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  • The Measure of All Things

    The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

    by Ken Alder ...
    In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lie Detectors

    The History of an American Obsession

    by Ken Alder ...
    The story of the lie detector takes us straight into the dark recesses of the American soul. It also leads us on a noir journey through some of the most storied episodes in American history. That is because the device we take for granted as an indicator of guilt or innocence actually tells us more about our beliefs than about our deeds. The machine does not measure deception so much as feelings of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Engineering the Revolution

    Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

    by Ken Alder ...
    Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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    The Measure of All Things

    The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

    by Ken Alder ...
    Narrated by Brian Jennings ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 11 min

    In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central ... Read more

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    God’s Secretaries

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    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

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    Consider Phlebas

    by Iain M. Banks ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Culture

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced ... Read more

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    Red Mars

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...
    Series series Mars

    Unabridged

    23 hours 42 min

    Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts. For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has ... Read more

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    In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    by Hampton Sides ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 30 min

    New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a ... Read more

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    by Michael Crichton ...
    Narrated by David Morse ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton as one of the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide."I love anything Michael Crichton writes."--Stephen KingA military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. ... Read more

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    The Canon

    A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

    by Natalie Angier ...
    Narrated by Nike Doukas ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer for the New York Times, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining ... Read more

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