- Educators (164)
Best sellers
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The Queens of Animation
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect....
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Amazing!
- By Marie Stephens on 01-12-20
By: Nathalia Holt
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs - and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....
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Personal
- By Robert F. Jones on 09-02-18
By: Michael Pollan
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....
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The best of competence porn
- By Tristan on 08-20-16
By: Ashlee Vance
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Every Tool's a Hammer
- Lessons from a Lifetime of Making
- By: Adam Savage
- Narrated by: Adam Savage
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality....
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Paradigm Changing Book
- By Jared A. on 06-05-19
By: Adam Savage
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell was an unassuming Victorian Scotsman....
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Science writing done right
- By Erik Josephson on 04-08-20
By: Brian Clegg
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No Man's Land
- The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I....
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Disappointing to me
- By Ronald on 05-24-20
By: Wendy Moore
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The Queens of Animation
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect....
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Amazing!
- By Marie Stephens on 01-12-20
By: Nathalia Holt
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs - and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....
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Personal
- By Robert F. Jones on 09-02-18
By: Michael Pollan
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....
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The best of competence porn
- By Tristan on 08-20-16
By: Ashlee Vance
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Every Tool's a Hammer
- Lessons from a Lifetime of Making
- By: Adam Savage
- Narrated by: Adam Savage
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality....
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Paradigm Changing Book
- By Jared A. on 06-05-19
By: Adam Savage
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell was an unassuming Victorian Scotsman....
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Science writing done right
- By Erik Josephson on 04-08-20
By: Brian Clegg
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No Man's Land
- The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I....
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Disappointing to me
- By Ronald on 05-24-20
By: Wendy Moore
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies....
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Except for the author, this book is good!
- By Johan on 03-14-21
By: Walter Isaacson
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- By: Andrew Hodges
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis....
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Very technical but informative and well performed
- By Pieter Reyneke on 04-24-15
By: Andrew Hodges
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After Steve
- How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul
- By: Tripp Mickle
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over....
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Disappointing & full of faked fiction
- By Peter Keller on 05-06-22
By: Tripp Mickle
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Steve Jobs
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins
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From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....
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Interesting man
- By Jeanne on 11-13-11
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- By: Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last 10 years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections....
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Narrator sucks
- By Dagarcia718 on 03-25-21
By: Eric Jorgenson, and others
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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This is the kind of book that deserves a Pulitzer
- By Amazon Customer on 05-08-07
By: Walter Isaacson
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Fighting for Space
- Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space....
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Obvious errors of fact derail a great book
- By Skyhound on 02-09-22
By: Amy Shira Teitel
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Leonardo da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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Wish the sample was not from the preface!
- By Chris M. on 11-13-17
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Many stories in one
- By Ryan on 04-14-12
By: Rebecca Skloot
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
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A story you've never heard before
- By Kelley Cox on 04-19-20
By: Robert Kolker
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The Founders
- The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
- By: Jimmy Soni
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today....
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Wonderful, Engaging & Insightful
- By Ismael Becerra on 02-26-22
By: Jimmy Soni
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- By: Suzanne Simard
- Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....
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Couldn't finish, will try the hard copy
- By primrose on 07-22-21
By: Suzanne Simard
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- By: Carl Jung
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story....
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Dr. Jung's Life Would Make A Good Movie
- By M. Clarke on 05-17-16
By: Carl Jung
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The Last Lecture
- By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
- Narrated by: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....
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How to Live
- By Kelli G on 04-21-08
By: Randy Pausch, and others
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Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- By: Lulu Miller
- Narrated by: Lulu Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished, many might have given up....
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If fish don't exist, do stars matter?
- By K. Ishihara on 12-05-20
By: Lulu Miller
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Building a Life Worth Living
- A Memoir
- By: Marsha M. Linehan
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Stephen Mendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others....
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What an amazing journey!!
- By Sharon-nyc on 01-31-20
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Plague
- One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth About Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Autism, and Other Diseases
- By: Kent Heckenlively, Judy Mikovits PhD
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with 24 leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings....
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Far Beyond Compelling
- By Gregory on 03-30-15
By: Kent Heckenlively, and others
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Great book
- By S. Thurman on 06-17-15
By: David McCullough
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Ghost in the Wires
- My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- By: Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history....
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Great listen for tech fans
- By Mikeyxote on 06-01-12
By: Kevin Mitnick, and others
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The Innovators
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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With Atlantean Shoulders, Fit to Bear
- By W Perry Hall on 10-06-15
By: Walter Isaacson
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Thunderstruck
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Bob Balaban
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....
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Bob Balaban broke my heart
- By Golden Sunrise on 03-18-15
By: Erik Larson
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Interesting Subject
- By Jami on 02-05-18
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My Stroke of Insight
- By: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this inspiring voyage....
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The Why of the Review
- By Larry N. on 06-14-12
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
- What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
- By: Chris Hadfield
- Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space....
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Chris Hadfield Is The Real Thing!
- By Kathy in CA on 08-16-16
By: Chris Hadfield
New releases
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Explosive
- Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice
- By: Cliff Todd
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice. He and his colleagues at the Ministry of Defence's Forensic Explosives Laboratory are the unsung heroes of terrorist bomb attacks—the men and women in white suits who piece together who planted the bombs, what a device consisted of and how the perpetrators might give themselves away. They played a pivotal role in uncovering the secrets behind some of the world's most horrifying terrorist outrages. Explosive tells the stories of these high-profile cases.
By: Cliff Todd
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Miss Leavitt's Stars
- The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
- By: George Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley. Another camp believed that the universe was so vast that the Milky Way was just one galaxy among billions—the view that would prevail, proven by the equally headstrong Edwin Hubble.
By: George Johnson
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Woman, Watching
- Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
- By: Merilyn Simonds
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.
By: Merilyn Simonds
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Tesla's Words
- A Stunning Utopia of the Future
- By: Ellis Oswalt
- Narrated by: Ellis Oswalt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Tesla’s Words is a creative nonfiction audiobook that utilizes exhaustive research and recreation of drama to enrich a classic text with additional information, context, and immersive flare in order to highlight the previously unexplored aspects of Nikola Tesla's life and also reinforce his genius.
By: Ellis Oswalt
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung
- The Complete Guide to the Great Psychoanalyst, Including the Unconscious, Archetypes and the Self
- By: Gary Bobroff
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology who revolutionized the way we approached the human psyche. Drawing on Eastern mysticism, mythology and dream analysis to develop his theories, Jung proposed many ideas which are still influential today, including introversion, extroversion and the collective unconscious.
By: Gary Bobroff
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The Biography of Vitalik Buterin
- Founder of Ethereum
- By: Ryan Richardson
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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With a concise exploration of the remarkable world of blockchain technology, this thought-provoking biography dispels the myths and mysteries behind Ethereum, retracing the fascinating life and career of key founder Vitalik Buterin. Breaking down this intriguing field into a simple approach that beginner crypto investors and tech enthusiasts can understand, The Biography of Vitalik Buterin illuminates the origins of Ethereum, providing an unparalleled glimpse into the man who made it happen.
By: Ryan Richardson
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Explosive
- Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice
- By: Cliff Todd
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice. He and his colleagues at the Ministry of Defence's Forensic Explosives Laboratory are the unsung heroes of terrorist bomb attacks—the men and women in white suits who piece together who planted the bombs, what a device consisted of and how the perpetrators might give themselves away. They played a pivotal role in uncovering the secrets behind some of the world's most horrifying terrorist outrages. Explosive tells the stories of these high-profile cases.
By: Cliff Todd
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Miss Leavitt's Stars
- The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
- By: George Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley. Another camp believed that the universe was so vast that the Milky Way was just one galaxy among billions—the view that would prevail, proven by the equally headstrong Edwin Hubble.
By: George Johnson
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Woman, Watching
- Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
- By: Merilyn Simonds
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.
By: Merilyn Simonds
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Tesla's Words
- A Stunning Utopia of the Future
- By: Ellis Oswalt
- Narrated by: Ellis Oswalt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Tesla’s Words is a creative nonfiction audiobook that utilizes exhaustive research and recreation of drama to enrich a classic text with additional information, context, and immersive flare in order to highlight the previously unexplored aspects of Nikola Tesla's life and also reinforce his genius.
By: Ellis Oswalt
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung
- The Complete Guide to the Great Psychoanalyst, Including the Unconscious, Archetypes and the Self
- By: Gary Bobroff
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology who revolutionized the way we approached the human psyche. Drawing on Eastern mysticism, mythology and dream analysis to develop his theories, Jung proposed many ideas which are still influential today, including introversion, extroversion and the collective unconscious.
By: Gary Bobroff
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The Biography of Vitalik Buterin
- Founder of Ethereum
- By: Ryan Richardson
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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With a concise exploration of the remarkable world of blockchain technology, this thought-provoking biography dispels the myths and mysteries behind Ethereum, retracing the fascinating life and career of key founder Vitalik Buterin. Breaking down this intriguing field into a simple approach that beginner crypto investors and tech enthusiasts can understand, The Biography of Vitalik Buterin illuminates the origins of Ethereum, providing an unparalleled glimpse into the man who made it happen.
By: Ryan Richardson
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
- A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
- By: Paul Fischer
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance and legacy. The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his 'taker' or 'receiver' device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture 10 to 12 images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world.
By: Paul Fischer
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After Steve
- How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul
- By: Tripp Mickle
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone. In the wake of his close collaborator’s death, the chief designer wrestled with grief and initially threw himself into his work designing the new Apple headquarters and the Watch before losing his motivation.
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Disappointing & full of faked fiction
- By Peter Keller on 05-06-22
By: Tripp Mickle
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Tesla
- His Tremendous and Troubled Life
- By: Marko Perko, Stephen M. Stahl
- Narrated by: JW Hathaway
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The enigmatic Nikola Tesla—stalked by his ever-present inner demons—invents the modern world. His astonishing story is that of a new-age god, a genius, a Zeus, a wonderful Wizard, yet a deeply troubled one.
By: Marko Perko, and others
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Incompleteness
- The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
- By: Rebecca Goldstein
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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John Muir
- The Influential Naturalist Who Wrote About Yosemite National Park
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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John Muir was a prominent Scottish-American biologist, author, ecological philosophy, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early supporter for the conservation of wilderness in the US of America. He was also called "John of the Mountains" and "Dad of the National Parks."
By: Kelly Mass
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
- A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
- By: Paul Fischer
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures pulls back the curtain and reveals the riveting story of both Louis Le Prince’s life and work, dispelling the secrets that shroud each. This captivating, impeccably researched work presents the never before told history of the motion picture and sheds light on the unsolved mystery of Le Prince’s disappearance.
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Great Story, not the best narration.
- By Michael Fronckowiak on 05-06-22
By: Paul Fischer
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Time Traveler
- A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
- By: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, Bruce Henderson - contributor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow for time travel.
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disappointed but likely my fault
- By Orlando Padilla on 05-03-22
By: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, and others
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Ahead of the Curve
- Women Scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- By: Kathleen Weston
- Narrated by: Kathleen Weston
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK is a world-leading scientific institution. This book, by LMB alumna Kathy Weston, is a collective portrait of women scientists who, as staff members, visitors, and trainees, helped build the LMB’s reputation as a powerhouse of science, often going on to stellar careers at other outstanding institutions around the world. Combining narrative history with interview transcripts and personal reminiscence, Weston’s book describes the career accomplishments of these successful scientists.
By: Kathleen Weston
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Benjamin Franklin
- The Great Founding Father of the United States
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Benjamin Franklin was an author, physicist, innovator, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political thinker who resided in America. Franklin was just one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general of the United States. For his discoveries and views about electrical energy, he was an essential player in the American knowledge and the history of physics as a researcher. He is most prominent for his developments like the lightning arrester, bifocals, and the Franklin hotplate.
By: Kelly Mass
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Jony Ive
- The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products
- By: Leander Kahney
- Narrated by: Mr Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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With the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, Jony Ive has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was. Steve Jobs discovered Ive in 1997, when he found the scruffy British designer toiling away in a studio surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jobs instantly realised he had found a talent who could reverse Apple's decline, and become his 'spiritual partner'. Their collaboration produced iconic products including the iMac, iPod, iPad and iPhone - designs that overturned entire industries and created the world's most powerful brand.
By: Leander Kahney
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Bill Gates
- The Truth About Bill Gates’s Life and Business Success Revealed
- By: Historical Publishing
- Narrated by: Voss Productions
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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William Hеnrу Gates—аlѕо known аѕ Bіll Gаtеѕ—іѕ thе cofounder of thе hugе Microsoft Cоrроrаtіоn. Thіѕ bіllіоnаіrе wаѕ bоrn in Sеаttlе оn October 28, 1955, bеіng thе son оf a well-known lаwуеr, William Hеnrу Gаtеѕ, Sr. and a рrоfеѕѕоr аnd businesswoman, Mary Maxwell Gаtеѕ. It іѕ wеll-knоwn thаt Bill Gаtеѕ is thе rісhеѕt man in thе еntіrе world, thе situation being thе ѕаmе fоr a few уеаrѕ now. He may bе thе wоrld'ѕ richest mаn, but hе nеvеr forgets whеrе he ѕtаrtеd frоm.
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Never Panic Early
- An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
- By: Fred Haise
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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. An oxygen tank exploded, a crewmate uttered the now iconic words, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched as one of history’s most incredible rescue missions unfolded. Haise brings listeners into the heart of his experience on the challenging mission—considered NASA’s finest hour—and reflects on his life and career as an Apollo astronaut.
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Always interesting to learn about the life of an Apollo astronaut
- By Jerry T on 05-19-22
By: Fred Haise