Technology Biography

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    • Reflections on the Craft of Programming
    • Auteur(s): Peter Seibel
    • Narrateur(s): Mitchell Dorian, full cast
    • Durée: 20 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’ highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston....

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    • Auteur(s): Melissa A. Schilling
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 10 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Gregory
    • Durée: 5 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • When Orville Wright (1871-1948) and his brother Wilbur set out to solve the problem of flight, they recognized that success would come with careful observation, perseverance, and ingenuity....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Gregory
    • Durée: 5 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With only three months of formal education, Thomas Edison grew up to be one of the most successful inventors of all time. Applying scientific principles to practical use, he made scores of inventions and held over thirteen hundred patents....

    Prix courant: 20,49$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
    • Auteur(s): Alice Dreger
    • Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • A powerful defense of intellectual freedom told through the ordeals of contemporary scientists attacked for exploring controversial ideas, by a noted science historian....

    Prix courant: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Sheer Excess of Powers
    • Auteur(s): Cheryl Misak
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 19 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): Joao Magueijo
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Sullivan
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand....

    Prix courant: 29,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Origins of the Digital Universe
    • Auteur(s): George Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of an Illusion
    • Auteur(s): Frederick Crews
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 25 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
    • Auteur(s): Karl Sigmund
    • Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
    • Durée: 13 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the often outrageous, sometimes tragic, and never boring stories of the men who transformed scientific thought. A revealing work of history, this landmark book pays tribute to those who dared to reinvent knowledge from the ground up....

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    • Auteur(s): Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gallagher
    • Durée: 4 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Known during the Civil War as the "Angel of the Battlefield," remarkable Clara Barton helped to save countless lives on the frontlines of battle. She went on to find thousands of missing soldiers and to organize the American National Red Cross. An incredible story of service and sacrifice....

    Prix courant: 20,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
    • Auteur(s): Stefan Klein
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein - shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discover....

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    • America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
    • Auteur(s): John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....

    Prix courant: 39,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
    • Auteur(s): David Leavitt
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer....

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    • The Life of John Muir
    • Auteur(s): Donald Worster
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Frangione
    • Durée: 19 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world....

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    • Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness
    • Auteur(s): Katie Booth
    • Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Invention of Miracles tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of John Muir
    • Auteur(s): Linnie Marsh Wolfe
    • Narrateur(s): James Armstrong
    • Durée: 13 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Muir, the rugged individualist and passionate protector of the wild....

    Prix courant: 30,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
    • Auteur(s): Alan Hirshfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Kliban
    • Durée: 6 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and determine the object's weight.....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
    • Auteur(s): Damion Searls
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 15 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots....

    Prix courant: 46,31$ ou 1 crédit

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