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  • Audiobook

    Do Elephants Have Knees? and Other Stories of Darwinian Origins

    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    What makes a penguin a bird? Is a camel more closely related to a horse than to a giraffe? Why is a whale not a fish? Similar puzzles preoccupied Charles Darwin throughout his life. Whimsy, in the playfulness of stories for children, is a way to appreciate Darwinian histories.In Do Elephants Have Knees? Charles R. Ault Jr. uses the fanciful imagery of story to explain Darwinian thought. At the ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Science Standards

    Play, Art, Coherence, Community

    Beyond Science Standards captures a vision of science education both whimsical and serious. Ranging across examples from elementary to university level classrooms and grounded in philosophy and history, the stories address dimensions beyond the realm of bureaucratic standards. Its thesis brings into question the premise of scientific unity and its representation in school as notions of method, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Challenging Science Standards

    A Skeptical Critique of the Quest for Unity

    For several decades educators have struggled to identify the attributes all sciences have in common. In the popular mind this effort constitutes the importance of teaching “the” scientific method. In the policy maker’s world this pursuit yields standards for all Americans that unify the sciences. For teachers, the quest for unity has typically meant teaching science as process. However, a ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Skeptical Believer

    Thoughts and Questions on Life and Faith

    This book is for all those who have ever asked, “What is real?”For any who have had deep and troubling questions emerge in their spiritual life.For those who often wonder what faith, belief, or spirituality even mean.The brief thoughts expressed in Skeptical Believer draw upon the moments in the spiritual journey when we have been stopped in our tracks by a flash of beauty, a glimpse of wonder, or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counting Lattice Paths Using Fourier Methods

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This monograph introduces a novel and effective approach to counting lattice paths by using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) as a type of periodic generating function. Utilizing a previously unexplored connection between combinatorics and Fourier analysis, this method will allow readers to move to higher-dimensional lattice path problems with ease. The technique is carefully developed in the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    Narrated by Anne Twomey ...

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    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFrom the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and ... Read more

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    The Next Species

    The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

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    While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps in as little as three hundred years. There have already been five in the last 600 million years, including the ... Read more

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    The Wizard of Oz, with eBook

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Burns ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 38 min

    Most of us remember The Wizard of Oz as the film starring Judy Garland and Bert Lahr. But the film was based on L. Frank Baum's immensely popular Oz series, which was published in the early twentieth century. In these novels, Oz is the utopian land beyond the rainbow where threats are turned back with valor and ingenuity. The books' success lies in the way they induce children to look for the ... Read more

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    The First Human

    The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

    by Ann Gibbons ...
    Narrated by Renée Raudman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits. ... Read more

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    The Genius Factory

    The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

    by David Plotz ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 53 min

    From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSIt was the most radical human-breeding experiment . ... Read more

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