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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Although Thomas Alva...

Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate—in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation's top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look at the research team of Masters and Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and their lasting impact on the love lives of men and women. Masters of Sex offers a titillating portrait of the team's real-life story.

At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.

Berlin 1914: Einsteins Welt zerbricht. Seine Ehe mit Mileva scheitert, Deutschland zieht begeistert in den Krieg. Kollegen wie Max Planck unterschreiben den rassistischen Aufruf an die Kulturwelt, sein Freund Fritz Haber führt an beiden Fronten einen grausamen Gaskrieg. In bestechend klarer Prosa zeigt de Padova erstmals, wie Einstein in seinen frühen Berliner Jahren zum leidenschaftlichen Pazifisten wird–und wie er inmitten einer kollabierenden Welt die Physik neu erfindet.

L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los Angeles history, death investigation and forensic science, and Asian American history in a feat of exquisite storytelling.

Hear the stories of the scientists who have shaped the past 2,000 years. This audiobook provides an absorbing and intimate account of the lives of 20 eminent scientists who reached the heights of human achievement, including Archimedes, Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and more.

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.

Thomas Alva Edison, the father of electricity: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Thomas Alva Edison, amerikanischer Erfinder und Herr des Lichts: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Pocos nombres de científicos están tan ligados a un invento revolucionario como el de Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), a quien durante años se le ha atribuido la invención de la bombilla incandescente. Nadie sospechaba que el joven que vendía fruta en el tren y hacía experimentos en un vagón abandonado en su tiempo libre más tarde sería conocido como "el mago de Menlo Park" y que llegaría a ser un controvertido inventor, científico y empresario estadounidense con más de mil patentes a sus espaldas, por lo que en lugar de un invento deberíamos hablar de miles de inventos.

Thomas Alva Edison, February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931, was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. In this recording, Edison discusses some of his numerous inventions.

Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal institution is a lively and compelling personal selection of the remarkable personalities and achievements of some of the extraordinary scientists and individuals who, during the 19th and 20th centuries, worked or lectured at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair, central London. John Meurig Thomas offers a unique and valuable insight into the history of this prestigious address, having himself lived and worked at the Royal Institution for some 20 years.

Sin dudas, un audiolibro que servirá para conocer a este genio norteamericano, un hombre al que la humanidad le debe mucho. Prolífico inventor que patentó más de mil inventos, contribuyó como nadie a darle, tanto a Estados Unidos como a Europa, los perfiles tecnológicos del mundo contemporáneo: las industrias eléctricas, un sistema telefónico viable, el fonógrafo, las películas, etc.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Thomas A. Watson (January 18, 1854 - December 13, 1934) was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston. He was then hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who was a professor at Boston University. They were known for the invention of the telephone.

Il nome di Thomas Alva Edison richiama alla mente di ognuno l'immagine della lampadina elettrica, sinonimo di inventiva, scoperta e genialità. Tuttavia, usando le parole dello stesso Edison, "per inventare serve solo una buona immaginazione e un bel mucchio di spazzatura". Si può dire che proprio da quella "spazzatura" - oggetti difettosi, problemi senza apparente soluzione, ma anche la sua quasi totale sordità e le condizioni disagiate della famiglia di origine - nacque la sua genialità, la vocazione a trovare soluzioni, a creare oggetti utili e funzionali, capaci di migliorare la vita di chiunque.

An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. "A memoir that reads like a thriller." -New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating...

In questo ritratto di Edison come imprenditore e della sua azienda vedremo i momenti salienti della compagnia, gli alti e i bassi, attraverso aneddoti e citazioni. Cercheremo di capire come ha fatto un uomo dalle umili origini e con una formazione superficiale a fondare e dirigere uno dei più grandi imperi industriali a cavallo del XIX e XX secolo e diventare un esempio per ogni manager, anche in epoca moderna. Cercheremo, insomma, di capire il segreto del suo successo.

Matemáticos, físicos e químicos protagonizam as narrativas deste livro, no qual o chileno Benjamín Labatut reconta a história de quatro descobertas científicas que abalaram profundamente a humanidade e o mundo à sua volta. Valendo-se de recursos da ficção, o autor lança os leitores em meio às biografias conturbadas de cientistas como Schrödinger, Einstein, Heisenberg e outros, e assim revela as inquietudes existenciais, os dilemas éticos, as tragédias históricas e os meandros impressionantes pelos quais essas figuras – e a própria ciência – passaram.

Als der britische Autor Joe Dunthorne gebeten wird, einen Vortrag über seine Familie im »Dritten Reich« zu halten, macht er bei seinen Recherchen dazu eine schier unglaubliche Entdeckung: Sein jüdischer Urgroßvater Siegfried Merzbacher, der in den 1920er-Jahren in Oranienburg lebte und dort als Chemiker Haushaltsartikel herstellte, darunter eine radioaktive Zahnpasta, war später maßgeblich an der Entwicklung chemischer Waffen für die Nazis beteiligt. Erst Mitte der Dreißigerjahre emigrierte die Familie in die USA. Bis an sein Lebensende haderte Merzbacher mit seiner Vergangenheit.