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50 Philosophy Classics : Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
Butler-Bowdon, TomAscent Audio 2013 UnabridgedFrom Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works by Descartes, Schopenhauer, Hegel,...
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Whole : Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Campbell, PhD, T. ColinBlackstone Publishing 2013 UnabridgedWhat happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are...
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My Beloved Brontosaurus
Switek, BrianMacmillan Audio 2013One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books.Dinosaurs, with their awe- inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in...
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When the Body Says No : The Cost of Hidden Stress
Maté, GaborBig Happy Family, LLC 2011 UnabridgedIn WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO, physician and writer Gabor Maté explores the mind-body link and the connection between stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is th...
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Failure Is Not an Option : Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Kranz, GeneTantor Media, Inc. 2011 UnabridgedGene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witness...
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David Attenborough New Life Stories
Attenborough, DavidBBC Audio 2011 UnabridgedOne of the nation's most popular presenters examines twenty marvels of the natural world from his extraordinary and pioneering experiences. How did Sir David track down a giant Ear...
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Lansing, AlfredBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2008This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance s...
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Earth's Changing Climate
The Great Courses 2007 UnabridgedIn 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-representing a global consensus of hundreds of scientists-concluded that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," citin...
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Science Wars : What Scientists Know and How They Know It
The Great Courses 2006 UnabridgedChoose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality, or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal,...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bryson, BillRandom House Audiobooks 2003 AbridgedA Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being no...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character
Feynman, Richard P.Blackstone Publishing 1997 UnabridgedOne of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (S...
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A Brief History of Time
Hawking, Stephen W.Phoenix Books, Inc. 2017"Lively and provocative... Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher's gifts-easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex proposition with analogies p...