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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
- True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be...
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
- True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2015
- Language: English
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Experiment Eleven
- Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis
- By: Peter Pringle
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his 11th experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest diseases.
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Experiment Eleven
- Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
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Galileo Unbound
- A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything
- By: David D. Nolte
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes.
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Galileo Unbound
- A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2018
- Language: English
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- By: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In this revelatory study, neuroscientist Helen Pilcher explores the hidden impact of the "nocebo effect"—the placebo's evil twin. Medical studies have proven the nocebo effect to cause pain, nausea, paralysis, seizures, and even blindness. The nocebo effect impacts how we grow sick and grow old, explains why people who don't have food allergies have dietary intolerances, and why adults and teenagers are equally susceptible to catching tics through social media.
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2026
- Language: English
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Hot Type
- The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
- By: Prof Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 12 hrs
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Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires.
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Hot Type
- The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 23-07-2026
- Language: English
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The Engine of Scientific Discovery
- How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs
- By: Alexander Krauss
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs
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Many believe that discoveries arise by chance or serendipity. The Engine of Scientific Discovery illustrates, for the first time, how we can actively speed up the pace of new breakthroughs by developing better methods and tools of discovery which enable us to see and think in entirely new ways. New tools are the lenses through which we discover what we often did not even know existed: improved microscopes uncovered microorganisms and viruses, x-ray methods exposed the structure of DNA, particle accelerators detected subatomic particles, and advanced telescopes revealed galaxies.
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The Engine of Scientific Discovery
- How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-2026
- Language: English
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore - translator, Elizabeth Manton - translator
- Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2020
- Language: English
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- By: Madison Smartt Bell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Series: Great Discoveries
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Triassic Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. The Triassic Period: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs looks at the development of the era, the extinction events that preceded it, and how dinosaurs began to evolve in the Late Triassic. You will learn about the Triassic Period like never before.
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The Triassic Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2019
- Language: English
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A Monstrous Commotion
- The Mysteries of Loch Ness
- By: Gareth Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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The Loch Ness monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking? Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and Chicago University; they lost their jobs because they refused to renounce their belief in the creature.
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A Monstrous Commotion
- The Mysteries of Loch Ness
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2016
- Language: English
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- By: Tom Bethell
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a 19th-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory. Bethell's account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era's leading scientists and thinkers.
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Fascinating and important.
- By Kindle Customer on 17-11-2022
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2018
- Language: English
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Niels Bohr
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: J.L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century. In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as a statesman and Danish cultural icon, who built scientific institutions and pushed for the extension of international cooperation in science to all nation states. As a humanist he was concerned with the cultivation of all sides of the individual, and with the complementary contributions of all peoples to the sum of human culture.
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Niels Bohr
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2020
- Language: English
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb “An impressive account...
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Alex Mar
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 59 mins
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The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative.
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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2019
- Language: English
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Chamber Divers
- The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
- By: Rachel Lance
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The previously classified story of the eccentric researchers who invented cutting-edge underwater science to lead the Allies to D-Day victory In August 1942, more than 7,000 Allied troops rushed the beaches of Normandy, France, in an all but-forgotten landing. Only a small fraction survived...
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Chamber Divers
- The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2024
- 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
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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: 27-06-2023
- Language: English
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Ivan Pavlov
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Daniel P. Todes
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. Beyond a basic biography, Todes devotes particular attention to Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion and his iconic studies of conditional reflexes and higher nervous activity, as well as his experiments with dogs. Todes shows that Pavlov was not a behaviorist, did not use a bell, and was uninterested in training dogs. The Russian scientist sought to explain not merely external behaviors, but the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans.
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Ivan Pavlov
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2022
- Language: English
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Time Traveler
- A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
- By: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, Bruce Henderson - contributor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow for time travel.
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Time Traveler
- A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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El universo sobre nosotros (Narración en Castellano) [The Universe Above Us]
- Un periplo fascinante desde el cielo de Don Quijote al cosmos de Einstein [A Fascinating Journey from Don Quixote's Sky to Einstein's Cosmos]
- By: Antonio J. Durán
- Narrated by: Juan Miguel Diez
- Length: 21 hrs and 1 min
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Es la intención de este audiolibro mostrar que en la relatividad general esas dos caras de la cultura muestran el mismo aire de familia que cualquiera puede apreciar entre el rostro delirante que la tradición nos ha legado de don Quijote y ese icono de la modernidad que es el rostro de un Einstein desmelenado.
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El universo sobre nosotros (Narración en Castellano) [The Universe Above Us]
- Un periplo fascinante desde el cielo de Don Quijote al cosmos de Einstein [A Fascinating Journey from Don Quixote's Sky to Einstein's Cosmos]
- Narrated by: Juan Miguel Diez
- Length: 21 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-09-2020
- Language: Spanish
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