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A Brief History of Black Holes
- And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong
- By: Dr Becky Smethurst
- Narrated by: Dr. Becky Smethurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 496
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story5 out of 5 stars 434
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole—the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy. In A Brief History of Black Holes, University of Oxford astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst charts the scientific breakthroughs that have uncovered the weird and wonderful world of black holes, from Hawking radiation to the iconic first photographs of a black hole in 2019.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Becky is the British Neil Degrasse Tyson!
- By Mark on 09-02-22
- A Brief History of Black Holes
- And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong
- By: Dr Becky Smethurst
- Narrated by: Dr. Becky Smethurst
very good book
Reviewed: 12-02-22
I enjoyed this book so much, am not new to the topic but not a expert either. this book manages perfectly between simple and not too simple.
the author is very passionately about the topic and you feel it
highly recommended
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Tim Marshall's global best seller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores 10 regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- By Oskar Tegby on 11-02-23
- The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
nice
Reviewed: 03-28-22
a bit too much space speculation in the end.
overall a nice way of looking at nation states
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The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
- By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,543
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,153
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death was arguably the most significant event in Western history, profoundly affecting every aspect of human life, from the economic and social to the political, religious, and cultural. In its wake the plague left a world that was utterly changed, forever altering the traditional structure of European societies and forcing a rethinking of every single system of Western civilization: food production and trade, the church, political institutions, law, art, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"The horseman on the white horse was plague"
- By Cynthia on 08-15-17
really good book
Reviewed: 11-17-20
recommended, entertaining and easy listening.
hope you like it too, really nice book.
thank you
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13,029
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,345
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11,317
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
- Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
a bit self glorifying
Reviewed: 10-16-19
a good book, not doubt his motives but a bit much self centred
that said he earned the right
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The Industrial Revolution
- By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,595
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at home, we owe so much of our world to the Industrial Revolution. In this course, The Great Courses partners with the Smithsonian - one of the world's most storied and exceptional educational institutions - to examine the extraordinary events of this period and uncover the far-reaching impact of this incredible revolution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The story of human progress through technology
- By Jacobus on 11-05-14
- The Industrial Revolution
- By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
Nice but lack dept at times
Reviewed: 10-12-17
Nice insights but to shallow at times.
All with all enjoyed it. And is s very nice introduction to the topic.
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The Pioneer Detectives
- Did a Distant Spacecraft Prove Einstein and Newton Wrong?
- By: Konstantin Kakaes
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
Explore one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: In the 1980s, NASA scientists detected an unknown force acting on the spacecraft Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to journey through the asteroid belt and study Jupiter, eventually leaving the solar system. No one seemed able to agree on a cause. (Dark matter? Tensor-vector-scalar gravity? Collisions with gravitons?) What did seem clear to those who became obsessed with it was that the Pioneer Anomaly had the potential to upend Einstein and Newton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kindly told in context.of the early spacerace.
- By John Coppolella on 04-22-18
- The Pioneer Detectives
- Did a Distant Spacecraft Prove Einstein and Newton Wrong?
- By: Konstantin Kakaes
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
completly outdated
Reviewed: 11-27-14
What was most disappointing about Konstantin Kakaes’s story?
the book as good ones but is completly outdated
Any additional comments?
not sell outdated books pls, in this topic science catched up long ago already
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,270
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,788
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15,721
Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Held my interest for 57 hours and 13 minutes
- By Jonnie on 11-08-10
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Very intresting book
Reviewed: 02-25-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I listened/read a bit about the topic so was a bit skeptical.
the book is not about the "wrong" nazi regime, it is all too easy to call it evil. The writer takes you an a journey first prior to the nize period. trying and succeding to show what the living conditions of the different groups in pre- nazi germany.
The french occupation of the rine land and the things that made party's like those of hitler possible. Never to fall in golifying nor ridicule the movement.
The reads gets facts, raw data, and if the writer gives his view, what not ofthen happens and when it does to put things in persective, it is clearly noted.
the writer is not scared to state "hitler was a genius", yet not read it the wrong way, he is no fan of the regime but recognise trhe fact the 1 person, not ever the favorite in his party can make it to dictator, using the democratic system.
but is not just state, explains how germany and Hitler came to these ... honestly, factual and detailed.
i would say a must read for everyone intersted in the topic,
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
What did you like best about this story?
mianly factual ... not a writes view, not condeming book, make your own oppinions.
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Sex at Dawn
- How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
- By: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan (Preface)
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,792
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,274
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,247
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Strawmen and Ad Hominems
- By Carolyn on 09-18-12
- Sex at Dawn
- How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
- By: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan (Preface)
Nice, enjoyed it but one point of view
Reviewed: 02-07-13
What made the experience of listening to Sex at Dawn the most enjoyable?
It give a nice overview of the topic from a different view
Although not all "evidence" is not as solide as the present it.
and f the evidens not suite it is ignore or twiste
regardless it is a great listen and i enjoyed this audiobook a lot
i read an other reviewer "good but not great" i follow him/her in the review.
but good is good enough for me ... it was not boring nor trying to convince you (too hard)
Recommended
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