Carlson, W. Bernard
Summary: "This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"-
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 TESLA, NICOLA CARIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries:...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B JOBSCassutt, Michael
Summary: "One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W.S. Abbey was called "the Dark Lord," "the Godfather," and "UNO" (unidentified NASA official) by those within NASA. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. From young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ABBEY, GEORGE CASSchlender, Brent.
Summary: "Based on the ... cover story about Steve Jobs in Fast Company in May 2012, this is the behind-the-scenes account of how Steve Jobs arguably became the most famous and visionary CEO in history ... Brent Schlender and veteran editor Rick Tetzeli have interviewed friends, industry insiders, and the people who knew Jobs best throughout his evolution as a CEO and leader. In addition, Schlender, who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JOBS, STEVE SCHIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JOBS, STEVE ISAMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORGilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker)
Summary: A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005