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  • Atomic Awakening cover art

    • Atomic Awakening

    • A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

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    • Origin Story

    • A Big History of Everything
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

    • A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • 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: 13-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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 Structure of Scientific Revolutions cover art

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    • Tesla

    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • 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: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • A Beautiful Mind

    • By: Sylvia Nasar
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians....

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    • Darwin's Black Box

    • The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
    • By: Michael J. Behe
    • Narrated by: Marc William
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning"....

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    • Atomic Adventures

    • Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future....

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    • Blood and Guts

    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Triumphs of Experience

    • The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
    • By: George E. Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • At a time when many people around the world are living into their 10th decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age....

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    • Vital Organs

    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

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    • Proust and the Squid

    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • 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: 15-02-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • Frostbite

    • How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
    • By: Nicola Twilley
    • Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse....

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    • On the Origin of Species

    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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    • The Secrets of Alchemy

    • By: Lawrence M. Principe
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....

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