Astronomy History

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    • Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
    • Auteur(s): Philip Plait
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Scullin
    • Durée: 9 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Dr. Philip C. Plait sets the record straight on many modern hoaxes and myths. Appalled that millions of Americans don't believe in the moon landing, or that an egg stands on its end only on the vernal equinox, Plait hilariously spills the truth and informs us of scientific inaccuracies....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): L. S. Fauber
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
    • Durée: 10 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A vivid narrative that connects the lives off our great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the Earth moves around the Sun....

    Prix courant: 20,36$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
    • Auteur(s): Jim Bell
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Bell
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission, told by a scientist who was there from the beginning....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
    • Auteur(s): Marcia Bartusiak
    • Narrateur(s): Randye Kaye
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
    • Auteur(s): Paul Bogard
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Bogard
    • Durée: 10 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders....

    Prix courant: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • Auteur(s): David A. Mindell
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Tait
    • Durée: 13 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Nighttime
    • Auteur(s): Professor A. Roger Ekirch
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Davis
    • Durée: 14 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Int this fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime, Ekirch explores how the night was lived in the past, through travel accounts, memoirs, letters, folklore, poems, court records and coroner's reports....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
    • Auteur(s): Paul Halpern
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 9 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the big bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
    • Auteur(s): Meredith Bagby
    • Narrateur(s): Meredith Bagby, January LaVoy
    • Durée: 16 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Searching for Life on Another World
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Stewart Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Rowland White
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Meyers
    • Durée: 15 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • And the Science Deniers
    • Auteur(s): Mario Livio
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
    • Durée: 8 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An insightful, accessible, and fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers - a cautionary tale for our time....

    Prix courant: 24,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
    • Auteur(s): Ron Cowen
    • Narrateur(s): John Patrick Walsh
    • Durée: 4 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and more....

    Prix courant: 19,02$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Introduction to Essential Theories, the Behavior of Matter, and How it's Changing Our Lives
    • Auteur(s): Pantheon Space Academy
    • Narrateur(s): Grant Benker
    • Durée: 3 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • My beginner's book is your ticket to one of the coolest and most mysterious subjects out there. This isn't your average physics book. It's a portal to understanding the stuff that makes up... well, everything....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • Auteur(s): David Stumpf
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas R Pratt
    • Durée: 19 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Civilization and the Stars
    • Auteur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Durée: 11 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
    • Auteur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Narrateur(s): David Drummond
    • Durée: 6 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada Geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
    • Auteur(s): Brian Keating
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang - or so they'd thought....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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