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Darwin's Origin of Species
by Janet Browne
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
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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Great Scientists and their Discoveries
by David Angus
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
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 Meaning of It All
by Richard P. Feynman
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($17.96)
In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science, including: Is this really a scientific age?
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Relativity
by Albert Einstein
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
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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Triumph of Science
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
The 19th Century featured an explosion of scientific thinking and scientific exploration.
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