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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: J. L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? This audiobook introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians calculating the size of the Earth while their caliphs conquered much of it and more.
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Ein gutes Überblick
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-19
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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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Questa è Scienza! 2
- By: Massimo Polidoro
- Narrated by: Vanni de Luca, Massimo Picozzi, Beatrice Mautino, and others
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Arriva su Audible la seconda stagione del podcast "Questa è Scienza!". Massimo Polidoro, scrittore e divulgatore scientifico, incontrando ricercatori, divulgatori e studiosi provenienti dai campi più diversi, fisica, biologia, psicologia, medicina, chimica, matematica..., ci conduce alla scoperta dei tanti modi in cui la scienza attraversa la nostra vita quotidiana, aiutandoci a capire quello che ognuno di noi dovrebbe conoscere. La scienza è qualcosa di incredibilmente affascinante.
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the leap year to the 1920s project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- By: Jimena Canales
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments―experiments that can only be done in the imagination―and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology.
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Falling Upwards
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists. Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who in the 1860s flew seven miles above the earth - without oxygen.
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Falling Upwards
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- By: George Szpiro
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
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Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
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Beste book I have "read" on futures & derivatives.
- By Emilie on 29-09-13
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 29-11-11
- Language: English
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- By: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. Part II focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Scientists Who Changed History
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and bold book of biographies. From mathematicians to meteorologists, geologists to geneticists, each scientist is presented through a combination of stimulating words.
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Great listen
- By Anonymous User on 18-09-23
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Scientists Who Changed History
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization. Water, Ball shows, is a key that unlocks much of Chinese culture.
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Better off with the paper copy
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-19
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-04-17
- Language: English
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In Our Time
- The Darwin Programmes
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Published to tie-in with the new series of In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg guides us through the most dramatic moments in our history. Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on Radio 4. He orchestrates the ideas of leading academics in each field, and leads a dynamic and lively discussion.
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In Our Time
- The Darwin Programmes
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-12-09
- Language: English
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Informative, but often dry
- By OtterSpotter on 02-02-17
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-10
- Language: English
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Electrified Sheep
- By: Alex Boese
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 12 hrs
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Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked. Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science.
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Fake facts!
- By Poul T. Sørensen on 20-02-20
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Electrified Sheep
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- By: Richard Carrier
- Narrated by: Richard Carrier
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more.
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- Narrated by: Richard Carrier
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-11-16
- Language: English
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What's Gotten into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- By: Dan Levitt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. But how did these elements combine to make us human?
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What's Gotten into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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The Eureka Years
- A BBC History of Science
- By: Adam Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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The long history of science is illuminated by eureka moments - occasional and startling breakthroughs that change the way we think about ourselves and our universe. Adam Hart-Davis guides us through the history of science by examining 16 of the most formative years for our understanding of astronomy, medicine, biology, space and time. Episodes include 1965, in which Adam examines how mankind's peculiar gift for self-destruction fuelled the race to the moon. He leafs through a book published in 1628, which described, for the first time, how blood circulates around the human body.
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The Eureka Years
- A BBC History of Science
- Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.
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A laughable take on the british defeat in the race for the pole
- By aksel samuelsberg on 19-04-24
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-06-11
- Language: English
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The Science of Superheroes
- By: Lois Gresh, Robert Weinberg, Dean Koontz - introduction
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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The Science of Superheroes takes a lighthearted but clear-headed look at the real science that underlies some of the greatest superhero comic books of all time, including Spider-Man, Batman, Fantastic Four, and many more. Each chapter presents the story of the origin of one or more superheroes and asks intriguing questions that lead to fascinating discussions about the limits of science, the laws of nature, and the future of technology.
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DO NOT BUY
- By adam on 17-01-20
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The Science of Superheroes
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-11-02
- 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
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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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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- By: Doug Macdougall
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields.
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An excellent read
- By Martin Oetiker on 03-11-23
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.
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best book I'll read this year
- By mr david curran on 15-03-23
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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