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    • Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
    • Auteur(s): Alice Dreger
    • Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • A powerful defense of intellectual freedom told through the ordeals of contemporary scientists attacked for exploring controversial ideas, by a noted science historian....

    Prix courant: 38,96 $

    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Trinder
    • Série: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Durée: 15 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our universe, our planet, and our everyday lives....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The Origins of the Digital Universe
    • Auteur(s): George Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....

    Prix courant: 27,97 $

    • How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
    • Auteur(s): Bill Nye
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Nye
    • Durée: 12 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 évaluations
    • Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • Auteur(s): Jack El-Hai
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): David N. Schwartz
    • Narrateur(s): Tristan Morris
    • Durée: 15 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

    • Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
    • Auteur(s): John Brockman - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Kathleen McInerney, Will Damron, Jason Culp, Rob Shapiro, Vikas Adam
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • The fruit of the long history of John Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI, Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
    • Auteur(s): Alan Hirshfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Kliban
    • Durée: 6 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and determine the object's weight.....

    Prix courant: 26,82 $

    • The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
    • Auteur(s): George Pendle
    • Narrateur(s): James Langton
    • Durée: 11 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy, but....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • Technology and the Human Future
    • Auteur(s): Sheila Jasanoff
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Anna Perrin
    • Durée: 9 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • A Story of Ideas in America
    • Auteur(s): Louis Menand
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 17 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
    • Auteur(s): David Quammen
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 7 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity....

    Prix courant: 22,76 $

    • How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
    • Auteur(s): Abdi Aidid, Benjamin Alarie
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Priessman
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology is on the verge of radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society for the better....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Auteur(s): Alfred North Whitehead
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Childs
    • Durée: 2 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current....

    Prix courant: 7,58 $

  • Prix courant: 26,40 $

    • The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Kennefick
    • Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
    • Auteur(s): Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 10 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Orens
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil, The Soul of Genius also reveals the human side of these brilliant scientists....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Shawn Lawrence Otto
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Berkrot
    • Durée: 20 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science....

    Prix courant: 20,20 $

    • The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Dry
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $