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The Order of Time

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What d... ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What d...
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A New Science of Heaven

How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience

by Robert Temple ...

Narrated by Robert Temple ...

Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration which has equally important implications for our understanding of the universe. It is unknown to the ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration which has equally important implications for our understanding of the universe. It is unknown to the
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What If?

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe ...

Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange ... Read more

$23.75 CAD

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange
... Read more
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The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

by Sean Carroll ...

Narrated by Sean Carroll ...

Unabridged

17 hours 22 min

*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." — Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings ... ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." — Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings ...
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American Prometheus

The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...

Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

Unabridged

26 hours 30 min

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the ... Read more

$48.95 CAD

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the
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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton ...

Narrated by Raymond Todd ...

Unabridged

11 hours 32 min

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”In ... Read more

$29.35 CAD

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”In
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How To

Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

by Randall Munroe ...

Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. ... Read more

$23.00 CAD

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach.
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by Carlo Rovelli ...

Unabridged

1 hour 45 min

**The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review**This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

**The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review**This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics
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Helgoland

Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by David Rintoul ...

Unabridged

4 hours 31 min

**Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman“One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal**A startling ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

**Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman“One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal**A startling
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What If? 2

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe ...

Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is
... Read more
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The Tao of Physics

An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

by Fritjof Capra ...

Narrated by Michael McConnohie ...

Abridged

3 hours 7 min

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex mathematics or formulae, this thought-provoking program ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex mathematics or formulae, this thought-provoking program
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God, the Science, the Evidence

The Dawn of a Revolution

by Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

15 hours 6 min

God, the Science, the Evidence is the result of nearly four years of research involving over twenty scientists and renowned specialists. It presents the most up-to-date evidence for the existence of God.For more than four centuries, the combined discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Freud, and others, created the illusion that the Universe could be explained without a creator God. As a ... Read more

$41.95 CAD

God, the Science, the Evidence is the result of nearly four years of research involving over twenty scientists and renowned specialists. It presents the most up-to-date evidence for the existence of God.For more than four centuries, the combined discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Freud, and others, created the illusion that the Universe could be explained without a creator God. As a
... Read more
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Chaos

Making a New Science

by James Gleick ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe
... Read more
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

by Richard P. Feynman ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

8 hours 23 min

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science—a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will ... Read more

$27.95 CAD

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science—a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will
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What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe ...

Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and ... Read more

$31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and
... Read more
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We Have No Idea

A Guide to the Unknown Universe

by Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson ...

Narrated by Daniel Whiteson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universeHumanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the ... Read more

$27.00 CAD

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universeHumanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the
... Read more
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The Character of Physical Law

by Richard P. Feynman ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

5 hours 57 min

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out but…how clever nature is to pay attention ... Read more

$23.75 CAD

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out but…how clever nature is to pay attention
... Read more
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The Perfect Theory

A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

by Pedro G. Ferreira ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

How did one elegant theory incite a scientific revolution?Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. Their work has uncovered a number of the universe's more surprising secrets, and many believe further wonders remain hidden within the theory's tangle of equations, waiting to be exposed. In this ... Read more

$32.15 CAD

How did one elegant theory incite a scientific revolution?Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. Their work has uncovered a number of the universe's more surprising secrets, and many believe further wonders remain hidden within the theory's tangle of equations, waiting to be exposed. In this
... Read more
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The One Thing You Need to Know

The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science

by Marcus Chown ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

6 hours 39 min

Rather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity, and black holes, wouldn't it be easier to understand just one central concept from which everything else follows?If you've ever found yourself fascinated by the idea of quantum computing but feel a little overwhelmed by the mind-blowing subject of quantum mechanics ... Read more

$27.13 CAD

Rather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity, and black holes, wouldn't it be easier to understand just one central concept from which everything else follows?If you've ever found yourself fascinated by the idea of quantum computing but feel a little overwhelmed by the mind-blowing subject of quantum mechanics
... Read more
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Le débat quantique. Albert Einstein vs. Niels Bohr

Conférence d'Etienne Klein à la Sorbonne

by Étienne Klein ...

Narrated by Étienne Klein ...

Unabridged

2 hours 37 min

« Einstein et Bohr se rencontrent en mai 1920, Einstein est immédiatement séduit par le physicien danois. Dès 1925, plusieurs physiciens comprennent que la physique du monde microscopique est arrivée à la croisée des chemins : soit elle parvient à retrouver le cadre d’interprétation de la physique classique, qui n’attribue pas de rôle fondamental à l’opération de mesure, soit elle le quitte ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

« Einstein et Bohr se rencontrent en mai 1920, Einstein est immédiatement séduit par le physicien danois. Dès 1925, plusieurs physiciens comprennent que la physique du monde microscopique est arrivée à la croisée des chemins : soit elle parvient à retrouver le cadre d’interprétation de la physique classique, qui n’attribue pas de rôle fondamental à l’opération de mesure, soit elle le quitte
... Read more
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Die Stunde der Physiker

Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg und das Innerste der Welt. 1922-1932

by Ernst Peter Fischer, Ernst Peter Fischer ...

Narrated by Peter Bieringer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 41 min

In den 1920er Jahren schlug die Stunde der Physiker: Sie machten sich auf den Weg zu den Atomen im Innersten der Welt. Dabei sahen sie sich gezwungen, das gewohnte Weltbild vollkommen aufzugeben. Ernst Peter Fischer erzählt so anekdotenreich wie wissenschaftlich anschaulich und versiert vom großen Jahrzehnt der Physik zwischen 1922 und 1932, seinen genialen Protagonisten und von den ungeheuren ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In den 1920er Jahren schlug die Stunde der Physiker: Sie machten sich auf den Weg zu den Atomen im Innersten der Welt. Dabei sahen sie sich gezwungen, das gewohnte Weltbild vollkommen aufzugeben. Ernst Peter Fischer erzählt so anekdotenreich wie wissenschaftlich anschaulich und versiert vom großen Jahrzehnt der Physik zwischen 1922 und 1932, seinen genialen Protagonisten und von den ungeheuren
... Read more
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 18-21 plus Apollo Special

by Brian Cox ...

Narrated by Brian Cox, Full Cast, Robin Ince ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Infinite Monkey Cage
Unabridged

12 hours 56 min

Four more series of Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s multi award-winning science/comedy show – including the 100th episode and The Infinite Moonkey Cage, a special hour-long episode celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landingsOne of BBC Radio 4’s most popular programmes, The Infinite Monkey Cage sees physicists Robin Ince and Brian Cox taking a witty, irreverent look at the world through ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Four more series of Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s multi award-winning science/comedy show – including the 100th episode and The Infinite Moonkey Cage, a special hour-long episode celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landingsOne of BBC Radio 4’s most popular programmes, The Infinite Monkey Cage sees physicists Robin Ince and Brian Cox taking a witty, irreverent look at the world through
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La Théorie du chaos

by Etienne Ghys ...

Narrated by Etienne Ghys ...

Unabridged

1 hour 1 min

Sommes-nous guidés par le hasard ou par le destin ? Une histoire du déterminisme, de Newton jusqu'aux développements les plus récents de la théorie du chaos. Isaac Newton prévoit le mouvement des planètes Depuis Galilée et Newton, la physique et les mathématiques sont traversées par la question centrale du déterminisme : est-il possible de prévoir le futur à partir du présent ? Newton met au point ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Sommes-nous guidés par le hasard ou par le destin ? Une histoire du déterminisme, de Newton jusqu'aux développements les plus récents de la théorie du chaos. Isaac Newton prévoit le mouvement des planètes Depuis Galilée et Newton, la physique et les mathématiques sont traversées par la question centrale du déterminisme : est-il possible de prévoir le futur à partir du présent ? Newton met au point
... Read more
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سبعة دروس موجزة في الفيزياء

by كارلو روفيلي ...

Narrated by أحمد شمعة ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

سطرت الدروس التي بين أيدينا من أجل أولئك الذين لا يعرفون شيئًا عن العلم الحديث أو يعرفون الشيء اليسير ، فهذه الدروس مجتمعة تقدم نظرة عامة خاطفة على أروع جوانب الثورة العظيمة التي وقعت في الفيزياء في القرنين العشرين والحادي والعشرين. وعلى المسائل والألغاز التي فتحت لها تلك الثورة المجال ويرجع ذلك إلى أن العلم يرينا كيف نفهم العالم فهمًا أفضل ، ويكشف لنا كذلك مدى اتساع دائرة ماهو بعدُ مجهول. الدرس ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

سطرت الدروس التي بين أيدينا من أجل أولئك الذين لا يعرفون شيئًا عن العلم الحديث أو يعرفون الشيء اليسير ، فهذه الدروس مجتمعة تقدم نظرة عامة خاطفة على أروع جوانب الثورة العظيمة التي وقعت في الفيزياء في القرنين العشرين والحادي والعشرين. وعلى المسائل والألغاز التي فتحت لها تلك الثورة المجال ويرجع ذلك إلى أن العلم يرينا كيف نفهم العالم فهمًا أفضل ، ويكشف لنا كذلك مدى اتساع دائرة ماهو بعدُ مجهول. الدرس
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