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A History of Biology
- De: Michel Morange, Teresa Lavender Fagan - Translated by, Joseph Muise - Translated by
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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Morange covers everything from the first cell theory to the origins of the concept of ecosystems, and offers perspectives on areas that are often neglected by historians of biology, such as ecology, ethology, and plant biology. He highlights the contributions of technology, the important role of hypothesis and experimentation, and the cultural contexts in which some of the most breathtaking discoveries in biology were made. Unrivaled in scope and written by a world-renowned historian of science, A History of Biology is an ideal introduction for students and experts alike.
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Comprehensive Yet Concise
- De Douglas Perry en 06-13-24
De: Michel Morange, y otros
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- De: Richard L. Currier
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Good facts, not much else
- De Joel B. Gordon en 10-30-16
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- De: John Dvorak
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.
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Total Eclipse of the Ahhhhh!
- De A.H. Derman en 06-25-24
De: John Dvorak
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- De: Johan Norberg
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
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Global Uptrends That May Surprise You
- De Alexandra Hopkins en 09-22-17
De: Johan Norberg
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- De: Dave Farina
- Narrado por: Dave Farina
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies.
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Requires Nonexistant Supplemental Material
- De Jordan Cline en 11-16-21
De: Dave Farina
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Space 2069
- After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond
- De: David Whitehouse
- Narrado por: Desmond O’Connor
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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The 13th person to walk on the moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the moon. From bases on the moon we can make the long, lonely and dangerous voyage to Mars, where there is also ice. The obstacles are many, not least the fragilities of the human body. And what type of world would the first Mars explorers find?
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Well, found a Brit who doesn't call it NASER...
- De Rob Miller en 01-18-21
De: David Whitehouse
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An Assassin in Utopia
- The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
- De: Susan Wels
- Narrado por: Kitty Hendrix
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place—especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together—without sin, they claimed.
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Just Okay. That's it.
- De Jeffy en 04-18-23
De: Susan Wels
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On the Backs of Tortoises
- Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
- De: Elizabeth Hennessy
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For 60 years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes - the giant tortoises - as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution.
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interesting subject, lackluster presentation
- De avid music fan en 04-03-24
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- De: Brian Clegg
- Narrado por: Mark Cameron
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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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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Breezy style, but some painful pronunciation
- De Gordon M. en 02-06-22
De: Brian Clegg
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.
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A Unique Take on the Scientific Project
- De Tom en 06-23-21
De: Alan Lightman
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Quantum Entanglement
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Jed Brody
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying?
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gappy and devoid of rigor
- De Anonymous User en 05-03-20
De: Jed Brody
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A Better Ape
- The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human
- De: Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell
- Narrado por: Chris Henry Coffey
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved? In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution.
De: Victor Kumar, y otros
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- De: Mark Wolverton
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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Extraordinary interesting history
- De Magnus Almgren en 10-23-20
De: Mark Wolverton
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- De: Theodore M. Porter
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages.
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Deadly Companions
- How Microbes Shaped Our History
- De: Dorothy H. Crawford
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man....
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Fantastic writing, research and narration!
- De Terrie en 02-26-21
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Pinpoint
- How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
- De: Greg Milner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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Over the last 50 years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the global positioning system. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity.
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This is not a book.
- De Patrick🍀 en 12-07-16
De: Greg Milner
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Book Madness
- A Story of Book Collectors in America
- De: Denise Gigante
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848.
De: Denise Gigante
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100 Turning Points in American History
- De: Alan Axelrod
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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Arnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends. It presents the 100 points at which America’s path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today.
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Why go partisan?
- De James Schoening en 02-04-23
De: Alan Axelrod