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A Brief History Of Time

From Big Bang To Black Holes

by Stephen Hawking

Narrated by John Sackville

Unabridged

7 hours 18 min
Brought to you by Penguin.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 the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers.It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton ... Read more
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The Planets

by Professor Brian Cox and 1 more

Narrated by Samuel West

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min
‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This MorningA companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before.Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once ... Read more
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The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

by Sean Carroll

Narrated by Sean Carroll

Unabridged

17 hours 22 min
*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." — Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings ... ... Read more
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Forces of Nature

by Professor Brian Cox and 1 more

Narrated by Samuel West

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min
Sunday Times BestsellerA breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the ... Read more
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Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

by Carl Sagan

Narrated by LeVar Burton and 3 more

Unabridged

14 hours 31 min
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen ... Read more
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Human Universe

by Professor Brian Cox and 1 more

Narrated by Samuel West

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min
Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more
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The Fabric of the Cosmos

Space, Time and the Texture of Reality

by Brian Greene

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Unabridged

22 hours 45 min
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.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?Greene uses ... Read more
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Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far, The

Why Are We Here?

by Lawrence M. Krauss

Narrated by Lawrence Krauss

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min
Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality-a grand poetic vision of nature-and how we find our place within it.In the beginning there was light.But more than this, there was gravity.After that, ... Read more
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Varieties of Scientific Experience, The

A Personal View of the Search for God

by Carl Sagan and 1 more

Narrated by Adrienne C. Moore

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min
Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spiritualityThe late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide ... Read more
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Until the End of Time

Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

by Brian Greene

Narrated by Brian Greene

Unabridged

14 hours 36 min
Brought to you by Penguin.From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purposeIn both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting.Someday, we know, ... Read more
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The 4 Percent Universe

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

by Richard Panek

Narrated by Ray Porter

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min
Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown.Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of the quest to find this “dark” matter and an even more bizarre substance called “dark energy.” This is ... Read more
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The Hidden Reality

Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene

Narrated by Brian Greene

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different “multiverse” proposals emerges from theories developed to explain the most refined ... Read more
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Darwin's Doubt

The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

by Stephen C. Meyer

Narrated by Derek Shetterly

Unabridged

15 hours 11 min
When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of ... Read more
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The Future of Humanity

Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

by Michio Kaku

Narrated by Feodor Chin

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku, read by Feodor Chin.Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.World ... Read more
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The End of Everything

(Astrophysically Speaking)

by Katie Mack

Narrated by Gabra Zackman and 1 more

Unabridged

6 hours 21 min
Brought to you by Penguin.We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story?With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much ... Read more
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Cosmosapiens

Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

by John Hands

Narrated by Gildart Jackson

Unabridged

31 hours 11 min
The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or ... Read more
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The Doomsday Calculation

How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

by William Poundstone

Narrated by Kyle Tait

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min
In the eighteenth century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's ... Read more
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Horizons of Cosmology

Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen

by Joseph Silk

Narrated by Joe Barrett

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min
Highly esteemed astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology in a way that balances an accessible style for the general reader and enough technical detail for advanced students and professionals.Indeed, while the physical laws and origins of the universe can be endlessly complex, even Einstein once mused that they could be explained simply ... Read more
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Summary Bundle: Memoir & Science: Includes Summary of Collusion & Summary of Cosmos

by Abbey Beathan

Narrated by Norma Jean Gradsky and 1 more

Unabridged

3 hours 14 min
Summary Bundle: Memoir & Science: Includes Summary of Collusion & Summary of CosmosFrom the Description of "Summary of Collusion"..."Comey was of the political right and a movement Republican. Until Trump came along, this socially conservative faction dominated the Republican Party." - Luke HardingLuke Harding is vicious when telling the truth and speaks about Russian and American players without ... Read more
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Dispatches from Planet 3

Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond

by Marcia Bartusiak

Narrated by Gabra Zackman

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirty-two concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover its mysteries.Bartusiak shares the back stories for many momentous ... Read more
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Befruchtung aus dem All

Joe Kirschvink entlockt winzigen Magneten im Gestein abenteuerliche Geschichten des Lebens.

by DER SPIEGEL

Narrated by Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V.
series SPIEGEL AUDIO
Unabridged

16 min
Ein paar Schachteln voller Gesteine, der Abguss eines Urmenschenschädels, an der Wand ein Poster, das die Analyse eines Marsmeteoriten zeigt, und außerdem: viel, viel Papier. "Seit unserer letzten Expedition in die Antarktis bin ich nicht mehr zum Aufräumen gekommen", sagt Joe Kirschvink. Der amerikanische Gelehrte entlockt winzigen Magneten im Gestein abenteuerliche Geschichten des Lebens: Sie ... Read more
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Accelerating Universe, The

Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos

by Mario Livio

Narrated by Tom Parks

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min
"The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things." —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams"This is a wonderfully lucid account of the extraordinary discoveries that have made the last years a golden period for observational cosmology. But Mario Livio ... Read more
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Comet

by Carl Sagan and 1 more

Narrated by Seth MacFarlane and 1 more

Unabridged

12 hours 28 min
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions ... Read more
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Eclipses

What Everyone Needs to Know

by Frank Close

Narrated by Corrie James

Unabridged

4 hours 45 min
On 21 August 2017 millions of people across the United States witnessed "The Great American Eclipse" of the Sun. The moment it was over, people around the world were asking questions: what caused the weird shadows and colors in the build up to totality? Were those ephemeral bands of shadows gliding across the ground in the seconds before totality real or an optical illusion? Why this, what that, ... Read more
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