Newtonian physics described a regular, clock-like world of forces and reaction; randomness was equated with incomplete knowledge. But scientists in the late twentieth century have found patterns in things formerly thought to be "chaotic"; their theories help explain the unstable, irregular, yet highly structured features of everyday experience. It now seems likely that randomness and chaos play an essential role in the evolution of the living worldand in intelligence itself.
The Science and Discovery series recreates history's four thousand year journey to better understand the world through scientific means. Scientific discovery has often disrupted conventional wisdom. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress.
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Written By : Margaret Truman
Narrated By : Sandra Burr
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 12 hours 11 minutes
Categories : American 20th Century Politics Royalty and Heads of State
Price : $24.95
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence,... More info...
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Written By : Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
Narrated By : Harry Chase
Published By : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Military American 20th Century World
Price : $29.98 $20.98
At the outset of the Vietnam War an experimental unit was created; Tiger Force. This material is an account of how badly that experiment went wrong... More info...
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Written By : Bob Woodward
Narrated By : Boyd Gaines
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 5 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Politics American 20th Century Biographical
Price : $29.95 $17.95
In Washington, D. C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat—the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in... More info...
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Written By : Simon Schama
Narrated By : Timothy West
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 10 hours 55 minutes
Categories : British History Pre 1900 20th Century
Price : $39.25
Winner of a Bronze Award at the Spoken Word Awards 2003 Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed... More info...
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Written By : James Bradley
Narrated By : James Bradley
Published By : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : American World 20th Century Military
Price : $25.98 $18.25
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