
Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century
A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes listeners on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.
In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth’s history. Merlin’s friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time—da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse.
Merlin’s Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works.
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©2024 by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Illustrations © 2024 by Stephen J. Tyson. Originally published in 1989 by Columbia University Press. Excerpt from “Burnt Norton” from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, © 1943 by T. S. Eliot; © renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot, used by permission from HarperCollins Publishers (US) and Faber and Faber, Ltd. (world excluding US) (P)2024 Blackstone PublishingListeners also enjoyed...
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible - and fascinating - to everyone.The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way.
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The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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Depressing from Cover to Cover
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- Tara Nichol
- 02-15-25
Learning to love Space
The more of his books I read the more I become fascinated with the subject.
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- David Ore
- 12-30-24
complex ideas made approachable
sometimes a little too silly, but a basic explanation for complex concepts that are somewhat beyond understanding.
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- Trevor
- 12-25-24
A fast paced book
A book of questions for ordinary people and answered by Merlin aka Neil deGrasse Tyson. There’s enough of an answer to give you an answer but make you want to know more.
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- Dale Ulrich
- 11-27-24
Neil's captivating cadence. 😊
love this Scientist!! Neil has captivated me since Cosmos. thank you for your layman explanation of the wonders of the universe.
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- BeWell
- 01-16-25
Cosmic Fascination
Fun & fascinating read. Worth reading again. The universe is infinitely complex and its mysteries are explained in detail.
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- Markym Fox
- 11-05-24
Cosmic Enlightenment
To put it shortly, I absolutely love reading things I have prior knowledge of or nothing about. there's this sense of balance listening a story about the universe. Brilliantly explained and even if you can't understand, there's room for growth.
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- Angela Duckworth
- 01-13-25
Wonderful introduction to the universe for beginners
This whimsical guide to the universe told by Merlin is a fun way to learn about the Universe around us even thought the universe is under no obligation to make sense.
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- Andrew Bedlam
- 12-04-24
Neil keeps the cosmos entering
I buy all of Neil's audio books! He is one of my favorite people on the planet! I enjoyed a fantasy element of a non fiction writing, very clever!
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- Harold Murray
- 12-10-24
the questions were very inciteful and well thought out
nothing comes to mind threat I want to bring up at t his moment in time
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- William E. Newhouse
- 01-23-25
Entertaining and Informative
Excellent primer on all things celestial and cosmological! Neil continues to be a powerful beacon for the scientific search for knowlege.
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