The Science category has 986 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 9,896 ratings. The most-rated is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
The Chemistry of Death
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It's a depressing thought, but one day you will die. All living things die. This essay deals with the topic of death. It covers a number of famous poisoners and the poisons they dispatched to their victims. In addition to the mechanisms of drug action, the subject of apoptosis (programmed cell death) is also discussed. This essay is therefore a resource which can aid students and the layperson interested in drug/toxin action. There is also some humor.
©2014 Alan Hall (P)2014 Alan Hall
Drones: The Complete Collection
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The best-selling series, Drones, is back with Drones: The Complete Collection, a comprehensive collection which contains incredibly relevant information that any prospective UAV/drone pilot requires in order to go from beginner to master UAV pilot. The three books contained within this collection work in unison through direct information and simple-to-follow how-to guides that cover all aspects of UAV aviation. The collection begins with Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual. Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual is a pathway to becoming a professional pilot. Its step-by-step guides will light the way for you, ensuring you have all the information you need in order to take you from choosing your drone to completing your first commercial project. This is not just a collection of useful information on guidelines and tips on flying your drones; it is also a tool to help you gain a strong foundation and the correct mindset towards drone use. Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques is a complete guide to flying your drone. Created as a standalone, it is also the natural follow-up to the first book in the series, Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual, and was designed to support and guide you as you build on your piloting experience. Within Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques, you will learn how to grow your confidence with proven flight techniques that also add to and enhance your current skill set. Many new flight techniques will be explained in order to enhance your ability to get the perfect shot time after time. There are worked examples as well as numerous tried and tested methods for reveals, capturing moving targets, and flight path ideas for mapping and surveying projects. Drones: The Complete Collection ends with the brilliantly received Drones: Fly Your Drone Anywhere Without Getting Busted, which is essential for both commercial UAV operators and hobbyists alike who wish to get the most out of their chosen aircraft without the worry that sometimes comes with operating in certain areas. The audiobook covers legal methods and proven techniques that will allow you to safely fly anywhere, if done so correctly.
©2017 Lee Senescall (P)2018 Lee Senescall
Rewilding
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Rewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature. As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement and enabling a growing number of people to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves. ‘De-domesticated’ horses galloping across a Dutch ‘Serengeti’; beavers creating wetlands in the British countryside; giant tortoises restoring the wildlife of the Mauritian islands; perhaps one day even rhinos roaming the Australian outback - rewilding is full of exciting and inspirational possibilities.
©2020 Paul Jepson (P)2020 W F Howes
Dentro il Sole
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Le piante, gli animali, l'uomo possono continuare a esistere grazie alla frazione di energia solare che viene assorbita dalla Terra. L'illuminazione solare è tale da permettere alla superficie terrestre di mantenere una temperatura confortevole, agli oceani di rimanere in forma liquida e alla crosta terrestre di non liquefarsi. Inoltre il sole controlla il clima, guida i venti e crea le condizioni ambientali in cui viviamo. Dal campo magnetico, che è alla base di fenomeni che condizionano l'atmosfera, all'attività esplosiva e ai nuovi filoni di meteorologia e climatologia spaziale: tutti i segreti di questo grande reattore nucleare.
©2014 Società editrice il Mulino Spa (P)2019 Audible Studios
Planet der Insekten
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Für Fans von Sir David Attenborough! Die Insekten verschwinden. Dabei hängt der Fortbestand des Planeten von ihnen ab. Sie bestäuben nicht nur unsere Pflanzen und sorgen für fruchtbare Böden - mit ihrer Hilfe wird auch Krebs und Welthunger der Kampf angesagt. Mit seinem fulminanten Ritt durch den Kosmos der Insekten hat David MacNeal den Sechsbeinern ein Denkmal gesetzt.
©2020 SAGA Egmont. Übersetzung von Matthias Frings (P)2020 SAGA Egmont
The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont)
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When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends. How and why the threads of this story unspooled, as Jones reveals, raises profound questions - most particularly about how ideas rooted in history, race, gender, region, and speciesism intersect and complicate strategy and activism, and their desired outcomes. In the end, notes Jones, we must always ask, "Where's the body?"
©2014 Pattrice Jones (P)2017 Lantern Books
A Slow Passion
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When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she got to grips with these slimy little gastropods. A Slow Passion is Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the worst offending snails in a far-off wood, she decides to paint their shells with nail varnish, just to see what happens. And guess what, they come back home. This is the beginning of an obsession that sees the grandmother-turned-scientist prowling about and pouncing on the snails in her garden, sneaking off on night-time missions to repatriate bucket loads of painted snails, reading up on the sex-life of snails (which turns out to be unexpectedly romantic) and, eventually, sending off the application to a national competition for home science. With charming illustrations, A Slow Passion is a sweet, funny and surprising investigation into the hidden life of snails, which will change the way you look at the smaller (and slower) things in life.
©2013 Ruth Brooks (P)2014 Audible Inc.
David McCullough's The Wright Brothers Summary
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This is a summary of The New York Times best seller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize - the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly - Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers - bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, - changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. David McCullough draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to listen to the full book.
©2016 Ant Hive Media (P)2016 Ant Hive Media
What Algorithms Want
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We depend on - we believe in - algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations - the marriage vow, the shaman's curse - do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In What Algorithms Want, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm - in practical terms, "a method for solving a problem" - has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking.
Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things.
If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of "algorithmic reading" and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.
©2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
RV Living: Retire into an RV with Social Security
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A powerful way to live your dream of RVing full time. Have you had the longing to live in the great outdoors but could never do so before retiring? Does a sense of adventure call to you, but you feel like you are constricted by your Social Security checks to live a good life? Are you contemplating living the RV life or are about to begin doing so? If that is the case, then this will be the most important message you might ever hear. I, George Lee, will share the secrets of RVing full time on just your Social Security income. That’s right folks. You can actually live a much better and fulfilling life in an RV, using just the Social Security checks you receive every month. In fact, there are many others, including me, who are doing this right now! In this audiobook you will learn about: How to figure out your monthly RVing budget based on your Social Security income The biggest mistake you have to avoid when buying your first RV The top five specs you have to look at when buying an RV The number one state to register your RV How RVing can help you pay off debt and avoid it completely Four different ways to receive mail when you are living in an RV The most overlooked utilities to bring with you when you start living in an RV The top three ways to tow your vehicle and which one is the best for you How to handle kids and pets in an RV This audiobook has been designed to guide you through the process of RVing full time on Social Security, start to finish. No need to do research. Just jump in. Every day that you spend in the “sticks and bricks” life is another day that you waste your hard-earned Social Security money on a lifestyle that leaves you unhappy, unsatisfied, and strapped for money and opportunity. Take action now and buy this audiobook!
©2019 George Lee (P)2019 George Lee
Electric World
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We are all familiar with the force we recognize as electricity, right? But where does this amazing force come from? This audiobook explains what electricity is and highlights some of the people who have made major contributions to our knowledge of this force. It also takes a look at what the generation of electrical energy is doing to the climate and contains some references to other sources of information on this topic.
©2014 Alan Hall (P)2014 Alan Hall
The Mysteries, Fun and Gratification of Ancestral DNA Testing
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This book is not deeply scientific but rather relates the journey (mine) that a person will take generally who is seeking their ancestral history, including learning enough to understand how to interpret their DNA analysis. As I relate in my numbered posts/articles that follow, there can be satisfaction, surprises and at times, disappointments. All of this can happen when one takes a look at the results of ancestral DNA testing. I wrote this informational book in parts over several months, like one might make entries into a diary. What the information will do, is to help other people considering ancestry testing and analyses, to roughly know what to expect from them. Knowing your ancestral background can be tremendously interesting. There are people in America (many) who simply write "Caucasian" or "White" on forms that ask what their ethnicity is. While this may be true, they likely don't realize that they may have African or Hispanic countries in their ancestral background and possibly some Native American as well. In some cases, a significant percent of their ancestry may have actually come from the Middle East. The same is true of African people in America; they may have more European ancestry in their back ground than they could have ever imagined. So, breaking into those mysteries via scientific DNA testing that is proven to be accurate (although different companies may report analytical findings differently), can actually be fun, important and truly gratifying. Learn more about DNA testing via narration of my compiled numbered postings.
©2015 James M. Lowrance (P)2016 James M. Lowrance
Brehms Tierleben
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Ein Kaleidoskop tierischer Eigenheiten: Brehms Tierleben, erschienen zwischen 1864 und 1869 in sechs Bänden, war das erste tierkundliche Werk, das neben der Anatomie auch die Lebensweise der Tiere schilderte. Es wurde schnell zum Volks- und Hausbuch, da es aufwendig und lebensnah illustriert und für den Laien verständlich war. Alfred Brehm, der die verschiedenen Tierarten und -gattungen intensiv auf seinen Reisen nach Afrika, Spanien, Skandinavien und Sibirien studiert hatte, liebte, achtete das Tier - und beschreibt es mit dem Ernst eines Tierschriftstellers. Seine Tiere leben ein Leben voller Dummheiten und Triebhaftigkeit, zeigen Ehrenhaftigkeit und Größe, und einigen gelingt es noch im Tod, ihre "moralischen Verfehlungen" wieder gut - und es den Menschen recht zu machen. In 12 Folgen interpretiert Thomas Holtzmann die Merkwürdigkeiten im Verhalten der Säugetiere, die Brehm besonders ins Herz geschlossen hatte, wie die Affen, die Erdferkel oder die Wüstenspringmaus - ein höchst vergnüglicher Ausschnitt aus dem ewig jung gebliebenen Klassiker, einem Kaleidoskop tierischer Eigenheiten und Lustbarkeiten.
(c) 1999 Der Audio Verlag, Produktion: Südwestrundfunk
Voyage of the Turtle
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As Carl Safina's compelling natural-history adventure makes clear, the fate of the leatherback turtle is in our hands. The distressing decline of these ancient sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate the results - both positive and negative - of our interventions and the lessons that can be applied, globally, to restore the oceans and their creatures. We accompany award-winning natural-history expert Safina and his colleagues as they track leatherbacks across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds in Papua, New Guinea. Throughout, in his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are playing a significant role in their survival.
©2006 Carl Safina (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Trapped in Earthquake Canyon: Personal Account of Surviving the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake
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Objects flew at us in the dark. Cupboards, pans, and dishes were all over, grinding and smashing violently. A forty-gallon water tank and a large iron stove hit the floor simultaneously. The logs of the cabin squealed and groaned. Terror gripped my heart and panic seized me. Though I knew that my wife was beside me in bed, I had no idea what was happening to the children. “My babies! My babies!” came Gloria’s cry. (Dean Roberts) It was the summer of 1959 when the Roberts family decided to take their first vacation in five years. When they reached West Yellowstone, Montana, a fateful decision was made to continue on until they arrived at the majestic Madison Canyon below the Hebgen Lake Dam. A rustic cabin was rented in a peaceful and serene location along the Madison River. They went to bed dreaming of catching rainbow trout, hiking mountain trails and observing wildlife. At 11:37 pm, their dreams turned into night terrors when they were jolted awake by a 7.5 earthquake! They tried to escape. In one direction, the road was blocked by a deadly mountain slide and in the other direction, the highway had dropped into the lake. They were trapped in Earthquake canyon! Trapped in Earthquake Canyon is the true story of a family surviving the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake.
©2018 Cynthia Roberts Brunnette (P)2020 Cynthia Roberts Brunnette
The Improbable Primate
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In this fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year evolutionary journey, Finlayson demonstrates the radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and technologies and shows that understanding humans within an ecological context provides insights into the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens worldwide. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical role in shaping the direction of human evolution, contributing to our spread and success. He argues that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving the forest and forcing their way into a long-established community of carnivores in a tropical savannah as climate changes opened up the landscape. They took their chance at high noon, when most other predators were asleep. Adapting to this new lifestyle by shedding their hair and developing an active sweating system to keep cool, being close to fresh water was vital. As the climate dried, our ancestors, already bipedal, became taller and slimmer, more adept at travelling farther in search of water. The challenges of seeking water in a drying landscape moulded the minds and bodies of early humans and directed their migrations and eventual settlements.
©2014 Clive Finlayson (P)2014 Audible Inc.
College Level Physics
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AudioLearn's college-level courses present Physics. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level physics. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate physics course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-size sections. There are quizzes and key takeaways following each section to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points. Here are the main topics we'll be covering: Kinematics, the study of motion Two-dimensional kinematics Newton’s laws of motion Circular motion and gravitation Work and energy Momentum and collisions Statics, torque, and rotational motion Fluid statics and dynamics Temperature and gas laws Heat and heat transfer Thermodynamics Oscillatory motion and waves Electrical charges and electrical fields Electric potential and electric energy Electric current and circuits Magnetism Light and optics Quantum physics We will conclude the course with a 200 question practice test. Also included, is a follow-along PDF manual containing the entire text of this audio course as well as all images, figures, and charts we’ll be discussing. Now, let’s get started! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 AudioLearn (P)2020 AudioLearn
Exploring Creation with Chemistry
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This course is designed to be a first-year high school chemistry course. The course covers significant figures, units, classification, the mole concept, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, redox reactions, solutions, atomic structure, Lewis structures, molecular geometry, the gas laws, and equilibrium. Requires the completion of algebra 1 as a prerequisite.
©2003 Apologia Educational Ministries (P)2003 Apologia Educational Ministries
Unsettled Science
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Theories for the beginning of creation and how life exploded multiple times on Earth are fascinating mysteries of the universe. As science unravels thrilling facets, we are finding more complexity than imagined as progress unfolds in fits and starts. Leaps in genetics, mathematics, physics, astronomy, engineering, microbiology, biochemistry, paleontology, and other great fields are beginning to coalesce around theories that move us away from directionless randomness and chance to purposeful design and marvelous engineering.
©2019 John Yell (P)2019 John Yell
Churchland Controversy
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This book explores the philosophical work of Patricia Churchland and her groundbreaking studies in neurophilosophy, a field she helped to create. Includes a critical analysis of her latest work on near-death experiences and some of her controversial findings. Also included is a special interview conducted by Professor Meredith Doran dating back to 1990 which details Churchland's work on consciousness and the brain. Discusses whether NDEs are part and parcel of the brain or something trans-neurological.
©2016 David Christopher Lane (P)2016 David Christopher Lane