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What Is the Government Doing Now?

Product Description: When a crooked used car salesman invents a perpetual motion machine he is thrown into Science Prison and incarcerated, along with various other inmates who have violated scientific laws; kept in place to prevent such inventions from destroying the economy...read more

By Edwin Newman

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9781622124534 | Gardners Books, December 10, 2012, cover price $11.85 | About this edition: When a crooked used car salesman invents a perpetual motion machine he is thrown into Science Prison and incarcerated, along with various other inmates who have violated scientific laws; kept in place to prevent such inventions from destroying the economy.

Darwin and Evolution

Product Description: [Read by Edwin Newman][Edited by Jack Sommer and Mike Hassell][Produced by Pat Childs]In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.'' For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9781470824495, titled "Darwin & Evolution" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: [Read by Edwin Newman][Edited by Jack Sommer and Mike Hassell][Produced by Pat Childs]In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English

Product Description: Admiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway. Here, in his first book, these qualities are joined. Newman focuses on the sorry state of the English language as a reflection of the sorry state of the society...read more

By Edwin Newman

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9781560004424 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, May 1, 2002), cover price $26.95

9780672519901, titled "Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?" | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1974, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Admiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway.

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9781412813273, titled "Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?" | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, May 1, 2010), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Admiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway.

Medical Science: Library Edition

Product Description: Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance. Only in 1628 did William Harvey theorize that blood circulates in the body; germs weren't discovered until the nineteenth century...read more

By Richard Eimas, Paul M. Heidger and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164349 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance.

Origins of the Universe: Library Edition

Product Description: The story of the cosmos-its beginning and its changes through time-has been a topic of much speculation and myth. It also has attracted intense attention from scientists. There are many questions about the universe's size, stability, growth, and its ultimate cause.

By Jack Arnold and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164295 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The story of the cosmos-its beginning and its changes through time-has been a topic of much speculation and myth.

Natural Science and the Planet Earth: Library Edition

Product Description: Alexander von Humboldt and other sparked a centuries-long debate about natural history and geological destiny by discussing what today we call the environment. Some now believe the earth cannot safely accommodate its growing burdens; other say longer life spans and more people are signs of progress...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and Jack Sommer

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9780786164325 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Alexander von Humboldt and other sparked a centuries-long debate about natural history and geological destiny by discussing what today we call the environment.

Astronomy: the Heavenly Challenge: Library Edition

Product Description: As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars...read more

By Jack Arnold and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164363 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: As optics improved, man began to see the solar system.

Science in Antiquity: Library Edition

Product Description: The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever. But only with the written word did there emerge a record of speculations about how and why things happen. Middle Eastern civilizations developed ways to measure and describe (e...read more

By Jon Mandaville and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164394 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever.

Complexity and Chaos: Library Edition

Product Description: Newtonian physics described a regular, clocklike 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...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and Roger White

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9780786164950 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Newtonian physics described a regular, clocklike world of forces and reaction; randomness was equated with incomplete knowledge.

The Story of Electricity: Library Edition

Product Description: In the 19th century, scientists working with chemistry and magnetism began discovering a rich variety of electrical phenomena. These were to be applied later in inventions including motors, alternating current, radio, batteries, the telephone, and much more...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and Jack Sanders

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9780786164967 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In the 19th century, scientists working with chemistry and magnetism began discovering a rich variety of electrical phenomena.

Isaac Newton's New Physics: Library Edition

Product Description: Newton was a natural philosopher (the word "scientist" had not yet been coined) who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces. His Principia changed science forever; gravity not only explained the orbits of stars, it explained common earthly events as well...read more

By Gordon Brittan and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164356 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Newton was a natural philosopher (the word "scientist" had not yet been coined) who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces.

Dimensions of Scientific Thought: Library Edition

Product Description: We think of science as a way of discovering certainty in an unpredictable world; experiments are designed to objectivity measure cause and effect. Yet science often produces more new questions than answers, and all scientific theories can change with new and better observations...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and John T. Sanders

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9780786164868 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: We think of science as a way of discovering certainty in an unpredictable world; experiments are designed to objectivity measure cause and effect.

Exploring and Mapmaking: Library Edition

Product Description: While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land and seas. Commerce and navigation exploded as mapmakers and bold explorers built on each other's achievements; in the process, our very concept of the earth changed from a flat surface to a sphere...read more

By Ian Jackson and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164370 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land and seas.

Einstein's Revolution: Library Edition

Product Description: Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth century created new and troubling inconsistencies. In 1905, Einstein's name became synonymous with "genius" when his Special Theory of Relativity challenged old concepts in physics...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and John T. Sanders

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9780786164318 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework of space and time.

A New Understanding of the Atom: Library Edition

Product Description: Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes. Then Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, joined others in describing a strange new world of uncertainty and mystery. Quantum mechanics has intrigued and confounded many by joining keen insights with apparent contradictions and indeterminacy...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator) and John T. Sanders

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9780786164301 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes.

Chemistry and the Enlightenment: Library Edition

Product Description: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalog nature's many basic elements. New materials and potions stimulated visions of wealth and healing; soon, new theories of atomic structure and combustion laid the foundation for practical applications that blossomed into the Industrial Revolution...read more

By Ian Jackson and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164332 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalog nature's many basic elements.

Darwin and Evolution: Library Edition

Product Description: In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors...read more

By Michael Ghiselin and Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9780786164974 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Strictly Speaking: The Decline And Fall of the American Language

By Edwin Newman

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9781579703714 | Unabridged edition (Jeffrey Norton Pub, April 24, 2006), cover price $12.95

The Wordwatcher's Guide to Good Grammar & Word Usage: Authoritative Answers to Today's Grammar and Usage Questions

Product Description: This guide should be within easy reach for any writer because it answers hundreds of commonly asked questions that arise when penning anything from business letters to personal correspondence. The tips are presented in question-and-answer format and are arranged alphabetically by keyword for quick and easy reference...read more

By Morton S. Freeman and Edwin Newman (foreword by)

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9780966674804 | Rev sub edition (Plexus Pub, March 1, 1999), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This guide should be within easy reach for any writer because it answers hundreds of commonly asked questions that arise when penning anything from business letters to personal correspondence.

Science & Discovery: Isaac Newton's New Physics, Darwin & Evolution, Einstein's Revolution

Edwin Newman presents profiles of three extraordinary scientists whose work revolutionized the history of modern science--Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity; Darwin and the Theory of Evolution; and Einstein and his Theory of Relativity.

By Edwin Newman (editor)

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9780671580810 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Edwin Newman presents profiles of three extraordinary scientists whose work revolutionized the history of modern science--Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity; Darwin and the Theory of Evolution; and Einstein and his Theory of Relativity.

A New Understanding of the Atom

By Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9781568230023 | Knowledge Products, March 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes.

Origins of the Universe

Product Description: The story of the cosmos?its beginning and its changes through time?has been a topic of much speculation and myth. It also has attracted intense attention from scientists. There are many questions about the universe's size, stability, growth, and its ultimate cause...read more

By Edwin Newman (narrator)

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9781568230030 | Unabridged edition (Knowledge Products, March 1, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The story of the cosmos?

Isaac Newton's New Physics

Product Description: Newton was a natural philosopher (the word ?scientist? had not yet been coined) who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces. His ?Principia? changed science forever; gravity not only explained the orbits of stars, it explained common earthly events as well...read more

By Edwin Newman

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9780938935704, titled "Isaac Newton's New Physics" | Knowledge Products, March 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Newton was a natural philosopher (the word ?

Medieval Science

Product Description: Many believe the "Middle Ages" lacked progress, yet during this time algebra was developed, and Islamic scholars preserved and extended Greek thought (which otherwise was lost). Metallurgy (and its speculative counterpart, alchemy) led to a deeper understanding of materials...read more

By Edwin Newman

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9780938935674 | Knowledge Products, March 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Many believe the "Middle Ages" lacked progress, yet during this time algebra was developed, and Islamic scholars preserved and extended Greek thought (which otherwise was lost).

Exploring and Mapmaking

By Edwin Newman

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9780938935681 | Knowledge Products, March 1, 1993, cover price $17.95

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