Technology Biography

Product List
    • How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Pat Rodrigues
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science.

    Regular price: $24.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.49 or 1 credit

    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,814 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

    Regular price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dylan Baker
    • Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34,455 ratings
    • From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....

    Regular price: $29.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.99 or 1 credit

    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,522 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....

    Regular price: $26.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $26.24 or 1 credit

    • 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 15,380 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....

    Regular price: $26.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $26.24 or 1 credit

    • 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 1,718 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....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.05 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.05 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,537 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

    Regular price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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 215 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....

    Regular price: $20.20 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.20 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 651 ratings
    • This autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead....

    Regular price: $11.66 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.66 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Biography of Elon Musk
    • By: University Press
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • University Press returns with a short, captivating biography of one of history’s most compelling figures: Elon Musk. Elon Musk, a modern-day ...

    Regular price: $12.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $12.99 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
    • By: William R. Maples PhD, Michael Browning
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • From a skeleton, a skull, or a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim and much more....

    Regular price: $15.47 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.47 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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 6,053 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

    Regular price: $18.05 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.05 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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 351 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....

    Regular price: $24.92 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.92 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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....

    Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
    • By: Bruce Goldfarb
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
    • By: Rebecca Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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 1,790 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

    Regular price: $19.46 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.46 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • By: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership