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Isaac Newton, James Gleick

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick

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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... read more

What The Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell

What The Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell

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Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In "The New Yorker, "his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers... read more

Stiff, Mary Roach

Stiff

By Mary Roach

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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's... read more

Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova

Swan Thieves

By Elizabeth Kostova

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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter... read more

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By Barbara Ehrenreich

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This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of... read more

Death's Acre, Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson

Death's Acre

By Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson

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Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At... read more

Map That Changed the World CD : William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester

Map That Changed the World CD : William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

By Simon Winchester

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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a... read more

Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906, Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

By Simon Winchester

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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western... read more

Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazis Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracl, Thomas Hager

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazis Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracl

By Thomas Hager

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Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and... read more

Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital

By Lemony Snicket

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Dear Listener, This audio is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children's miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful audios in the... read more