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What is time, really?A mayfly thinks it’s a single golden afternoon. A galaxy thinks it’s a leisurely 250-million-year stroll. A cat thinks it’s whenever dinner is. A human, caught somewhere in the middle, thinks it’s running out.TIME: Mayflies to the Milky Way is a collaborative, cosmic...

A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. “Indispensable history.” —Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call Every decade brings change, but as...

Fake kidnappings. Elaborate Robberies. Stolen sharks. Big Time is a show about criminals who dared to dream…differently. Hosted by Steve Buscemi, each week, a new story about larger-than-life scams and schemes that almost worked.Big Time is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media and Piece of Work Entertainment. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.apple.co/BigTimePod

""A hugely entertaining achievement."" –Esquire “An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists."" – Wall Street Journal ""As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on...

Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War. A Frenchman who flew with the RAF, he survived over 420 operational sorties, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe. The Big Show, his extraordinary account of the war, has been described as the greatest pilot's memoir of WWII.

The New York Times bestseller Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends...

Did America fake the moon landing? Was 9/11 an inside job? What is the government hiding at Area 51? From secret societies to aliens and assassinations, decode history's greatest cover-ups and decide for yourself. Humanity has long been obsessed with the unexplained, and we have ascribed many...

A timely and engaging look at the new China told through the stories of its ordinary people. Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sleek skyline.

Tackling the Everyday shows how college football particularly harms the young Black men who are overrepresented on gridirons across the country. Although coaches and universities constantly invoke the misleading "football family" narrative, this book describes how a brotherhood among Black players operates alongside their caring mothers, who support them on and off the field. With a Black feminist approach—one that highlights often-overlooked voices—Canada exposes how race, gender, kinship, and care shape the lives of the young athletes who shoulder America's favorite game.

The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American journalism. Major cities supported multiple competing newspapers, many issuing several editions a day. Print magazines flourished. In that competitive landscape, reporters often pursued stories with fearless determination—uncovering corruption, confronting criminal enterprises, and helping to solve real cases that shaped public life.The Big Story (1947–1955) brought these accounts to radio, dramatizing true reporting drawn from newspapers across the country. Performed by New York’s finest radio talent, the series ...

Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with “genius” and that his...

The shocking true story of the highest-ranking Mafia Boss in history to betray the organization and strike a deal with federal authorities, ending the Mafia’s reign. After his conviction in 1983, Cleveland Mafia Boss Angelo Lonardo became the highest-ranking Mafia Boss to betray his legacy...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed ""the model for modern celebrity."" A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 “Leavy’s...

In Big Men, Broken Dreams, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson relive the vicious tribal struggle that took place in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea through the 1980s while they were there to film documentaries. Connolly and Anderson recount to presenter Tim Bowden the devastating effects that blind ambition, welfare, destruction, and grief have on human beings - and how they managed to record 60 hours of footage while living in a grass hut with their 2-year-old daughter, Catherine.

Brought to you by Penguin. The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for...

The Cosmic Convergence Show brings together the dynamic duo of Big Tim and Dr. Love as they dive into a universe of topics—from bucket lists and body slams to wizarding worlds and everything in between. Whether they're unpacking the latest in pop culture or reminiscing about personal adventures, no subject is off-limits. Expect occasional detours into geocaching, golf, Marvel, and more—because when worlds collide, the conversation gets cosmic.

Unravel the breathtaking complexity of cosmic history and human evolution in one thrilling popular science adventure. From the explosive birth of matter to the digital frontier of artificial intelligence, this continuous narrative connects physics, biology, and technology without getting bogged...

The Collectors Cast is a podcast all about collecting and collectibles. Hosted by Clint Wilson and Mike Bloski, the two collectors talk about the various things people search for, current trends in the collecting space, and much more. New episodes every Friday!