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 Golden Ratio
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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887.... This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio", was discovered by Euclid more than 2,000 years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and rose petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it. It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Salvador Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been found to be connected to the behavior of the stock market! The Golden Ratio is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.
©2008 Mario Livio (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
One Size Fits None
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“Sustainable” has long been the rallying cry of agricultural progressives; given that much of our nation’s farm and ranch land is already degraded, however, sustainable agriculture often means maintaining a less-than-ideal status quo. Industrial agriculture has also co-opted the term for marketing purposes without implementing better practices. Stephanie Anderson argues that in order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources. In One Size Fits None, Anderson follows diverse farmers across the United States: A South Dakota bison rancher who provides an alternative to the industrial feedlot; an organic vegetable farmer in Florida who harvests microgreens; a New Mexico super-small farmer who revitalizes communities; and a North Dakota midsize farmer who combines livestock and grain farming to convert expensive farmland back to native prairie. The use of these nontraditional agricultural techniques show how varied operations can give back to the earth rather than degrade it. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "An invaluable resource, a step in the right direction of imagining alternative way of doing and organizing life around the soil and farming." (Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts) “A brave and clear-eyed book by a farmer’s daughter about the problems in our agriculture and the factors that keep farmers from making it better.” (Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us) “Should be required listening for anyone who yearns for a clear-headed and informed account of our dysfunctional corporate food system.” (Andrew Furman, author of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida)
©2019 Stephanie Anderson (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Tree Story
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Trouet, a leading tree-ring scientist, takes us out into the field, from remote African villages to radioactive Russian forests, offering listeners an insider's look at tree-ring research, a discipline formally known as dendrochronology. Tracing her own professional journey while exploring dendrochronology's history and applications, Trouet describes the basics of how tell-tale tree cores are collected and dated with ring-by-ring precision, explaining the unexpected and momentous insights we've gained from the resulting samples. Blending popular science, travelogue, and cultural history, Tree Story highlights exciting findings of tree-ring research, including the fate of lost pirate treasure, successful strategies for surviving California wildfire, the secret to Genghis Khan's victories, the connection between Egyptian pharaohs and volcanoes, and even the role of olives in the fall of Rome. These fascinating tales are deftly woven together to show us how dendrochronology sheds light on global climate dynamics and uncovers the clear links between humans and our leafy neighbors. Trouet delights us with her dedication to the tangible appeal of studying trees, a discipline that has taken her to austere and beautiful landscapes around the globe and has enabled scientists to solve long-pondered mysteries of Earth and its human inhabitants. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Johns Hopkins University Press (P)2020 Tantor
Quantum Physics for Beginners
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This fascinating introduction from quarks to computing covers every element of the quantum world in clear and accessible language. Based from a range of knowledge to illustrate what a fascinating world of quantum physics is, Max points out that it is not only a web of scientific terminology and metaphysical theories but a fact that influences our everyday lives. The first idea that comes to mind when we hear the word quantum physics is Einstein and his theory of relativity. Of reality, it goes without mentioning that Quantum mechanics has far much to come than that. Physics is a great medium of explaining a million different things from heating up a cup of coffee to gravitational pull. The science of physics has no clear limit. It includes issues that are as items as tiny as neutrons as large as the galaxies. This book deals with its smallest side, the branch of quantum physics. Physicists began to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons around 1900, and with these discoveries, they believed they could predict the atom's internal behavior. However, once their predictions were compared with the results of real-world experiments, it became clear that the principles of classical physics and mechanics were far from capable of explaining atomic-scale phenomena. With this discovery came the emergence of quantum mechanics, one of human history's most significant scientific revolutions. Quantum physics is everywhere today: it explains how our computers work, how lasers transmit information over the Internet and enable scientists to predict the behavior of almost every particle in nature accurately. Its implementation remains central to the analysis of the most profound issues about our environment and the cosmos. In this book, you will learn: What quantum physics really is The law of attraction and quantum physics Planck Relativity law Popular experiment on quantum physics And so many more!
©2020 Max Carnot (P)2020 Max Carnot
Volcanoes
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Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other planets and moons, too, encompasses much more than just volcanoes themselves. On a planetary scale, volcanism is an indispensable heat release mechanism, which on Earth allows the conditions for life. It releases gases into the atmosphere and produces enormous volumes of rock, and spectacular landscapes - landscapes that, during major eruptions, can be completely reshaped in a matter of hours. Through geological time volcanism has shaped both climate and biological evolution, and volcanoes can affect human life, too, for both good and ill. Yet, even after much study, some of the fundamental aspects of volcanicity remain mysterious. This Very Short Introduction takes listeners into the inferno of a racing pyroclastic current, and the heart of a moving lava flow, as understood through the latest scientific research. Exploring how volcanologists forensically decipher how volcanoes work, Michael Branney and Jan Zalasiewicz explain what we do (and don't) understand about the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, and consider how volcanoes interact with other physical processes on the Earth, with life, and with human society.
©2021 Michael J. Branney and Jan Zalasiewicz (P)2021 Tantor
Understanding the Brain
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Considering everything the brain does, how can it possibly be the source of our personalities, dreams, thoughts, sensations, utterances, and movements? Understanding the Brain, a 36-lecture course by award-winning Professor Jeanette Norden of Vanderbilt University, takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ and shows you how it works. With its combination of neurology, biology, and psychology, this course helps you understand how we perceive the world through our senses, how we move, how we learn and remember, and how emotions affect our thoughts and actions. Your tour starts with the organization of the central nervous system at the gross, cellular, and molecular levels, then investigates in detail how the brain accomplishes a host of tasks - from seeing and sleeping to performing music and constructing a personal identity. You explore a broad range of exciting topics in neuroscience and come away with a deeper knowledge of how the brain is organized - and a feeling of wonder and appreciation for all that it accomplishes. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2007 The Great Courses (P)2007 The Teaching Company, LLC
52 Blue
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At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency - 52 hertz - never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind. Three thousand miles away, in an apartment in Harlem, a sudden illness plunges a 48-year-old woman named Leonora into a coma. She wakes up in a hospital room, barely able to speak, adrift in the world. Wandering the Internet late one night she discovers the saga of the whale - and finds her life transformed by the power of its story. In 52 Blue, Leslie Jamison, best-selling author of The Empathy Exams, weaves together these stories in a boldly original exploration of scientific discovery refracted through the lens of human longing. Venturing into the community of people gathering in a mysterious animal’s wake - a brilliant marine biologist, a lovelorn photographer covered in whale tattoos, an obsessed filmmaker, and finally Leonora - Jamison comes away with an absorbing meditation on what it means to be alone, and how we seek meaning from the natural world.
©2014 Leslie Jamison, The Atavist (P)2014 Leslie Jamison, The Atavist
A World Beyond Physics
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Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere. Building on concepts from his work at the Santa Fe Institute, Kauffman focuses in particular on the idea of cells constructing themselves and introduces concepts such as "constraint closure". Living systems are defined by the concept of "organization" which has not been focused on in enough in previous works. Cells are autopoetic systems that build themselves: They literally construct their own constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom that constitutes the very thermodynamic work by which they build their own self creating constraints. Living cells are "machines" that construct and assemble their own working parts. The emergence of such systems - the origin-of-life problem - was probably a spontaneous phase transition to self-reproduction in complex enough prebiotic systems. The resulting protocells were capable of Darwin's heritable variation, hence open-ended evolution by natural selection.
©2019 Oxford University Press (P)2019 Tantor
Off Grid Solar
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Your desire may be to get your energy bill lowered or be independent of the payment all together. If this is you, then this book is all you need. Solar energy is the answer to all your expensive energy consumption. Solar power is the most abundant of all renewable resources available. It is essentially a source of achieving safe energy for home use. It takes free power from the sun and uses it to power electrical equipment. More importantly, solar power does not harm the earth. Of course, it's not that simple. But solar power alone is a powerful resource with applications and benefits around the world. But how does it work? What is it suitable for? How much does it cost? How do I install it? This best-selling book answers all these questions and shows you how to use the power of the Sun to generate electricity yourself. This amazing step-by-step guide on solar energy book is a practical and straightforward guide to using photovoltaic solar panels and all you will need to get it installed. In this book, you will learn: How to know what solar power system to buy How to avoid the common mistakes, tricks, and traps that salesmen will try to feed you How to size your solar power system so it will fit perfectly on your roof A step-by-step guide to installing your solar power systems and panels How to determine how many watts your house needs How solar power/panel works Listen to this amazing book to discover all about solar energy, its benefit, and how to get it working for you.
©2019 Turgon Annárë (P)2020 Turgon Annárë
The Forager's Calendar
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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Award for Food Book of the Year 2020 A month by month handbook for foraging in the woods, fields and seashores of Great Britain. Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain and you are sure to see many wild species that you can take home and eat. From dandelions in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and even grasshoppers, our countryside is full of edible delights in any season. John Wright is the country's foremost expert in foraging and brings decades of experience, including as forager at the River Cottage, to this seasonal guide. Month by month, he shows us what species can be found and where, how to identify them and how to store, use and cook them. You'll learn the stories behind the Latin names, the best way to tap a Birch tree, and how to fry an ant, make rosehip syrup and cook a hop omelette. With tips on kit, conservation advice and what to avoid, this is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in wild food, whether you want to explore the great outdoors or are happiest foraging from your armchair.
©2020 John Wright (P)2020 W F Howes
Rusty Wilson's Alaskan Bigfoot Campfire Stories
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Always wanted to go see Alaska, the 49th state, but never could work it out? Well, never fear, because after these stories, you'll probably change your mind and decide to instead visit someplace safe and predictable. In this baker's dozen of all new and original stories from Rusty Wilson, the World's Greatest Bigfoot Storyteller, you'll see an Alaska that few see, an Alaska that maybe even fewer want to see, and an Alaska that puts all the other states to shame for mysterious places and happenings, as well as having the highest number per capita of people who go missing without a trace.
©2015 Yellow Cat Publishing/Marjorie Miller/Maya Kurtz (P)2015 Yellow Cat Publishing/Marjorie Miller/Maya Kurtz
How Dogs Think
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What dogs see, smell, and know. H?v? ??u ?v?r w?nd?r?d, "Wh?t d? dogs think ?b?ut?" Wh?l? you m?? not be ?bl? t? pinpoint ?r?????l? wh?t ??ur pooch is th?nk?ng at any given m?m?nt, ??u ??n get to kn?w its ??r??n?l?t? ?nd b?h?v??r?, wh??h will h?l? ??u ?nt?r?r?t what it m?? b? ??n??d?r?ng ?r feeling thr?ugh?ut th? d??. It'? u? to ??u and ??ur ?m?g?n?t??n to dr??m u? th? d?t??l?! H?w Dogs Th?nk answers ?u??t??n? ?b?ut ?ur ??n?n? ??m??n??n? th?t have ?uzzl?d many. C?n d?g? count? C?n a d?g l??rn h?w to d? ??m?th?ng ju?t by w?t?h?ng another dog or even a person do ?t? D? dogs dr??m? Wh?t ?? th? n?tur? ?f dog ??r??n?l?t?? And, ??n dogs sense future ??rth?u?k?? ?r detect ??n??r? Th? ?u??t??n of wh?t a d?g is thinking ?? ??tu?ll? ?n old m?t??h?????l d?b?t?. Ph?t?n? m?? strike our r?t?n??, but it ?? ?nl? thr?ugh th? ??t?v?t? of ?ur brains th?t w? have the subjective ?x??r??n?? ?f ????ng a r??nb?w or th? ?ubl?m? b??ut? ?f a ?un??t over th? ????n. Does a d?g ??? th??? th?ng?? Of ??ur??. D? th?? experience them the same w??? Absolutely n?t. With ??und b?h?v??r?l science ?nd num?r?u? funn?, ?nf?rm?t?v? anecdotes, ?x??r?m?nt?, ?nd f?r?th?nd ?b??rv?t??n?, How D?g? Th?nk ?h?tt?r? many ??mm?n myths and m????n???t??n? about ?ur four-legged fr??nd? and r?v??l? a w??lth of surprises ?b?ut their m?nt?l ?b?l?t??? ?nd ??t?nt??l. It w?ll make ??u l?v? ?nd ???r????t? ?ll d?g? - ?n?lud?ng your own - in w?nd?rful n?w w???. In How D?g? Think, you will discover: Th? mind ?f the d?g Wh?t the world looks l?k? to a d?g Wh?t w?uld ?t be l?k? t? be a dog Human t? dog: dog ??m?l?t?s th? man Getting information ?nt? the m?nd D?g’? h??r?ng Dog's ?n?ff?ng Taste ?f th? dogs T?u?h w?th th? w?rld The sixth sense ?f the dogs S?gn?ng ?nd t???ng Dog t?lk?ng to ??t? Wh?l? ?m?g?ng a d?g'? brain, scientists l?t d?g? ?m?ll the ?r?m? ?f their owners, and it activated the "reward center" of th??r brains. So ju?t the ?m?ll ?f their hum?n? makes d?g? giddy. Our d?g? ?l?? think a l?t about how w?'r? feeling. In f??t, th??r brains ?r? in tune with th? inflections of ?m?t??n ?n our voice ?n a ??m?l?r w?? to hum?n?. Their br??n? ?r? ??n?t?ntl? ?n tun? w?th th??r hum?n?, which ?x?l??n? wh? th??'r? so g??d ?t ??mf?rt?ng u?. If all of this sounds like your ideal audiobook, then hop on over and hit that "Buy Now" button! Stress no more! Buy this audiobook and also learn all...and download it now!
©2010 Peter Collar (P)2020 Peter Collar
Den fjerde industrielle revolution
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Den fjerde industrielle revolution er mere betydningsfuld og mere omfattende end noget, menneskeheden før har været vidne til. Nye teknologier forener de fysiske, digitale og biologiske verdener og resulterer i kunstig intelligens, 3D-printning, DNA-sekvensering og bærbar teknologi indbygget i tøj eller gadgets. Disse teknologier er først og fremmest designet til at forbedre vores liv, men med dette væld af muligheder kommer også udfordringer og potentielle risikoelementer. Det tvinger os til at genoverveje, hvordan vi bruger teknologien og endda, hvad det betyder at være et menneske. Schwab forsøger med denne bog at skitsere, hvordan vi i fællesskab kan forme denne revolution, så vi skaber en fremtid, hvor innovation og teknologi tjener folket og gavner os alle sammen.
©2018 Gyldendal (P)2018 Gyldendal
The Quantum Story
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Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the 21st-century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it. The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To take us from the story's beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes his narrative around 40 turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably bound up with the characters involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitement as they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through the mix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of theory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more. Brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing at its best. A compelling look at the 100-year history of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster ever since.
©2011 Jim Baggott (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 2, Advanced Quantum Mechanics
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For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike. Ranging from the most basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as Einstein's general relativity, superconductivity, and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight. This timeless audio serves as a comprehensive library of essential physics by a legend in science. Volume 2 makes up a course in Advanced Quantum Mechanics and includes chapters on symmetry in physical laws, identical particles, symmetry and conservation laws, the hydrogen atom and the periodic table, and the Schrödinger equation in a classical context (this chapter also includes a seminar on superconductivity).
Public Domain (P)1998 Perseus Publishing
The Planets
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With her blockbuster New York Times best sellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum. Now, in The Planets, Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious subject to date: the planets of our solar system. The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history. Whether revealing what lies behind Venus' cocoon of acid clouds or capturing firsthand the excitement at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when pictures from Cassini at Saturn are beamed to Earth, this intimate account is filled with fascination, beauty, and surprise. Written in Dava Sobel's characteristically graceful prose, The Planets is a distinctive view of our place in the universe. It is that rare book that will delight the experienced astronomer and, at the same time, engage someone eager to get to know the planets.
©2005 Dava Sobel (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
The Wild Life of Our Bodies
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Biologist Rob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health, our well-being, and our world in The Wild Life of Our Bodies - a fascinating tour through the hidden truths of nature and codependence. Dunn illuminates the nuanced, often imperceptible relationships that exist between homo sapiens and other species, relationships that underpin humanity's ability to thrive and prosper in every circumstance. Fans of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma will be enthralled by Dunn's powerful, lucid exploration of the role that humankind plays within the greater web of life on Earth.
©2011 Rob R. Dunn (P)2020 Tantor
Understanding the Science for Tomorrow: Myth and Reality
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Science and technology are, without a doubt, two forces that will change the way you live your life in the coming months, years, and decades. And in recent decades, these forces have evolved and developed at a lightning-fast pace. Explore the many possibilities of what your future may look like with these 24 lectures: a scientifically accurate and enlightening survey of today's most advanced research in fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, and theoretical physics. You'll see firsthand how recent developments in science and technology can potentially fulfill this need in a range of modern-day, real-world areas like transportation, computing, medicine, and energy. The lectures are filled with intriguing sneak peeks at the latest developments and technologies in a range of scientific fields, including nanorobots that could identify and destroy cancer cells, personalized medicine that could be customized to an individual’s specific genome, and biofuels that could be created from food industry waste. In discussing these and other eye-opening topics, Professor Grossman always makes a point to emphasize fact and truth over fiction and hype. By the final lecture, you'll have a stronger sense of some important fundamental scientific principles being used right this moment to innovate your life. You'll also find yourself filled with a sense of excitement and wonder for both how, and how quickly, science and technology are working to make your world a better place. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 The Great Courses (P)2012 The Teaching Company, LLC
Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
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What do we really know about dinosaurs? As our knowledge of the prehistoric creatures has evolved, there are quite a few myths, legends, and interesting facts that have come to light. Explore how early civilizations created monsters from dinosaur bones, what experts think dinosaurs really sounded like, and more!
©2021 Seeker (P)2021 Audiogems by Findaway
College Level Organic Chemistry
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AudioLearn's college-level courses presents organic chemistry. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level organic chemistry. The audiobook is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate organic chemistry course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions. Here are the main topics we’ll be covering: Chemical Bonding in Organic Chemistry Basic Organic Molecular Structures Organic Solvent Chemistry Alkanes, Alkenes, and Alkynes Aldehydes, Carboxylic Acids, and Ketones Cyclic Organic Compounds Aromatic Compounds Alcohols, Alkyl Halides Ethers, Epoxides, and Esters Enols and Enolates Thiols and Sulfides Nitrogen-containing Organic Molecules Substitution Reactions Elimination Reactions Addition Reactions Oxidation and Reduction Reactions in Organic Chemistry 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. To get the most out of this course, we recommend that you listen to the entire audio once while following along in your PDF manual, then go back and listen to areas you found challenging. 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.
©2019 AudioLearn (P)2019 AudioLearn