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  • Einstein Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art

    • Einstein

    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,353 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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  • Complexity Audiobook By M. Mitchell Waldrop cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings

    • 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....

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook By Rebecca Skloot cover art

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,655 ratings

    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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  • Stiff Audiobook By Mary Roach cover art

    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,320 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb Audiobook By Richard Rhodes cover art

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  • The Disappearing Spoon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Disappearing Spoon

    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,047 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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  • The Invisible Rainbow Audiobook By Arthur Firstenberg cover art

    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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  • A Brief History of Earth Audiobook By Andrew H. Knoll cover art

    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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  • An Elegant Defense Audiobook By Matt Richtel cover art

    • An Elegant Defense

    • The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
    • By: Matt Richtel
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 716 ratings

    • A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system - the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind audiobook, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives....

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  • Rethinking Diabetes Audiobook By Gary Taubes cover art

    • Rethinking Diabetes

    • What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
    • By: Gary Taubes
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

    • An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat....

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  • Humankind Audiobook By Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton cover art

    • Humankind

    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,060 ratings

    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Audiobook By Thomas S. Kuhn cover art

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  • Ten Drugs Audiobook By Thomas Hager cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,881 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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  • Liftoff Audiobook By Eric Berger cover art

    • Liftoff

    • Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
    • By: Eric Berger
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,242 ratings

    • The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company....

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  • Atomic Accidents Audiobook By James Mahaffey cover art

    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,084 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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  • The Great Influenza Audiobook By John M. Barry cover art

    • The Great Influenza

    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,851 ratings

    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Audiobook By Richard P. Feynman cover art

    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,814 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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  • The Secrets of Alchemy Audiobook By Lawrence M. Principe cover art

    • The Secrets of Alchemy

    • By: Lawrence M. Principe
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....

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  • Chaos Audiobook By James Gleick cover art

    • Chaos

    • Making a New Science
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629 ratings
    • James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the 20th century's third revolution....

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  • Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival Audiobook By Suzanne Pilaar Birch, The Great Courses cover art

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