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Vendor: Jon Balchin
100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World
"If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."-- Sir Isaac NewtonThis audiobook introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have...- $45.95
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Vendor: Paige Williams
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
Author: Paige WilliamsISBN-10: 1549120468ISBN-13: 9781549120466Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2018Format: Pre-Recorded Audio PlayerNot available to be shipped via Media Mail- $79.99
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Vendor: DVM
Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices, and the associated attitudes, evolve from prehistory to the present day? To answer these questions, Dr. Schott shares stories of twenty-two different animal healers and veterinarians from...- $39.99
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Vendor: Tim Gregory
Going Nuclear: How Atomic Energy Will Save the World
A bold, provocative, and knowledgeable case for the importance of nuclear science and how nuclear power is essential to reaching net zero. What if net zero is not an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge? In this visionary book, Dr. Tim Gregory challenges prevailing...- $49.99
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Vendor: Ellen Prager
Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions
Could ancient giant sharks called megalodons still exist in the deep sea? What should you do if stung by a jellyfish? Can we predict lightning strikes and how is climate change affecting hurricanes? With humor and easy-to-understand language, marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist...- $45.95
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Vendor: Tom Zeller
The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief
""Required reading for anyone with a head.""--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and FuzzFor the many millions of headache sufferers, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author's own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly...- $49.99
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Vendor: Or Graur
Galaxies: (The Mit Press Essential Knowledge Series)
In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and the physics that...- $32.99
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Vendor: Emily Durante
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social phenomena, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation of men in prisons to male dominance in business and politics. It's a lot to pin on a simple molecule. Yet your testosterone level...- $41.99
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Vendor: Michael Guillen
Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith
In Believing Is Seeing, Dr. Guillen recounts the fascinating story of his journey from atheism to Christianity, citing the latest discoveries in neuroscience, physics, astronomy, and mathematics to pull back the curtain on the mystery of faith as no one ever has. Is it...- $12.99
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Vendor: François Savatier
The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
The first book for a general audience to chronicle the epic story of the Denisovans, ancient cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals, who left traces of their DNA in modern-day humansIn December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in an isolated cave...- $35.95
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Vendor: Richard Tarnas
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from...- $77.00
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Vendor: Jacqueline Mitton
Vera Rubin: A Life
The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. In Vera Rubin: A Life, prolific science writers Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton provide a detailed, accessible overview of...- $49.99
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Vendor: Madeleine Beekman
Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children.Journeying to the dawn of Homo...- $39.99
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Vendor: Steven Pinker
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which...- $39.99
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Vendor: Andrew D. Huberman
Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
Dr. Andrew Huberman, host of the world's leading health podcast, Huberman Lab, and neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford School of Medicine, introduces Protocols, an essential guide to improving brain function, enhancing mood and energy, optimizing bodily health and physical performance, and rewiring your...- $39.99
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Vendor: Johannes Krause
Hubris: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Humanity
Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us? Leading archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe investigate what DNA can tell us about...- $45.99
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Vendor: Michael Gross
Intertwined: From Insects to Icebergs
In nature, everything is connected: from microscopic bacteria and soaring trees to animals struggling for survival amid thriving humanity. Yet many of today's toughest problems, from environmental destruction to divisive politics, stem from fundamental disconnections. In Intertwined, Michael Gross explains how the natural world...- $45.95
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Vendor: Kate Marvel
Human Nature: The Story of Climate Change in Nine Emotions
A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to...- $49.99
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Vendor: Janice Kaplan
What Your Body Knows about Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
Author: Janice KaplanISBN-13: 9798228541863Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2025Format: CD- $49.99
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Vendor: Johnny Rasse
The Bird Singers: How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong
In the vein of H is for Hawk and The Book of Eels, this moving memoir shines a light on the transformative power of nature as it tells the story of two boys, Jean and Johnny, who learned the language of birds.This captivating book...- $39.95
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Vendor: Sidney Perkowitz
Physics: A Very Short Introduction
Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. Understanding the physics of our universe is an essential aspect of humanity's quest to understand our environment...- $45.95
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Vendor: Merijn Van de Laar
How to Sleep Like a Caveman: Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night's Rest
Author: Merijn Van de LaarISBN-13: 9798228469365Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Format: CD- $39.99
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Vendor: Tom Morris
Philosophy for Dummies, 2nd Edition
If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher. From everyday questions about happiness and responsibility to deep, spiritual examinations about God and the cosmos, philosophy pervades every part of our...- $59.95
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Vendor: Eric Topol
Super Agers
Super Agers is a detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity. This is a breakthrough moment in the history of human health care. The person making that bold claim is one of the most respected medical researchers in the world, Eric Topol.Dr. Topol's...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark Gober
An End to the Upside Down Cosmos: Rethinking the Big Bang, Heliocentrism, the Lights in the Sky...and Where We Live
Scientists tell us that ninety-six percent of the universe is unexplained dark matter and dark energy. Also, they admit that no unifying "theory of everything" exists in physics. This shaky foundation is the basis of modern thinking about the cosmos and Earth's place in...- $35.95
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Vendor: Miguel Nicolelis
The True Creator of Everything: How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist placing the human brain at the center of humanity's universe.Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces listeners to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Alex Hutchinson
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
New York Times bestselling author of Endure, Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, invigorating investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk-taking shape our behavior and wellbeing. For fans of On Trails and Range alike, The Explorer's Gene makes the case not just that humans...- $49.99
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Vendor: Matt Ridley
Birds, Sex, and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and how understanding this driver of evolution complicates our view of even how human...- $49.99
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Vendor: David Baker
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex...- $45.95
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Vendor: Alex Hutchinson
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
New York Times bestselling author of Endure, Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, invigorating investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk-taking shape our behavior and wellbeing. For fans of On Trails and Range alike, The Explorer's Gene makes the case not just that humans...- $45.95
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Vendor: Carolyn Collins Petersen
Astronomy 101: From the Sun and Moon to Wormholes and Warp Drive, Key Theories, Discoveries, and Facts about the Universe
Explore the curiosities of our galaxy with this comprehensive, digestible guide to astronomy!Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of outer space with tedious discourse that even Galileo would oppose. Astronomy 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives...- $34.99
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Vendor: M. Suhail Zubairy
A Mysterious Universe: Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Cosmology for Everyone
A Mysterious Universe introduces the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, and cosmology to a novice in simple language. This concise book deals with deep issues related to the mysteries of modern physics. Both quantum mechanics and relativity are highly mathematical subjects...- $49.99
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Vendor: Peter Brannen
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
How carbon dioxide, the world's most important substance, shaped the planet's past and present--and holds the key to our future Carbon dioxide: this seemingly simple and ubiquitous substance is fundamental to how our planet works. All life is made from CO2, and its behavior...- $55.99
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Vendor: Peter Singer
Animal Liberation Now
Since its original publication in 1975, Animal Liberation has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Sumit Paul-Choudhury
The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One
In the bestselling tradition of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now and Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus comes an engaging and interdisciplinary look at the history, philosophy, and psychology of optimism and why being optimistic is a moral obligation--even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges.Scrolling...- $39.99
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Vendor: William Von Hippel
The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans' two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our lives.Why do people who...- $49.99
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Vendor: Nathan H. Lents
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
An Immense World meets Sex at Dawn in this fascinating exploration of sexual behavior throughout the animal kingdom, as evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues persuasively that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in...- $49.99
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Vendor: Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief--and life's other major stressors--on the human body.Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak...- $45.99
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Vendor: S?nke Johnsen
Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth
The open ocean, far from the shore and miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their...- $39.99
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Vendor: Katherine Rundell
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Author: Katherine RundellISBN-13: 9798217162680Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Format: CD- $30.00
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Vendor: Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carl D. Marci
Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age
We live in a world that is always on, where everyone is always connected. But we feel increasingly disconnected. Why? The answer lies in our brains. Carl D. Marci, MD, a leading expert on social and consumer neuroscience, reviews the mounting evidence that overuse...- $49.99
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Vendor: Paul R. Rosenbaum
Causal Inference
A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy. Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten...- $35.99
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Vendor: Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief--and life's other major stressors--on the human body.Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak...- $45.95
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Vendor: Peter Singer
Animal Liberation Now
Since its original publication in 1975, Animal Liberation has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Laural Merlington
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what...- $39.99
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Vendor: Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...- $94.99
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Vendor: Randall Munroe
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd--revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you...- $35.95
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Vendor: David Baker
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex...- $45.99
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Vendor: Lulu Miller
Radiolab Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: Time
Radiolab is one of the most popular and longest-running shows on NPR, with 1.8 million listeners per week and over 500,000 podcast subscribers.Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might...- $29.95
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