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Great Scientists and their Discoveries
by David Angus
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
This companion volume to Inventors and their Inventions introduces the work of ten men to younger readers, and range from the world of Ancient Greece to the twentieth century discovery of DNA.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio CD
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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The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD
With genius, passion, and unmatched flair, this one-volume "greatest hits" of the Feynman lectures places you in the classroom of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant teachers.
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Triumph of Science
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Digital Download
The 19th Century featured an explosion of scientific thinking and scientific exploration.
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God's Equation
by Amir D. Aczel
Credits: Digital Download
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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Digital Download
One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...
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Darwin's Origin of Species
by Janet Browne
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human.
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Relativity
by Albert Einstein
Credits: Audio CD
Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 1 and 2
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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The Meaning of It All
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
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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Six Great Scientists
by J.G. Crowther
Credits: Audio CD
All of the geniuses in Six Great Scientists had one thing in common: the determination to do scientific research whatever the obstacles....
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio CD
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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Hitler's Scientists
by John Cornwell
Credits: Audio CD
When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades....
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD | 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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American Prometheus
by Kai Bird
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Credits: Audio Cassette
Throughout the age of exploration thousands of lives, and the fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution to the problem of meassuring longitude while at sea.
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
by David M. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.
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Beyond the Body Farm
by Bill Bass
Credits: Audio CD
A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition.
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The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
One of the most famous and influential books of its (or any) time, The Origin of Species is, surprisingly, little read. True enough, most people know what it says---or think they do, at any rate.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 5 and 6
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
by Alan Cutler
Credits: Audio CD
This is the story of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science...
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A Life Decoded
by J. Craig Venter
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine.
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by Amir D. Aczel
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 3 and 4
by Richard P. Feynman
Credits: Audio CD
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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