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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
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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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Great book but very disturbing...
- By Tim on 01-15-09
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21. The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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Chaos
- Making a New Science
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the 20th century's third revolution....
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Best AudioBook on Math/Physics yet
- By Ryanman on 03-02-11
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22. Chaos
- Making a New Science
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-01-11
- Language: English
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Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....
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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- By Boots on 01-19-13
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23. Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-30-09
- Language: English
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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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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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- By Betsy Powel on 12-19-11
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24. 1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-09-11
- Language: English
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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
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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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Very chilling and well thought out
- By Colin Bump on 05-21-21
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25. A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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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
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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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They should have hired an actor
- By Eric A. Ruthford on 08-06-24
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26. Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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The Ghost Map
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....
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It was okay until the end
- By Matthew Groom on 12-04-08
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27. The Ghost Map
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-11-06
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
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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 of the Cold War.
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Fascinating, enlightening, dramatic
- By Lauri Donahue on 01-10-25
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28. Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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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
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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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Calculus Ergo Modernity
- By Nelson Alexander on 07-09-11
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29. The Clockwork Universe
- Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-08-11
- Language: English
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....
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Ambitious
- By Roy on 12-08-10
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30. Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-05-10
- Language: English
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Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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No more accents, please!
- By Ned Gulley on 08-30-18
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31. Energy
- A Human History
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-29-18
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- By Terry A. Gray on 10-21-11
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32. The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-12-10
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....
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Good book, very odd narration
- By Ben Wiener on 04-10-22
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33. The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-22-22
- Language: English
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Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
- By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In 20 captivating lectures, Professor Suzanne Pilaar Birch shares her expertise and passion for discovery as she peels back the years to expose the emergence and lives of early humans....
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Terrific overview of prehistoric hominids
- By Jim Nasium on 12-25-23
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34. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
- Narrated by: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-21-23
- Language: English
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- By: Simon Singh
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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In his first book since the best-selling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives....
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D jrrg errn rq frghv << you can break this
- By Gudmundur Hardarson on 10-09-24
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35. The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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American Sherlock
- Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
- By: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the 20th century....
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Always use a professional Editor and Reader
- By Steven F. Schroeder on 02-19-20
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36. American Sherlock
- Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
- Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-11-20
- Language: English
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The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- By: James D. Watson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize....
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Star for Watson, Crick, Wilkins, AND for FRANKLIN
- By Darwin8u on 04-26-14
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37. The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-09-11
- Language: English
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The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of an ancient mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887....
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Tedious Listen
- By Amanda Halsdorff on 10-25-14
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38. The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Mind
- By: Sylvia Nasar
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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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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Informative not entertaining
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-28-11
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39. A Beautiful Mind
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-26-09
- Language: English
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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
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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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You won't learn anything you didn't know
- By Dennis E. Alwine on 12-26-20
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40. Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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