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  • A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

    by Janna Levin ...
    Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Black Hole Survival Guide

    by Janna Levin ...
    **From the acclaimed author of *Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—*an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science."[Levin will] take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.” —Boston Globe**Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    How the Universe Got Its Spots

    Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    Narrated by Janna Levin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    In this audiobook, astrophysicist Janna Levin blends memoir and visionary science to provide a groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideasIs the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • How the Universe Got Its Spots

    Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to the astounding findings of contemporary theoretical physics and makes tangible the contours of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Black Hole Survival Guide

    by Janna Levin ...
    Narrated by Janna Levin ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science.Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    Narrated by Janna Levin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Beyond Inheritance

    Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

    by Roxanne Khamsi ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Khamsi ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    **“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beyond Inheritance

    Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

    by Roxanne Khamsi ...
    **“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Alien Oceans

    The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

    by Kevin Hand ...
    Narrated by Kevin Hand ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    This audiobook narrated by pioneering NASA scientist Kevin Peter Hand takes you inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Why Do We Exist?

    The Nine Realms of Universe that Make You Possible

    by Hakeem Oluseyi ...
    Narrated by Hakeem Oluseyi ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 16 min

    A boundary-breaking astrophysicist reimagines the universe—and our place within it—in this audacious journey through the Nine Realms of the cosmos.The universe gave rise to everything: stars and cells, minds and memories, purpose and pain. But it doesn’t care about us. It follows its own rules. And now, according to Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, we finally understand enough about those rules to ask the big ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    When the Ice is Gone

    What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

    by Paul Bierman ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenland's ice sheet had melted naturally before, ... Read more

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