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    • 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 6,062 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • The Dispatcher, Book 3
    • By: John Scalzi
    • Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
    • Series: The Dispatcher, Book 3
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,824 ratings
    • The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called “dispatchers”, who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier....

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    • A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    • By: Jennifer Worth
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Series: Call the Midwife, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,426 ratings
    • At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,798 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
    • By: Richard Holmes
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science....

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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Edward O. Wilson - winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century....

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    • How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Pat Rodrigues
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science.

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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    • The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 656 ratings
    • This autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead....

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    • The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
    • By: Ian Stewart
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,542 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,158 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
    • By: Robert Kanigel
    • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • In 1913, an unschooled young Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England....

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,731 ratings
    • Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system he is told came from outer space....

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    • The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 636 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
    • By: Robert C. Martin
    • Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn’t written by machines....

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