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Atomic Adventures
- Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
- By: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's new book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future.
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Fantastic read for those studying physics
- By Angus on 07-12-18
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Atomic Adventures
- Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- By: Clifford D. Conner
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: how Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary masses, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong.
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Pioneers in the History of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 scientific pioneers who have shaped the development of science over 500 years.
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In Our Time: 25 Pioneers in the History of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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The History of Science
- By: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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The History of Science offers a fascinating overview of the major leaps forward in science across the ages. From the mathematical and medical advances of the ancient world, to the Scientific Revolution in the Renaissance, to the ground-breaking developments of the 20th century, a precise chronological account of progress is given.
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Informative
- By Andyjn on 07-10-17
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The History of Science
- Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-11-10
- Language: English
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- By: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Read this?
- By S. O'NEILL on 24-06-10
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-08-08
- Language: English
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The Fascinating History of GPS
- How a Cold War Invention Changed the Way We Navigate the World (Simple Science)
- By: Revin Laxtor
- Narrated by: Kabir Budlender
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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The Fascinating History of GPS: How a Cold War Invention Changed the Way We Navigate the World by Revin Laxtor is a captivating exploration of one of humanity’s most transformative achievements—the Global Positioning System. In an age where a simple blue dot on a smartphone can guide us effortlessly across continents, it’s easy to forget how recently this technology was born and how profoundly it has reshaped our world. This book takes readers on a remarkable journey through time, science, and ingenuity, revealing how a Cold War innovation became the invisible force powering modern life.
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Clear and concise
- By Jeffrey Singleton on 07-03-26
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The Fascinating History of GPS
- How a Cold War Invention Changed the Way We Navigate the World (Simple Science)
- Narrated by: Kabir Budlender
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-12-25
- Language: English
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- By: David Kaiser
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.
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My youth
- By Tom O'Rourke on 11-11-21
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-06-11
- Language: English
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- By: Jimena Canales
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments―experiments that can only be done in the imagination―and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology.
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The Shape of Things Unseen
- A New Science of Imagination
- By: Adam Zeman
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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People often think of imagination as something used only in creative endeavours. In fact, we use imagination constantly as we reminisce, anticipate, plan, daydream, read, create imagined worlds. The truth is we live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting. Yet only now are we beginning to understand exactly how it works. From hallucination to sleepwalking, from REM sleep to delusions, neurologist Adam Zeman brilliantly guides us through the latest scientific studies in the world of the imagination.
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Lack of illustrations
- By M. S. Williams on 26-01-25
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The Shape of Things Unseen
- A New Science of Imagination
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.
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It's Ok
- By Claire Burbidge on 17-01-24
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-07-15
- Language: English
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It's Not Rocket Science
- By: Ben Miller
- Narrated by: Ben Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a...
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Simply excellent
- By Iain on 09-11-16
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It's Not Rocket Science
- Narrated by: Ben Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-07-12
- Language: English
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Dieu, la science, les preuves
- L'aube d'une révolution
- By: Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies
- Narrated by: Fabien Albanese
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Trois ans de travail avec plus de vingt scientifiques et de spécialistes de haut niveau : Voici révélées les preuves modernes de l'existence de Dieu. Pendant près de quatre siècles, de Copernic à Freud en passant par Galilée et Darwin, les découvertes scientifiques se sont accumulées de façon spectaculaire, donnant l'impression qu'il était possible d'expliquer l'Univers sans avoir besoin de recourir à un dieu créateur.
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Remplit d'incohérence.
- By Anonymous on 19-10-24
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Dieu, la science, les preuves
- L'aube d'une révolution
- Narrated by: Fabien Albanese
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: French
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The War on Science
- Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
- By: Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In every issue of modern society - from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense - we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress and a simultaneous expansion of danger. At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science: the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science.
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The War on Science
- Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-12-16
- Language: English
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Magisteria
- The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
- By: Nicholas Spencer
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history–Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it’s about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say–a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.
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enlightening
- By E Davis on 22-05-23
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Magisteria
- The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.
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A simply told story of complexity
- By Tim on 21-07-20
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the...
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An incredible book
- By Liza79 on 19-05-21
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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Science Stories
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Popular Science Series
- By: Naomi Alderman, Kevin Fong, Tracey Logan, and others
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. Among the topics explored are feuding dinosaur hunters, jumping genes, the engine that nearly ran out of steam, the day the Earth stopped standing still, how laughing gas was discovered, the first female professional scientist in Britain, and how an eel sparked our interest in electricity.
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Science Stories
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Popular Science Series
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
- By: Tim James
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Nominated for the best popular science book of 2024 by Smart Book. 'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how to get his audience's attention' Wall...
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dissapointed
- By Mr. P. G. Carroll on 21-05-25
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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- By: Naomi Oreskes, M. Susan Lindee, Ottmar Edenhofer, and others
- Narrated by: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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insightful
- By Lara Reusch on 02-03-20
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, Nancy Crane, Richard Lyddon, Jon Krosnick
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Forbidden Science
- From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy
- By: J. Douglas Kenyon - editor
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Reveals the cutting edge of New Science and shows how established science disallows inquiry that challenges the status quo--even when it produces verifiable results Contains 43 essays by 19 researchers denoting cutting-edge, heretical, or suppressed scientific research, including Immanuel...
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Forbidden Science
- From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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