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The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin
Available on: Audio Download ($19.99) | Audio CD ($32.39) | MP3 CD ($25.19)
Charles Darwin was just 22 when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage.
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God's Equation
by Amir D. Aczel
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95)
In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.
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Chemistry and the Enlightenment
by Ian Jackson
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($22.50)
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements.
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Triumph of Science
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
The 19th Century featured an explosion of scientific thinking and scientific exploration.
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
by Frans de Waal
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes?
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Available on: Audio Download ($24.86) | Audio CD ($49.95)
From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life.
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by Amir D. Aczel
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors.
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Darwin, Darwinism, and the Modern World
by Chandak Sengoopta
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The publication of the Origin of Species in 1859 sent shockwaves through Victorian society. Few scientific breakthroughs have so powerfully changed the way we look at our world and ourselves as Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Available on: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($23.96)
From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.
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Einstein's Revolution
by John T. Sanders
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($22.50)
Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth century created new and troubling inconsistencies.
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The Meaning of It All
by Richard P. Feynman
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($19.95)
In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science, including: Is this really a scientific age?
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD
In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia…
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Full House
by Stephen Jay Gould
Available on: Audio Download ($24.47) | Audio Cassette
We have always identified trends as bad (loosening of the moral fiber) or good (better ethnic eating...
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109 East Palace
by Jennet Conant
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
They were told as little as possible....
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All You Want To Know About Science And Discovery
Available on: Audio Download ($15.73) | Audio Cassette
Science & Discovery is a riveting presentation, in understandable language, of the ideas of three of history's significant scientific figures.
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Great Minds of Science
by Dr. Robert Bakker
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio Cassette
Explore the Earth's last frontier, learn how the dinosaurs died, or discover the direction human evolution is heading...
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by Edward J. Larson
Available on: Audio Download ($20.99)
Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution.
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