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Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.

The Man Who Mastered Gravity is an intimate profile of Thomas Townsend Brown, a little-known scientist whose unorthodox ideas about electricity and gravity have made him the subject of decades of speculation and intrigue. Brown developed his novel concepts while serving in the U.S. Navy through the 1930s. In the first months of World War II he was abruptly discharged–despite his expertise in radio, radar, and mine sweeping.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit.

An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian. Divided by subject matter - “Science,” “Convictions and Beliefs,” “Public Affairs,” etc. - these essays consider everything from the need for a “supranational” governing body to control war in the atomic age, to freedom in research and education, to Jewish history and Zionism, to explanations of the physics and scientific thought that brought him world recognition.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany's most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler's chief advisor on physics, had an impact far exceeding what the scientific community felt at the time.

Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch lehrt seit 1995 theoretische Astrophysik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und ist Lehrbeauftragter für Naturphilosophie an der Hochschule für Philosophie München. Seine Hauptforschungsgebiete sind Schwarze Löcher, Neutronensterne und kosmische Plasmaphysik. In der "Alpha Centauri"-Reihe erklärt er faszinierende Phänomene des Kosmos einprägsam und für Laien verständlich.

Eine Einzelfolge Alpha Centauri zum Thema "Parken im All".

Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch lehrt seit 1995 theoretische Astrophysik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und ist Lehrbeauftragter für Naturphilosophie an der Hochschule für Philosophie München. Seine Hauptforschungsgebiete sind Schwarze Löcher, Neutronensterne und kosmische Plasmaphysik. In der "Alpha Centauri"-Reihe erklärt er faszinierende Phänomene des Kosmos einprägsam und für Laien verständlich.

A New Scientist Best Popular Science Book of 2023 How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet. One stifling summer night, the poet and journalist Marjolijn van Heemstra lay awake, unable to sleep—like so many of us feeling anxious and...