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The Planets and the Solar System
Author: Jen Green
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jen Green
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 2h 39m
Living busily on Planet Earth, we rarely remember that we actually inhabit only a minuscule part of the universe. In The Planets and The Solar System, Jen Green paints the wider picture, and takes us on a journey across billions of kilometres in our galaxy, from our Sun to near and distant planets. Some, like Mercury, have a molten core surrounded...
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Guglielmo Marconi: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Dr. Mark Goldsmith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dr. Mark Goldsmith
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the man who created radio, an invention that made travel safer, transformed warfare and brought live news and entertainment into our homes. Follow his life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are still affecting us today.
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Diane Fossey: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Liz Gogerly
Format: MP3 CD
Author Liz Gogerly
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the woman who provided unique insights into the lives of mountain gorillas, who strove to protect them and their environment and who revealed the similarities between gorilla and human behaviour. Follow her life story and find out how her discoveries are still affecting the world today.
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Michael Faraday: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Stewart Ross
Format: MP3 CD
Author Stewart Ross
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the man whose investigations into electricity, chemistry, magnetism and electrolysis eventually led to the invention of motors, generators, electroplating and many other scientific breakthroughs. Follow Faraday's life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are affecting us today.
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Author: Richard Hammond
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Richard Hammond
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 59m
Listen to this audiobook and journey through time, space and beyond, discovering what makes life, the Universe and everything the way that they are. Find out if matter really does matter and how physics encompasses everything. Winner of the Royal Society Junior Prize for Science Books 2007.
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Until I Met Dudley: How Everyday Things Work
Author: Roger McGough, Chris Riddell
Format: MP3 CD
Author Roger McGough, Chris Riddell
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 18m
Have you ever wondered how a toaster works? Or a fridge-freezer, or a washing-up machine? In this fun-filled book of how things work, Dudley, the techno-wizard dog, provides the answers. Roger McGough's delightfully ingenious text and Chris Riddell's striking illustrations take children from the furthest realms of fantasy into the fascinating world...
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Nuclear Power (energy Forever?)
Author: Ian Graham
Format: MP3 CD
Author Ian Graham
Narrator Chris Johnston
Duration 57m
A comprehensive look at how we utilize nuclear power to produce one-fifth of the world's electricity. This book concentrates on nuclear power and how the atomic energy is turned into electricity, how nuclear radiation can affect humans, how nuclear waste is stored and how power can be created from heavy water.
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Inventors and Their Bright Ideas
Author: Mike Goldsmith
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Mike Goldsmith
Narrator Richard K. Hodson
Duration 3h
You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas...* Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone * George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train) * John Logie Baird and hi television. But have you heard that... * Bell didn't invent th phone, but he did make a weird machine out of hay and a human ear * Stevenson didn't invent...
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Author: John Barrow
Format: MP3 CD
Author John Barrow
Narrator John Barrow
Duration 3h 30m
What does it mean to say that the universe appeared out of nothing? Did it need a beginning and will it ever end? Why do we think that most of the universe is invisible? This audiobook explains how the findings from the COBE satellite allow us to shed light on the events at the dawn of time.
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You Wouldn't Want To Live Without Coding!
Author: Alex Woolf
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Mariam Keen
Duration 30m
Coding means creating a set of instructions (or algorithms) that tells a computer how to perform a task. Another word for coding is programming. Learn about the origins of coding, how it is done and how much control it has over our daily lives
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Standard Grade Biology: Revision Notes
Author: Denyse Kozub
Format: MP3 CD
Author Denyse Kozub
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 1h 50m
The essential guide to success in Standard Grade Biology. Chapters include 'The Biosphere', 'The World of Plants', 'Animal Survival', 'Investigating Cells', 'The Body in Action', 'Inheritance' and 'Biotechnology'.
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