Tag: Geniuses

Free Download Cynthia Cravens, "Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture"
English | ISBN: 1793620601 | 2023 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 429 KB + 1417 KB
Through a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in society, their relationships with their reading publics, the portrayals and realities of their labor, and the construction of a "writing" identity.

Free Download Danny Goldberg, "Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1592403700, 1592404839 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.4 mb
Traces the last thirty-five years of rock-and-roll history as presented by an industry head, describing his work with such forefront performers as Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, and Bruce Springsteen and offering insight into how the genre reflects period art, commerce, and idealism. 40,000 first printing.

Free Download The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity (Audiobook)
English | March 26, 2014 | ASIN: B00J9S4GU4 | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 23m | 240.49 MB
Author: Pedro G. Ferreira
Narrator: Sean Runnette
How did one elegant theory incite a scientific revolution?

Free Download Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project (Audiobook)
English | July 21, 2020 | ASIN: B08D2G39S4 | M4B@125 kbps | 4h 46m | 260.72 MB
Author: Edward G. Lengel, The Great Courses
Narrator: Edward G. Lengel
Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project

Free Download Simon Kuper, "Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport"
English | 2011 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 156858458X, 1568586876 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Simon Kuper’s New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisive – and witty – commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world’s most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men.

Free Download Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B084RWVJRV | 2020 | 14 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 395 MB
Author: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern-day technologies. Exploring the combination of genius, infighting, and luck that powered the creation of today’s electronic age, Conquering the Electron debunks the hero worship so often plaguing the stories of great advances. Want to know how AT&T’s Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology – and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work – and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.

Free Download The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity (Audiobook)
English | March 26, 2014 | ASIN: B00J9S4GU4 | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 23m | 240.49 MB
Author: Pedro G. Ferreira
Narrator: Sean Runnette
How did one elegant theory incite a scientific revolution?

Free Download Walter Isaacson, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution"
English | ISBN: 1476708703 | 2015 | 560 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.

Free Download Archana Sharma with Spoorthy Raman, "India’s Science Geniuses"
English | ISBN: 9393986002 | 2022 | pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
India has an amazing community of scientists doing cutting-edge work across their disciplines – from astronomy to neuroscience, nanoscience to botany. Who are they? And what are they doing? In this fascinating book, acclaimed CERN scientist Archana Sharma and science journalist Spoorthy Raman profile some of the most brilliant scientists working in the Nobel Prize-awarded fields of science and describe their work to us. Written for a lay reader, India’s Science Geniuses makes the exciting world of Indian science come vividly alive.

Free Download Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project (Audiobook)
English | July 21, 2020 | ASIN: B08D2G39S4 | M4B@125 kbps | 4h 46m | 260.72 MB
Author: Edward G. Lengel, The Great Courses
Narrator: Edward G. Lengel