winning science/comedy show - including the 100th episode and 'The Infinite Moonkey Cage', a special hour-long episode celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. One of BBC Radio 4’s most popular programmes, The Infinite Monkey Cage sees Physicists Robin Ince and Brian Cox taking a witty, irreverent look at the world through Scientists’ eyes.
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Is this complete?
- By jamesc on 21-05-20
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 18-21 Plus Apollo Special
- Narrated by: Professor Brian Cox, full cast, Robin Ince
- Series: Infinite Monkey Cage, Book 18-21
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-05-20
- Language: English
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The Sign and the Seal
- The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
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The fate of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power, but the Ark itself mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon. After 10 years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends - revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
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Sneering narrator
- By Oli on 20-05-19
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The Sign and the Seal
- The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-12-18
- Language: English
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The Planets
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter, twice the size of all the other planets combined, but insubstantial. Saturn, a stunning celestial beauty, the jewel of our Solar System. Uranus, the sideways planet and the first ice giant. Neptune, dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. Pluto, the dwarf planet, a frozen rock.
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Worthwhile Update
- By Majicat on 25-05-19
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The Planets
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
- By: Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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For those who seek science truth
- By P on 02-05-19
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-12-18
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- By: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
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Graphic!
- By polestar on 07-03-17
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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One of Ten Billion Earths
- How We Learn About Our Planet's past and Future from Distant Exoplanets
- By: Karel Schrijver
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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This audiobook explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them. The lives of exoplanets and their stars are inextricably interwoven.
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An intimate guide to exo worlds.
- By Joye C. on 26-08-24
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One of Ten Billion Earths
- How We Learn About Our Planet's past and Future from Distant Exoplanets
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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The Universe
- The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
- By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox and access to all the latest NASA mission information, Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all - how did it all begin?
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A real effort to listen to.
- By MR DAVID PETER HARTLEY on 20-10-21
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The Universe
- The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
- By: iHeartPodcasts
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Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moon colonies to ecosystems to parasites and everything else in the Universe!
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Great!
- By Amazon Customer on 22-10-21
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- By: David Christian
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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A Very Good Effort
- By Gareth on 22-06-18
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Time
- From Big Bang to Black Holes
- By: Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite, or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos, from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the big bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory.
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Wonderful narrator
- By Erdferkel on 18-10-16
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A Brief History of Time
- From Big Bang to Black Holes
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- 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
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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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Earth
- An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
- By: Timothy Good
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
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This fascinating new volume tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy. For the first time, a former member of MI6 reveals her conversation with Neil Armstrong at a NASA conference, when she confirmed that there were "other" spacecraft on the moon when Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Armstrong also confirmed that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
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Funny
- By Michael on 19-01-20
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Earth
- An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of modern science, great minds have turned to testing and experimentation rather than mere thought as a way of grappling with some of the universe's most vexing dilemmas. So what is our latest picture of some of the most inexplicable features of the universe? What still remains to be uncovered and explored by today's scientists?
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Very basic
- By william mulligan on 05-01-15
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Series: The Great Courses: Astronomy
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-08-14
- Language: English
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Mark Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That ’something' is dark matter - invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets.
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The Egregious Errors Were Avoidable
- By Ash Roskell on 07-07-22
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- Narrated by: Mark Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-09-20
- Language: English
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A History of the Universe in 100 Stars
- By: Florian Freistetter, Gesche Ipsen
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly you need a huge telescope. There are big stars, small stars, nearby stars and faraway stars. Some died a while ago, others have not even yet come into being. Collectively they tell the story of the whole world, according to Freistetter. There is Algol, for example, the Demon Star, whose strange behaviour has long caused people sleepless nights.
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Boldly gone …,,,,,,
- By William J on 06-03-23
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A History of the Universe in 100 Stars
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Human Universe
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity.
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Inspiring stuff
- By Mrspatriciacherry on 09-05-17
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Human Universe
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-05-16
- Language: English
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- By: Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Gravity controls everything from the falling of an apple to the rising of ocean’s tides to the motions of the heavens above. If you’ve ever wondered how this most puzzling force works across our entire universe, you will be delighted by this 24-part course that is accessible to any curious person, regardless of your science education. No other product on the market presents the subject of gravity in as much detail as this course, which will follow the past 400 years of research and experimentation in the field.
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Perfect course for any physics enthusiast
- By DR Terrans on 09-10-19
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-12-18
- Language: English
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
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Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past?
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Terrible Narrator
- By Paul Stansfield on 23-01-21
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-02-04
- Language: English
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