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Title: How the Universe Got Its Spots

Subtitle: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Author: Janna Levin

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 102 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

The gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin sets out to determine the size of the universe, along the way providing an intimate look at the day-to-day life of a globe-trotting physicist. Nimbly synthesizing geometry, topology, and chaos and string theories, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the Big Bang may one day reveal the size and shape of the cosmos. She does so with such originality, lucidity, and even poetry, that

How the Universe Got Its Spots becomes a thrilling and deeply personal communication between a scientist and the lay listener.

©2002 Janna Levin (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Lovely and utterly original....makes a reader long to meet the author." (

American Scientist)"[A] gift to those people who want to think big but came to a screeching halt about two dozen pages into...

A Brief History of Time." (

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Title: The History of Astronomy

Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Michael Hoskin

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to the Latin West via Islam, and led to Copernicus's claim that the Earth is in motion. In justifying this, Kepler converted astronomy into a branch of dynamics, leading to Newton's universal law of gravity. The book concludes with 18th- and 19th-century applications of Newton's law, and the first explorations of the universe of stars.

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Title: Cosmology

Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Peter Coles

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

In addition, the author discusses the development of the Big Bang theory and more speculative modern issues, like quantum cosmology, superstrings and dark matter.

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Title: Science Matters

Subtitle: Achieving Science Literacy

Author: Robert M. Hazen, James Trefil

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-09

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 283 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

These 18 lucid essays on chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and biology will help listeners comprehend today's science news.

©2009 James Trefil and Robert M. Hazen; (P)2009 Random House

Critic Reviews:

"Lucid and lively. Hazen and Trefil have a particular genius for picturing even formidably abstract ideas in concrete images.... Science Mattersis as good as they get." (The Washington Post Book World)

"Hazen and Trefil are unpretentious, good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did." (The New York Times)

"Easily one of the finest available single-volume introductions to science." (Kirkus Review)

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Title: The Day We Found the Universe

Author: Marcia Bartusiak

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-09

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 118 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it possible.

On January 1, 1925, 35-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. It was a realization that reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos. Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. The story of these interwoven discoveries includes battles of will, clever insights, and wrong turns made by the early investigators in this great twentieth-century pursuit, from the luminaries (Einstein, Hubble, Harlow Shapley) to the lesser known: Henrietta Leavitt, who discovered the means to measure the vast dimensions of the cosmos . . . Vesto Slipher, the first and unheralded discoverer of the universe's expansion... Georges Lemaître, the Jesuit priest who correctly interpreted Einstein's theories in relation to the universe... Milton Humason, who, with only an eighth-grade education, became a world-renowned expert on galaxy motions... and others. Here is the watershed moment in our cosmic history, splendidly arising from the exceptional combination of human curiosity, intelligence, and enterprise.

Editorial Reviews:

If you've ever peered up at the sky on a clear night from somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are you've spotted Sirius it is, after all, the brightest star in our celestial neighborhood. But what about it's constellational co-star, Murzim? Have you ever even heard of Murzim? Most of us haven't.

You have probably heard of Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who is often credited with the discovery that our universe is far bigger than our own Milky Way...and that it's expanding. But what about James Edward Keeler, the astronomer who first aimed his telescope at some mysterious nebulae and reignited the centuries-old debate over the size of our universe? Or Heber Curtis, who suggested that these nebulae were separate galaxies, years before Mr. Hubble entered the scene? And let's not forget Milton Humason who, while he lacked formal education, lent his keen observational powers to distant galaxies to help formulate the expanding universe theory.

Hubble, it turns out, is no more alone in the history of universal revelation than Sirius is alone in our night sky. in The Day We Found the Universe, acclaimed science writer Marcia Bartusiak attempts to "shed the spotlight once again on the entire cast of characters who contributed to revealing the true nature of the universe". Bartusiak's detailed account of the astronomical endeavors of the early 20th century brings these characters back to life not as popular myths, but as human beings whose own genuis, ego, and personal circumstance served sometimes to promote, sometimes to hinder their success.

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Title: Cosmic Quest

Author: Heather Couper

Narrator: Heather Couper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-09

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

With the invention of the telescope and the birth of astrophysics the skies were revealed as never before. These and other advances in technology enabled us to land on the Moon, discover distant galaxies, quasars and black holes - and to search for worlds beyond our own.

Narrated by Heather Couper with additional readings by Timothy West, Annette Badland, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.

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Title: The Pluto Files

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 768 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

The year of Pluto's discovery, Disney created an irresistible pup by the same name, and, as one NASA scientist put it, Pluto was "discovered by an American for America." Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why.

Critic Reviews:

"A lighthearted look at the planet....Presents the medicine of hard science with a sugarcoating of lightness and humor." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Modern Scholar

Subtitle: Astronomy I: Earth, Sky and Planets

Author: James Kaler

Narrator: James Kaler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 329 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

The Earth, the sun and moon, the planets, comets, asteroids and meteors - the solar system is all around us, yet how much do we truly know about it? When we explore the Earth and the layout of the sky, what can we learn about the meanings of the day, the year, the seasons, and the constellations? Which physical laws control what we see, and what are the natures of the celestial bodies? Professor James Kaler - a former Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow and author of many acclaimed books on astronomy - answers these questions, taking us on a fascinating and informative voyage through the Solar System.The heart of this course examines the planets themselves, and reveals how they are constructed and how they differ from one another. By studying the physical astronomy of all the planets in the Solar System, we can attempt to understand their true nature. Ultimately, these lectures will bring us to a greater understanding of the Solar System's creation, which brings us again back to the beginning and what it means to us as we look outward from our rotating Earth.

©2003 James Kaler; (P)2003 Recorded Books

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Title: The Modern Scholar

Subtitle: Astronomy II: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Author: Prof. James Kaler

Narrator: Prof. James Kaler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 255 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

"Over the past century, our vision has taken us far beyond the home Galaxy into the vastness of the Universe, where we find we are hardly alone. As far as we can see there are countless other galaxies of all shapes and sizes set within an ever-expanding space that was created in a "Big Bang" nearly 14 billion years ago. Along with solutions to old puzzles, however, come new riddles, as most of our Universe appears to be in the form of some kind of unseen "dark matter" and incomprehensible "dark energy" whose natures and origins remain unfathomable. Yet with all our questions - and knowing that there are questions still to be asked - we have learned the most important lesson: that all of this Universe is our home, that it took all of it to make us, that it is ours to behold and enjoy.While this course stands on its own, it is also an ideal complement to the first course of the set (Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets), which covers celestial motions, constellations, telescopes, and planetary astronomy, all of it then integrated into a full picture of space and time.

©2004 James Kaler (P)2004 Recorded Books

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Title: The Modern Scholar

Subtitle: Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky

Author: James Kaler

Narrator: James Kaler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

This course guides listeners through the sights of the naked- eye sky, wherein we directly witness the effects of the turning and revolving of the Earth, the artistry painted by the human mind using the sky and stars, and how the view changes with time and with our place on the planet.

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