History

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....

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new audiobook about the mind-bending nature of the universe.

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan...

Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

This audiobook, narrated by Quentin Cooper, brings Einstein's public writings vividly to life, covering topics ranging from religion and art to pacifism and the atomic bomb

In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

In 20 captivating lectures, Professor Suzanne Pilaar Birch shares her expertise and passion for discovery as she peels back the years to expose the emergence and lives of early humans....

A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

In this audiobook, you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history and science that you don't want to know....

A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World introduces the giants of scientific discovery and examines their achievements - the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge....

In this exciting and significant audiobook, Andrew Thomas reveals how all unifications in physics have been based on incredibly simple ideas....

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....

From the author of The Moth in the Iron Lung comes a riveting exploration of how science, technology, and fear transformed our relationship with one of humanity's most ancient foods.

The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....

The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission, told by a scientist who was there from the beginning....

For fans of accessible, fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries.

A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terrains, and lethal lakes and singing sand dunes, explaining the historical background and latest science underlying each tale.

Dal primo avventurarsi su due gambe nelle pianure africane alla produzione di pitture rupestri, piramidi, bastimenti, parlamenti e molto altro: tanto si è scritto sul cammino evolutivo dell'umanità grazie al lavoro di paleontologi, archeologi e genetisti. Ciascuno di loro ha messo un tassello a formare un quadro generale della nostra storia.

Eine bestohlene Physikerin und ein verschwundener Forscher: Die spannende Jagd nach dem Neutrino, erzählt in sieben Porträts durch die Zeit.

Come along for a deep dive into the clean Hydrogen technology of our distant past with a detailed description of the Great Pyramid's strategy for producing incredible amounts of wireless power from water. Physics, frequencies, energy values and a coherent theory of operation reveal the true purpose and function of the Great Pyramid. Presented by a career automotive technician and long time student of the building, Terry Lee. A former ASE certified master technician with an L1 certification and an interest in things electrical.

In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light on the mysteries of the deep sea. For the next four years, Challenger's naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. The expedition’s achievements are the stuff of legend. It identified major ocean currents and defining features of the seafloor. It measured worldwide sea temperatures and chemistry. And, most spectacularly of all, it collected nearly five thousand sea creatures and plants new to science.