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The thrilling true story of the unlikely American codebreakers who cracked Japan’s top cipher machine, eavesdropped on Hitler, and helped win World War II. In 1937, Japanese engineers invented Purple, a cipher machine capable of scrambling a message more than 500 quadrillion ways. It encrypted...

From bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, this is the morally inspiring tale of the passionate scientist who pushed through all obstacles to set the stage for the modern world. The only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences, Marie Curie ushered in the 20th century by...

An intimate history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for the origin story of plastic and how it is inextricably bound to her own. In one generation, industry has created billions of tons of plastic. It's...

Das 20. Jahrhundert war eine Zeit gewaltiger Umbrüche, bahnbrechender Entdeckungen und außergewöhnlicher Menschen. Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die faszinierenden Lebensgeschichten von 20 Persönlichkeiten, die ihre Zeit geprägt und die Welt nachhaltig verändert haben. Von visionären Wissenschaftlern wie Albert Einstein und Marie Curie über politische Wegbereiter wie Nelson Mandela und John F. Kennedy bis hin zu kulturellen Ikonen wie Audrey Hepburn, Elvis Presley und Frida Kahlo – jede Geschichte zeigt Mut, Leidenschaft, Genialität und den Willen, Grenzen zu überwinden.

Als Jay Mendelsohn, pensionierter Mathematiker und 81 Jahre alt, eines Tages spontan beschließt, den Uni-Grundkurs seines Sohnes Daniel zum Thema »Odyssee« zu besuchen, ahnen beide Männer nicht, dass dies der Beginn einer ganz eigenen Familien-Reise ist. Vater und Sohn folgen auf einer Schiffsroute den Spuren des homerischen Epos – und im Angesicht der eigenen Sterblichkeit überwinden sie ihr gegenseitiges Schweigen.

One of Bill Gates's Top Five Book Recommendations The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and...

The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything...

This audiobook is fascinatingly read by the author, Chris Hadfield. Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality...

'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human...

New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon Musk’s acquisition and subsequent occupation of Twitter. In October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter’s front doors carrying a kitchen...

One of The New Statesman's Best Books of the Year One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's 'Best Books We've Read in 2024 So Far' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing...

Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with “genius” and that his...

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and...

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear...

Named One of the Best True Crime Books of the Year by The New York Times A “spellbinding, thriller-like” (Shelf Awareness) history of early cinema and the invention of motion pictures centered on the mysterious, forgotten man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy...

“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies . . . Knight’s book is crisp.” —Dwight Garner, New York...

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...

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession...

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children. AN AUDIE AWARD...