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Author: Steven Johnson | Narrator: Bern Hoffman
Release Date: March 21, 2023
En El mapa fantasma se cuenta la historia de la aterradora epidemia de cólera que envolvió Londres en 1854 y sus dos héroes poco probables: el anestesista doctor John Snow y el afable clérigo, el reverendo Henry Whitehead,...
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Author: Dan Egan | Narrator: Jason Culp
Release Date: March 07, 2023
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it&r...
Author: Carlo Rovelli | Narrator: Roy McMillan
Release Date: February 28, 2023
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved th...
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Author: John M. Barry | Narrator: Bern Hoffman
Release Date: February 21, 2023
El arma más fuerte contra la pandemia es la verdad. He aquí el relato definitivo de la epidemia de gripe de 1918. Magistral en su amplitud de perspectiva y profundidad de investigación, La gran gripe nos proporciona un modelo pre...
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Author: Suzie Sheehy | Narrator: Suzie Sheehy
Release Date: January 10, 2023
A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it"A book about the fundamental problems of physics writt...
Author: Dan Werb | Narrator: Jason Culp
Release Date: March 01, 2022
“A journey into the origins of COVID-19 and the discovery of vaccines and potential cures . . . I learned so much that I didn’t know before—above all, I met the subtle warriors of the laboratory who are working to save all of us fro...
Author: Ananyo Bhattacharya | Narrator: Nicholas Camm
Release Date: February 22, 2022
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology.&...
Author: Richard Rhodes | Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe
Release Date: November 09, 2021
A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Ma...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people fro...
An irresistible new volume of missives about outer space, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collectionsIn Letters of Note: Outer Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, cont...
Author: Sam Apple | Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Release Date: May 25, 2021
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his ...
Author: Steven Johnson | Narrator: Steven Johnson
Release Date: May 11, 2021
“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter) “An important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe ...