Science & Technology Leaders

South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity....

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs....

In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story....

Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

Enjoy the surprising and entertaining true story of Albert Einstein and rediscover one of history's most prolific figures....

No Stone Unturned recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International: a small ,eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement personal....

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero....

The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program....

We all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed....

Darwin wrote the text, which he entitled "Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character", for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876, and had finished it by August 3....

Thomas Maier offers an unprecedented look at Masters and Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and their lasting impact on the love lives of today's men and women....

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple....

In Brief Candle in the Dark Richard Dawkins continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far ....

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes....

As the cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world's leading provider of software...

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist....

The affluent market segment is growing seven times faster than the household population in this country...

These 10 lectures acquaint you with the thoughts, theories, and lives of these great economists

In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in 25 years - A. N. Wilson goes in search of the celebrated but contradictory figure Charles Darwin....

The inspiring story of Ben Carson, M.D. takes readers into the life of an inner-city youngster who rose above his circumstances to become a director of pediatric neurosurgery....

I hate every wave of the ocean', the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle....

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....

J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else....

The two most influential media moguls of all time: two billionaires, two fascinating stories...

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....

With a deeper insight into Elon Musk’s life, journey, and innovations, Elon Musk Undaunted tells the story of a genius billionaire....

In Simply Freud, Professor Stephen Frosh offers an engaging and accessible introduction to Freud and his major ideas, including the unconscious, sexual repression, free association, and the interpretation of dreams. At the same time, he reminds us that Freud was also a person - ambitious, conflicted, amorous, irritable, blind about some things, prophetically insightful about others.

Nikola Tesla, the lesser-known peer of Thomas Edison, invented the X-ray, wireless communication, the electric motor, and more. His greatest contribution, however, lies hidden in the groundwork he laid for future innovation. So many of the technological advancements we enjoy today are thanks to an eccentric scientist from Croatia who tested his far-fetched ideas without fear of failure.  

The face of Microsoft and a man now worth $92.3 billion, Bill Gates has a lot to teach us about hard work, success, kindness, unkindness, ruthlessness, tenacity, intelligence, and philanthropy - more so than might be apparent from looking at the easygoing, oft-smiling Gates. Now is as good a time as any to try and understand how a geeky kid (said with the utmost respect) from Seattle became such an ambitious and bold revolutionary in the tech world. I will do so by pointing out a few facets that I think are the most important parts of Gates' career and personality.