The Science category has 986 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 9,896 ratings. The most-rated is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
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El Universo Improbable [The Unlikely Universe]
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Prólogo de Juan Luis Arsuaga ¿Cuáles son los mayores retos con los que se presenta el planeta, cuáles las mayores amenazas, dónde buscar la solución a los descomunales problemas con los que se enfrenta nuestra generación y las futuras? El origen y evolución del universo, la naturaleza del tiempo, la estructura de la materia, el infinito,las estrellas fugitivas, las ondas gravitacionales… Estos son algunos de los grandes temas que Rafael Bachiller - director del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (IGN) - aborda en este libro tanto desde un punto de vista científico como desde una perspectiva filosófica y humanista. Todo lo que siempre ha querido saber sobre la vida y el cosmos. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2019 La Esfera de los Libros, S.L. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Entangled Empathy
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In Entangled Empathy, scholar and activist Lori Gruen argues that rather than focusing on animal "rights", we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to their needs, interests, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes, and unique perspectives. Pointing out that we are already entangled in complex and life-altering relationships with other animals, Gruen guides listeners through a new way of thinking about - and practicing - animal ethics. Gruen describes entangled empathy as a type of caring perception focused on attending to another's experience of wellbeing. It is an experiential process involving a blend of emotion and cognition in which we recognize we are in relationships with others and are called upon to be responsive and responsible in these relationships by attending to another. When we engage in entangled empathy we are transformed and in that transformation we can imagine less violent, more meaningful ways of being together.
©2015 Lori Gruen (P)2017 Lantern Books
Life Beyond Earth
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The story of man's search for life elsewhere in the universe is told in this magnificent ground-breaking audio, by one of the world's most respected science communicators, Professor Timothy Ferris. In this audio, Ferris combines new discoveries about the origins of life as we know it on Earth with recent revelations about the sun's planets and their moons, in order to seek out possible abodes for life in our solar system and beyond. This audio explains why many scientists are convinced that life is abundant throughout the universe, and considers how one day radio telescopes may be used to connect us to an intergalactic Internet and link us to alien civilizations in the far reaches of the universe. "Part 1: Are We Alone?" addresses the origins of life on Earth and traces the search for life in other worlds. "Part 2: Is Anybody Listening?" examines the strategies being used to communicate with fellow travelers among the stars.
©2001 New Millennium Audio (P)2001 New Millennium Audio
Speed Reading
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Learn the best speed reading techniques super fast!
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Most people find reading rapidly difficult and risky. They are afraid that as they increase the speed of reading, they might not be able to grasp the idea of what they are reading.
That’s why they have to settle with slow reading speed that makes them finish a novel over a month, or worse, not being able to find what they are looking for in an academic textbook for an assignment in school before the due date.
What they do not know is that, according to studies, the relationship between reading speed and comprehension is directly proportional to each other. That is, an increase in rate entails an increase in comprehension.
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What is speed reading?
Pre-speed reading guidelines
Basic speed reading exercises
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How to read in chunks
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Read fast and still comprehend everything you are reading, how not to read with an inner voice, some amazing speed-reading exercises and much more. After listening to this audiobook, you will increase your reading speed and take your comprehension to a completely new level.
This guide will be your best friend as you work through and embark on your journey to understanding any situation.
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©2019 Peter Newport (P)2019 Peter Newport
Das Universum in deiner Hand
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"Das Universum in deiner Hand" ist der perfekte Reiseführer für alle, die dunkle Energie nicht für einen neuen Schokoriegel halten und wissen wollen, warum Gott manchmal die Würfel dorthin wirft, wo sie nicht gesehen werden können, nämlich in ein Schwarzes Loch. Eine unglaubliche Reise durch die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Universums - und das alles, ohne vom Sofa aufzustehen. Ein Buch wie ein Popsong. Christophe Galfard, ein Schüler von Stephen Hawking und der neue helle Stern am Himmel der Astrophysik, erklärt einige der wichtigsten und verblüffendsten Ideen unserer Zeit - Quantenmechanik, Relativität, Zeitreisen, parallele Realitäten und Multiversen - mit dem Versprechen, dass nur eine einzige Formel in diesem Hörbuch vorkommt (Einsteins legendäres E=mc2) und niemand auf der Strecke bleibt. Ein Hörbuch, das aus Wissenschaft wieder eine spannende, unterhaltsame Geschichte macht - als würde Hollywood sie erzählen. >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2018 Verlag C.H.Beck oHG. Übersetzung von Jens Hagestedt und Ursula Held (P)2018 Audible Studios
The Accidental Species
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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe. Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Far from being a quirk of religious fundamentalism, human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that also infects scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy. He starts with bipedality, which he shows could have arisen entirely by accident, as a by-product of sexual selection, moves on to technology, large brain size, intelligence, language, and, finally, sentience. He reveals each of these attributes to be alive and well throughout the animal world - they are not, indeed, unique to our species. The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what’s missing, but how we’re linked.
©2013 Henry Gee (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Beekeeping
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Are you interested in beekeeping? Are you wondering how you can make a beekeeping business profitable? These are just two of the many questions that will be answered in this book. Along with an extensive business plan, this guide offers information about bee stings and diseases, the anatomy of bees, pollinators, swarms, packaged bees, honey business, and so much more. You cannot mis this essential gem of a book. Get it now!
©2020 Sarah Jacobs (P)2020 Sarah Jacobs
Curlew Moon
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Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music. A bird stands alone on the edge of a mudflat. Its silhouette is unmistakable. A plump body sits atop stilty legs. The long neck arcs into a small head, which tapers further into a long, curved bill. The smooth, convex outlines of this curlew are alluring. They touch some ancestral liking we all have for shapes that are round and smooth. Over the last 20 years, numbers in the UK have halved; the Eurasian curlew is one of our most endangered birds. With a quarter of the world population breeding in the UK and Ireland, this is nothing short of a disaster. The curlew is showing all the signs of being the next great auk. In Curlew Moon, Mary Colwell takes us on a 500 mile journey on foot from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast of England, to discover what is happening to this beautiful and much-loved bird. She sets off in early spring, when the birds are arriving on their breeding grounds, watches them nesting in the hills of Wales and walks through England when the young are hatching. She finishes her walk on the coast of Lincolnshire when the fledglings are trying out their wings. This is also the place many curlews will return to for the winter months. This evocative book chronicles Colwell’s impressive journey, weaving a gentle tale of discovery interspersed with the natural history of this iconic bird that has fascinated us for millennia - and so desperately needs our help.
©2018 Mary Colwell (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Hidden Energy
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Free the energy for a better world. Hidden Energy: Tesla-Inspired Inventors and a Mindful Path to Energy Abundance gives reasons for optimism. This audiobook readies you for humankind's next leap - tapping into ample sources of truly clean power, the ultimate renewable. Making that leap is more about mindsets and a consciousness shift than technology. Through compelling anecdotes, Hidden Energy compares mindsets that help or hinder. A growing number of scientists and inventors are inspired by seeing their connection to nature and the cosmos, and are making energy-technology breakthroughs. Listen to their stories and help decide who benefits from breakthroughs - amoral corporations or your family, communities, and the environment.
©2019 Jeane Manning and Susan Manewich (P)2020 Jeane Manning and Susan Manewich
Rebirding
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Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, and the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar. Forward in time, it also covers the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations. It looks at key reasons why species are vanishing, as our landscapes become ever more tamed and less diverse, with wildlife trapped in tiny pockets of habitat. It explores how Britain has, uniquely, relied on modifying farmland, rather than restoring ecosystems, in a failing attempt to halt wildlife decline. The irony is that 94 percent of Britain is not built upon at all. And with more nature-loving voices than any European country, we should, in fact, have the best, not the most impoverished, wildlife in our continent. Especially when the rural economics of our game estates and upland farms are among the worst in Europe. Britain is blessed with all the space it needs for an epic wildlife recovery. The deer estates of the Scottish Highlands are twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. Snowdonia is larger than the Maasai Mara. The problem in Britain is not a lack of space. It is that our precious space is uniquely wasted - not only for wildlife, but for people’s jobs and rural futures, too. Rebirding maps out how we might finally turn things around: rewilding national parks, restoring natural ecosystems, and allowing our wildlife a far richer future. In doing so, an entirely new sector of rural jobs would be created, finally bringing Britain’s dying rural landscapes and failing economies back to life. Praise for the book: “This is a wonderful book, visionary, illuminating and fascinating.” (George Monbiot, author and environmental activist) "A wonderfully imaginative book, which shows how things could be with our rapidly declining areas of countryside, instead of how - despairingly - they are now." (Rod Liddle, The Spectator)
©2019 Benedict Macdonald (P)2020 Benedict Macdonald
Free Power
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Free energy implies that we are sometimes without it; however, energy always exists. Remember the quote by JP Morgan, “If we can’t put a meter on it, we don't want it!" The reason electricity is fed to customers through the wire is so that it can be metered at each customer's premises. Morgan's insistence suggests taking 85 percent of the power produced to overcome the resistance within the wires used to reach its destination. If wireless technology had been universally implemented as per Tesla's wishes, the world's environment would be affected by 85 percent, leading to less pollution than we have today. Thanks to Morgan and his minions for their greed.
©2020 Gabriel Ramirez (P)2020 Gabriel Ramirez
Le second XIXe siecle
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Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux et Associés proposent des cours particuliers sur l'histoire de la littérature française, racontée, expliquée et analysée par Alain Viala, professeur émérite à l'Université de Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, avec des extraits lus par Daniel Mesguich, comédien, metteur en scène et écrivain. En réponse au romantisme, poètes et écrivains du second XIXe siècle portent sur le monde réel un regard sensible mais désenchanté. Dès lors, tous les sujets sont possibles, aussi bien le beau que le laid. Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola et bien d'autres, s'affi rment ainsi comme des écrivains modernes et opèrent un profond renouvellement de la création littéraire. Alain Viala nous offre ici le panorama d'une France divisée mais artistiquement prolifi que, qui, au seuil du XXe siècle, pose les fondements des débats qui nous animent encore aujourd'hui.
©2016 Frémeaux et Associés (P)2016 Frémeaux et Associés
That Awesome Place Called Space
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It's a very big space out there! Best guide for aspiring kids. This audiobook is made to help listeners explore and appreciate outer space. It aims to reward the curiosity of young minds by teaching them about what's out there - from the study of astronomy, the countless gigantic stars, the magnificent planets, and a lot of fantastic things in the great universe. A healthy sense of wonder and genuine amazement projected by the author makes this a fun book that will have no problem to generate great wonder and engage any interested listener. This book is intended for kids, but can be a pleasurable learning experience for all audiences! Scroll up and grab a copy now!
©2015 Jon P Fox (P)2015 Jon P Fox
Exploring Creation with General Science
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Exploring Creation with General Science: 3rd Edition is part of Apologia's line of award-winning homeschool science curriculum. It has been rewritten to truly walk each student through middle school's transition time from the elementary years to the high school sciences. Specifically designed to be the first course taken during junior high, it was created to give middle school students a basic understanding of the world that surrounds them each day of their lives so that they can appreciate the real-world relevance of scientific inquiry and the beauty of creation. This course covers a wide range of the branches of science while making the connections between each. Students will learn what science is and, in a detailed and engaging way, how to utilize proper scientific method. This course has many hands-on science experiments that can be completed with household materials. Throughout the course, students are able to see evidence of God's creation as they learn scientific principles. Additionally, they will be excited to learn about many great scientists in history who were driven to study our world out of a desire to better know God as its creator. The course is sandwiched by this historical information within the first module and a presentation of testimonies by modern-day scientists in the last module to help encourage students to study science to better know God and give him glory!
©2019 Apologia Educational Ministries (P)2019 Apologia Educational Ministries
The God Equation
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Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and New York Times best-selling author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in all of science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From then on, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th century - relativity and quantum mechanics - are incompatible, and so since then, physicists have been endeavoring to combine these two theories. This would ultimately tie all the forces in the universe together into one beautiful equation that can unlock the deepest mysteries of space and time. That epic journey is the story of this book.
©2021 Michio Kaku (P)2021 Random House Audio
There I Wuz! Volume III
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Once again, Author Eric "Cap'n Aux" Auxier puts you in the pilot's seat at 30,000 feet! More stories, more guest authors, more love, laughs and tears, in an adventure spanning over three decades in the sky! In this special, military-themed volume, Cap'n Aux takes a backseat to several Ace Top Gunners of today and yesteryear, who spin their own adrenaline-pumping yarns. Only difference is, these tall tales are true! Eric Auxier is a captain for a major US airline, with over 21,000 hours of flying. He is the author of the novel, The Last Bush Pilots, as well as the Code Name: Dodger young adult "Spy/Fly" series. He is a columnist for Airways Magazine, and his blog Adventures of Cap'n Aux (capnaux.com) is read by thousands worldwide.
©2015 Eric Auxier (P)2016 Eric Auxier
Astronomie
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"Connu du monde entier, Hubert Reeves est autant apprécié par ses pairs que par le grand public pour son engagement et ses qualités de transmetteur de savoirs. À la suite de ses nombreuses conférences de vulgarisation, Hubert Reeves a voulu, avec son fils Benoît, réaliser un enregistrement pédagogique des questions qui lui sont le plus souvent posées. Il offre en réponse un propos compréhensible par tous sur une science qui, pour l'appréhender, nécessite ordinairement une formation poussée." Patrick Frémeaux & Bernard Gueffier "Cette forme de pédagogie à partir des interrogations en direct des auditeurs présente plusieurs avantages : d'abord de revenir sur certains points délicats des raisonnements (...) ; Ensuite de permettre un nouveau découpage du sujet selon un angle différent de celui de la présentation elle-même (...) ; Et finalement de donner l'occasion de toucher à des aspects élargis des sujets considérés, en y intégrant des réflexions personnelles qui relèvent plus de "l'intime conviction" que de la rationalité scientifique." Hubert Reeves
(p) 2005 spirit music - Hubert Reeves© 2007 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS
White Beech
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One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in southeast Queensland, Australia, which, after a century of logging, clearing, and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. She didn’t think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart’s ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled lantana canes, there were macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, black beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches…and the few remaining white beeches, stupendous trees up to 120 feet in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair. Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond a doubt that at least here, biodepletion could be reversed. Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, the most exuberant of small planets.
©2013 Germaine Greer (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Anatomy of the Body
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Listen as descriptions of human physiology are illustrated in the eBook edition with 80 panel paintings by Philip James ROI. A viscous surface of pulped and washed colour interprets the intricate framework of muscles, arteries, bone and soft tissue, all infused with an internal dynamic of potent nervous energy. First published in 2001, the volume carried 80 colour plates of art works with descriptions of the location and function of portrayed parts. Included: aorta, arch of atlas, arm, artery, atrium, bladder, bones, brain, branches, breast, bronchi, bulb, buttocks, canal, capillary, cartilage, cavity, cells, cervix, cleft, column, compartments, cornea, cuneiform, diaphragm, digits, discs, ducts, duodenum, ear, oesophagus, fascia, femur, fibula, finger, fissure, follicle, foot, gland, gonads, heart, heel, hip, intestine, iris, jaw, knee, knuckle, labia, labyrinth, ligament, metatarsal, mouth, neck, nucleus, orifice, pelvis, perineum, philtrum,, pubis, rectum, retina, ribcage, sacrum, scalp, shin, shoulder, skin, skull, spine, spleen, stomach, teeth, testicle, thorax, throat, thumb, tongue, veins, wrist. Born in 1948, Bromley, Kent, England, Nicholas Philip James studied painting with Keith Vaughan and Frank Auerbach at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London, and History of Art (MA) at Kingston University.
©2001, 2018 Cv Publications (P)2018 Cv Publications
The Salvation of Mosul
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An Iraqi archaeologist braved ISIS snipers and booby-trapped ruins to rescue cultural treasures in the city and nearby legendary Nineveh and Nimrud."The Salvation of Mosul" is from the October 2017 issue of Smithsonian.
©2016 Smithsonian Institution (P)2016 Audible, Inc.