11 Best Chemistry Books
Chemistry is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Chemistry audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 11 Chemistry audiobooks below.
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Caesar’s Last Breath
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrator: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 18, 2017
- Language: English
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4.24(2861 ratings)
4.24(2861 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar’sThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.
It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.
In Caesar’s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world.
On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you’re probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra’s perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe’s creation.
Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we’ll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar’s Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.
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Meteorite
- By: Tim Gregory
- Narrator: Tim Gregory
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.12(161 ratings)
4.12(161 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDExplore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. “Meteorite is a treasure”–Wall Street JournalMeteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from theExplore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites.“Meteorite is a treasure”–Wall Street Journal... Read more
Meteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from the gods, their fiery remains inspiring worship and giving rise to legends that have persisted for millennia. But beyond the lore, meteorites tell an even greater story: that of our solar system. In Meteorite, geologist Tim Gregory shows that beneath the charred crusts of these celestial stones lies a staggering diversity of rock types. Their unique constituents, vibrant colors, and pungent smells contain thrilling tales of interstellar clouds, condensing stardust, and the fiery collisions of entire worlds. Gregory explores the world of meteorites to uncover new insights into what our solar system was like before our sun became a star, into the forging of our planet, and into the emergence of life on it. Humans have long looked to the skies for answers to big questions. Meteorite reveals how science is finally arriving at those answers. -
The Brewmaster’s Art
- By: Charles Bamforth
- Narrator: Charles Bamforth
- Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 30, 2009
- Language: English
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4.02(86 ratings)
4.02(86 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWith origins 8,000 years in the past, beer brewing has held a prominent place in many diverse cultures the world over. A university professor with more than 30 years’ experience in the brewing industry, Professor Charles W. Bamforth is ideallyWith origins 8,000 years in the past, beer brewing has held a prominent place in many diverse cultures the world over. A university professor with more than 30 years’ experience in the brewing industry, Professor Charles W. Bamforth is ideally suited to lead these engaging lectures on beermaking. With infectious enthusiasm, Professor Bamforth provides an informative look at brewing today, including commentary on the complexity and balance of flavors that make beer (in its wide range of styles) such a uniquely satisfying beverage.
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Ask the Experts: Chemistry
- By: Scientific American
- Narrator: Graham Halstead
- Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDIn this installment of the Ask the Experts series, Chemistry, our professors, scientists, and researchers tackle reader questions about the substances that compose all matter, their properties, and how they interact and change. Queries range fromIn this installment of the Ask the Experts series, Chemistry, our professors, scientists, and researchers tackle reader questions about the substances that compose all matter, their properties, and how they interact and change. Queries range from elementary questions, such as why some elements change color over a flame, to how chemistry works in everyday life, to how certain substances affect the body and more.
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Full Spectrum
- By: Adam Rogers
- Narrator: Michael Crouch
- Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 18, 2021
- Language: English
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3.88(175 ratings)
3.88(175 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“Informative and entertaining…Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill.”¬†‚ÄîWall Street JournalA lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the“Informative and entertaining…Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill.”¬†‚ÄîWall Street Journal
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A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze
From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that’s allowed for the most luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world.
 
In Full Spectrum, Rogers takes us on that globe-trotting journey, tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking the centuries-old mystery of how colors mix, before shooting to the modern era for high-stakes corporate espionage and the digital revolution that’s rewriting the rules of color forever. 
 
In prose as vibrant as its subject, Rogers opens the door to Oz, sharing the liveliest events of an expansive human quest—to make a brighter, more beautiful world—and along the way, proving why he’s “one of the best science writers around.”*
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It’s Elemental
- By: Kate Biberdorf
- Narrator: Kate Biberdorf
- Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: July 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.72(266 ratings)
3.72(266 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDIn this fresh and engaging guide to chemistry, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, aka “Kate the Chemist,” reveals the fascinating science we experience every day Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you thatIn this fresh and engaging guide to chemistry, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, aka “Kate the Chemist,” reveals the fascinating science we experience every day
Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making your hair look greasy? The answer is chemistry. From the moment we wake up until the time we go to sleep (and even while we sleep), chemistry is at work–and it doesn’t take a PhD in science to understand it.
Dr. Biberdorf has appeared on TV programs from the Today show to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, lighting the world on fire and changing the face of chemistry as we know it. In It’s Elemental, she demystifies the fundamental principles of the science that may have eluded you in high school and shows how chemistry comes alive in everything we do. With wry wit and infectious enthusiasm, this entertaining guide will ignite your passion for science and change the way you experience the world.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Half Lives
- By: Lucy Jane Santos
- Narrator: Deirdre Whelan
- Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.67(131 ratings)
3.67(131 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThe fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascinationThe fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life
Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.
Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item–a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume–to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday twentieth-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes.
Lucy Jane Santos–herself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatments–delves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold, and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance.
Half Lives is a new history of radium as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.
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Gut Reactions
- By: Simon Quellen Field
- Narrator: David Marantz
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.58(258 ratings)
3.58(258 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHow much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we’re left wondering about the greater biochemistry,How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we’re left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States.
Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food and the environment, and how our brain affects what and how much we eat, and in turn, is affected by what we eat. It shows why some diets work for some people but not for others, based on genetics, previous weight history, brain chemistry, environmental cues, and social pressures. It explores how dozens of hormones affect hunger and satiety and interact with the brain and the gut to regulate feeding behavior. And it explains the addictive nature of foods that interact with the same dopamine and opioid receptors in the brain that cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and nicotine do.
Whether you’re looking to lose weight, put on muscle mass, or simply understand how your metabolism or gut microbiome is affecting your food cravings, Field has the scientific answers for you.
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Chemistry and the Enlightenment
- By: Ian Jackson
- Narrator: Edwin Newman
- Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.43(65 ratings)
3.43(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDIn 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;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.
The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history’s most successful journeys—four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
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Love Sense
- By: Dr. Sue Johnson
- Narrator: Dr. Sue Johnson
- Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 31, 2013
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. LoveThe bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research.
Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our “love sense” — our ability to develop long-lasting relationships.
Love is not the least bit illogical or random, but actually an ordered and wise recipe for survival. Love Sense covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. Based on groundbreaking research, Love Sense will change the way we think about love.
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Drink?
- By: Professor David Nutt
- Narrator: Professor David Nutt
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 22, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA world-renowned authority on the science of alcohol exposes its influence on our health, mood, sleep, emotions, and productivity — and what we can and should do to moderate our intake.From after-work happy hour to a nightly glass of wine,A world-renowned authority on the science of alcohol exposes its influence on our health, mood, sleep, emotions, and productivity — and what we can and should do to moderate our intake.... Read moreFrom after-work happy hour to a nightly glass of wine, we’re used to thinking of alcohol as a normal part of our daily lives. In Drink?, neuropharmacology professor David Nutt takes a fascinating, science-based look at drinking to unpack why we should reconsider our favorite pastime.Using cutting-edge scientific research and years of hands-on experience in the field, Nutt delves into the long- and short-term effects of alcohol. He addresses topics such as hormones, mental health, fertility, and addiction, explaining how alcohol travels through our bodies and brains, what happens at each stage of inebriation, and how it effects us even after it leaves our systems. With accessible, easy-to-understand language, Nutt ensures that readers recognize why alcohol can have such a negative influence on our bodies and our society. In the vein of This Naked Mind, Drink? isn’t preachy; it simply gives readers clear, evidence-based facts to help them make the most informed choices about their consumption.
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