Technology Biography

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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....

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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....

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    • The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World
    • Auteur(s): Paul de Kruif
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Quinlan
    • Durée: 13 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world....

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    • Discoveries from The Smithsonian Founder
    • Auteur(s): Steven Turner
    • Narrateur(s): John Curless
    • Durée: 12 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters....

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    • A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
    • Auteur(s): Meg Lowman, Sylvia A. Earle - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Sylvia A. Earle, Christina Delaine, Meg Lowman
    • Durée: 15 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action....

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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....

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    • How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
    • Auteur(s): Alan Hirshfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 13 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-12-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens....

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    • A Life of Flight
    • Auteur(s): Jay Barbree
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler....

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    • The Life of Nikola Tesla
    • Auteur(s): John Joseph O'Neill
    • Narrateur(s): Clay Lomakayu
    • Durée: 11 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • "Spectacular" is a mild word for describing the strange experiment with life that comprises the story of Nikola Tesla, and "amazing" fails to do adequate justice to the results that burst from his experiences like an exploding rocket....

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    • The Making of a Scientist
    • Auteur(s): Richard Dawkins
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In his first memoir, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene....

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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....

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    • A Story of Ideas in America
    • Auteur(s): Louis Menand
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 17 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court....

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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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    • Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
    • Auteur(s): David Quammen
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 7 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity....

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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
    • Série: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • 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....

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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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    • Auteur(s): Karen Blumenthal
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 5 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of 20, created Apple in his parents' garage....

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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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