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Joe Pagano
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Nothing but smiles come to my face when I think of this curious, yet very amusing collection of mathematical poems. Why the name Poems for the Mathematically Insecure? Well, I think the answer will be clear once you listen to each and every one, and ponder the meaning of these sometimes rhyming, sometimes free-verse poems, all meant to teach a little mathematics and lighten some of the insecurities that this subject is well known to produce within all of us.
From the importunate "Help, Please Help Teacher" to the deeply philosophical "How Can This Be?", this collection of verse is sure to get you thinking, smiling, and reminiscing about those days back in math class. Doubtlessly, there is something in each one of these poems that will make you contemplate the nature of things in a new and pensive way, perhaps entering a reflective state of mind, where the mundane trivialities cease to exist.
As if not too much of a coincidence, the last poem is "Quirky Quarks", which explores the nature of these infinitesimally small particles at a time when quantum physics is a buzz word among us. Indeed, we hear and see documentaries and talk of “string theory” or the “theory of everything", and how physicists are feverishly trying to reconcile the four main forces of nature.
Perhaps this feat will never be accomplished, but one thing is for sure: you can still enjoy some mathematics without having to try and figure it all out. Just sit back and enjoy, smile, and listen. Who knows? Maybe one of these poems will inspire a great mind to come up with the answer we all have been looking for.
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- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science - a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will delight anyone interested in the world of ideas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but material is covered in better book.
- De Erlend en 04-06-16
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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
- Versión completa
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Calculus Ergo Modernity
- De Nelson Alexander en 07-09-11
De: Edward Dolnick
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- De: David Stipp
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity, or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an astonishing revelation of hidden connections.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good treatment of the subject
- De Kindle Customer en 04-09-18
De: David Stipp
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The Hopi Survival Kit
- The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
- De: Thomas E. Mails
- Narrado por: Kaipo Schwab
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Renowned Native American expert Thomas Mails was chosen by the last surviving elders to reveal to the outside world the sacred Hopi prophecy and instructions at precisely the time in history when they are most urgently needed. The Hopi Survival Kit is the first full revelation of traditional Hopi prophecy. Many of its predictions have already been realized, but the most shattering apocalyptic events are still to occur. And though this may be a sobering realization, it is also our best defense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wealth of information
- De Larry Benoit en 03-10-21
De: Thomas E. Mails
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Buddhism Is Not What You Think
- Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
- De: Steve Hagen
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Best-selling author and renowned Zen teacher Steve Hagen penetrates the most essential and enduring questions at the heart of the Buddha's teachings: How can we see the world in each moment, rather than merely as what we think, hope, or fear it is? How can we base our actions on reality, rather than on the longing and loathing of our hearts and minds? How can we live lives that are wise, compassionate, and in tune with reality? And how can we separate the wisdom of Buddhism from the cultural trappings and misconceptions that have come to be associated with it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great message, annoying narrator
- De Pamela Radtke en 11-28-19
De: Steve Hagen
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A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
- Uncommon Ideas for Living an Unusually Happy Life
- De: Mike Dooley
- Narrado por: Mike Dooley
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Former PricewaterhouseCoopers-international-tax-consultant-turned-entrepreneur Mike Dooley is the founder of a philosophical Adventurers Club on the Internet that's now home to more than 750,000 members from almost every country. In this book, he distills a career's worth of inspiration into elegant, brief lessons for making our way through the world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!!!
- De Shanon en 03-07-19
De: Mike Dooley
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His Master's Voice
- De: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excelent and entertaining
- De Jakub en 01-10-12
De: Stanislaw Lem
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Robert M. Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Though he was revered by fans who considered him a guru, the famously private Pirsig published only two books and consented to few interviews and almost no public appearances. Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Pirsig’s personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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The Sin of Certainty
- Why God Desires Our Trust More than Our "Correct" Beliefs
- De: Peter Enns
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of "once for all delivered to the saints".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Title may mislead the actual content
- De Adam Shields en 05-26-16
De: Peter Enns
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Allegory of the Cave
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: Deaver Brown
- Duración: 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 291
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Philisophy student
- De Yvette Flores en 03-01-08
De: Plato
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Confident Decision Making
- How to Make the Right Choice Every Time
- De: Roger Dawson
- Narrado por: Roger Dawson
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Every businessperson has to make decisions. Here's how to make them quickly, correctly and confidently.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Practical Book
- De Amazon Customer en 12-24-14
De: Roger Dawson
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
- De: Neale Donald Walsch
- Narrado por: Neale Donald Walsch, Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,538
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,056
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Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence, and God would provide clear, understandable answers? It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God, beginning in 1992 while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!!
- De Karie en 06-23-11
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The Dream of Reason, New Edition
- A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries like Erasmus and Bacon, philosophy emerges here as a phenomenon unconfined by any one discipline.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bias spoils the work.
- De MC en 08-21-20
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Seductively Challenge what are consider facts
- De Rafael Vila en 10-08-16
De: Douglas Axe
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The Science of Discworld
- A Novel
- De: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not the best Pratchett, but gets there in the end
- De Rachel en 07-30-14
De: Terry Pratchett, y otros
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Conversations That Matter: Insights & Distinctions - Landmark Essays, Volume 2
- De: Steve Zaffron, Laurel Scheaf, Mark Spirtos, y otros
- Narrado por: Gale LeGassick, Steve Zaffron, Laurel Scheaf, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Landmark Essays, Volume 2 continues a wonderful journey to the heart of the matter of our lives, to what matters most. It points out what's possible if we step outside of what we know, and recognize and embrace our capacity to bring forth an entirely new possibility for living—not because it is better, but simply because that is what human beings can do.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A part of this was worth buying
- De goyo en 12-14-11
De: Steve Zaffron, y otros
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The Tao of Happiness
- Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey
- De: Derek Lin
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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If you have not encountered Chuang Tzu before, prepare yourself for a treat. He was the sage who stood apart from all others in Chinese history. He was a unique presence, a great mind like no one before or since. Chuang Tzu quickly distinguished himself and became well known for his deep understanding and sense of humor. His mastery was such that he could explain the Tao with simple stories, and his humor was such that he could see the joy in ordinary things.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still learning after many listens
- De Nick Painter en 03-28-22
De: Derek Lin