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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    • 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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    • My Life in the Kitchen
    • Auteur(s): Jacques Pépin
    • Narrateur(s): Jacques Pépin, Michel Chevalier
    • Durée: 10 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The Apprentice is the poignant and sometimes funny tale of a boy's coming of age. Beyond that, it is the story of America's culinary awakening and the transformation of food from an afterthought to a national preoccupation....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life of Nietzsche
    • Auteur(s): Sue Prideaux
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Durée: 17 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • Auteur(s): Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrateur(s): Daphne Kouma
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ 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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  • Prix courant: 10,64$ 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

    Prix réduit: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
    • Auteur(s): Kristi Coulter
    • Narrateur(s): Kristi Coulter
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Journey Through Life and the Law
    • Auteur(s): Beverley McLachlin
    • Narrateur(s): Beverley McLachlin
    • Durée: 11 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 évaluations
    • Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer
    • Auteur(s): Jon Huntsman Sr.
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 18 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr., has been very fortunate in life....

    Prix courant: 33,39$ 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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    • The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
    • Auteur(s): Hugh Aldersey-Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon
    • Auteur(s): Buzz Aldrin
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 5 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • No Dream Is Too High whittles down Buzz Aldrin's event-filled life into a short list of the principles he values, each illustrated by fascinating anecdotes....

    Prix courant: 18,27$ 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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    • Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • Auteur(s): Henry Marsh
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Barclay
    • Durée: 9 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 évaluations
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

    Prix courant: 23,14$ 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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    • Auteur(s): Clive Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris, Clive Davis
    • Durée: 22 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In this star-studded autobiography, Clive Davis shares a personal, candid look into his remarkable life and the last 50 years of popular music as only a true insider can....

    Prix courant: 34,09$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • Auteur(s): Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
    • Durée: 22 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

    Prix courant: 29,50$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Anthony Bourdain
    • Auteur(s): Charles Leerhsen
    • Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • Anthony Bourdain’s death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. The reality, though, was more complicated than it seemed....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit