Technology Biography

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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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand....

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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 Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Flint
    • Narrateur(s): Mel Foster
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Inventor and Businesswoman
    • Auteur(s): Lisa M. Bolt Simons
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Madam C.J. Walker wasn't just an inventor. She was also a political activist and businesswoman. Young listeners will discover that she was not only fought for civil rights, but became one of the most successful African-American business owners ever....

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    • Botanist and Inventor
    • Auteur(s): Mary Boone
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • George Washington Carver wasn't just an inventor. He was also a botanist, a farmer, and a professor. Young listeners will discover how this teacher not only improved the way people farmed, but introduced the world to more than 300 uses for the peanut....

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    • The Extraordinary Adventurers Who Took the Beauty of Australian Wildlife to the World
    • Auteur(s): Grantlee Kieza
    • Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Parisi
    • Durée: 12 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • John and Elizabeth Gould sailed into Australia on a cold spring day in 1838 prepared for the most astonishing adventure of their lives. They had crossed three oceans from their London home to find the treasures of Australia's birdlife and showcase them to the outside world.

    Prix courant: 29,70$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Physicist and Inventor
    • Auteur(s): Mary Boone
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Thomas Edison wasn't just an inventor. He was also a physicist and businessman. Young listeners will discover how he became a great scientist whose inventions made a better life for most everyone....

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    • The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
    • Auteur(s): Robert Kurson
    • Narrateur(s): Doug Ordunio
    • Durée: 10 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations and never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, came startling news: a revolutionary stem-cell transplant surgery could restore May's sight....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of People and Mathematics
    • Auteur(s): Mickael Launay, Stephen S. Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): Oliver J. Hembrough
    • Durée: 7 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet....

    Prix courant: 23,21$ ou 1 crédit

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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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,14$ 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....

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    • A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Kurt Newman M.D.
    • Narrateur(s): Kurt Newman M.D.
    • Durée: 9 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation's top children's hospitals....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
    • Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
    • Narrateur(s): Lincoln Hoppe
    • Durée: 10 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as groundbreaking, and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field....

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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....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

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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....

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