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Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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7 hours 17 min

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The Emperor's New Mind

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Conjuring the Universe

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5 hours 15 min

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The History of Time

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Narrated by Ben Esner ...

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3 hours 56 min

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by Turing Editorial Team ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series series Advanced Physics in Everyday Language
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1 hour 59 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Before there were worlds, there was chemistry.The universe began with almost nothing: hydrogen, helium, and a trace of lithium. No planets. No oceans. No life. Just a small set of elements and a great deal of heat.This book follows the chemical history of the cosmos, from the first atomic nuclei to the molecules drifting through interstellar clouds, ... Read more

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Night Life

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by John Lewis-Stempel ...

Narrated by Robert Bathurst ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

Brought to you by Penguin.At night the senses become reordered. Hearing becomes privileged over vision, and we edge forward arms outstretched, feeling our way through the inky blackness. It is after dark that the human being becomes more ‘animal’, more sensitive to Nature. But the lights of the modern world have obliterated any meaningful connection to the night. We have lost touch with its ... Read more

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Canadarm and Collaboration

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Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present dayCanada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program — a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill ... Read more

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How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of
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The Smallest Lights In The Universe

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Unabridged

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In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love.Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into the spaces around stars – looking for exoplanets outside our solar system, hoping to ... Read more

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In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love.Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into the spaces around stars – looking for exoplanets outside our solar system, hoping to
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Wonders of Our Solar System, The: A Deep Dive into the Planets and Their Moons

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Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Embark on a journey through the cosmos and explore the fascinating worlds that make up our solar system. "The Wonders of Our Solar System" takes readers on a captivating exploration of the planets, their moons, and the science behind their formation, composition, and the ongoing discoveries that continue to inspire scientists and stargazers alike. From ... Read more

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Material World

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Unabridged

14 hours 59 min

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Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

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BASIC PHYSICS FOR BEGINNERS

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by Darrell Ason ...

Narrated by Jerry Wright ...

Unabridged

3 hours 31 min

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The Last Three Minutes

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by Paul Davies ...

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Series series Science Masters
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Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end in a catastrophic "Big Crunch." There are other, more frightening possibilities. We may be seconds ... Read more

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by Antony Valentini ...

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Starry Messenger

The Emperor's New Mind

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut

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Practical Talks (Unabridged)

Conjuring the Universe

The Stellar Mind

SONIC SOUND HEALING - KLANGHEILUNG

Earth's Imagination

Our Beautiful Universe

Наука и общество

The History of Time

Astrochemistry Made Simple

Night Life

Canadarm and Collaboration

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Wonders of Our Solar System, The: A Deep Dive into the Planets and Their Moons

Material World

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BASIC PHYSICS FOR BEGINNERS

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