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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
- A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
- De: James Kakalios
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios uses examples from comics and magazines to explain how breakthroughs in quantum mechanics led to such technologies as the World Wide Web, pocket-sized computers, mobile phones, and MRI machines.....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The exhibits are missing from Audible
- De David en 12-13-10
- The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
- A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
- De: James Kakalios
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
Not a good candidate for audiobook format
Revisado: 01-31-11
This was educational, but not "math-free" at all. For just one example, Planck's constant divided by two times pi cropped up about twenty times. And when the audiobook tells you to see figure 32(a) and you are on your exercise bike, you are not getting a great audiobook experience. (It's nice that the tell you where to get a PDF of the figures for the book, but some of the Figure numbers were not the same. Maybe they couldn't get permission to issue the Watchmen pages in a free PDF format.) It was okay. Not great. Thanks.
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,617
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,127
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Approach this book with caution
- De GolfZilla en 12-02-10
- Cleopatra
- A Life
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Writing style was not for me . . .
Revisado: 01-13-11
Sorry, but I gave up on this audiobook after the first twenty minutes. I was wondering why the narrator was reading the blurb from the back of the jacket, probably written by some young editorial assistant, and then I realized that no, this was the actual book. I'm sure the author did a lot of research, but she started off telling me that all the previous histories of Cleopatra are inadequate. I was thrown off by hearing phrases like "zero-sum game" and "Page-Sixer" in the biography of an ancient figure. Pompous tone. Oh, well, some people might enjoy this style.
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