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    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • Written by: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • Written by: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2007-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • Empowering Your Son to Believe in Himself
    • Written by: Adam Price PhD
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • On the surface, capable teenage boys may look lazy. But dig a little deeper, writes child psychologist Adam Price in He's Not Lazy, and you'll often find conflicted boys who want to do well in middle and high school but are afraid to fail and so do not try....

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    • Written by: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2007-01-29
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time....

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    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • Written by: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-30
    • Language: English
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    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

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    • Advice for Academics
    • Written by: Joli Jensen
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book - or even steady journal articles - may seem like an impossible dream....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • Written by: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2010-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    • Written by: Naoki Higashida
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2013-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
    • Written by: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Sue Black
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • Written by: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Further Adventures of a Curious Character
    • Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2004-12-26
    • Language: English
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    • Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb....

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    • Tales from a Life Without Technology
    • Written by: Mark Boyle
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • 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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    • An Autobiography
    • Written by: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system he is told came from outer space....

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