7 must-read history books like The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics by Steven Gimbel

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The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics

By: Steven Gimbel

4.16

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 6 hrs and 10 minsPhilosophers have long puzzled over the nature of space, time, and matter.…

If you liked the history plot in The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics by Steven Gimbel , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Exploring Metaphysics

By: None , David Kyle Johnson

4.00

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 11 hours and 24 minutes What comes to mind when you hear the word “metaphysics”? Forget th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

By: Adam Rutherford

4.03

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

3. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)

By: Bob Brier

0.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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4. The Old Testament (Great Courses, #653)

By: Amy-Jill Levine

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

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5. From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity (Great Courses #6577)

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

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6. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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7. No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (Great Courses, #437)

By: Robert C. Solomon

3.85

Format: 208 pages,

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8. The Era Of The Crusades

By: Kenneth W. Harl

3.00

Format: None pages,

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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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10. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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11. The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida

By: Lawrence E. Cahoone

4.32

Format: 137 pages, Unknown Binding

The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida, Vol. 3 read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions

By: Jay L. Garfield

4.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The Meaning of Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions is an invigorating way … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature

By: Daniel Breyer

3.78

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

By: Don Lincoln

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory o… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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15. Understanding the Misconceptions of Science

By: Don Lincoln

3.89

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Consider these commonly held scientific beliefs: Planetary orbits are fixed ellipses; we only use 1… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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16. The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics

By: Steven Gimbel

4.16

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 6 hrs and 10 minsPhilosophers have long puzzled over the nature of space, time, and matter.… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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17. Mysteries of the Microscopic World (The Great Course, #1551)

By: Bruce E. Fleury

4.12

Format: None pages, None

An invisible world of astonishing complexity is all around you. A world so small you can't see it w… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. What Science Knows About Cancer

By: David E. Sadava

4.42

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Few global challenges touch humanity with as much immediacy or ubiquity as cancer. Over the course … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Identity in the age of ancestral DNA

By: Anita Foeman

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Audiobook

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Black Holes Explained

By: Alex Filippenko

3.89

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Imagine a region in space where the force of gravity is so strong that nothing - not even light - c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

13 best-selling audiobook books like The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics by Steven Gimbel

Transform Your Habits

Exploring Metaphysics

None , David Kyle Johnson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Adam Rutherford

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

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Argumentation: The Study Of Effective Reasoning (Great Courses, #4294)

David Zarefsky

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Francis of Assisi (Great Courses, #615)

William R. Cook , Ronald B. Herzman

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Great Mythologies of the World

Kathryn McClymond , Grant L. Voth , Julius H. Bailey , None

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Great Courses: Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

Mark R. Leary , Mark Leary

3.94

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