Technology Biography

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    • 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 8,833 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

    • 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 70 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,200 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

    Regular price: $20.63

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.04

    • 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 12,008 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

    • 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 15,590 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

    • 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 34,961 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

    • 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

    • How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
    • By: T.R. Reid
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 1,514 ratings
    • Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 6,253 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • By: James Reston Jr.
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...

    Regular price: $19.74

    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • By: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon....

    Regular price: $11.87

    • How Nintendo Conquered America
    • By: Jeff Ryan
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,670 ratings
    • Nintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape. Jeff Ryan shares the story of how this quintessentially Japanese company found success in the American market

    Regular price: $14.58

    • 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 868 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

    • 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 37 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

    • 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 27 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 1,806 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

    • The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda
    • By: Robert Wallace, Henry Robert Schelsinger
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,080 ratings
    • The former director of OTS gives listeners an unprecedented look at the devices and operations deemed "inappropriate for public disclosure" by the CIA just two years ago....

    Regular price: $21.06

    • 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