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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (Unabridged)
Running time : 13 hours and 15 min.
Author : Jeffrey Kluger
Narrator : Michael Prichard
Price : $ 26.59

Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....
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Einstein: His Life and Universe (Unabridged)
Running time : 21 hours and 30 min.
Author : Walter Isaacson
Narrator : Edward Herrmann
Price : $ 39.93

Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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The Arcanum
Running time : 6 hours and 6 min.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Narrator : David McCallum
Price : $ 15.93

Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, some of the finest minds in Europe were still pursuing the alchemist's dream...
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
Running time : 2 hours 30 min.
Author : Jane Goodall
Narrator : Jane Goodall
Price : $ 15.93

From the time Jane Goodall was a girl, she dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Her earliest fascination with animals inspired her...
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The Coalwood Way
Running time : 6 hours
Author : Homer Hickam
Narrator : David Lansbury
Price : $ 19.93

It's Fall, 1959, and Homer Sonny Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets...
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Thomas Alva Edison: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 1 hour and 4 min.
Author : David Allen
Narrator : Stephen Thorne and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

Of all the people who have shaped our modern world it is Edison who had more impact than anyone else....
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Guglielmo Marconi: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 1 hour and 1 min.
Author : Geoffrey Orme
Narrator : Stephen Thorne and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

It was Marconi who took the Hertz discovery and developed what the world now knows as radio....
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Unabridged)
Running time : 11 hours and 34 min.
Author : Richard P. Feynman
Narrator : Raymond Todd
Price : $ 23.07

With his characteristic eyebrowraising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...
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Reason for Hope
Running time : 6 hours
Author : Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman
Narrator : Jane Goodall
Price : $ 15.93

Jane Goodall's destiny has been blessed with faith, resolve, and purpose. From a little girl inspired by Tarzan...
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
Running time : 6 hours and 5 min.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Narrator : Michael Jackson
Price : $ 17.47

In this companion volume to The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more than three thousand years of human artistic achievement...
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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe (Unabridged)
Running time : 7 hours and 23 min.
Author : Amir D. Aczel
Narrator : Kent Broadhurst
Price : $ 21.27

The product of research around the globe and interviews with dozens of prominent scientists, God's Equation discusses the latest developments in cosmology, the study of the nature of the universe...
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The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Unabridged)
Running time : 5 hours and 2 min.
Author : Noah Adams
Narrator : Noah Adams
Price : $ 23.93

Noah Adams's adventure in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright is a journey that takes him across the country as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers...
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Galileo (Unabridged)
Running time : 13 hours 30 min.
Author : James Reston, Jr.
Narrator : Jeff Riggenbach
Price : $ 25.17

The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...
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Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (Unabridged)
Running time : 8 hours and 10 min.
Author : Banesh Hoffmann with Helen Dukas
Narrator : Nadia May
Price : $ 17.47

This intimate portrait of Albert Einstein reveals the backward child, the academic outcast...
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The Wright Brothers (Unabridged)
Running time : 7 hours and 36 min.
Author : Fred C. Kelly
Narrator : Noah Waterman
Price : $ 17.47

In this fascinating biography, Fred C. Kelly, a former newspaperman, author, and an old friend of the Wrights...
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Six Great Scientists (Unabridged)
Running time : 8 hours and 50 min.
Author : J.G. Crowther
Narrator : Patrick Cullen
Price : $ 17.47

All of the geniuses in Six Great Scientists had one thing in common: the determination to do scientific research whatever the obstacles....
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Running time : 5 hours and 55 min.
Author : Sylvia Nasar
Narrator : Edward Herrmann
Price : $ 19.93

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...
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Schirra's Space (Unabridged)
Running time : 6 hours
Author : Wally Schirra with Richard N. Billings
Narrator : Richard Rohan
Price : $ 20.97

Irreverent, provocative, and filled with fascinating anecdotes, this autobiography by one of America's first astronauts offers a revealing inside look at the early days of space flight and the men...
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Albert Einstein: Biografia (Unabridged)
Running time : 44 min.
Author : Jose Miguel Amozurrutia
Narrator : Mariana Amozurrutia
Price : $ 6.93

Biografia resumida que contiene los datos mas relevantes de la vida del conocido fisico.
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Timothy Leary: A Biography (Unabridged)
Running time : 25 hours and 46 min.
Author : Robert Greenfield
Narrator : Patrick Lawor
Price : $ 34.97

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, Tune in, turn on, drop out became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru....
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The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon (Unabridged)
Running time : 6 hours and 8 min.
Author : Sir Francis Bacon
Narrator : Bernard Mayes
Price : $ 13.97

Francis Bacon, the great English philosopher, lawyer, scientist, and statesman, is also remembered as a formidable writer of prose. These 58 essays...
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Isaac Newton: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 57 min.
Author : David Allen
Narrator : Clifford Rose and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

This audio biography vividly traces the life of a man who is regarded as the greatest scientist in history....
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Charles Darwin: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 1 hour and 1 min.
Author : Kenneth Allen
Narrator : Paul Eddington and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

The man responsible for the near religion of Darwinism and the theory of evolution was a quiet, patient, and gentle man....
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Albert Einstein: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 57 min.
Author : Steven Fuller
Narrator : Guy Thomas and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

Albert Einstein: genius, humanitarian; wild of hair, sad of eye....
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Alexander Fleming: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)
Running time : 1 hour and 2 min.
Author : John Green
Narrator : Tony Britton and Full Cast
Price : $ 7.25

In 1928 Alexander Fleming came across some mould in an culture, from it came one of the greatest discoveries....
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