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Best sellers
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....
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One great book
- By Robert on 01-26-11
By: Sam Kean
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Botanical Curses and Poisons
- The Shadow-Lives of Plants
- By: Fez Inkwright
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. Concealed and deliberate, it's a crime that requires advance planning and that for many centuries could go virtually undetected....
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a delightfully wicked read
- By Mikayla on 03-29-22
By: Fez Inkwright
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Stuff Matters
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way....
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Surprisingly good
- By D. MacLeod on 01-29-15
By: Mark Miodownik
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The Case Against Sugar
- By: Gary Taubes
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium....
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A Revelation
- By ChumlyDad on 02-03-17
By: Gary Taubes
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Love Sense
- The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
- By: Sue Johnson
- Narrated by: Sue Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous....
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Inedible book
- By Devan Borsboom on 07-16-16
By: Sue Johnson
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- By: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ron B. Davis
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all....
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Great Companion to the Video Course
- By Kevin K. Owens on 12-08-19
By: Ron B. Davis, and others
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....
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One great book
- By Robert on 01-26-11
By: Sam Kean
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Botanical Curses and Poisons
- The Shadow-Lives of Plants
- By: Fez Inkwright
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. Concealed and deliberate, it's a crime that requires advance planning and that for many centuries could go virtually undetected....
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a delightfully wicked read
- By Mikayla on 03-29-22
By: Fez Inkwright
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Stuff Matters
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way....
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Surprisingly good
- By D. MacLeod on 01-29-15
By: Mark Miodownik
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The Case Against Sugar
- By: Gary Taubes
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium....
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A Revelation
- By ChumlyDad on 02-03-17
By: Gary Taubes
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Love Sense
- The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
- By: Sue Johnson
- Narrated by: Sue Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous....
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Inedible book
- By Devan Borsboom on 07-16-16
By: Sue Johnson
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- By: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ron B. Davis
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all....
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Great Companion to the Video Course
- By Kevin K. Owens on 12-08-19
By: Ron B. Davis, and others
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The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue
- Remarkable Hope for Depression, COVID, AIDS & Other Viruses, Alzheimer’s, Autism, Cancer, Heart Disease, Cognitive Enhancement, Pain
- By: Mark Sloan
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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Methylene Blue is your ultimate guide for understanding what disease is, what disease isn’t, and how to use methylene blue to dramatically enhance your health and quality of life....
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Finally the missing piece!
- By H on 01-04-22
By: Mark Sloan
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College Level Chemistry
- By: AudioLearn Content Team
- Narrated by: Lisa Stroth
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level chemistry....
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Please hire people to read the book who know how to pronounce the words
- By Ntropi on 02-09-20
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Caesar's Last Breath
- Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell....
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vastly entertaining
- By sdp on 08-11-17
By: Sam Kean
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Liquid Rules
- The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: The New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters reveal the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff"....
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Interesting book!
- By Wayne on 08-04-19
By: Mark Miodownik
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Elemental
- How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
- By: Tim James
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Whether you're studying the periodic table for the first time or are simply interested in the fundamental building blocks of the universe - from the core of the sun to the networks in our brains - Elemental is the perfect guide....
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hilarious, it kept me wanting more!
- By Trevor lipsey on 06-03-21
By: Tim James
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Transformer
- The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
- By: Nick Lane
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life....
By: Nick Lane
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Superbly whimsical
- By Marius on 08-30-05
By: Bill Bryson
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Toxic Legacy
- How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment
- By: Stephanie Seneff
- Narrated by: Jill Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is responsible for debilitating chronic diseases, including cancer, liver disease, and more....
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Path to deep understanding on Round Up.
- By Mother of Chickens on 07-04-21
By: Stephanie Seneff
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Drink?
- The New Science of Alcohol and Health
- By: Professor David Nutt
- Narrated by: Professor David Nutt
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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A world-renowned authority on the science of alcohol exposes its influence on our health, mood, sleep, emotions, and productivity - and what we can and should do to moderate our intake....
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Have your calculator handy
- By Keith Rickert Jr. on 12-16-21
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- By: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....
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There is a Caveat
- By Joseph L Contreras on 06-26-19
By: Robert M. Hazen
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- By Terry A. Gray on 10-21-11
By: Thomas Hager
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
- By: Neil Bradbury
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....
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Excellent
- By Terry A. on 02-21-22
By: Neil Bradbury
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Is That a Fact?
- Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
- By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
- Narrated by: Garrett Goodison
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Ranging from the esoteric to the everyday, Dr. Joe Schwarcz tackles topics from antibiotics to antioxidants, and everything in between. As with his other bestselling titles, Dr Joe explains that a chemical isn’t good or bad, it’s all about how we use it.
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Spinning
- By WENDY DREMANN on 04-08-22
By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
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Ingredients
- The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
- By: George Zaidan
- Narrated by: George Zaidan
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won’t, and why - explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don’t begin with the letter H....
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Laugh out loud seriousness
- By Valerie Bonham Moon on 05-08-20
By: George Zaidan
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College Level Organic Chemistry
- By: AudioLearn Content Team
- Narrated by: Lisa Stroth
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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More of a Reference Book
- By BOB SCHER on 05-21-20
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Abridged!
- By David S on 07-23-17
By: Bill Bryson
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- By: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....
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For biologists to learn single molecule biophysics
- By A Synthetic Biologist on 09-04-14
By: Peter M. Hoffman
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Culinary Reactions
- The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
- By: Simon Quellen Field
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams....
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Science of Food with a Few Fun Applixations
- By Zack Jones on 03-11-20
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The Amazon
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Mark J. Plotkin
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The complex ecosystem of the Amazon covers an area about the size of the continental US. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined....
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Great introduction to Amazonia
- By Daniel on 08-14-20
By: Mark J. Plotkin
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Revelations in Air
- A Guidebook to Smell
- By: Jude Stewart
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses....
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Good book
- By shana fannon on 12-20-21
By: Jude Stewart
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Uranium Wars
- The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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From the nuclear programs in the Middle East to plans for nuclear reactors at home, the element uranium is never far from today's headlines....
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Uranium Wars
- By William on 07-19-10
By: Amir D. Aczel
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- By: Ainissa Ramirez
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....Â
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Excellent Content, Horrible Narration
- By F. AHMAD on 05-01-21
By: Ainissa Ramirez
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The Periodic Table
- Its Story and Its Significance
- By: Eric Scerri
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field....
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Interesting, but narrowly targeted work.
- By Anonymous User on 03-15-14
By: Eric Scerri
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It's Elemental
- The Hidden Chemistry in Everything
- By: Kate Biberdorf
- Narrated by: Kate Biberdorf
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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In this fresh and engaging guide to chemistry, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, a.k.a. "Kate the Chemist", reveals the fascinating science we experience every day....
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Great Listen
- By Great and powerful IDE on 12-20-21
By: Kate Biberdorf