Academic Life

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,850 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
    • By: Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 ratings
    • In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    • By: Joel L. Kraemer
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....

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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 264 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • A Life of Compassion Beyond Boundaries
    • By: Roshen Dalal
    • Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Among the most famous visionaries of our times, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) continues to transform thought, lifestyles and education across continents more than three decades after his death....

    Regular price: $2.06

    • How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
    • By: Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,848 ratings
    • Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the decision to return as CEO, eight years after he stepped down to become chairman....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
    • By: Theresa Brown RN
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655 ratings
    • Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • By: Henry Marsh
    • Narrated by: Jim Barclay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Life of Kurt Gödel
    • By: Stephen Budiansky
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Reflections on Physics and Finance
    • By: Emanuel Derman
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Derman details his adventures in this field....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
    • By: Seb Falk
    • Narrated by: Seb Falk
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
    • By: Robert Kanigel
    • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • In 1913, an unschooled young Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England....

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    • Tales from a Life Without Technology
    • By: Mark Boyle
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 628 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....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
    • By: David L. Mearns
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles David L. Mearns' most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and the courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind these tragedies....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
    • By: Michael D'Antonio
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • True Stories of a Life in Medicine
    • By: Walter M. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics....

    Regular price: $13.75

    • Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician
    • By: Matthew Franklin Sias
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • A 23-year veteran of emergency medical services, paramedic Matthew Sias took a detour in his career to pursue the death-care business and found a complementarity between two seemingly divergent careers....

    Regular price: $17.19