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  • Our Human Story

    In 100 Amazing Achievements

    by Anna Ploszajski ...
    A celebration of the greatest human achievements through science, culture, technology, and all the fascinating bits in betweenJoin charismatic scientist Anna Ploszajski (expert consultant for DK title What's it Made Of?) as she weaves 100 stories that reveal the essence of human achievement.From organizing ourselves into societies, with justice, education, and governments of many types to creating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • First Flight

    by Anna Ploszajski ...
    Illustrated by Greta Samuel ...
    Series series DK Science Stories
    Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Handmade

    A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making

    by Anna Ploszajski ...
    A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    First Flight

    The Story of the Wright Brothers

    by Anna Ploszajski ...
    Narrated by Nerissa Bradley ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours

    Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing ... Read more

    $7.50 USD

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    Hands of Time

    A Watchmaker’s History

    by Rebecca Struthers ...
    Narrated by Anna Ploszajski ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    ""A hugely entertaining achievement."" –Esquire“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists."" – Wall Street Journal""As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.” ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Knowing What We Know

    The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    “A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.” — New York TimesFrom the creation of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Deepest Map

    The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

    by Laura Trethewey ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Understanding Iran

    Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei

    by William R. Polk ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East.A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West. While Iranians chafe under the yolk of their current leaders, they also have bitter memories of generations ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Year Without Summer

    1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

    by William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the US, the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Magisteria

    The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

    by Nicholas Spencer ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 19 min

    Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Silent Spring Revolution

    John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

    by Douglas Brinkley ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 24 min

    New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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    Uranium Wars

    The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    Narrated by Eric Conger ...
    Series series MacSci

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom—the most controversial type of energy ever discovered.Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook