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The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin
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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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The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($29.95)
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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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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Chemistry and the Enlightenment
by Ian Jackson
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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
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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
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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
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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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Six Easy Pieces
by Richard P. Feynman
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Designed for non-scientists, Six Easy Pieces is an unparalleled introduction to the world of physics by one of the greatest teachers of all time....
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by Amir D. Aczel
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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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Relativity
by Albert Einstein
Price: Audio CD ($20.66)
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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Darwin, Darwinism, and the Modern World
by Chandak Sengoopta
Price: 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
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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Einstein's Revolution
by John T. Sanders
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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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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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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 1 and 2
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($55.96)
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
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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
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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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Full House
by Stephen Jay Gould
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We have always identified trends as bad (loosening of the moral fiber) or good (better ethnic eating...
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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
Price: Audio CD ($140.00) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($44.95)
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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The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
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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 7 and 8
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($53.96)
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 Man Who Loved China
by Simon Winchester
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.96)
Here is the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
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