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    Cosmos

    A Personal Voyage

    by Carl Sagan ...
    Narrated by LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan, Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 31 min

    RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Harry Potter: A History of Magic

    An Audio Documentary

    by Pottermore Publishing, Ben Davies ...
    Narrated by Natalie Dormer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears.Narrator Natalie Dormer and a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Canon

    A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

    by Natalie Angier ...
    Narrated by Nike Doukas ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer for the New York Times, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining ... Read more

    $31.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rockhounding for Beginners

    Your Comprehensive Guide to Finding and Collecting Precious Minerals, Gems, Geodes, & More

    by Lars W. Johnson ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    Go on an outdoor treasure hunt and enjoy all nature has to offer with this field guide to rockhounding, perfect for armchair geologists or anyone headed out on an adventure!Geology meets treasure hunting with this field guide to rockhounding! If you've ever kept an interesting rock or shell, bought a polished stone from a gift shop, or even just enjoyed a 'gram of a really cool crystal, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur (Ungekürzt)

    by Albert Schweitzer ...
    Narrated by Hans Eckardt ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 34 min

    "Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur" bildet den ersten Teil der kulturphilosophischen Schriften des großen Theologen, Arztes und Musikers Albert Schweitzer. Dem Band liegen Gastvorlesungen Schweitzers an der Universität Uppsala im Frühjahr 1920 zugrunde, er ist aber auch heute, fast hundert Jahre später, noch immer von zeitloser Aktualität. Unter Überschriften wie "Die Schuld der Philosophie an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    La théorie des mèmes

    Pourquoi nous nous imitons les uns les autres

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Narrated by Irène Anatole ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Qu’est-ce qui distingue les hommes des animaux ? Le langage ? La raison ? La conscience ? La créativité ? Et s’il ne s’agissait là que de leurres ? Et si la spécificité de l’homme, c’était avant tout son incroyable capacité à imiter ses semblables ? Nous sommes, déclare Susan Blackmore, des machines mimétiques contagieuses. Tandis que les gènes utilisent le corps humain dans leur lutte pour la ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Krieg ist der Feind

    Die Verantwortung des Wissenschaftlers

    by Klaus Sander, Klaus Sander, Joseph Weizenbaum, Joseph Weizenbaum ...
    Narrated by Joseph Weizenbaum ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Joseph Weizenbaum, geboren 1923 in Berlin und 1936 in die USA emigriert, studierte Mathematik und lehrte seit 1963 als Professor für Computerwissenschaften am MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Durch sein berühmt gewordenes Sprachanalyseprogramm "Eliza" selbst zu einem Pionier der Computergeschichte avanciert, ist Weizenbaum immer auch die warnende, prophetische Stimme eines Prozesses, der den ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A PhD Is Not Enough!

    A Guide to Survival in Science

    by Peter J. Feibelman ...
    Narrated by Peter J. Feibelman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist.Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Simply AI

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 41 min

    Understanding AI has never been easier.With easy-to-understand text, this new edition of Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the latest developments in AI.Covering a broad range of fields within AI - from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy - entries demystify what artificial intelligence is and how it works, how it has dramatically changed the way we ... Read more

    $10.00 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Grosse Ideen der Wissenschaft Teil 2

    Vorlesung

    by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Narrated by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - uni auditorium

    Abridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Die überragende Qualität der Wissenschaft von der Natur besteht darin, ihr Wissen in grundlegende Begriffe verpacken zu können, von denen einige sehr berühmt sind und die viele Menschen beschäftigen. Die genannten Ideen werden auf ebenso prägnante wie elegante Weise vorgestellt, wobei deutlich wird, dass die Naturwissenschaften zugleich grandios sind, aber auch geheimnisvoll bleiben. DIE GENE Gene ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Darwins Irrtum

    Die Geschichte der Erde muss neu geschrieben werden!

    by Hans-Joachim Zillmer ...
    Narrated by Hans-Joachim Zillmer, Philipp Kreisselmeier ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 26 min

    Auf erfrischend allgemeinverständlicher Art für das Hörbuch revolutionäre Erkenntnisse und Beweise gegen Darwins Evolutionstheorie ins Feld. Der Evolutionsforscher Hans-Joachim Zillmer gibt überzeugende Antworten auf viele Fragen, die bisher als Rätsel der Erde- und Menschheitsgeschichte ungelöst waren und unlösbar erschienen. Neueste Forschungsergebnisse bestätigen die innovativen Kernthesen Hans ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Das kleine Buch der Tugenden - Der Glaube, die Hoffnung und die Liebe (Ungekürzt)

    by Anselm Grün ...
    Narrated by Ulrich Ritter ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 7 min

    Das Gute mit Freude tun! Das ist Tugend. Das Christentum kennt drei Grundtugenden: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe. Anselm Grün greift sie auf, macht sie zu leuchtenden Perlen der Lebenskunst. Wer Glauben sucht, lernt zu vertrauen und wird stark gegen Misstrauen und Lebensangst. Wer Hoffnung sucht, baut für sich und andere an der Zukunft. Und wer die Liebe sucht, findet ein Mittel gegen den Tod. Die ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Stephen Hawking Genius at Work

    by Roger Highfield ...
    Narrated by Roger Highfield ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius, the things that inspired him and explanations of his seminal theories.A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers.In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition of the contents of Stephen Hawking's office. This ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Science of Superwomen

    An Evolution from Wonder Woman to WandaVision

    by Mark Brake ...
    Narrated by Shaun Grindell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Celebrate the rise of superwomen and discover the science behind the abilities of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Catwoman, and more!Superhero fiction has been with us for almost a century; high-octane tales crammed with concepts and contrasting themes, from superpowers and the post-human, to masked vigilantes and immortality. In that time, superwomen have evolved from comic book ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Science of Jurassic World

    The Dinosaur Facts Behind the Films

    by Mark Brake, Jon Chase ...
    Narrated by David Doersch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet—unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science.It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing movie of that year, and the highest ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Speak Science

    Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy until Proven Brilliant

    by Bruce Benamran ...
    Narrated by Braden Wright ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today’s cutting-edge technologies possible.Wanting everyone to be able to “speak” science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains—as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Science Matters

    Achieving Scientific Literacy

    by Robert M. Hazen, James Trefil ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book ReviewKnowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Eine tödliche Liebe - Petra Kelly & Gert Bastian (Ungekürzt)

    by Alice Schwarzer ...
    Narrated by Alice Schwarzer, Franziska Ball, Hans Eckardt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Im Herbst 1992 wird die langjährige prominente Grünen-Politikerin Petra Kelly unter bis heute nicht völlig geklärten Umständen von ihrem Lebensgefährten Gert Bastian im Schlaf erschossen; anschließend tötet er sich selbst. Alice Schwarzers ausgesprochen detailreich recherchiertes und dennoch sehr spannend geschriebenes Buch widmet sich der ungewöhnlichen Beziehung zwischen der Friedensaktivistin ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Descartes' Traum

    Von der unendlichen Macht des Außenstehens

    by Otto E. Rössler, Otto E. Rössler, Nils Röller, Nils Röller, Klaus Sander, Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner ...
    Narrated by Otto E. Rössler ...

    Unabridged

    54 min

    Der Chaosforscher Otto E. Rössler (geboren 1940), Professor für Theoretische Chemie und Spezialist für Nichtspezialisiertheit, ist ein hinreißender Erzähler, der seine Hörer mit Begeisterung anzustecken versteht. Der Entdecker des nach ihm benannten Rössler-Attraktors hält die Wissenschaft für eine wichtige Aufgabe und gleichzeitig für ein Spiel, er schätzt Gehirngleichungen und die Theorie der ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Als das Neue noch neu war

    Wissenschaftsgeschichte

    by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Narrated by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Series series uni-auditorium

    Abridged

    53 min

    Als die moderne Wissenschaft in Europa geboren wurde - im frühen 17. Jahrhundert -, sprachen ihre Pioniere - der Engländer Bacon, der Deutsche Kepler, der Italiener Galilei, der Franzose Descartes - davon, dass sie etwas Neues machen würden. Sie hatten die Idee des Fortschritts entdeckt, der zufolge die Zukunft besser werden kann als die Vergangenheit. Dies gelingt den Menschen, wenn sie das ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Apocalypse 2012

    A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

    by Lawrence E. Joseph ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Don’t look upIt won’t help. You can’t get out of the way, you can’t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it.So why read this book?Because you can’t look away when not just the religious fanatics are saying we’re all going to be destroyed but the scientists are in on the act too. Here’s what they’re saying:We’re a million years over due for a mass ... Read more

    $44.00 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond

    by My Ebook Publishing House ...
    Narrated by Matt Montanez ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond.Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then deep inside) each of its eight planets, and even an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets. With ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Grosse Ideen der Wissenschaft Teil 1

    Vorlesung

    by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Narrated by Ernst Peter Fischer ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - uni auditorium

    Abridged

    1 hour 5 min

    Die überragende Qualität der Wissenschaft von der Natur besteht darin, ihr Wissen in grundlegende Begriffe verpacken zu können, von denen einige sehr berühmt sind und die viele Menschen beschäftigen. Die genannten Ideen werden auf ebenso prägnante wie elegante Weise vorgestellt, wobei deutlich wird, dass die Naturwissenschaften zugleich grandios sind, aber auch geheimnisvoll bleiben. DAS ATOM Das ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Science of Women in Horror, The

    The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films

    by Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence ...
    Narrated by Linda Henning ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    From scream queens to femmes fatale, horror isn’t just for the boys. Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the feminist horror movies, TV shows, and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, film analysis, and bone ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD