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A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events
In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest possible time span—from the Big Bang to the present day—in an astonishingly concise retelling. His impressive timeline includes the "rise of complexity" in the cosmos and the creation of the first atoms; the origin of all galaxies, stars, and our solar system; and the evolution of life on Earth, from tiny single-celled organisms to human beings.
Weaving together insights across the sciences—including chemistry, physics, biology, archaeology, and anthropology—Baker answers the fundamental questions: How did time begin? Why does matter exist? What made life on Earth the way it is? He also argues that never before has life on Earth been forced to adjust to a changing climate so rapidly, nor has one species ever been responsible for such sudden change. Baker's grand view offers the clearest picture of what may come next—and the role we can still play in our planet's fate.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,897
Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant achievement, must read/listen
- De 11104 en 09-05-18
De: David Christian
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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 329
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia
- A Final Warning
- De: James Lovelock
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Perspective - A Must Listen - Very Moving
- De Thomas en 01-29-12
De: James Lovelock
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 935
Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen
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On the Future
- Prospects for Humanity
- De: Martin Rees
- Narrado por: Martin Rees, Samuel West
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes - good and bad - are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science, the future, and great wisdom
- De Philomath en 10-29-18
De: Martin Rees
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The Equations of Life
- How Physics Shapes Evolution
- De: Charles S. Cockell
- Narrado por: Ian Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makes the forceful argument that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve, making evolution's outcomes predictable. If we were to find something very much like a lady bug eating something very much like an aphid on a distant planet, we shouldn't be surprised. The forms of life are guided by a limited set of rules, and, as a result, there is a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too many equations, not enough insights
- De Alec Drumm en 09-24-18
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 26 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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PDF should come with this book...
- De Sebastian en 04-22-20
De: Vaclav Smil
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End Times
- A Brief Guide to the End of the World
- De: Bryan Walsh
- Narrado por: Bryan Walsh, Corey Carthew
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable - and inevitable - end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Important topic ruined by needless political blather
- De J. Gordon en 08-29-19
De: Bryan Walsh
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- De: Gaia Vince
- Narrado por: Gaia Vince
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Far too much bias and unsupported conclusions
- De Kurt Leyendecker en 10-01-20
De: Gaia Vince
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The Science of Rick and Morty
- The Unofficial Guide to Earth's Stupidest Show
- De: Matt Brady
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Blending biology, chemistry, and physics basics with accessible - and witty-prose, The Science of Rick and Morty equips you with the scientific foundation to thoroughly understand Rick's experiments from the show, such as how we can use dark matter and energy, just what is intelligence hacking, and whether or not you can really control a cockroach's nervous system with your tongue. Perfect for longtime and new fans of the show, this is the ultimate segue into discovering more about our complicated and fascinating universe.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Some good science in here?
- De Darin Harbert en 02-06-20
De: Matt Brady
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- De: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrado por: Sean B. Carroll
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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We are for a short time.
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-20
De: Sean B. Carroll
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A Most Improbable Journey
- A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- De: Walter Alvarez
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez - best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction - makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much
- De Niki en 12-09-18
De: Walter Alvarez
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When Life Nearly Died
- The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least 90 percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction, but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Obscurity to Enlightenment - A Mystery Revealed
- De Dipam en 03-18-21
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- De: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 608
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 533
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the southeast United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- De aaron en 08-02-20
De: Lewis Dartnell
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The Vital Question
- Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ouch!
- De Mark en 06-24-16
De: Nick Lane
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Origins
- The Scientific Story of Creation
- De: Jim Baggott
- Narrado por: Neil Scott-Barbour
- Duración: 16 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, but WOW, the narrator ...
- De UH en 01-10-17
De: Jim Baggott