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Forgotten History
- A Collection of the 50 Most Forgotten Historical Events
- By: Robert Paulson
- Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This book contains a glimpse into the lives of multiple historical figures that have escaped common knowledge and many historical texts. Here's an inescapable fact: you will need to dig deeper when learning about these people, but you will come out introduced to droves of new personalities. If you do not find yourself wanting to know more, we have done you a disservice, but we guarantee you that your interest will be piqued.
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Forgotten History
- A Collection of the 50 Most Forgotten Historical Events
- Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-05-16
- Language: English
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
- By: George Johnson
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply. Johnson takes us to...
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-08-08
- Language: English
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From Goo to You
- The Story of Life on Earth
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: William Humphreys
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Life didn’t begin with a roar. It began with goo. Before brains, bones, bugs, or breathing, Earth was just a soup of chemicals getting zapped by lightning until something clicked. This is the story of what happened next. From the first self-replicating molecule to the rise of humans with god complexes, From Goo to You is a ride through four billion years of biology. The true story of how atoms turned into cells, cells turned into creatures, and creatures started asking, "What even is life?"
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From Goo to You
- The Story of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: William Humphreys
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 03-12-25
- Language: English
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The Parrot and the Igloo
- Climate and the Science of Denial
- By: David Lipsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, bestselling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.
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The Parrot and the Igloo
- Climate and the Science of Denial
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Planet 3
- Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
- By: Marcia Bartusiak
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In 32 concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover its mysteries. Bartusiak shares the back stories for many momentous astronomical discoveries, including the contributions of such pioneers as Beatrice Tinsley and her groundbreaking research in galactic evolution.
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- By Fichops on 02-01-22
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Dispatches from Planet 3
- Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the leap year to the 1920s project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- By: Priyamvada Natarajan
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.
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Science at its best
- By Grahan Price on 01-03-23
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Alexander Graham Bell
- The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
- By: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. He also examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.
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Alexander Graham Bell
- The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- By: Richard Carrier
- Narrated by: Richard Carrier
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more.
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- Narrated by: Richard Carrier
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-11-16
- Language: English
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Jennet Conant
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- By: Peter Wothers
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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The iconic periodic table of the elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the "gaps" corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others - even well-known elements such as oxygen or nitrogen - the roots are less clear. Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names.
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Wonderful Book
- By adam loveday on 20-03-21
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Hot Type
- The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
- By: Prof Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires.
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Hot Type
- The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 20-08-26
- Language: English
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High Spirits: A Cultural History of Alcohol, Drugs, and Other Beautiful Mistakes
- By: Heinrich Wilson
- Narrated by: Maureen Byrne
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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From the first fermented fruit to the last digital dopamine hit — this is the ultimate story of humanity’s oldest habit: getting out of its own head.
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High Spirits: A Cultural History of Alcohol, Drugs, and Other Beautiful Mistakes
- Narrated by: Maureen Byrne
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-01-26
- Language: English
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Anatomy 101
- A History of the Human Body
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Hannah Gomberg
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do we have bodies? Where did this weird meat suit come from? And how did we go from ancient guesses about "black bile" to installing pacemakers and printing 3D organs? In this audiobook, JJ takes you on a full-body tour through the history of anatomy, from mummified pharaohs to modern mind uploads. We crack it open, name the parts, track the fluids, x-ray the bones, and watch as the human body goes from sacred vessel to scanned-and-sold biometric data. This isn't a textbook. It's a scalpel with jokes. And it's got everything inside.
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Anatomy 101
- A History of the Human Body
- Narrated by: Hannah Gomberg
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 6
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 12-12-25
- Language: English
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Fire and Flood
- A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
- By: Eugene Linden
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late," their report said. They were right...
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Fire and Flood
- A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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The Last of Its Kind
- The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
- By: Gisli Palsson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gisli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.
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A plodding overview
- By Amazon Customer on 31-05-25
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The Last of Its Kind
- The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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Darwin's Ghosts
- In Search of the First Evolutionists
- By: Rebecca Stott
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears.
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A great story wrecked by the wrong reader
- By janthina on 22-02-17
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Darwin's Ghosts
- In Search of the First Evolutionists
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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The Dream Universe
- How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
- By: David Lindley
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots In the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically...
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The Dream Universe
- How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- By: Rachel Swaby
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle In 2013, the New York...
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Perfect Summary
- By K. McCormack on 23-03-17
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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