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Title: Alexander Graham Bell

Author: Philip G. Hurbert

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

A biography of the famed inventor of the phone. We learn the very personal motivation behind his work. We also come to understand that the information comes from the pen of one who made his observations while Bell was still alive - and still inventing. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: A Short Bright Flash

Subtitle: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse

Author: Theresa Levitt

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives.

Augustin Fresnel (17881827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently. Battling the establishment, his own poor health, and the limited technology of the time, Fresnel was able to achieve his goal of illuminating the entire French coast. At first, the British sought to outdo the new Fresnel-equipped lighthouses as a matter of national pride. Americans, too, resisted abandoning their primitive lamps, but the superiority of the Fresnel lens could not bedenied for long.

Soon, from Dunkirk to Saigon, shores were brightened with the Fresnel lens. The Fresnel legacy played an important role in geopolitical events, including the American Civil War. No sooner were Fresnel lenses finally installed along U.S. shores than they were drafted: the Union blockaded the Confederate coast; the Confederacy set about thwarting it by dismantling and hiding or destroying the powerful new lights.

Levitts scientific and historical account, rich in anecdote and personality, brings to life the fascinating untold story of Augustin Fresnel and his powerful invention.

Members Reviews:

illuminating history

If you could sum up A Short Bright Flash in three words, what would they be?

that three words is not enough.

1)connections.

2)saving - lives

3)working - together

What other book might you compare A Short Bright Flash to and why?

i am young and just catching up on my reading. this book stands alone.

Have you listened to any of Teri Clark Lindens other performances before? How does this one compare?

no i have not. but i did enjoy her rendition.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

this book is on science. i am emotional about science. i love science.

Any additional comments?

not realy ...

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Title: Full Fathom Five

Subtitle: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy

Author: Gordon Chaplin

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Gordon Chaplins father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and somehow transformed himself into the author of a landmark scientific study, Fishes of the Bahamas, published by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

As a young boy, the author took part in collecting specimens for his father. Fifty years later, he was asked to join a team from the same institution studying the state of sea life in the Bahamian waters where he grew up, as measured against his fathers benchmark. The first of the sea changes presented in this eloquent book stems from climate change and is the drastic transformation of ocean life due to global warming. The second is his fathers miraculous transformation from presumed playboy into scientist. And the third involves the authors own complicated relationship with his parents and in particular his father, as he grew older and assumed the part of the prodigal son.

Fifty years later, returning to his childhood home, he delves into the mysteries of his fathers life and the impossibility of ever truly recovering the past, or ever returning home. Illustrated with gorgeous color plates from the original Fishes of the Bahamas and featuring descriptions of exquisite undersea beauty and heartrending devastation, this is a status report on climate change unlike any other, both a report from the field and an intensely personal reckoning.

Editorial Reviews:

George Chaplin dedicates Full Fathom Five to his father, calling it "a labor of love, admiration, and growing ecological awareness." The audiobook is part candid memoir and part environmentalist call to arms. When asked to aid a study which will use his fathers landmark 1968 work Fishes of the Bahamas as a comparison for how the regions waters have changed, Chaplin must face haunting memories of his father, and his relationship to the ocean. Actor Noah Michael Levine performs this account with frankness and a touch of what comes off as Chaplins Bravado. The narrative moves like a coral reef dive, at times vivid and the dark, with fragility and insight into something as primal as childhood memory and family legacy.

Members Reviews:

wonderful book

beautifully produced, beautifully written book that combines a memoir of a man coming to terms with his father and difficult family with a sad assessment of mankind's impact on the Bahamian reefs he loved and where he spent the happiest times of his childhood. Must read for all who love to snorkel, who love the Bahamas or who love memoir...

As a species, there are too many of us...

Chaplin, Gordon - Full Fathom Five; Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy - 2013

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A look back on the reefs he had grown up on in the Bahamas with his father and mother in the early 1950's, when he and his dad became hooked on the fish surrounding the environment they lived in, and his dad became a scientist for the work he had done and the number of new species they had found.

Lots of family tragedies here, as to be expected from a dead broke Englishman from Wales, who married a wealthy American wife who was positively butt ugly.

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Title: No Limits Beyond a Genius

Subtitle: Screenplay Edition, 2013

Author: Mathew G.

Narrator: Richard V Dalke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-13

Publisher: Andrew Kamal

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

No Limits Beyond a Genius tells the true life story of a young man by the name of Andrew Magdy Kamal. Throughout his life, Andrew accomplished becoming a semi-professional boxer, an inventor, a published author, a poet, a comedian, and a marathon runner...all by the ripe young age of 16!

Like many geniuses, his extraordinary I.Q. didn't come without a cost. Early in life, Andrew was diagnosed with Asperger's, ODD, ADHD, and Manic Depression. Nevertheless, he managed to overcome nature's flaws to become the man he is today. Journey through Andrew's fascinating life, from birth to present day...from being raised by strict parents who simply wanted to make a man out of him to disproving Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

If you're tired of being bogged down by the cynicism that pervades today's media, through gratuitously violent TV programming and mind-numbing reality shows, No Limits Beyond a Genius will serve as a breath of fresh air. This book will bring inspiration to all. You will realize that no matter what you suffer from, whether it be mild depression or severe Asperger's, you can overcome life's obstacles and not only succeed...but become an absolute triumph.

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Title: A Rare Recording of Alexander Fleming

Author: Alexander Fleming

Narrator: Alexander Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-13

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme substance lysozyme in 1923, and the anitbiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. This audiobook is from a 1950 talk he gave on the development of antibiotics.

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Title: Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience

Subtitle: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat

Author: Andrew Brown

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

As Andrew Brown shows in Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience, Joseph Rotblat's life--from an impoverished childhood in war-torn Warsaw to an active old age that brought honors and public recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize--is a compelling human story in itself. What gives it added significance is Rotblat's single-minded dedication to peaceful causes, particularly his pursuit of nuclear disarmament.

Here is the first full biography of Joseph Rotblat based on complete access to his private papers. Brown describes how Rotblat overcame poverty and anti-Semitism to become a nuclear physicist, becoming a key member of the British team that worked on the atomic bomb in England and with the Manhattan Project in America. But Rotblat, appalled by the use of atomic bombs against the Japanese and deeply depressed by the brutal death of his wife in the Holocaust, soon became one of the prime architects of the anti-nuclear movement. The book describes his post-war activities under the shadow of Britain's nuclear program, his first political and media encounters, his exposure of the hazards of radioactive fallout, and his friendship with Bertrand Russell. Brown shows that Pugwash, the anti-nuclear group that Rotblat helped form, eventually established an invaluable back-channel link that penetrated the Iron Curtain. Indeed, it was a Pugwash office that facilitated the first meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan. Gorbachev's security advisers were heavily influenced by Pugwash ideas, especially the concept of non-offensive defense in Europe.

Rotblat dedicated the last six decades of his life to peaceful causes and to efforts to uphold the ethical application of science. In this engaging biography, we discover a great man whose profound conscience shaped his life and work, and left an important legacy for future generations.

Members Reviews:

It is better for peace in the world if this is widely read

REVIEW OF ``KEEPER OF THE NUCLEAR CONSCIENCE``.. BY ANDREW BROWN

It is better for peace in the world if this is widely read.

Its a privilege to be the first â on Amazon - to review this book of extraordinary significance.

Andrew Brown has written a masterpiece about the life and times of Joseph Rotblat, a nuclear scientist par excellence, whose excellence was demonstrated even more in making the scientists of his time to understand their ethical responsibility and leading them on to play a vital role in launching an ethical revolution. Joseph Rotblat dedicated his life for furtherance of peace among nations, and above all the prevention of nuclear wars. He was the main driving force behind the Pug wash movement - the conferences â which bring together from around the world, influential scientists, scholars and public figures concerned with the danger of armed conflicts, to seek solutions for global problems. The stimulus for these conferences was provided by a Manifesto issued by Eimstein and Bertrand Russell in 1955.

The book is a historical review of events of the twentieth century .. not necessarily described in a sequential way. But all the essential information is there. The author has placed all the cards on the table with regard to what happened in the past.

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Title: Audubon: The Dream That Wouldn't Die

Author: Sharon Delarose

Narrator: Allie Mars

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-13

Publisher: Sharon Delarose

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Does the name "Audubon" make you think of birds? If so, then no one would be more surprised than bird man John James Audubon himself, who feared that he would die unknown.

Today his name is recognized all around the world, but during his own lifetime he was just another man with a dream that nobody wanted to support. His dream was to publish a series of bird books that featured his lifelike bird sketches, so that all the world could know birds as he did.

People told him he wasn't good enough. They cheated him, ignored him, and did everything in their power to discourage him. In spite of the obstacles he pushed forward, sometimes working in temperatures so cold that his fingers could barely hold a pencil to draw. He slept outdoors on the ground when he couldn't afford to pay for lodging, and he performed gruesome and disgusting jobs to earn money.

Audubon was a self-published author in the 1800s, and publishing was a daunting task in those days. Out of his own pocket he hired editors, printers, engravers, colorists, and then had to convince people to buy his books without the ease of Internet communication. Selling a book was harder than publishing it. Even in his day, the people with the most money expected to get the books for free, books that he had to pay to have printed.

His story is for everyone with a dream. The next time you're feeling doom and gloom, wondering if you should give up your dreams, let the incredible story of Audubon uplift you. He overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, pushed forward when all hope seemed lost, and not only achieved comfortable success, but left a scientific legacy that spans the entire world and still lives on long after his death.

Members Reviews:

a brief review of Audubon

I had been looking for a book about the life of Audubon and found this very short story. The author primarily covers Audubon's struggle to draw, self publish, and promote his bird books. The life like bird's he painted were not in style in the late 1700 and early 1800 when Audubon lived. He let his wife provided for the family while he worked on his bird pictures and he worked to earn money to self publish. This short story only whetted my desire to learn more about Audubon.

A bad treatment of a complex man

Absolutely no nuance. The author tries to make Audubon into a wonderful human worth emulating while ignoring his many huge faults.

One Man One Dream

The book was way to short. And only told a short part of the beginning of James Audubon life. I wish I had bought it rather than use my monthly credit.

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Title: The King of Infinite Space

Subtitle: Euclid and His Elements

Author: David Berlinski

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over 2,000 years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements. Berlinski shows that, for centuries, scientists and thinkers from Copernicus to Newton to Einstein have relied on Euclid's axiomatic system, a method of proof still taught in classrooms around the world. Euclid's use of elemental logic - and the mathematical statements he and others built from it - have dramatically expanded the frontiers of human knowledge.

Members Reviews:

Who knew reading about geometry could be so riveting

As a fan of David Berlinski's Devil's Delusion, I found myself drawn to dip into this fascinating book om Euclid. I was rewarded with Berlinski's clarity and wit, his elegant writing style. He converted me to a newfound interest in mathematics. Anyone would pick this book up with pleasure and leave it with regret. Mary Karr

Very interesting book; not for the total novice

This is not the book to learn Euclidean Geometry. It requires some basic knowledge of Mathematics; it is not a fast read. It is a good discussion of some of the assumptions and limitations of Euclidean Geometry. One of the points it makes is to show how, for all the reputation for being a logically rigorous system in which all assumptions are defined and justified; Euclidean Geometry includes a good dose of plain "common sense" and "self-evident truths" baked into its foundations. The book also moves on to discussing other geometries, of which one gets a flavor, but not much more. The style is a bit quirky, the author often doesn't tell you where he is going; lets things be revealed. I am not a mathematician, so who knows whether I got the right message or not; I enjoyed it and consider it time well spent.

" At best, Belinski should have titled the book "Euclid had ...

Disappointing. Ostensibly a biography (or at least with some biographical background), almost the first sentence is "we really know next to nothing about Euclid". Nor is there any real discussion of what background /history had preceded Euclid's "discoveries". Even more irritating is the overwhelming tone that "Belinsky and a lot of other mathematicians were/are really smarter than Euclid and if he'd only thought of this...." At best, Belinski should have titled the book "Euclid had some good ideas but could have done a lot better".

Five Stars

A beautifully written book. The highest mathematical treatment with a poetic sensibility. I enjoyed and learned.

Interesting and challenging.

If you are interested in how people think and in how ideas can shape civilizations, this is a fascinating book. Berlinski is not presenting a biography or even an explanation of Euclid's role in intellectual history. Rather this is an examination of how he thought and how a modern mind puzzles and prods the ancient mind. It is difficult going but worth the effort.

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Title: Darwin's Ghosts

Subtitle: In Search of the First Evolutionists

Author: Rebecca Stott

Narrator: Lisa Renee Pitts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them.

Darwins Ghosts tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, from Aristotle, walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils, to Al-Jahiz, an Arab writer in the first century, from Leonardo da Vinci, searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills, to Denis Diderot in Paris, exploring the origins of species while under the surveillance of the secret police, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes, finding evidence for evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on natures extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

With each chapter focusing on an early evolutionary thinker, Darwins Ghosts is a fascinating account of a diverse group of individuals who, despite the very real dangers of challenging a system in which everything was presumed to have been created perfectly by God, felt compelled to understand where we came from. Ultimately, Stott demonstrates ideas - including evolution itself - evolve just as animals and plants do, by intermingling, toppling weaker notions, and developing over stretches of time. Darwins Ghosts presents a groundbreaking new theory of an idea that has changed our very understanding of who we are.

Members Reviews:

A great story wrecked by the wrong reader

Would you try another book written by Rebecca Stott or narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts?

I would certainly try another book by Rebecca Stott. The extent of her research for the subject of Darwin's philosophical forbears must have been extensive. I have already ordered one of her other titles.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Darwin's Ghosts?

The chapter on Leonardo da Vinci gave a wonderful exposition of the genius of the man. There was so much to learn about him and the part he played in the search towards explanations for how life evolved, and what the fossils in the rocks might be telling us.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Lisa Renee Pitts?

Stott is a British born academic journalist. Casting an American actress with no feeling whatsoever for foreign language and pronunciation was a serious error and distraction. I cannot think why she was chosen. I think the book merits a classic English actress, Juliet Stevenson for example.

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Title: Song for the Blue Ocean

Author: Carl Safina

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders

Publisher's Summary:

Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the authors exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the seas abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the worlds changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis.

Members Reviews:

and it'll make you hate politicians even more than ever

Everyone should read this book even if you don't care for conservation biology. It's entertaining and incredibly well-informed, and it'll make you care about fish. That's right, fish. You'll sympathize with fish for the first time since you watched Finding Nemo. Oh, and it'll make you hate politicians even more than ever, and you'll hate them because of fish.

Important and exceptional

This is a book whose great relevance and informative value is matched by its well-crafted prose. Safina is a superb writer; the book reads like a great story, its wealth of factual information integrated with the descriptions of people, places and things encountered by the author in his research. Unfortunately, it is a sad chronicle of human devastation of marine life, but one which must be told. If knowledge is a necessary precondition to action, books like this have an importance in modern life beyond the literary. It should be read by everyone who cares about life and the environment. Gives good insight into the motivations and workings of people and organizations (both governmental and industrial) that have direct impacts on the issues examined.

Absolute poetry

I'm only about halfway through this book, but it's so moving that I decided I needed to rave now. Carl Safina uses an amazing grasp of language to paint mental pictures of what he writes about. I work in the scientific community and have spent a lot of time on that water, and his writings are not only objective and scientifically sound, he constructs them in such a way that they are beautiful. You will have a thirst for each topic and region of which he writes. I borrowed this book from the library and had vowed to buy it before I'd finished the first chapter. It has only improved as I've proceeded.

Inspiring

I absolutely love this book. Safina does a great job affecting the reader emotionally, making one feel connected to the ocean on a whole new level. I recommend this book to my all of my environmentalist peers, surfer buddies and anyone with even the slightest admiration for the ocean.

Great book, it cronicalizes the human impact on the ...

Great book, it cronicalizes the human impact on the ocean from which one can predict it's future. We know what needs to be done but it's always the others that need to change, consequently, no one changes. Interesting but so sad.