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The Science of Discworld III: A Novel
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Michael Fenton Stevens
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Stephen Briggs
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The wizards discover to their cost that it's no easy task to change history.
Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won't be time for anyone to invent space flight, and the human race will be turned into ice-pops.
Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale's dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin, whose best-selling Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures?
Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place?
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In this fascinating and illuminating work, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which, he demonstrates, were propelled forward by humankind's collective struggle to know. From the birth of reasoning and culture to the formation of the studies of physics, chemistry, biology, and modern-day quantum physics, we come to see that much of our progress can be attributed to simple questions - why? how? - bravely asked.
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10/10 Got What I Wanted.
- De Austin en 09-22-15
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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Paradox
- The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
- De: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. With elegant explanations that bring the listener inside the mind of those who've developed them, Al-Khalili helps us to see that, in fact, paradoxes can be solved if seen from the right angle.
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Almost Useless
- De Michael en 06-19-19
De: Jim Al-Khalili
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How to Speak Science
- Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
- De: Bruce Benamran, Stephanie Delozier Strobel
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today's cutting-edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to "speak" science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains - as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos - the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system, light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, and much more.
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Wowzers!
- De Ralph Temblador en 02-15-21
De: Bruce Benamran, y otros
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A Little History of the World
- De: E. H. Gombrich
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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an enlightening book; very well read
- De A.B.Oxford en 06-03-06
De: E. H. Gombrich
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Undeniable
- How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
- De: Douglas Axe
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the "design intuition" - the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can be accomplished only by someone who has that knowledge.
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Seductively Challenge what are consider facts
- De Rafael Vila en 10-08-16
De: Douglas Axe
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Beyond Biocentrism
- Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
- De: Robert Lanza, Bob Berman
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries.
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Here's the thing
- De Mikal en 11-09-18
De: Robert Lanza, y otros
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- De: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.
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Good text, tedious book structure
- De Diane K. en 10-07-15
De: Susan Wise Bauer
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At the Edge of Uncertainty
- 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
- De: Michael Brooks
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
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The atom, the big bang, DNA, natural selection - all are ideas that have revolutionized science; and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, best-selling author Michael Brooks investigates the new wave of radical insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery.
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All smoke, no fire
- De Kenton en 07-25-15
De: Michael Brooks
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A Beginner’s Guide to Reality
- Exploring Our Everyday Adventures in Wonderland
- De: Jim Baggott
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
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A unique fusion of philosophy and metaphysics set against the backdrop of contemporary culture. Have you ever wondered if the world is really there when you're not looking? We tend to take the reality of our world very much for granted. This book will lead you down the rabbit hole in search of something we can point to, hang our hats on, and say this is real.
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A real great listen on the nature of reality
- De Patrick Mabry, Jr. en 07-30-14
De: Jim Baggott
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Euclid's Window
- The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.
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Wow!
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De: Leonard Mlodinow
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Spooky Action at a Distance
- The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time-and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
- De: George Musser
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. The phenomenon - the ability of one particle to affect another instantly across the vastness of space - appears to be almost magical.
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Rambling but Asks Good Questions
- De Michael en 12-19-15
De: George Musser
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A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
- Brief Histories
- De: Brian Clegg
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.We human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contemplating its nature and complexity - yet it is a concept routinely used by schoolchildren. Exploring the infinite is a
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Really not great in Audio, not great otherwise
- De Michael en 03-29-13
De: Brian Clegg
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The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
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Calculus Ergo Modernity
- De Nelson Alexander en 07-09-11
De: Edward Dolnick
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist.
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Wow!
- De Michael en 02-02-14
De: Max Tegmark
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Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we’re hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we’ll end up next. Section by section—Watch/Worlds/Burn—the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. With a potent roster of established names and rising talents, it confronts the issues that orbit our everyday existence.
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TERRIBLE Narration!
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Amazing story. Audio quality could be better.
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So incredible but NOT for the faint of heart
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The complete collection of the best-selling Mission Clockwork series, a steampunk-powered, action-packed adventure featuring brilliant heroes and bloody brilliant villains.
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Jacob Geller brought me here, and he was right, the forward IS worth the price of admission
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TERRIBLE Narration!
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Awesome start to a new Sci-Fi Series
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In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one scrawny androgynous P.I. in a tank top and skimpy waistcoat. A.Z., as they are collectively known, are twin brother and sister. He's pure misanthropic logic, she's wild hedonistic creativity. The Kimreans have been locked in mortal battle since they were in utero...which is tricky because they, very literally, share one single body. That's right. One body, two pilots.
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Three Moments of an Explosion
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London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?
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In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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Before he was the super confident, snarky AI saving Siv Gendin and his friends’ bacon on a regular basis, Silky worked with his first human companion, Eyana Ora, an Empathic Services agent. This was the mission where it all began. Two centuries before the Fall of the Benevolence. A simple covert mission to spy on the Krixis, a telepathic alien race, turns into a desperate bid to save mankind when Silky and Eyana uncover a plot to use a secret super-weapon. But the weapon, a lost piece of ancient technology, holds secrets that neither side expected.
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- 04-06-16
Incredible as always.
Last science chapter was a little colonialist (awkwardly pro-British and full of plaint savor how awesome British schooling USED to be, but world is ending now because it isn't the same, etc ad naseum) but can be ignored in the overall scheme of how awesome the rest of it was.
Poor Darwin.
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- thomas dye
- 07-08-19
Outstanding!
This offering in the Science of Diskworld series is fantastic! Greatly entertaining, well paced, and with enough Wizardly involvement to keep it light and fun. It's a stand-alone novel, so no worries about 'must have the previous books.'
Enjoy!
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- Vicki Perizzolo
- 03-26-19
Darwin's watch
This was great although I'm sure I still don't understand quantum physics...it was 👍 tho
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- thomas
- 02-04-16
not your typical discworld
I must admit i had trouble with this book.
it had me snickering at times but it's not a comedy in line with the actual discworld series. I havent yet finished it but suppose I will at some point.
the book still gets top marks from me as its well written and performed and the fault lies with me not fully understanding the book I bought expecting the traditional discworld hillarity.
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- Michael English
- 06-21-21
"A relentleff blockbufter of a boke!"
"A relentleff blockbufter of a boke! Heartily Recommended!"
Simply the finest third part of a trilogy of popular science books based on Discworld that money can buy.
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- Lenore Pemberton
- 02-20-17
Good
It's a good book in the series, but I would rather hear more from the wizards and less from the scientist.
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- Stephen Daly
- 09-02-19
Brilliant!
The switch between the Discworld and our world is handled flawlessly. Whether it's the Wizards or the scientists of our world Terry Pratchett weaves a spellbinding tale that will leave you laughing and thinking. The narration is superb and draws you into the story in a way that's different than if you were reading it yourself. I've reread all of Mr Pratchett's books many times over. If you do not listen to his audiobooks you are cheating yourself out of a unique experience.
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- Victor
- 07-02-15
Minds are well and truly blown!
Prior "Science of..." installments handle natural science brilliantly. "Darwin's Watch" is more mind blowing still.
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- Viv
- 09-12-15
more of an essay with a little Terry Pratchett
I believe that science proves the existence of a higher being and this book seemed to be aggressively against the beliefs that science and god can both exist, that if you believe in one that you can't believe in the other. Why can't the big bang and evolution be the mechanism used by God to create the world? If you don't believe in God that fine, but don't make it seem like I don't believe in science b/c I have faith.
Perhaps I was in the wrong frame of mind when I read/listened to this but that was the impression that I got. I should also say that I stopped listening after the 3rd chapter b/c of this impression. I love Terry Pratchett's work, I accept that he was an atheist and I'm fine with that b/c he was a brilliant writer and he makes me laugh. This wasn't a story so much as an argumentative essay with bits of Terry Pratchett's writing inserted into it.
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- Eric Richards
- 07-27-23
Read every other chapter
The Discworld bits are fine, but the science chapters become increasingly tedious and are unreadable about halfway through.
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