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Topgun Days
- Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks
- De: Dave "Bio" Baranek
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 300
Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the Cold War, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As a Topgun instructor, Bio was responsible for teaching the navy's and Marine Corps' best fighter pilots how to be even better. He schooled them in the classroom and then went head-to-head with them in the skies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Gun or Topgun
- De Randy en 02-19-13
- Topgun Days
- Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks
- De: Dave "Bio" Baranek
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
a pretty good and accurate, balanced storytelling
Revisado: 06-01-16
it was a very good book, pretty accurate, and fun. It brought back good memories, most of them accurate. I wish the narrator knew how to properly pronounce "Oceana", because that was quite an irritant, considering everybody in Virginia and in the Navy knows how to pronounce it properly LOL... aside from that glaring error, the narrator did a very suitable job, and the material was very, very good, definitely worth listening to!
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,863
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,853
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A miracle that we escaped the Cold War alive....
- De A reader en 02-16-14
- Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
if you have any remote interest in the Cold War...
Revisado: 12-31-15
if you have any interest in the Cold War, nuclear weapons security, safety, are either for or against their proliferation, this is an absolutely candid and is neutrally balanced book as I have found on the topic. I would note that occasionally the flashbacks to history will stretch various nuclear accident stories' recountings a bit long, but overall, this book covers everything from the minutiae to the strategic. If you have any remote interest in the politics, the science, the implications, the ethics, the statistics, the probabilities, and the future... has influenced by nuclear weapons, the Cold War, and life afterward... This book becomes a must read... I would also add that the narrator does a great job! Very often books in this format live and die by good narration, and this one is done exceedingly well.
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The Science of Interstellar
- De: Kip Thorne
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 623
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 620
Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book is awesome, Audible is no help with the PDF
- De Babak Saberi en 03-19-15
- The Science of Interstellar
- De: Kip Thorne
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
DO BUY THIS BOOK - YOU CAN GET THE PDF! See below
Revisado: 03-06-15
Where does The Science of Interstellar rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Topnotch and the very best.
What other book might you compare The Science of Interstellar to and why?
Better than Contact even
Have you listened to any of Eric Michael Summerer’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No I have not
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes indeed!
Any additional comments?
Not only an excellent book and well written for both the armchair scientist and professional astrophysicist alike (can speak from both sides). As for obtaining the printable PDF that comes with the audio book - just call Tantor 877.782.6867 select customer service and tell them your dilemma and they will quickly email you the pdf. Pretty easy solution - all you have to do is follow the narrator's suggestions that if it does not work, contact Tantor....
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