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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
by David Quammen
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A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.
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Great Biographies in Time
by Plutarch
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.
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E=mc2
by David Bodanis
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In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts.
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Freud
by Anthony Storr
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....
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Charles Darwin - A BioView Story
by Dr. Charles Margerison
Price: Audio Download ($1.00)
So many amazing individuals were never interviewed. Meet Charles Darwin through his audio BioView and understand what inspired him to make his major contributions to society.
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God's Equation
by Amir D. Aczel
Price: 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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
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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
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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
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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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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Price: 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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Darwin's Origin of Species
by Janet Browne
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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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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
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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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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by Richard P. Feynman
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...
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American Prometheus
by Kai Bird
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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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Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science....
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109 East Palace
by Jennet Conant
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They were told as little as possible....
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A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
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How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...
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Six Great Scientists
by J.G. Crowther
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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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Hitler's Scientists
by John Cornwell
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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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Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
by Adam Gopnik
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday on February 12, 1809, this insightful account sheds new light on two men who changed the way we think about the meaning of life and death.
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Darwin: In a Nutshell
by Peter Whitfield
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Discover how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle-and his initial reluctance to publish his findings. 2009 recognizes the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.
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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
by Jeffrey Kluger
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
by Alan Cutler
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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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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.99)
Few scientists have enthralled more people than Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Six Easy Pieces and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!....
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Thomas Edison
by iMinds JNR
Price: Audio Download ($1.00)
Learn about the life and inventions of Thomas Edison with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds.
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