Technology Biography

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • Auteur(s): Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Campbell
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo....

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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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    • 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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    • Tales from a Life Without Technology
    • Auteur(s): Mark Boyle
    • Narrateur(s): Gerard Doyle
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 évaluations
    • No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden....

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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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    • From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness
    • Auteur(s): Federico Faggin
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The creation of the microprocessor launched the digital age. The key technology allowing unprecedented integration, and the design of the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, were the achievement of Federico Faggin....

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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....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Brantley Hargrove
    • Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared....

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