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  • Einstein Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art

    • Einstein

    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,369 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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  • Stiff Audiobook By Mary Roach cover art

    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,329 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook By Rebecca Skloot cover art

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,669 ratings

    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb Audiobook By Richard Rhodes cover art

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  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Audiobook By Richard P. Feynman cover art

    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,815 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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  • A Brief History of Earth Audiobook By Andrew H. Knoll cover art

    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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  • The Icepick Surgeon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Icepick Surgeon

    • Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings

    • Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....

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  • The Disappearing Spoon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Disappearing Spoon

    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,052 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Audiobook By Thomas S. Kuhn cover art

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  • Liftoff Audiobook By Eric Berger cover art

    • Liftoff

    • Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
    • By: Eric Berger
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,252 ratings

    • The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company....

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  • 1493 Audiobook By Charles C. Mann cover art

    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,111 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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  • Atomic Accidents Audiobook By James Mahaffey cover art

    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,085 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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  • The Great Influenza Audiobook By John M. Barry cover art

    • The Great Influenza

    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,854 ratings

    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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  • Complexity Audiobook By M. Mitchell Waldrop cover art

    • Complexity

    • The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
    • By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings

    • In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....

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  • A Taste for Poison Audiobook By Neil Bradbury Ph.D. cover art

    • A Taste for Poison

    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • By: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings

    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

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  • Rethinking Diabetes Audiobook By Gary Taubes cover art

    • Rethinking Diabetes

    • What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
    • By: Gary Taubes
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings

    • An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat....

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  • Ten Drugs Audiobook By Thomas Hager cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,883 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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  • The Clockwork Universe Audiobook By Edward Dolnick cover art

    • The Clockwork Universe

    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,889 ratings
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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  • The Invisible Rainbow Audiobook By Arthur Firstenberg cover art

    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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  • Patient Zero Audiobook By Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen cover art

    • Patient Zero

    • A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    • By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

    • From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

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