Read by Harrison. — Audible, 2009. — Duration 19:28:00 Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the...
Read by Harrison. — Audible, 2009. — Duration 19:28:00 Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the...
Read by Harrison. — Audible, 2009. — Duration 19:28:00 Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the...
Read by Michael Goldstrom. — Audible, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 35:17:00. Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Read by Michael Goldstrom. — Audible, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 35:17:00. Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Read by Michael Goldstrom. — Audible, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 35:17:00. Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Read by Michael Goldstrom. — Audible, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 35:17:00. Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Read by Michael Goldstrom. — Audible, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 35:17:00. Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Read by Mary L. Trump. — Simon & Schuster Audio, 2020. — 128 kbps. — Duration 07:05:00. — ASIN B0898S8WP8. In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the...
Read by Mary L. Trump. — Simon & Schuster Audio, 2020. — 128 kbps. — Duration 07:05:00. — ASIN B0898S8WP8. In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the...
Read by Nigel Patterson. — Tantor Audio, 2019. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:08:00. — ASIN B07ZZF332Y. Simo Häyhä (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939-1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world. Simo Häyhä was a...
Read by Nigel Patterson. — Tantor Audio, 2019. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:08:00. — ASIN B07ZZF332Y. Simo Häyhä (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939-1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world. Simo Häyhä was a...
Read by James Adams. — Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:54:00. — ASIN B002SQDCYK. This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers,...
Read by James Adams. — Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:54:00. — ASIN B002SQDCYK. This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers,...
Read by James Adams. — Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:54:00. — ASIN B002SQDCYK. This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers,...
Read by William Hughes. — Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 11:29:56. — ASIN B00XD1CVJG. Unabridged. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of...
Read by William Hughes. — Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 11:29:56. — ASIN B00XD1CVJG. Unabridged. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of...
Read by William Hughes. — Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 11:29:56. — ASIN B00XD1CVJG. Unabridged. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of...
Read by William Hughes. — Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 11:29:56. — ASIN B00XD1CVJG. Unabridged. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of...
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner. — Blackstone Audio, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:14:00. — ASIN B06XGZLVT9. Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014....
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner. — Blackstone Audio, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:14:00. — ASIN B06XGZLVT9. Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014....
Narrated by Robin Miles. — HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — 63 kbps. — 10:47:00. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these...
Narrated by Robin Miles. — HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — 63 kbps. — 10:47:00. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these...
In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the...
In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the...
In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the...
In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the...
Read by Simon Russell Beale. — NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd., 1995. — 128 kb/s (2 ch). — Duration 03:35:49. — ISBN10: 9626345683. This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and...
Read by Simon Russell Beale. — NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd., 1995. — 128 kb/s (2 ch). — Duration 03:35:49. — ISBN10: 9626345683. This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and...
NY.: Algonquin Books; First Edition edition (January 20, 2009). - 329 p. Audio duration: 11 hours and 1 minute In his new book, Jay Mathews claims that the Knowledge Is Power Program is the "best" program serving severely disadvantaged, minority-group students in America today. Let me begin—before I'm denounced as a traitor to the cause of educational reform—by saying that I'm...
Book: The Steve Jobs Way Authors: Jay Simon, Christopher Hurt Language: English Duration: 6 h 50 min The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs s astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to...
Compiled from the trial transcripts. Performed by Martin Jarvis. "I like to say that Oscar Wilde was the first performance artist. He was a man who chose to live his life with passion. And in trying to define his own world in his own terms, he came up against a society that found him truly subversive." Moises Kaufman
Read by Lizzie Driver. — LibriVox, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 05:57:27. Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his...
HarperAudio, 2007. — 128 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo. — 05:29:13. William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself....
HarperAudio, 2007. — 128 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo. — 05:29:13. William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself....