Science & Technology Leaders

Elon Musk

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Ashlee Vance
• Narrated By Fred Sanders

South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey, Jr. The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story.

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Walter Isaacson
• Narrated By Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson
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In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, this is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Richard P. Feynman
• Narrated By Raymond Todd
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 57 mins)
• By C. G. Jung
• Narrated By James Cameron Stewart

In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.

No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Steve Jackson
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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No Stone Unturned recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International: a small ,eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement personal, active and retired, who volunteer their services to help locate the clandestine graves of murder victims and recover the remains and evidence to assist with the apprehension and conviction of the killers.

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Nikola Tesla
• Narrated By Jason McCoy
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system, the successful system in the "War of Currents" and the Tesla coil. Nikolas Tesla's patents and theoretical work helped form the basis of wireless communication and radio.

Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Leland Melvin
• Narrated By Ron Butler
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Leland Melvin is the only person in human history to catch a pass in the National Football League and in space. Though his path from the gridiron to the heavens was riddled with setbacks and injury, Leland persevered to reach the stars. While training with NASA, Melvin suffered a severe injury that left him deaf. Leland was relegated to earthbound assignments but chose to remain and support his astronaut family. His loyalty paid off. Recovering partial hearing, he earned his eligibility for space travel.

Jung: A Very Short Introduction

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Anthony Stevens
• Narrated By Tim Pigott-Smith

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.

Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Henry Marsh
• Narrated By Henry Marsh
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Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him.

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Gene Kranz
• Narrated By Danny Campbell

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

The Voyage of the Beagle

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Charles Darwin
• Narrated By Barnaby Edwards
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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. It was this world-wide journey, however, that launched the scientists career.

Steve Jobs. La biografía

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Walter Isaacson
• Narrated By Roberto Medina

La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboración.Tras más de cuarenta entrevistas con Steve Jobs y con un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, esta es la biografía definitiva de uno de los iconos indiscutibles de nuestro tiempo, del genio cuya creatividad, energía y perfeccionismo revolucionaron seis industrias: informática, películas de animación, música, teléfonos, tabletas y edición digital.Cuando el mundo buscaba cómo construir las bases de una economía digital, Jobs fue un símbolo de la inventiva.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 43 mins)
• By David Kushner
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 37 mins)
• By A. N. Wilson
• Narrated By Richard Burnip
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Darwin was described by his friend and champion, Thomas Huxley, as a 'symbol'. But what did he symbolize? In Wilson's portrait, both sympathetic and critical, Darwin was two men. On the one hand, he was a naturalist of genius, a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibilities of taxonomy and geology. On the other hand, Darwin, a seemingly diffident man who appeared gentle and even lazy, hid a burning ambition to be a universal genius. He longed to have a theory which explained everything.

A Short Biography of the Astronomer Edwin Hubble: 30 Minute Book Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (44 mins)
• By Doug West
• Narrated By Gregory Diehl
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Edwin Hubble was a man ahead of his time. For him only astronomy really mattered. He took advantage of the opportunity given to him to use the most advanced telescope of his time to determine the truth behind the most distant clouds of light visible to Earth-based observers. His major discoveries changed our knowledge of our place in the universe forever. His determination that the universe is expanding served as the foundation for the big bang theory.

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Andrea Wulf
• Narrated By David Drummond
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.

The Voyage of the Beagle

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Charles Darwin
• Narrated By David McCallion
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In 1831, the HMS Beagle took sail. Onboard was a young Charles Darwin. He would set out on an adventure that would lead him to question everything about man's place in the world. The Voyage of the Beagle is the journal Darwin kept of his observations of the extraordinary and natural wonders he encountered, from volcanoes to the coral reefs of Australia. It would be these natural wonders that would lead to him questioning how the different species of the world came to be and eventually to his radical theories.

Alan Turing: Unlocking The Enigma

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 3 mins)
• By David Boyle
• Narrated By Barnaby Edwards
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Alan Mathison Turing. Mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, a founder of computer science, and the father of Artificial Intelligence, Turing was one of the most original thinkers of the last century - and the man whose work helped create the computer-driven world we now inhabit. But he was also an enigmatic figure, deeply reticent yet also strikingly naive. Turing's openness about his homosexuality at a time when it was an imprisonable offense ultimately led to his untimely death at the age of only 41.

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By David Bodanis
• Narrated By Roger Davis
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Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets.

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 11 mins)
• By W. Bernard Carlson
• Narrated By Allan Robertson

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius.

Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Jennet Conant
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the 20th century. As a young eminent chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in WWI. As a controversial president of Harvard University, he was a champion of meritocracy and open admissions. As an advisor to FDR, he led the interventionist cause for US entrance in WWII.

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 37 mins)
• By A. N. Wilson
• Narrated By Richard Burnip
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Darwin was described by his friend and champion, Thomas Huxley, as a 'symbol'. But what did he symbolize? In Wilson's portrait, both sympathetic and critical, Darwin was two men. On the one hand, he was a naturalist of genius, a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibilities of taxonomy and geology. On the other hand, Darwin, a seemingly diffident man who appeared gentle and even lazy, hid a burning ambition to be a universal genius. He longed to have a theory which explained everything.

Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 36 mins)
• By James T. Costa
• Narrated By Sean Runnette
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James T. Costa takes listeners on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of 40 years. We accompany Darwin in his myriad pursuits against the backdrop of his enduring marriage, chronic illness, grief at the loss of three children, and joy in scientific revelation. At each chapter's end, Costa shows how we, too, can investigate the wonders of nature at work, with directions on how to re-create Darwin's experiments.

Summary: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 3 mins)
• By Readtrepreneur Publishing
• Narrated By Chris Brown

As a neurosurgeon, Paul has always come face to face with life and death of his patients. He had guided many families through the deaths of his many patients, but when Paul became a patient of cancer himself, he was clueless. From a neurosurgeon with a bright future to a man facing death, Paul debated on his next course of action, and still strove to make the most out of the limited time he had.

Naturally Selected: Darwin's Life

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Charles Darwin
• Narrated By Jason Zenobia

Charles Darwin's autobiography as published by the MSAC Philosophy Group. With a foreword byProfessor David Christopher Lane, Ph.D.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ashlee Vance's Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By Start Publishing Notes
• Narrated By Michael Gilboe

Musk was born in South Africa. His mother Maye, was a model, and his father Errol, was an electrical engineer. Musk had a difficult childhood, and was often bullied in school. His parents divorced when he was nine and he and his brother Kimbal, went to live with their father. Errol was a very unpleasant man, and treated the boys coldly and perhaps abusively. The trauma of his childhood may have affected Musk's need for validation, his obsessive work ethic, and his difficulty in communicating with others later in life.

The Voyage of the Beagle

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Charles Darwin
• Narrated By David McCallion
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In 1831, the HMS Beagle took sail. Onboard was a young Charles Darwin. He would set out on an adventure that would lead him to question everything about man's place in the world. The Voyage of the Beagle is the journal Darwin kept of his observations of the extraordinary and natural wonders he encountered, from volcanoes to the coral reefs of Australia. It would be these natural wonders that would lead to him questioning how the different species of the world came to be and eventually to his radical theories.

Analysis of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight by Milkyway

• UNABRIDGED (21 mins)
• By Milkyway Media
• Narrated By Ian Fishman
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (2008) is neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's reckoning with the stroke she had in 1996, when she was 37 years old. Describing her experience in terms of her brain anatomy and how her symptoms progressed, Taylor combines her perspectives as a scientist and a patient.

Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 1 min)
• By Craig R. Roach
• Narrated By Tom Perkins
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.

Thank You, Steve Jobs: A Legendary Visionary, Innovator and Business Leader: 27 Life Changing Lessons from Steve Jobs About Life, Business and Leadership

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Jamie Morris
• Narrated By David Carroll

Do you often wonder how the most affluent billionaires made it to where they are today? Would you like to know how they did it, what they did, and, most importantly, what it cost? In Thank You, Steve Jobs: A Legendary Visionary, Innovator and Business Leader - 27 Life Changing Lessons from Steve Jobs About Life, Business and Leadership by Jamie Morris, he follows the stories of these billionaires, what drove them to set up the ideas, the failures they have been through, and how they continue to let their visions grow into feasible business models.

Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 56 mins)
• By George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later, the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.

A Short History of George Soros: From Genius Currency Speculator to Master Philanthropist

• UNABRIDGED (14 mins)
• By Shrewdhippo Digests
• Narrated By David L. White

This audiobook provides key insights into the "rags to riches" story of George Soros, and his journey to become one of the world's most famous investors. It discusses his investment strategies and his strong passion for philanthropy, and driving social change.

Summary and Analysis of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• UNABRIDGED (38 mins)
• By Start Publishing Notes
• Narrated By Michael Gilboe

In order to bring its origin to light, Rebecca Skloot weaves together several narrative threads. One is primarily focused on Henrietta Lacks, the woman who, without her knowledge, became central to 20th century biomedical research. Another is the birth of modern biomedical research itself, and its roots in the American eugenics movement. Finally, there is the impact of this research, both of the Lacks Family and on society at large. Skloot divides the book into 3 parts: Life, Death, and Immortality.

Biography: 10 Biographies and Memoirs: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, Howard Hughes, Nikola Tesla, Walt Disney, Benjamin Franklin, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Knight Writer
• Narrated By Richard Banks

This program includes the following biographies: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, Howard Hughes, Nikola Tesla, Walt Disney, Benjamin Franklin, Genghis Khan, and Abraham Lincoln.

Freud in Love: The women of Sigmund Freud: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis

• UNABRIDGED (56 mins)
• By Lazaro Droznes
• Narrated By Gary Miller-Youst
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Fiction drama based on the clandestine relationship of Sigmund Freud with his sister-in-law Minna Bernays, who, to make things even worse, lived in the same house with all his family. This relationship has been lately confirmed with historical evidence and has been one of the best kept secrets in Freud's life. Martha Bernays and her sister Minna lived together 40 years in Vienna with the 5 children of the Freud family, and shared the love of one of the scientists.

Dr. Robert H. Goddard: A Brief Biography: Father of American Rocketry and the Space Age: 30 Minute Book Series, 21

• UNABRIDGED (39 mins)
• By Doug West
• Narrated By Gregory Diehl

Dr. Robert Goddard was the first scientist who not only realized the potential for rockets for space flight but also contributed directly in making them a reality. His rare talent in both creative science and practical engineering placed Goddard well above the European rocket pioneers. The dedicated research and experimentation into the development of rockets by the modest man went largely unrecognized in the Untied States until the dawn of the space age.