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    Rockhounding for Beginners

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

    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

    $156.28 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur (Ungekürzt)

    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

    $68.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    La théorie des mèmes

    Pourquoi nous nous imitons les uns les autres

    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

    $134.99 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Krieg ist der Feind

    Die Verantwortung des Wissenschaftlers

    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

    $158.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A PhD Is Not Enough!

    A Guide to Survival in Science

    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

    $146.99 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Harry Potter: A History of Magic

    An Audio Documentary

    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

    $234.14 HKD

  • 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

    $218.82 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Canon

    A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

    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

    $179.42 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena & Non-Human Intelligence: A Compelling Historical Compendium, Volume 1, Antiquity - 1979

    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 11 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This nonfiction book contains the most important information available about the current body of knowledge regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and Non-Human Intelligence (NHI), and the most compelling documented historical encounters. Volume I covers the time period from antiquity through 1979. ... Read more

    $117.19 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Als das Neue noch neu war

    Wissenschaftsgeschichte

    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

    $83.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Apocalypse 2012

    A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

    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

    $273.23 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond

    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

    $23.38 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Cosmos

    A Personal Voyage

    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

    $336.09 HKD

  • Audiobook

    The Science of Jurassic World

    The Dinosaur Facts Behind the Films

    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

    $112.59 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Speak Science

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

    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

    $179.42 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Science Matters

    Achieving Scientific Literacy

    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

    $156.36 HKD

  • Audiobook

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

    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

    $88.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Descartes' Traum

    Von der unendlichen Macht des Außenstehens

    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

    $118.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Grosse Ideen der Wissenschaft Teil 1

    Vorlesung

    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

    $83.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Science of Women in Horror, The

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

    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

    $171.99 HKD

  • Audiobook

    42 Reasons to Hate the Universe

    And One Reason Not To

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you . . . you were right!Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific way for barely long enough to try to understand this thing we call existence. Those atoms could just have easily been ... Read more

    $156.28 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Headstrong

    52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

    by Rachel Swaby ...
    Narrated by Lauren Fortgang ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    **Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists.“Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle**In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to ... Read more

    $136.81 HKD

  • Audiobook

    Die Geschichte der Natur

    Abridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Zentrale Themen des Hörbuch "Die Geschichte der Natur" sind die Entwicklung des Universums und die des Menschen in diesem Universum - zusammengestellt aus einer Vorlesungsreihe, die Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1946 in Göttingen gehalten hat. Eine wichtige Rolle spielen dabei die physikalischen Gesetze, die die Geschichtlichkeit der Natur bedingen. Der Autor entwickelt ein grundlegendes Weltbild ... Read more

    $258.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work

    Explore his life, mind and science through the objects in his study

    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

    $149.39 HKD