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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and...
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Excellent book, ruined by the narrator
- By Catherine on 17-06-12
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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Shocked
- Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
- By: David Casarett
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into a creek and was underwater for over an hour. When she was found she wasn't breathing, and her pupils were fixed and dilated. That drowning should have been fatal. But after three hours of persistent work, a team of doctors and nurses was able to bring her back.
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Shocked
- Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- By: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it?
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Brave New Arctic
- The Untold Story of the Melting North
- By: Mark C. Serreze
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The Arctic's perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, was warming, and treeless tundra was being overtaken by shrubs. What was going on? Brave New Arctic is Mark Serreze's riveting firsthand account of how scientists from around the globe came together to find answers.
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Brave New Arctic
- The Untold Story of the Melting North
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- By: Giles Slade
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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If you've replaced a computer lately - or a cell phone, a camera, a television - chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence - a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
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Informative
- By Anonymous on 25-07-21
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-01-14
- Language: English
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The Art of Muscle
- Common Solutions for Uncommon Health Superiority
- By: Darius Riddick
- Narrated by: Darius M. Riddick
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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What if the strongest tool for lifelong vitality, sharper thinking, and unbreakable resilience is already sewn into every cell of your body? Physiologist Darius M. Riddick distills an entire career of humanperformance science into one irresistibly bingeable blueprint that turns ordinary muscle into extraordinary power.
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The Art of Muscle
- Common Solutions for Uncommon Health Superiority
- Narrated by: Darius M. Riddick
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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The Scientific Revolution
- Ringing In a New World
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Scientific Revolution was a chain of events that unfolded during the 16th and 17th centuries, which brought about drastic changes in scientific thought. Modern science emerged as advances in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics transformed society’s perceptions of nature.
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The Scientific Revolution
- Ringing In a New World
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 15-07-20
- Language: English
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The Last Volcano
- A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury
- By: John Dvorak
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Volcanoes have fascinated - and terrified - people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. In this book, John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father", Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in Martinique, which leveled the entire city of St. Pierre and killed its entire population in two minutes.
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The Last Volcano
- A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-12-15
- Language: English
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Shores of Knowledge
- New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
- By: Joyce Appleby
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World’s people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation.
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Shores of Knowledge
- New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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The Abacus and the Cross
- The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- By: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages - in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope, Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary, Gerbert is the first Christian known to teach math using the nine Arabic numerals and zero.
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Useful book, end was slightly disappointing
- By Grumpy Historian on 12-01-16
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The Abacus and the Cross
- The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-12-10
- Language: English
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Science isn’t a subject — it’s a system. A way of seeing, testing, and making sense of everything. From ancient myths to AI-powered labs, Science 101 tells the story of how humans figured out how to figure things out. This isn’t about listing facts or memorizing disciplines — it’s about the evolution of the scientific mindset. How did we go from believing lightning was a god… to splitting atoms? How did we learn to measure, test, repeat, and doubt? And what happens when machines start doing the science for us?
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 12
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 09-01-26
- Language: English
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- By: Victoria Johnson
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. In melodic prose, historian Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack's tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact. The result is a lush portrait of the man who gave voice to a new, deeply American understanding of the powers and perils of nature.
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-07-18
- Language: English
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Marie Curie: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Scientist Who Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The tens of millions who perished in World War I understandably marred the conception of the first decades of the 20th century. However, during that time, unparalleled minds from all over the globe unsnarled age-old mysteries and perfected prevailing theories, conjuring up wave after wave of breakthroughs that catapulted the world of science to unprecedented heights. Owing to this influx of novel ideas and innovative concepts, conferences had to be assembled to keep the relevant scientific spheres apprised of the latest advances.
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Marie Curie: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Scientist Who Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
- By: Eileen Pollack
- Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and '70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale.
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interesting
- By Roxana on 28-04-23
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
- Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-04-16
- Language: English
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Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
- A Modern Rendition
- By: Daniel Duzdevich
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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For an era in which Darwin is more talked about than read, Daniel Duzdevich offers a clear, modern English rendering of Darwin's first edition. Neither an abridgement nor a summary, this version might best be described as a "translation" for contemporary English listeners. A monument to reasoned insight, the Origin illustrates the value of extensive reflection, carefully gathered evidence, and sound scientific reasoning.
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Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
- A Modern Rendition
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- By: Mark Anderson
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending their own scientific expeditions to far-flung destinations to time the planet’s trek.
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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This scientific writing, which was considered to be the groundwork of evolutionary biology, presented the theory that species developed over a line of originations through a method of natural selection. It imparted evidence that the variety of life resulted from a common descent via a branching model of evolution.
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-10-10
- Language: English
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The Genius Factory
- The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
- By: David Plotz
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to...
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The Genius Factory
- By Sam on 09-12-09
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The Genius Factory
- The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-06-05
- Language: English
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The Darwin Myth
- The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
- By: Benjamin Wiker Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Scientists often challenge conventional wisdom and spark debates that last for generations. But no scientist has fuelled more debate than Charles Darwin. To some he is the revolutionary 'father' of evolution. To others he is the perverse 'originator' of modern eugenics. In The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, author Benjamin Wiker brings these conflicting identities to light.
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The Darwin Myth
- The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 31-12-09
- Language: English
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