Academic Life

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    • My Genome - My Life
    • Auteur(s): J. Craig Venter
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
    • Durée: 16 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-10-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Reflections on Physics and Finance
    • Auteur(s): Emanuel Derman
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Derman details his adventures in this field....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Life in Science
    • Auteur(s): Katalin Karikó
    • Narrateur(s): Eva Magyar
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Single Life
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Backhouse
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
    • Durée: 8 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of 19th century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
    • Auteur(s): Lulu Miller
    • Narrateur(s): Lulu Miller
    • Durée: 4 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 évaluations
    • David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished, many might have given up....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
    • Auteur(s): Scott Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Kelly
    • Durée: 13 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 241 évaluations
    • A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • Auteur(s): Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Camm
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    • Auteur(s): Atul Gawande
    • Narrateur(s): John Bedford Lloyd
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 évaluations
    • Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Aleister Crowley
    • Auteur(s): Richard Kaczynski
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Irving
    • Durée: 30 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A rigorously researched biography, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more.

    Prix courant: 45,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Life
    • Auteur(s): Dan Morain
    • Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People
    • Auteur(s): Jeannie Gaffigan
    • Narrateur(s): Liz Noth, Jeannie Gaffigan, Jim Gaffigan
    • Durée: 8 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • In an audiobook that is The Big Sick meets Dad Is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writer/director/producer/accused supermom and wife of best-selling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • Auteur(s): Louise Aronson
    • Narrateur(s): Eliza Foss
    • Durée: 18 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • Auteur(s): T.J. Stiles
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 28 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
    • Auteur(s): Eric Manheimer
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Manheimer
    • Durée: 13 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients to illustrate larger societal issues....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How to Transform Your Academic Life
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth A. Wells
    • Narrateur(s): Carolle de Ste-Croix
    • Durée: 4 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The daily grind of the modern professor can be stressful, chaotic, and at times seemingly impossible to organize! In her book, award-winning scholar, pedagogue, and former Dean Elizabeth Wells offers realistic day-to-day techniques that promise to transform your academic life.

    Prix courant: 25,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
    • Auteur(s): George Pendle
    • Narrateur(s): James Langton
    • Durée: 11 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy, but....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Watkin, Timothy Keller
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Ashman
    • Durée: 26 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A winsome vision for biblical cultural engagement in which faithfulness to Scripture and sensitivity to culture walk hand in hand. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging and constructive voice within our culture, we need to press deeper into the core truths of the Bible....

    Prix courant: 60,59$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 60,59$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life and Times of America's Banana King
    • Auteur(s): Rich Cohen
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale is the fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary.

    Prix courant: 19,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life
    • Auteur(s): Dr Kate Kirkpatrick
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Atkins
    • Durée: 14 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself....

    Prix courant: 21,85$ ou 1 crédit

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