- Educators (237)
Bestsellers
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Awe
- The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
- By: Dacher Keltner
- Narrated by: Dacher Keltner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From a foremost expert on the science of emotions and consultant to Pixar’s Inside Out comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and greater understanding of awe....
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Love the idea more than the product
- By Jackie on 04-23-23
By: Dacher Keltner
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- By Rusty on 09-04-15
By: Oliver Sacks
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The Psychopath Test
- A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....
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Interesting because it comes to more than one conclusion
- By Laura J on 06-20-23
By: Jon Ronson
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Gang Leader for a Day
- A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- By: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....
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Listen to this one first
- By DanO on 01-15-08
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
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Milton Friedman
- The Last Conservative
- By: Jennifer Burns
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. In Milton Friedman, historian Jennifer Burns tells Friedman’s extraordinary story with the nuance it deserves....
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Well Done, But Still A Little Disappointed
- By The Mindfulness Guru on 11-29-23
By: Jennifer Burns
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- By: Don Lattin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- By Gillian Culff on 12-12-19
By: Don Lattin
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Awe
- The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
- By: Dacher Keltner
- Narrated by: Dacher Keltner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From a foremost expert on the science of emotions and consultant to Pixar’s Inside Out comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and greater understanding of awe....
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Love the idea more than the product
- By Jackie on 04-23-23
By: Dacher Keltner
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- By Rusty on 09-04-15
By: Oliver Sacks
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The Psychopath Test
- A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....
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Interesting because it comes to more than one conclusion
- By Laura J on 06-20-23
By: Jon Ronson
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Gang Leader for a Day
- A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- By: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....
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Listen to this one first
- By DanO on 01-15-08
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
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Milton Friedman
- The Last Conservative
- By: Jennifer Burns
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. In Milton Friedman, historian Jennifer Burns tells Friedman’s extraordinary story with the nuance it deserves....
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Well Done, But Still A Little Disappointed
- By The Mindfulness Guru on 11-29-23
By: Jennifer Burns
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- By: Don Lattin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- By Gillian Culff on 12-12-19
By: Don Lattin
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Second Sight
- An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom
- By: Judith Orloff
- Narrated by: Judith Orloff
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Dr. Judith Orloff tells her remarkable life story and teaches you how to recognize and trust your own intuitive gifts to improve your life - and the lives of those around you....
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Excellent !!
- By Sabrina on 07-15-17
By: Judith Orloff
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Psychonauts
- Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
- By: Mike Jay
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism....
By: Mike Jay
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Hallucinations
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury....
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Not Just Hallucinations
- By Pamela Harvey on 01-05-13
By: Oliver Sacks
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And How Does That Make You Feel?
- Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy
- By: Joshua Fletcher
- Narrated by: Joshua Fletcher
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, and mourning are all parts of the human experience, and Josh Fletcher’s mission in life is to normalize the need to find a trusted professional with whom you can discuss all of life’s scariest aspects....
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Genuine
- By John Pratts on 06-06-24
By: Joshua Fletcher
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Never Forget to Laugh: Personal Recollections of Bill Thetford, Co-Scribe of A Course in Miracles
- By: Carol M. Howe
- Narrated by: Carol Howe
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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First-hand accounts chronicle the life and spiritual journey of Bill Thetford, a brilliant, accomplished psychologist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on ego development....
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Lovely, entertaining, fascinating. . .simply wonderful!
- By Jay in Hawaii on 02-21-22
By: Carol M. Howe
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The Inkblots
- Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
- By: Damion Searls
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots....
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Memorable
- By Jason Comely on 03-04-17
By: Damion Searls
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End of the Hour
- A Therapist's Memoir
- By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
- Narrated by: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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End of the Hour is for anyone who has experienced the unpredictable, lasting power of grief—and wondered how they’d ever get through it....
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As a therapist this felt so real and able to express what was happening and her feelings
- By Pam McCollum on 12-30-23
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Recollections
- An Autobiography
- By: Viktor E. Frankl
- Narrated by: S. D. Cousins
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the 20th century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna....
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The next step after Mam's Search for Meaning
- By Michael DeNobile on 07-30-21
By: Viktor E. Frankl
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A Walk on the Beach
- Tales of Wisdom from an Unconventional Woman
- By: Joan Anderson
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson’s chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal....
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inspiration for this mom/wife
- By Kristine T. on 03-21-16
By: Joan Anderson
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High Price
- A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
- By: Carl Hart
- Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction....
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Outstanding!
- By DaWoolf on 04-01-14
By: Carl Hart
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Pathological
- The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
- By: Sarah Fay
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning debut—both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism—writer Sarah Fay explores the ways we pathologize human experiences....
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Balanced perspective
- By J. T. Conn on 07-09-22
By: Sarah Fay
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Ten Trips
- The New Reality of Psychedelics
- By: Andy Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andy Mitchell
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The more we learn about psychedelics, the less we seem to understand them....
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Amazing!
- By Matthew Justin Turner on 10-12-23
By: Andy Mitchell
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Grand Pursuit
- The Story of Economic Genius
- By: Sylvia Nasar
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Anne Twomey
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history...
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A Beautiful Grand Pursuit
- By Joshua Kim on 05-06-12
By: Sylvia Nasar
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Freud
- The Making of an Illusion
- By: Frederick Crews
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator....
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A contemptible fraud exposed
- By Quin Dwyer on 09-26-17
By: Frederick Crews
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Give Me Back My Children
- Sarah C Allred, Book 1
- By: Sarah Allred, Ellen Taylor
- Narrated by: Annlan Tran
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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She only wanted to be a mother to her own children - FLDS Cult leader had other plans....
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Terrible writing, terrible narration
- By Modern Muse Beauty on 08-19-23
By: Sarah Allred, and others
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Jung
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Stevens
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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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....
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Very nice - will not be disappointed
- By Edgar on 12-15-05
By: Anthony Stevens
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Labyrinths
- Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- By: Catrine Clay
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement....
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Carl plays center stage
- By Sparrowhawk on 12-23-16
By: Catrine Clay
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Becoming Freud
- The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Jewish Lives)
- By: Adam Phillips
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud—Freud up until the age of fifty—that incorporates all of Freud’s many misgivings about the art of biography....
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Perfect first step towards understanding Freud
- By Anonymous on 01-17-24
By: Adam Phillips
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The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow, 2nd Edition.
- By: Edward Hoffman Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Stephen Molloy
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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The Right to Be Human is the award-winning, definitive biography of Abraham Maslow, perhaps the most important American psychological thinker of the 20th century. In many ways, Maslow remains more relevant than ever....
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A Human's Guide to the Future
- By: Dr Jordan Nguyen
- Narrated by: Dr Jordan Nguyen
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In A Human's Guide to the Future, Dr Jordan takes us on a journey through the big innovations being developed around the world, along the fun and amazing rollercoaster of his own adventures and to envisage where our collective future is headed....
By: Dr Jordan Nguyen
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The Forgotten Founding Father
- Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
- By: Joshua Kendall
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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American's own The Professor and the Madman: a story of Noah Webster, author of American English....
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A bit of a slog
- By Jason Comely on 06-23-14
By: Joshua Kendall
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Storr
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....
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best for starters and reviewers
- By Graziela on 12-27-14
By: Anthony Storr
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Behind the Shock Machine
- The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
- By: Gina Perry
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature....
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Why is it Milgram's Fault?
- By Mariah on 03-18-23
By: Gina Perry
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The Complete Biography on the Father of the Atomic Bomb and His Enduring Legacy in Science, Ethics, and Nuclear Physics
- By: J.R. MacGregor
- Narrated by: Patrick Gleason
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This comprehensive biography delves into the life of the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" and his profound impact on science, ethics, and nuclear physics. Discover Oppenheimer's journey from a precocious child in New York City to his groundbreaking role in the Manhattan Project during World War II....
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Loved it!
- By Rebecca007 on 12-10-23
By: J.R. MacGregor