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    Storm in a Teacup

    The Physics of Everyday Life

    by Helen Czerski ...
    Narrated by Chloe Massey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter?In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is only for specialists and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Three Laws of Nature

    A Little Book on Thermodynamics

    by R. Stephen Berry ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with an overview of the three laws of thermodynamics, MacArthur "genius grant" winner R. ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Map of the Invisible

    Journeys into Particle Physics

    by Jon Butterworth ...
    Narrated by Wayne Forester ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Map of the Invisible by Jon Butterworth, read by Wayne Forester.'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.' Brian CoxWhat is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out...Over the last sixty years, scientists around the ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Reassembler

    by James May ...
    Narrated by James May ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 5 min

    From the humble garden lawnmower to the ear-splitting electric guitar, James May returns with a typically wacky account of what makes these great machines work, one piece at a time.Reassembly is merely a form of therapy; something that stimulates a part of my brain that is left wanting in my daily life. When I rebuild a bicycle, I re-order my head. So might you...I'm delighted that you will be ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog

    by Chad Orzel ...
    Narrated by Will Collyer, Cassandra Morris ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity?Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein's physics. Through armchair- and sometimes passenger-seat-conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds of dog and cat motion or the logistics of squirrel ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Quantum Steampunk

    The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

    by Nicole Yunger Halpern ...
    Narrated by Raechel Wong ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's roaring quantum information revolution. Classical thermodynamics needs reimagining to take advantage of quantum mechanics, the basic framework that explores the nature of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fluid Mechanics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Lauga ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluids, such as liquids and gases, behave when in motion and at rest. A quintessential interdisciplinary field of science, it interacts with many other scientific disciplines, from chemistry and biology to mathematics and engineering. This Very Short Introduction presents the field of fluid mechanics by focusing on ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The God Equation

    The Quest for a Theory of Everything

    by Michio Kaku ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from Stephen Hawking to Brian Greene. None have yet succeeded.In The God ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In Our Time: 25 Pioneers in the History of Science

    A BBC Radio 4 Collection

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    Narrated by Melvyn Bragg, Various ...
    series In Our Time

    Unabridged

    20 hours 23 min

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 scientific pioneers who have shaped the development of science over 500 years'Exemplifies what Radio 4 is all about, and what makes it world class' The GuardianOne of the bedrocks of Radio 4, In Our Time has entertained and fascinated millions of listeners since it was first broadcast in 1998. Each week, Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discuss the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Science Stories

    The complete BBC Radio 4 popular science series

    by Naomi Alderman, Kevin Fong, Tracey Logan, Simon Schaffer ...
    Narrated by Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball, Various ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 32 min

    In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23 hours in total, they throw light on the revolutionary visionaries who defined how we see the world, from ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Laws of Thermodynamics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Narrated by Nick Sullivan ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal-everything is moved or restrained by four simple laws. Written by Peter Atkins, one of the world's leading authorities on thermodynamics, this powerful and compact introduction explains what these four laws are and how they work, using accessible ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Flying Blind

    The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

    by Peter Robison ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill.In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chasing the Demon

    A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

    by Dan Hampton ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier.In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over the Soviet Union. Airpower, combined with nuclear weapons, offered a formidable check on Soviet aggression. In ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    ASE A8 Mastery

    by George Sparrow ...
    Narrated by Will Stauff ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    What the mechanics who pass the A8 Exam know, that maybe you don't....Are you anxious about failing your A8 examination?Or maybe you simply want more practice, so you can get Master Technician Certified faster?If that sounds like you - we're on your side.We want you to be filled with confidence, so that you can ace engine performance first time round.We've professionally narrated more than 100 ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    All About Moon Bases-And Our Plans to Return to the Moon

    by Martin K. Ettington ...
    Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    NASA has plans to land on the Moon again in 2024 and then build a Moon base following that.What is the history of plans to build a base on the Moon and what are all the issues involved?Where should the base be built and what will be do once we have long term habitation on the Moon?There are lots of ideas and lots of issues to consider.My hope is that the reader will learn about all of the issues ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sonic Wind

    The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth

    by Craig Ryan ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air force doctor’s research on seatbelts and ejection seats. The exploits of John Paul Stapp (1910–1999) come to thrilling life in this biography of a Renaissance man who was once blasted—faster than a .45 caliber bullet—across the desert in his Sonic Wind ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Entanglement

    The Greatest Mystery in Physics

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    Narrated by Henry Levya ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Quantum Mechanics

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Quantum mechanics? Just hearing the name, we get sick. It seems to be something complicated (and is), but here I will try to explain this theory in simple terms. However, this does not mean that you will go to understand quantum mechanics. As Niels Bohr said, "who says he understands quantum mechanics, you have not understood it." Does it look like something strange, doesn't it? Yes so. Quantum ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Generation Robot

    A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation

    by Terri Favro ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation—from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of self ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Galileo Unbound

    A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything

    by David D. Nolte ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mechatronics

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

    Unabridged

    39 min

    Mechatronics, even though the term may not sound familiar but it was originated long back in 1969. This is just another field of engineering that multiplies different subfield such as mechanics, electronics, electrical, computer science engineering, control engineering and more. Basically, this is considered as the combination of mechanical engineering and electronics. The main aim of this ... Read more

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