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Astronomy : The Heavenly Challenge
As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark,
Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began
to see a new relationship between the world and the stars. Their questions, and their non-religious
answers, toppled the idea that manand the Churchare at the center of the universe.
Author : Jack Arnold
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead
Bertrand Russell and A. N. Whitehead co-authored a seminal
work in logic entitled Principia Mathematica. Russell wrote on virtually
every aspect of philosophy, with particular
contributions in ethics (where he championed important innovations).
Whitehead developed one of the great philosophical systems of the century.
Author : Professor Paul Kuntz
Narrator : Lynn Redgrave
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Chemistry and The Enlightenment
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists
went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water)
to catalogue nature's many basic elements. Soon, new theories
of atomic structure and
combustion laid the foundation for practical applications that blossomed
into the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Dr. Ian Jackson
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 2 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $9.99
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| Complexity and
Chaos
Newtonian physics described a regular, clock-like world
of forces and reaction; randomness
was equated with incomplete knowledge. But scientists in the late twentieth
century have found patterns
in things formerly thought to be "chaotic"; their theories help
explain the unstable, irregular, yet highly
structured features of everyday experience. It now seems likely that
randomness and chaos play an
essential role in the evolution of the living worldand in intelligence
itself.
Author : Dr. Roger White
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 2 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Consumer's Guide
to a Brave New World
"Smith deserves exceptionally high marks for providing an eminently
readable, profoundly
insightful and thoughtful conversation on the impact of biotechnology."American
Conservative. What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial?
Events are moving so fastand biotechnology seems so complicatedthat many
of us don't have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the
human future before our very eyes.
Author : Wesley J. Smith
Narrator : Brian Emerson
Length : 8 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $16.99
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Darwin
and Evolution
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work:
On the Origin of Species by
means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created
species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued
that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors.
By the 1950s, most scientists accepted the theory. However, it upset
many who believed that life was created by a supernatural Goda debate
which is perpetuated today.
Author : Dr. Michael Ghiselin
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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David Hume
David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the
British philosophy of sense-experience. Although he lived in the age
of reason, Hume had profound doubts about our ability to know anything in
the world
with certainty. This skepticism colored his view of science and gave
rise to his devastating attack on proofs of the existence of God. Hume
believed that values are neither objective nor universal, but nevertheless
was optimistic
about human nature and our ability to achieve decency in our actions.
Author : Nicholas Capaldi
Narrator : Charlton Heston
Length : 2 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Descartes,
Bacon and Modern Philosophy
These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to
break free of oppressive traditions. Free scientific inquiry led them
to skeptically question everything, though they also tried
to reconcile science with religious faith. Both Descartes and Bacon extolled
the individual, arguing
that the human mind can penetrate the deepest secrets of existence. Their
ideas formulated the problems that would occupy philosophers for the
next three hundred years.
Author : Professor Jeffrey Tlumak
Narrator : Lynn Redgrave
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Dimensions
of Scientific Thought
We think of science as a way of discovering certainty in
an unpredictable world; experiments are designed to objectivity measure
cause and effect. Yet, science often produces more new questions than
answers and all scientific theories can change with new and better observations.
Scientific philosophers say that "objective" observations
actually depend heavily on the observer's intuition and point of view.
This audio presentation explores the power and limitations of this special
type of knowledge called science.
Author : Professor John T. Sanders
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Einstein's Revolution
Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework
of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late
nineteenth century created new and troubling inconsistencies. In 1905,
Einstein's name became synonymous with "genius" when
his Special Theory of Relativity challenged old concepts in physics.
Hertz, Lorentz, Mach, Poincare, and others illustrated the ideas that
so captivated Albert Einstein and shook our conventional ideas about
space and time.
Author : Professor John T. Sanders
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Exploring and Mapmaking
While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers
mapped the
earth's exotic land and seas. Commerce and navigation exploded as mapmakers
and bold explorers
built on each other's achievements; in the process, our very concept
of the earth changed from a flat
surface to a sphere.
Author : Dr. Ian Jackson
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
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Field
Notes From a Catastrophe
Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the
buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar
ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then
to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold.
By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any point in
the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change
will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrator : Hope Davis
Length : 4 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $17.99
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