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Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- De: Avi Loeb
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had likely been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened millions of minds internationally to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Postcolonial intersectional astrophysics
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-23
- Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- De: Avi Loeb
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
A preachy diappointment
Revisado: 09-06-23
As a scientist myself, i am used to succinct presentation of hypotheses, data, and conclusions - not the preaching and confirmation bias I found here.
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The Genome Defense
- Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
- De: Jorge L. Contreras
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed—all because Myriad Genetics had patented the famous BRCA genes. So he sued them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terriffic book
- De barry sookman en 12-11-23
- The Genome Defense
- Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
- De: Jorge L. Contreras
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
Great story, well told.
Revisado: 07-25-22
Well written and well narrated recapitulation of the legal, biological, medical, and social machinations of one of the most important SCOTUS decisions ever.
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Oxygen
- The Molecule That Made the World
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Story About Pretty Much Everything
- De ZebraBear en 09-09-20
- Oxygen
- The Molecule That Made the World
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
A real tour de force!
Revisado: 06-07-22
I am a recently retired medical research scientist. I learned more from this audiobook than all my many tears of reading and publishing. It will be challenging for non-scientists, but is sprinkled with helpful metaphors. It is repetitive, as it must be to let the reader see the forest, beyond the many hundreds of trees which are examined.
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 433
In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White—"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"—uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar region. The findings challenged many assumptions about human evolution and repudiated a half-century of paleoanthropological orthodoxy. An intriguing tale of scientific discovery, obsession and rivalry that moves from the sun-baked desert of Africa to modern high-tech labs and academic lecture halls, Fossil Men is popular science at its best, and a must-listen for fans of Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh narrator
- De Paul en 01-21-21
- Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
Intriguing!
Revisado: 04-30-21
I am a scientist (not anthropologist) and compliment both the author and the narrator for deep digging (pun intended) into the both science and the scientists. This is a marvelous treatise - at least for nerds like me.
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12 Seconds of Silence
- How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
- De: Jamie Holmes
- Narrado por: Chris Mayers
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes took on a devilish challenge. To help the Allies knock airplanes out of the air, they created one of the world’s first “smart weapons”. Against overwhelming odds and in a race against time, mustering every scrap of resource, ingenuity, and insight, the scientists of Section T would eventually save countless lives, rescue the city of London from the onslaught of a Nazi superweapon, and help bring about the Axis defeat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book but glitchy
- De 2Neos en 03-19-21
- 12 Seconds of Silence
- How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
- De: Jamie Holmes
- Narrado por: Chris Mayers
Fascinating read.
Revisado: 04-20-21
Many war details directly - and indirectly - related to WW II. New details for this nerd.
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The Fifties
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 34 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 583
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 515
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 510
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon; but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best
- De Chester Chellman en 09-25-18
- The Fifties
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
What a wild ride!
Revisado: 01-06-19
This book focuses on individuals who lived in and helped bring about a revolution - actually many revolutions - in American life. It really is eye opening to learn what was really happening when we were growing up. Superbly written.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- De: John Perkins
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,029
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,349
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Uninformed and largely fictitious
- De Trevor Burnham en 05-31-05
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- De: John Perkins
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
More timely than ever.
Revisado: 12-04-17
This should be required reading for all young people in the U. S. and Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., etc. It is a little self serving, but a real eye opener to one who lived through these events.
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Origin
- A Novel
- De: Dan Brown
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49,210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44,519
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44,398
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon’s first students. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Formula over fiction
- De Evan M Carlson en 11-01-17
- Origin
- A Novel
- De: Dan Brown
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
Wow!
Revisado: 10-14-17
Another formulaic Dan Brown novel, but a wonderfully articulated dialog about science and religion. Beautifully balanced.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48,393
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43,372
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43,186
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- De Chip Atkinson en 08-07-17
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Absolute best WW II book I ever read
Revisado: 07-19-17
I wish I could give this book ten stars in every category! While it is a novel because some of the dialog had to be imagined, it is based on real events and real people dealing with the war in Italy, particularly Milan, in 1943 -1945. An absolutely stunning and gripping story. Ironic, but true twists abound.
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Life's Engines
- How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- De: Paul G. Falkowski
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 289
Paul Falkowski looks "under the hood" of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built - and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable conglomerations of microbes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Science Book Ever Written. Period.
- De serine en 07-28-15
- Life's Engines
- How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- De: Paul G. Falkowski
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
Not for faint hearted
Revisado: 07-12-17
This was written by a researcher who is not likely to be a good teacher. Written in a manner the hops around, it is not easy to follow; even for a scientist like myself. The reader confuses magnesium and manganese- not acceptable. The underlying story is important and deserves a better script - and reader.
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