Technology Biography

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    • A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton
    • Auteur(s): Byron Farwell
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
    • Durée: 18 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer. Byron Farwell brilliantly recreates the sheer excitement of Burton’s achievements....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 39,63 $

    • The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
    • Auteur(s): Ken Silverstein
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear reactor....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • My Life in Science
    • Auteur(s): Katalin Karikó
    • Narrateur(s): Eva Magyar
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables.

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • Auteur(s): Peter Burke
    • Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
    • Durée: 11 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
    • Auteur(s): George Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
    • Durée: 3 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley....

    Prix courant: 13,12 $

    • The Making of an Illusion
    • Auteur(s): Frederick Crews
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 25 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator....

    Prix courant: 37,07 $

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 26,40 $

    • The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 11 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Josh Harris had been New York's first net millionaire. He founded the city's first dotcom, Pseudo.com, and paved the way for a cadre of net-savvy 20-somethings to follow, riding a wave of tech euphoria to unimagined wealth and fame for five years, before losing it all....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Online Death of a Cybernetic Futurist
    • Auteur(s): Kim Hastreiter
    • Narrateur(s): David Drummond
    • Durée: 6 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Ninteen ninety-four, Northern California. The Internet is just emerging from its origins in the military and university research labs....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Buckminster Fuller and the Future
    • Auteur(s): Jonathon Keats
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 5 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem solving to present-day problems....

    Prix courant: 24,69 $

    • Su vida y su universo [His Life and His Universe]
    • Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
    • Narrateur(s): Luis Solís
    • Durée: 28 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-28
    • Langue: Espagnol
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Escucha ahora la biografía definitiva de Albert Einstein, uno de los iconos del siglo XX y su mayor genio....

    Prix courant: 29,50 $

    • My Tale of Training Canines for Combat
    • Auteur(s): Mike Ritland
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 6 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • This is the tale of how Ritland discovered his passion and grew up to train these elite dogs....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • A Biography
    • Auteur(s): Robert Greenfield
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawor
    • Durée: 25 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru....

    Prix courant: 43,25 $

    • The Long Journey Home from the Moon
    • Auteur(s): Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Egan
    • Durée: 14 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth....

    Prix courant: 20,98 $

    • From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
    • Auteur(s): Walter Lewin, Warren Goldstein
    • Narrateur(s): Kent Cassella
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey, opening our eyes to the amazing beauty and power of physics.....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $

    • Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
    • Narrateur(s): Dylan Baker
    • Durée: 9 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....

    Prix courant: 26,63 $

    • Movers, Shakers, and History Makers
    • Auteur(s): Emily Hudd
    • Narrateur(s): uncredited
    • Durée: 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nikola Tesla was a scientist and inventor in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Among his many inventions and experiments, he helped create the modern electricity system. Learn more about Tesla's life as a famous inventor!

    Prix courant: 7,00 $

    • The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): Nathan Gorenstein
    • Narrateur(s): Michael David Axtell
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict....

    Prix courant: 26,63 $

    • Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
    • Auteur(s): Amir D. Aczel
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Leyva
    • Durée: 5 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Toward the end of the 19th century, one of the most brilliant mathematicians in history languished in an asylum...

    Prix courant: 14,52 $