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....

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

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: one of the most famous engineers the United Kingdom has ever produced. He put his stamp on his country in the most visible way possible: through the construction of bridges and tunnels that stand to this day....

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....

In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking relates the inside story of her extraordinary marriage....

From the time Jane Goodall was a girl, she dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Her earliest fascination with animals inspired her...

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

In his memoir Into the Magic Shop, Dr. James R. Doty describes how simple meditative techniques have had a profound effect on both his personal and professional paths....

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla is a book compiled and edited by Ben Johnston detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919....

Toward the end of the 19th century, one of the most brilliant mathematicians in history languished in an asylum...

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered....

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

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....

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 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....

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

Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the real issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day....

These compelling lectures draw on the lives of medicine's greatest contributors to tell the human story behind the development of Western scientific medicine....