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....

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine....

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....

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

From the NASA astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here....

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....

These lectures are the perfect introduction to Einstein, putting his scientific discoveries into the context of his personal life, his philosophical views, and his outlook on the world....

This autobiography collection contains My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin....

The best-selling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s....

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

Individual psychology, a construction of Alfred Adler, rests heavily on the notion of social interest presenting an optimistic view of the individual....

Everyone knows that Thomas Edison is America's most famous inventor. But what exactly drove him to invent? Find out....

This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the 16th century....

Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world's most amazing inventions....

Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....

Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story....

Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation....

Three years ago, 32-year-old Markus "Notch" Persson of Stockholm was an unknown and bored computer programmer. Today, he is a multi-millionaire international icon....

This audiobook covers how Elon Musk went from getting bullied in school to small-time entrepreneur to CEO of two major companies that seem like they're straight out of science fiction - and how he almost went broke along the way....

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

This Instaread Key Takeaways & Analysis of The Wright Brothers includes an overview of the book, an introduction to the important people in the book, and analysis of key takeaways....

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....