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The
First Three Minutes
Steven Weinberg received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics
for his work in unifying two of the fundamental forces of nature, and in
1991 he was awarded the National Medal of Science at the White House. His
earlier prize-winning book The First Three Minutes is the classic account
of the "Big Bang," the modern theory of the origin of the universe.
Among his other books are The Theory of Subatomic Particles and Gravitation
and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity.
Author : Steven Weinberg
Narrator : Raymond Todd
Length : 5 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $14.99
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Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel developed a profound and influential synthesis
of all prior knowledge. He aimed
to make philosophy an all-comprehensive science that would restate, in
rational language, the truth of Christianity.
In Hegel's vast speculative and idealistic philosophy, truth is found
not in the part but in the whole. Nature is an
organic whole shot through with rationality akin to the reason in ourselves. Hegel viewed history as the growth of human consciousness, which is also the emergence of freedom.
Author : Professor John E. Smith
Narrator : Charlton Heston
Length : 2 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $9.99
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Isaac
Newton
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science
-- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning
to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see.
In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic
systems. Now, in Isaac Newton, he gives us the story of the scientist
who, above all others, embodied humanity's quest to unveil the hidden forces
that constitute the physical world.
Author : James Gleick
Narrator : Allan Corduner
Length : 5 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $16.99
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Isaac
Newton's New Physics
Newton was a natural philosopher (the word "scientist" had
not yet been coined)
who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces.
His "Principia" changed science forever; gravity not only explained
the orbits of stars, it explained common earthly events as well. Newton
established a way of thinking that still shapes our everyday understanding
of
how the world works.
Author : Dr. Gordon Brittan
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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A
Little History of the World
In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity
from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful
picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations
of science. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless
account makes intelligible the full span of human history for the curious
of all ages.
Author : E. H. Gombrich, translated by
Caroline Mustill
Narrator : Ralph Cosham
Length : 9 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $16.99
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The
Map That Changed the World
In 1793, William Smith,
made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on
its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed
that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were
very different from those found in another. Obsessed with creating a
map that would showcase his discovery, Smith spent the next twenty years
traveling England alone, studying rock outcroppings and gathering information.
Author : Simon Winchester
Narrator : Simon Winchester
Length : 10 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $21.99
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Medical Science
Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician
Hippocrates, dissection
and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons
until the Renaissance. Only in 1628 did William Harvey theorize that
blood circulates in the body; germs weren't discovered until the nineteenth
century. Since then, surgery and drugs have greatly reduced deaths and
pain from accident
and disease.
Author : Dr. Paul M. Heidger and Richard
Eimas
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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Medieval
Science
Many believe the "Middle Ages" lacked progress,
yet during this time algebra was developed, and Islamic scholars preserved
and extended Greek thought (which otherwise was lost). Metallurgy (and
it speculative counterpart, alchemy) led to a deeper understanding of materials.
These advances set the stage for the Renaissanceand a scientific revolution.
Author : Dr. Jack Sanders
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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Natural
Science and the Planet Earth
Alexander Von Humboldt and others sparked a centuries-long
debate about natural history and geological destiny by discussing what
today we call the environment. Some now
believe the earth cannot safely accommodate its growing burdens; others
say longer life spans and more people are signs of progress. Are humans
destroying the earth, or building a better world?
Author : Dr. Jack Sommer
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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A
New Understanding of the Atom
Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he
still believed that physical
events have definite causes. Then Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, joined
others in describing a strange new world of uncertainty and mystery.
Quantum mechanics has intrigued and confounded
many by joining keen insights with apparent contradictions and indeterminacy.
Quantum theory
also was later used to create semiconductors, the technology of the computer
revolution.
Author : Professor John T. Sanders
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 3 hours (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $12.99
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Origins
of the Universe
The story of the cosmosits beginning and its changes through
timehas been a topic
of much speculation and myth. It also has attracted intense attention
from scientists. There are many questions about the universe's size,
stability, growth, and its ultimate cause. This presentation also addresses
such colorful cosmic topics as red shifts, white dwarfs, black holes,
super strings, and the
"big bang".
Author : Jack Arnold
Narrator : Edwin Newman
Length : 2 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $9.99
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To
Conquer The Air
For years Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented
in utter obscurity. Meanwhile, the world watched as the imperious Samuel
Langley, armed with a rich contract from the U. S. War Department and all
the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first
manned flying machine. While Langley became obsessed with flight as a problem
of power, the Wrights grappled with it as a problem of balance. Thus their
machines took two very different paths - one toward oblivion, the other
toward the heavens.
Author : James Tobin
Narrator : Boyd Gaines
Length : 6 hours (abridged)
Format : Encoded Windows Media
Download Price: $15.99
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