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General Physics Audiobooks

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    The Half-Life of Facts

    Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there's an order to the state of ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Physics of God

    How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science

    by Joseph Selbie ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers-miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness-are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology. The Physics of God describes the intersections of science and religion with colorful, easy-to ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...
    Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 30 min

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMERJ. Robert Oppenheimer is one of ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Narrated by Bill Bryson ...
    Audiobook 5 - Bryson

    Abridged

    5 hours 47 min

    A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
    Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 41 min

    The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Order of Time

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of timeTime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have lon... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Narrated by Carlo Rovelli ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics written and read by Carlo Rovelli.These seven "short lessons" guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Quantum

    A Guide For The Perplexed

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world.Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Storm in a Teacup

    The Physics of Everyday Life

    by Helen Czerski ...
    Narrated by Chloe Massey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter?In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is only for specialists and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Magic of Reality

    How we know what's really true

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever told you that ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How To

    Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd

    by Randall Munroe ...
    Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling*What If?* and Thing Explainer.For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Beginning Infinity

    Explanations That Transform the World

    by David Deutsch ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours

    A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

    by Richard P. Feynman ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science—a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Physics Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...
    series Big Ideas

    Unabridged

    15 hours 45 min

    Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives.The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A New Science of Heaven

    How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience

    by Robert Temple ...
    Narrated by Robert Temple ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration which has equally important implications for our understanding of the universe. It is unknown to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Parallel Worlds

    A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

    by Michio Kaku ...
    Narrated by Marc Vietor ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 50 min

    Is our universe dying?Could there be other universes?In Parallel Worlds,world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku*—*anauthor who “has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth” (Wall Street Journal)—takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.In his first book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Emperor's New Mind

    Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 27 min

    For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do? In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Infinite Potential

    What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live

    by Lothar Schafer ...
    Narrated by John H. Mayer, Shishir Kurup ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    A hopeful and controversial view of the universe and ourselves based on the principles of quantum physics, offering a way of making our lives and the world better, with a foreword by Deepak ChopraIn Infinite Potential, physical chemist Lothar Schäfer presents a stunning view of the universe as interconnected, nonmaterial, composed of a field of infinite potential, and conscious. With his own ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    For the Love of Physics

    From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time---A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

    by Warren Goldstein, Walter Lewin ...
    Narrated by Kent Cassella ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    "You have changed my life" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. "I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes," wrote one such fan. When Lewin's lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and the New ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

    Adventures of a Curious Character

    by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton ...
    Narrated by Raymond Todd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”In ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Atomic Accidents

    A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

    by James Mahaffey ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    A gripping narrativeof nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotalto the advancement of nuclear scienceFrom the moment radiation was discovered in the latenineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovativescientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, anddownright disasters. Mahaffey, a long-time advocate of ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Tao of Physics

    An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

    by Fritjof Capra ...
    Narrated by Michael McConnohie ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 7 min

    "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex mathematics or formulae, this thought-provoking program ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 18-21 plus Apollo Special

    by Brian Cox ...
    Narrated by Brian Cox, Full Cast, Robin Ince ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 56 min

    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 landingsOne 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial