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A tale of obsession and daring. A contest between humankind and nature's fiercest phenomenon. The saga of the greatest storm chaser who ever lived.

From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist', comes When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook gui

The Monarch butterfly is the marathon runner of the insect world.

Hearing, the first of our senses to develop in the womb, is also the most recent of our senses to appear in evolutionary terms.

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature and ourselves Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking D

"Delightfully horrifying."-Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weir

Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations'from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.

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For six years Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived intimately with a pack of wolves, gaining their trust as no one has before.

Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces young listeners to astrophysics and the principles of scientific inquiry, fostering the "cosmic perspective" that outer space inspires in all.

Bob Berman guides us through cosmic violence both mammoth and microscopic.

Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus.

A myth-busting, jaw-dropping, fun-filled tour through the science of your favorite fantastical world.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies-a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being hum

A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it.