Technology Biography

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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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    • 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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    • The Human Journey From Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
    • Auteur(s): Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrateur(s): Leonard Mlodinow
    • Durée: 12 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An account of scientific discovery from the invention of stone tools to theories of quantum physics - a history at once inspiring and entertaining....

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    • Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
    • Auteur(s): David Lindley
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding and placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein....

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    • The Great Inventor
    • Auteur(s): Richard I. Bourgeois-Doyle
    • Narrateur(s): Richard (Dick) Bourgeois-Doyle
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • George J. Klein was a design engineer who spent 40 years at the National Research Council of Canada and is likely the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century....

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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • Auteur(s): Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrateur(s): Corrie James
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

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    • A Biography
    • Auteur(s): David Bodanis
    • Narrateur(s): James Adams
    • Durée: 8 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics....

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    • Miscarriage, Misconceptions and a Search for Answers from the Brink of Motherhood
    • Auteur(s): Jennie Agg
    • Narrateur(s): Jennie Agg
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience....

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    • Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
    • Auteur(s): Donald P. Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 10 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A real-life "Indiana Jones", Donald P. Ryan, PhD, offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Listeners will thrill to the exploits of this "unconventional archaeologist" as he retrieves the remains of Egypt's past....

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    • Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy
    • Auteur(s): Gordon Chaplin
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 7 h
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Gordon Chaplin’s father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and transformed himself into the author of a landmark scientific study....

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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 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Kennefick
    • Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity....

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