History & Philosophy Books at Audible

In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live... more

• $18.20
• from $7.49
• 2 Stores
• at 2 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 2 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Very Interesting Book
  • This book chronicles the story of the building of the first atomic bomb and the behind the scenes details of the Los Alomos project. Very good reading.
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Nov-05-2006

  • A Little Bit of History
  • This is an easy to understand, informative book about Los Alamos and the making of the atomic bomb. It would have been better if the book covered more of the aftermaths of the dropping of the bomb....
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Sep-21-2005

  • Hardly about Robert Oppenhimer
  • The title of this book is very misleading. It is minimally about Los Alamos and even more minimally about Robert Oppenheimer.
    You will learn more about the travails associated with the drive...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche at his best. In the book the philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his... more

• from $24.49
• 2 Stores
• at 2 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 2 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

One of the latest volumes of recorded lectures by the world's greatest physics teacher Perseus Books is proud to... more

• $28.00
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

Charles Seife traces the origins and colorful history of the number zero from Aristotle to superstring theory by way... more

• $17.47
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Oct-14-2009

  • Zero
  • A totally fascinating book. Debunks Aristotle and the West's rejection of the concept of the void and infinity. I already have someone who wants to borrow it.
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Dec-01-2008

  • Good subject. Awful writing.
  • Zero is an excellent subject for a book, but Charles Seife's hyperbolic writing style is distracting and borderline absurd. He traces the history of zero from the early days of Greece and Egypt,...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Oct-06-2008

  • Starts Great, Doesn't Finish Well
  • In Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Seife first gives the history of the zero, in mathematics and social history, as well as it's non-history (why it was rejected in some cultures). He...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world?s most famous equation. Now,... more

• $17.47
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Mar-16-2009

  • Incredible Electrical History
  • I teach electricity and I've read electrical history since I was a young boy. I listened to the audio book and found it rife with preposterous assumptions and lacking credible accounts, histories,...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Sep-18-2007

  • Good, but not great...
  • I found Electric Universe interesting, but lacking in certain respects. Granted, I listened to the abridged audio, CD version of this book, and my background is in Electrical Engineering, so I'll...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Nov-27-2006

  • Yet another book that proves any subject can be made interesting
  • Electric Universe is one of those science books full of anecdotal details and the little stories behind the big stories. The book covers some of the big discoveries and inventions in the field of...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

From the bestselling author of Hitler?s Pope comes a gripping, in-depth account of Germany?s horrific abuse of... more

• $20.97
• from $7.49
• 2 Stores
• at 2 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 2 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jun-02-2008

  • Science under the Third Reich and beyond
  • Like all of John Cornwall's books, "Hitler's Scientists" stretches the bounds of its title -- in this case, the doings of scientists in the Third Reich -- to touch on more universal themes. The...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Feb-26-2007

  • On the wrong path
  • The subhead of John Cornwell's "Hitler's Scientists" sets up the pointer to the wrong path he intends to take: a devil's pact implies that German scientists, like Germans generally, had to...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Dec-31-2006

  • Overdone subject
  • This is basically a study of scientist in Germany both in WW1 and in particular WW2 who faced a moral issue of their work and morality. I found the studies here being quite ordinary. Nothing...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD, Blackstone Audiobooks more

• $11.17
• from $7.49
• 2 Stores
• at 2 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 2 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Complexity and Chaos: Library Edition (Audio Classics: Science & Discovery)

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jun-24-2008

  • Hard to follow the foreign accents
  • This is an audio book I wish I could find the paper version of instead of the other way around. Very interesting but incredibly hard to follow at least for me since the author references many of...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

From Bill McKibben, the bestselling author of The End of Nature, comes a powerful and passionate intellectual sequel... more

• $18.17
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Enough: Setting Limits on Human Genetic Technology

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Sep-07-2008

  • Interesting and provocative, but not entirely successful
  • 
    In this book, McKibben argues that humanity needs to shut down large chunks of two areas of technology: stemline genetics research and nanotechnology/robotics. In each case, he works through...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jul-28-2007

  • The Simple Life
  • McKibben has turned simplicity, primitivism and that universal longing railed against almost every aspect of modern American life - television, marketing, the environment, capitalism, education and...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Nov-25-2006

  • What is so natural about nature?
  • If you look at man as part of some divine plan then you can suppose that there is something inviolable in the status quo. This is the old argument that says things like if man were meant to fly...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

UFO abductionstelevision psychicscreationismHolocaust denial. Faced with the rapid changes and anxieties of modern... more

• $11.87
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Oct-16-2009

  • Shermer Motto Is Just As Wierd
  • Shermer believes people think for themselves. Where is the self initiating force in the universe? Nowhere. We have a brain that interacts with the environment. We experience things and based on...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Sep-23-2009

  • "why people believe weird things", or stupid stuff people believe and how it is stupid
  • The book does a fine job rationally dissing and debunking fringe and/or unscientific beliefs like Holocaust denial (which gets a disproportionate chunk of the book), creationism, ghosts and witch...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Aug-17-2009

  • Thought-provoking, but poorly titled
  • Though I don't usually highlight books, I kept a highlighter handy while reading this one, because it's full of excellent insights backed by impressively thorough research. Author and Skeptic...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The... more

• $19.25
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Feb-04-2009

  • bank itself was such a failure that the book isn't very interesting
  • The Nobel Prize sperm bank was a complete failure. Nobel Prize winners tend to be in their 60s, which is too old to donate sperm that can survive freezing and still be effective. The sperm bank...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Oct-13-2008

  • Fascinating
  • I found this book fascinating. This slice of American History was something that you don't find very often. A true and honest portrait of where we were in the 1950s through the 1980s and how that...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jan-09-2006

  • Had Great Potential
  • David Plotz, writer for SLATE magazine, stumbled on an odd bit of history - a plan to improve society through "fine breeding." The stories he tells are sometimes funny, many times sad, but the...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world?s most famous equation. Now,... more

• $19.25
• $7.49
• at Audible
• at Audible
  images/v5/seeit_but.gif

• 1 coupon available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Electric Universe

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jul-29-2008

  • Wonderful
  • This book succeeded in showing the romantic and exciting side of the discoveries made on electricity over the last two or three hundred years, while remaining straight-forward and simple enough for...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

In this Audio Learning Set, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf takes the listener on a stirring intellectual ride through the realms... more

• $48.97
• from $7.49
• 2 Stores
• at 2 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 2 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Dr. Quantum Presents: A User's Guide To Your Universe

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jan-29-2007

  • QUANTUM PHYSUCKS
  • If you saw "What the Bleep do we Know", you may be tempted to drop a hefty sum on these CD's. Before you do, consider what you liked about the movie. If you were into the Quantum Physics part of...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Nov-10-2006

  • Dr. Quantum Presents
  • This is a very informative narrative on 6 CDs. I would have liked for a more picture narrative ie; at least One DVD. I enjoy Fred Alan Wolf very much. He was excellent in "What the Bleep". His...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jul-16-2005

  • A useful entry-level compilation.
  • I was drawn to Dr. Wolf's work after hearing a theory about alchemy and astrology being the original sciences given to humanity. Although I found his book 'Matter into Feeling' only an average...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>

An eloquent retelling of the story behind one of the twentieth century's miracle advances the transistor. On December... more

• $23.07
• from $7.49
• 3 Stores
• at 3 Stores
  images/v5/compare_but.gif

• 3 coupons available

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

  • Expires:Dec-31-2010
  • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.

  

  • Code:No Code Required
  • Detail:

    Download and Listen to any Audio book for only $7.49.Save 50% for 3 months on over 60,000 Titles.

  • Expires:Jun-30-2010
  • Restriction:Unknow

  

  • Code:
  • Detail:

    Take $5 OFF the purchase of $100 or more at Buy.com

  • Expires:Nov-30-2009
  • Restriction:New Customers Only. Coupons are not valid on Marketplace items
  Review

  Selected reviews for:

  Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Aug-05-2007

  • Engaging history, even years later
  • Nobody can claim that the history of the transistor and related technology has become obsolete in the ten years since the book was published. Oh, no, the transistor and its offspring are even more...
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Dec-31-1997

  • Crystal Fire
  • With a clearer explanation of the basic forces behind semi-conductivity and less history of quantum physics, this book would rate a '10.' As it stands, the authors seem to assume at least B.S....
  • read full review | report as inappropriate

  See more reviews >>