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    • Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
    • By: Patchen Barss
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being.

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    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,057 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    • By: Jennifer Worth
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Series: Call the Midwife, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,422 ratings
    • At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums....

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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Edward O. Wilson - winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century....

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    • The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters....

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    • A Complete Biography
    • By: A.K. Gandhi
    • Narrated by: Meghan Sardar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the remarkable journey of one of India's most iconic business leaders in Ratan Tata: A Complete Biography by A.K. Gandhi.

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    • How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
    • By: Richard Holmes
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science....

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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    • How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
    • By: Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years....

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,721 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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    • The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
    • By: Mike Mullane
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world - 29 men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the program....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,794 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 Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
    • By: Ian Stewart
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

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    • How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible....

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    • How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
    • By: Bill Nye
    • Narrated by: Bill Nye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,501 ratings
    • Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all....

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    • The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
    • By: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 831 ratings
    • Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny....

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    • Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (Revised)
    • By: Janet Lowe
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • A must-listen biography from the author of the best-selling Warren Buffett Speaks....

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    • By: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,250 ratings
    • 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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