Science & Technology Audiobooks

Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief: The New Science of Healthy Feet

Don't just treat your foot pain—strengthen your feet to prevent it. Back with an expanded edition of her popular book Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief, biomechanist Katy Bowman has created a new version for both men and women in all walks of life. With updated material and new visuals that illustrate exactly how to strengthen and mobilize your feet, Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief will show you how to change the way you move your body to prevent pain, heal your feet, and halt damage to the rest of your body. Bowman's simple, accessible, innovative program will help you naturally address lower-leg and foot issues such as: - Hammertoes - Bunions - Plantar fasciitis - Poor posture and alignment Bowman walks you gently through exercises to strengthen your feet, what shoes you should (and should not) be wearing, and how these choices affect your overall foot—and whole-body!—health. Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief will teach you how healthy feet work optimally and help you put your best foot forward on the path toward moving with greater ease.

Katy Bowman (Author), Katy Bowman (Narrator)

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Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis

The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, and to develop interventions that would quell recurring outbreaks. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-person interviews, Sydney Halpern traces the hepatitis program from its origins in World War II through its expansion during the initial Cold War years, to its demise in the early 1970s amid an outcry over research abuse. The subjects in hepatitis studies were members of stigmatized groups-conscientious objectors, prison inmates, the mentally ill, and developmentally disabled adults and children. The book reveals how researchers invoked military and scientific imperatives and the rhetoric of a common good to win support for the experiments and access to recruits. Halpern examines the participants' long-term health consequences and raises troubling questions about hazardous human experiments aimed at controlling today's epidemic diseases.

Sydney A. Halpern (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator)

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Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts, archaeology, architecture, drama, and literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous scientists have lived and worked in the Royal Institution than in any other laboratory in the world. A roll-call includes Rumford, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, Dewar, Rayleigh, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg, and George Porter. Not only is it the home of continuous electricity, it is also the birthplace of many aspects of molecular biology and viruses and enzymology. Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal institution is a lively and compelling personal selection of the remarkable personalities and achievements of some of the extraordinary scientists and individuals who, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, worked or lectured at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair, central London. John Meurig Thomas offers a unique and valuable insight into the history of this prestigious address, having himself lived and worked at the Royal Institution for some twenty years.

John Meurig Thomas (Author), Julian Elfer (Narrator)

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Historia de la aviación

El éxito que abrazo a los pioneros como los hermanos Wright, desató una nueva y apasionante actividad que llevó a una sucesión de inagotables experimentos con un único fin, conquistar el vuelo. Grandes nombres se han impreso en la historia de la aviación mundial. Personas simples que compartían una misma visión que aquel hombre primitivo que contemplaba el volar de los pájaros, dominar el arte de volar. El desarrollo de la aviación Durante el último siglo ha sido un pilar fundamental para el desarrollo de la civilización, no sólo como medio de transporte, sino también como herramienta de producción, de conexión y de enlace entre las diferentes culturas que hoy se mezclan a lo largo de todo el mundo. Enfocaremos los capítulos de este nuevo libro en conocer las historias de cada uno de estos hombres que marcaron nuestras vidas para siempre, iniciando por un breve recorrido por el inicio de los tiempos donde el hombre conoció el vuelo e intentó conquistarlo. Conoceremos las historias de las personalidades y empresas mas destacadas del mundo aeronáutico como la historia de Cessna, de Piper, de Boeing, de Airbus y de los padres de la aviación, los hermanos Wright.

Facundo Conforti (Author), Amelia (Narrator)

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Gamer's Tactic and Strategies Guide Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Winning Game Strategies and Simulation Ga

Gamer's Tactic and Strategies Guide Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Winning Game Strategies and Simulation Game Tactics Strategy games are games in which the outcome is being determined based on the choices made by the player. Games of this kind can be won using tactics instead of technical proficiency or force. Simulation games are also in high demand. These games allow you to experience realities and situations, which are usually removed and unusual from your normal lives. They can also inspire creative thoughts about the situations that they represent. Simulation games attempt to imitate multiple activities from real life in the form of a game for several purposes. The typical examples of these are analysis, prediction and training. These games can be defined as any video game that tries to replicate real life. This bundle will teach you different tricks and tips on how to win at games that make use of strategies. It will teach you how to think and plan your moves so you will have a better chance of winning. You will also have a perfect guide and learn all about simulation games and the proven strategies to win them. You will learn the benefits of playing simulation games and why they are much more enjoyable than any other games. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - Winning Game Strategies: The Best Guide on Game Strategies and Tactics to Win at Strategy Games - Simulation Game Tactics: The Best Guide on How to Play and Keep Winning at Simulation Games Get your copy of Gamer's Tactic and Strategies Guide 2 in 1 Bundle today!

Kyle Leonin, Owen Carey (Author), Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)

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The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it. In The Story Paradox, Gottschall explores how a broad consortium of psychologists, communications specialists, neuroscientists, and literary quants are using the scientific method to study how stories affect our brains. The results challenge the idea that storytelling is an obvious force for good in human life. Yes, storytelling can bind groups together, but it is also the main force dragging people apart. And it's the best method we've ever devised for manipulating each other by circumventing rational thought. Behind all civilization's greatest ills-environmental destruction, runaway demagogues, warfare-you will always find the same master factor: a mind-disordering story. Gottschall argues that societies succeed or fail depending on how they manage these tensions. And it has only become harder, as new technologies that amplify the effects of disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories, and fake news make separating fact from fiction nearly impossible. With clarity and conviction, Gottschall reveals why our biggest asset has become our greatest threat, and what, if anything, can be done. It is a call to stop asking, "How we can change the world through stories?" and start asking, "How can we save the world from stories?"

Jonathan Gottschall (Author), Joshua Kane (Narrator)

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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. - Explains how you can support your online students - Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment - Covers online and blended learning - Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.

Flower Darby (Author), Chloe Dolandis (Narrator)

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The Sherlock Effect: How Forensic Doctors and Investigators Disastrously Reason Like the Great Detec

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who-inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials-piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes-the iconic fictional detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-is held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific inspiration-does not 'reason forward' as most people do, but 'reasons backwards.' Put more plainly, rather than learning the train of events and seeing whether the resultant clues match those events, Holmes determines what happened in the past by looking at the clues. Impressive and infallible as this technique appears to be-it must be recognized that infallibility lies only in works of fiction. Reasoning backward does not work in real life: reality is far less tidy. In courtrooms everywhere, innocent people pay the price of life imitating art, of science following detective fiction. In particular, this book looks at the long and disastrous shadow cast by that icon of deductive reasoning, Sherlock Holmes.

Thomas W. Young (Author), Thomas W. Young (Narrator)

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The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet. Rawson shows how these stories, which have long pervaded Western dreams about the future, have helped to enable an unprecedentedly abundant and technology-driven lifestyle for some while bringing the threat of environmental disaster to all. Adapting to ecological realities, he argues, hinges on the ability to create new visions of tomorrow that decouple growth from the idea of progress.

Michael Rawson (Author), Bj Harrison (Narrator)

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Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades

Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection. First introduced in the late 1950s to the work of Werner Heisenberg, a founder of quantum mechanics, Capra quickly intuited the connections between the discoveries of quantum physics and the traditions of Eastern philosophy-resulting in his first book, the bestselling The Tao of Physics. This synthesis, representative of the change from the mechanistic worldview of Descartes and Newton to a systemic, ecological one, went on to inform Capra's thinking about the life sciences, ecology, and environmental policy. Today Fritjof Capra remains a major figure at the crossroads of physics, spirituality, environmentalism, and systems theory. Organized thematically and chronologically, the essays in Patterns of Connection document the revolutionary and far-reaching intellectual journey of one of the major public thinkers of the last half-century.

Fritjof Capra (Author), Gareth Richards (Narrator)

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Neurociencia para (nunca) cambiar de opinión

Este libro intenta recorrer algunos de los mecanismos psicológicos y cognitivos involucrados en la resistencia al cambio de visión. Las preguntas irán desde cómo nuestras expectativas y creencias afectan la manera en la que percibimos el mundo hasta si existen bases biológicas que expliquen las diferencias en ideología política. Somos capaces de discutir por las cosas más banales y las más profundas como, por ejemplo, si son mejores los perros o los gatos, si es mejor el invierno o el verano, si la marihuana debe ser legal o no, si pinot noir o cabernet, si paridad de género o meritocracia, si es más rico el helado de agua o el de crema, si el alma existe o si es una creación de las religiones, y así podría hacer un libro entero sobre las grietas. (Y sobre cuánto nos gusta tener razón.) Probablemente la mayoría tenga una opinión sobre muchos de esos temas. Estos juicios crecen como malezas sobre nuestro suelo fértil de creencias y van ocupando la capacidad de decidir según las evidencias. Las opiniones no se llevan muy bien con las evidencias cuando estas no coinciden. Este libro intenta recorrer algunos de los mecanismos psicológicos y cognitivos involucrados en la resistencia al cambio de visión. Las preguntas irán desde cómo nuestras expectativas y convicciones afectan la manera en la que percibimos el mundo y recordamos las experiencias colectivas hasta si existen bases biológicas que expliquen las diferencias en las ideologías políticas. Pedro Bekinschtein, doctor en biología, se cuestiona, por ejemplo, si nuestras decisiones a la hora de votar representantes están basadas en sus propuestas o en aspectos más misteriosos e indescifrables que ocurren fuera de nuestra conciencia. En estas páginas vibrantes que encastran a la perfección ciencia y actualidad, nos invita a descubrir qué nos pasa cuando no podemos cambiar de opinión, lo que él llama 'la necedad del cerebro'.

Pedro Bekinschtein (Author), Leto Dugatkin (Narrator)

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The Video Editing: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Web Videos, Learn All the Information on How You C

The Video Editing: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Web Videos, Learn All the Information on How You Can Use Web Videos For Your Business' Success Humans are mostly visual creatures that’s why videos appeal more to us compared to something we will just hear or read. Videos are usually more fun, engaging and memorable. Adding videos to your site will be a great marketing strategy because it would increase exposure and conversion for your business. Videos will continue in popularity in the coming years so it is important you learn how to create videos for your site that you can use for your marketing strategy. This audiobook will teach you how you can integrate audio-video solutions to your sales page. You will learn how to create videos and publish them yourself. You will learn how to make videos that can help increase the sales of your business. You will have a step-by-step guide from creating the video to launching it and will discover the most common issues you have to look out for along the way. This audiobook will discuss the following topics: -Your Recording Setup -The Truth About Editing -Page Setup -Getting Your Content Online -Going Live! Social media will only increase the popularity of videos even more so it is important you learn how to use this tool as a means to help your business grow and succeed If you want to learn how to create and use videos for your business, scroll up and click “add to cart” now.

L.M. Bradley (Author), Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)

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