Genius Biographies

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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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    • The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Dick Estell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 687 ratings
    • From the author of the national best seller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century....

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    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,971 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,393 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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    • A Genius Reconsidered
    • By: Russell Kirk
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today....

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    • By: Luke Johnston
    • Narrated by: John Grant
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Noted for his incredible intellect, eccentric ideas, and world-altering inventions, Nikola Tesla has evolved into the classic example of mad scientist. But is that all there is to the story....

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    • Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
    • By: Craig Wright
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Examining the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale University's popular "Genius Course", explores what we can learn from brilliant minds that have changed the world....

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,985 ratings
    • On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • Dave Eggers scored a worldwide phenomenon with this memoir that topped national best-seller lists and has since become a staple for summer reading and book clubs....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,427 ratings
    • Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • 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 339 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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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
    • By: Jeffrey Orens
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil, The Soul of Genius also reveals the human side of these brilliant scientists....

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    • How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
    • By: Rachelle Bergstein
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now in the 21st century?

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    • Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
    • By: Alister E. McGrath
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis....

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    • Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
    • By: Douglas Brunt
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,351 ratings
    • This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I.

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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,113 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • By: Barbara Goldsmith
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over 60 years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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