STEM Pioneers Books | Summaries & Audio

The Girl With a Mind for Math

by Julia Finley Mosca • 2018

Segregation said she couldn't. The Navy said two months. She designed a ship in 18 hours.

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🔍 Hidden Figures 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🚀 Women Pioneers ⚓ Naval History 🏗️ Engineering History

The Girl With a Mind for Math 93%

Segregation said she couldn't. The Navy said two months. She designed a ship in 18 hours.

by Julia Finley Mosca 2018

4.41

747 ratings

🔍 Hidden Figures 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🚀 Women Pioneers ⚓ Naval History 🏗️ Engineering History

Ada's Algorithm

by James Essinger • 2013

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

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🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

Ada's Algorithm 92%

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

by James Essinger 2013

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🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

by Walter Isaacson • 2022

Bacteria invented gene editing. One scientist who ignored every 'no' taught us to use it.

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🧬 Gene Editing 🔬 Molecular Biology 👩‍🔬 Women In Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalries

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition Summary

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition 91%

Bacteria invented gene editing. One scientist who ignored every 'no' taught us to use it.

by Walter Isaacson 2022

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137 ratings

🧬 Gene Editing 🔬 Molecular Biology 👩‍🔬 Women In Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalries

The Mark of a Giant

by Ted Stewart • 2013

Ambition usually grabs. In seven lives that reshaped the world, it gave.

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🏛️ History Makers 🏔️ Perseverance Stories 📖 Inspirational Biography 🚧 Breaking Barriers 🔬 Scientific Breakthroughs

The Mark of a Giant 91%

Ambition usually grabs. In seven lives that reshaped the world, it gave.

by Ted Stewart 2013

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288 ratings

🏛️ History Makers 🏔️ Perseverance Stories 📖 Inspirational Biography 🚧 Breaking Barriers 🔬 Scientific Breakthroughs

A Lab of One's Own

by Rita Colwell • 2020

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

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🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

A Lab of One's Own 91%

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

by Rita Colwell 2020

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719 ratings

🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

Broad Band

by Claire L. Evans • 2018

Women created the first program, the first compiler, and the early web. Then they were erased.

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👩‍💻 Women In Computing 🖥️ Computing History 🌐 Internet History 📜 Hidden Histories ⚡ Cyberfeminism

Broad Band 91%

Women created the first program, the first compiler, and the early web. Then they were erased.

by Claire L. Evans 2018

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👩‍💻 Women In Computing 🖥️ Computing History 🌐 Internet History 📜 Hidden Histories ⚡ Cyberfeminism

Crash Test Girl

by Kari Byron • 2018

She tested myths with science. Then she used the same method on her own life.

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👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧪 Science Communication 🔬 Scientific Mindset 🔧 Maker Culture 💡 Creative Problem-Solving

Crash Test Girl 91%

She tested myths with science. Then she used the same method on her own life.

by Kari Byron 2018

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👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧪 Science Communication 🔬 Scientific Mindset 🔧 Maker Culture 💡 Creative Problem-Solving

Girls Who Rocked the World

by Michelle R. McCann • 2012

Young women who led nations, made discoveries, and broke records before they turned twenty.

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📜 Women's History 🌟 Young Changemakers 📚 Collective Biography 💪 Girl Power 👩‍🎓 Role Models For Girls

Girls Who Rocked the World 91%

Young women who led nations, made discoveries, and broke records before they turned twenty.

by Michelle R. McCann 2012

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541 ratings

📜 Women's History 🌟 Young Changemakers 📚 Collective Biography 💪 Girl Power 👩‍🎓 Role Models For Girls

Wings of Fire

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam • 1999

A boatman's son made India a missile power. The leadership lessons that built it from nothing.

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🧪 Scientific Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Science 🚀 Aerospace 🛡️ Defense Technology 🔬 Scientific Leadership

Wings of Fire 90%

A boatman's son made India a missile power. The leadership lessons that built it from nothing.

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1999

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55k+ ratings

🧪 Scientific Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Science 🚀 Aerospace 🛡️ Defense Technology 🔬 Scientific Leadership

Dispatches from Planet 3

by Marcia Bartusiak • 2018

Thirty-two briefings on the invisible universe, colliding galaxies, and the women who mapped both.

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🏛️ History Of Astronomy 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🌌 Cosmology 🔭 Astrophysics 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

Dispatches from Planet 3 90%

Thirty-two briefings on the invisible universe, colliding galaxies, and the women who mapped both.

by Marcia Bartusiak 2018

4.11

161 ratings

🏛️ History Of Astronomy 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🌌 Cosmology 🔭 Astrophysics 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

Tesla

by Margaret Cheney • 1981

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

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💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography 🧠 Eccentric Genius 📻 History Of Radio

Tesla 90%

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

by Margaret Cheney 1981

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7k+ ratings

💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography 🧠 Eccentric Genius 📻 History Of Radio

My Life

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam • 2015

From a fishing village to the presidency: how a newspaper boy became India's rocket builder.

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🚀 Indian Space Program 🔬 Scientist Memoirs 🇮🇳 Indian Scientists ⚖️ Ethics In Technology 🏗️ National Development

My Life 90%

From a fishing village to the presidency: how a newspaper boy became India's rocket builder.

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2015

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🚀 Indian Space Program 🔬 Scientist Memoirs 🇮🇳 Indian Scientists ⚖️ Ethics In Technology 🏗️ National Development

Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance • 2017

A bullied kid, three near-bankruptcies, and the plan to put a million people on Mars.

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🚀 Space Entrepreneurship ⚡ Clean Energy Innovation 🌟 Techno-Optimism 💥 Industry Disruption 🪐 Space Colonization

Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Summary

Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 90%

A bullied kid, three near-bankruptcies, and the plan to put a million people on Mars.

by Ashlee Vance 2017

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🚀 Space Entrepreneurship ⚡ Clean Energy Innovation 🌟 Techno-Optimism 💥 Industry Disruption 🪐 Space Colonization

My Inventions

by Nikola Tesla • 1935

Tesla's mind was his lab, his curse, and the only place his machines ever ran perfectly.

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⚡ Electrical Engineering 🕰️ Early Electrical Age 📝 Inventor Memoirs 🧠 Eccentric Inventor 🔮 Visionary Science

My Inventions 90%

Tesla's mind was his lab, his curse, and the only place his machines ever ran perfectly.

by Nikola Tesla 1935

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⚡ Electrical Engineering 🕰️ Early Electrical Age 📝 Inventor Memoirs 🧠 Eccentric Inventor 🔮 Visionary Science

Vector

by Robyn Arianrhod • 2024

Your GPS and AI depend on a 19th-century algebra that broke the rules of arithmetic.

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🧮 History Of Mathematics ⚛️ Mathematical Physics 🔭 History Of Physics 📐 Geometric Thinking 🔄 Scientific Revolutions

Vector 89%

Your GPS and AI depend on a 19th-century algebra that broke the rules of arithmetic.

by Robyn Arianrhod 2024

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163 ratings

🧮 History Of Mathematics ⚛️ Mathematical Physics 🔭 History Of Physics 📐 Geometric Thinking 🔄 Scientific Revolutions

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

by William Elliott azelgrove • 2018

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

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🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story 89%

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

by William Elliott azelgrove 2018

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130 ratings

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Tesla

by W. Bernard Carlson • 2013

The same mental discipline that electrified the world also led Nikola Tesla to ruin.

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📚 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🏛️ Gilded Age 🧠 Mental Modeling 💡 Disruptive Innovation

Tesla 89%

The same mental discipline that electrified the world also led Nikola Tesla to ruin.

by W. Bernard Carlson 2013

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📚 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🏛️ Gilded Age 🧠 Mental Modeling 💡 Disruptive Innovation

The Worlds I See

by Fei-Fei Li • 2023

How a Chinese immigrant who barely spoke English built the dataset that sparked the AI revolution.

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📷 Computer Vision 🧠 Deep Learning 🤖 Ai History 📊 Data-Driven Science ⚖️ Ai Ethics

The Worlds I See 89%

How a Chinese immigrant who barely spoke English built the dataset that sparked the AI revolution.

by Fei-Fei Li 2023

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📷 Computer Vision 🧠 Deep Learning 🤖 Ai History 📊 Data-Driven Science ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Fly Girls

by Keith O'Brien • 2018

The men banned them from racing. Five women flew anyway, and one beat them all.

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🛩️ Aviation History 👩‍✈️ Women Pioneers 🚫 Gender Discrimination 👥 Collective Biography 📜 Feminist History

Fly Girls 89%

The men banned them from racing. Five women flew anyway, and one beat them all.

by Keith O'Brien 2018

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9k+ ratings

🛩️ Aviation History 👩‍✈️ Women Pioneers 🚫 Gender Discrimination 👥 Collective Biography 📜 Feminist History

Women in White Coats

by Olivia Campbell • 2021

Seven women enrolled in medical school in 1869. The men rioted. They changed medicine anyway.

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👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🏫 Medical Education 🕰️ 19th Century Medicine 📜 Women's History 🚺 Pioneering Women

Women in White Coats 89%

Seven women enrolled in medical school in 1869. The men rioted. They changed medicine anyway.

by Olivia Campbell 2021

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👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🏫 Medical Education 🕰️ 19th Century Medicine 📜 Women's History 🚺 Pioneering Women

Momentos estelares de la ciencia

by Isaac Asimov • 1959

From Archimedes' bath to the splitting of the atom: the breakthroughs that built the modern mind.

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📜 History Of Science 🔬 Popular Science 💡 Eureka Moments 🧪 Scientific Method ⚙️ History Of Technology

Momentos estelares de la ciencia Summary

Momentos estelares de la ciencia 89%

From Archimedes' bath to the splitting of the atom: the breakthroughs that built the modern mind.

by Isaac Asimov 1959

4.11

674 ratings

📜 History Of Science 🔬 Popular Science 💡 Eureka Moments 🧪 Scientific Method ⚙️ History Of Technology

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

by Richard W. Hamming • 1996

What separates great scientists from good ones: they pick better problems.

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🧠 Scientific Thinking ⚙️ Engineering Practice 💻 Computational Thinking 🔬 Research Methods 🔗 Interdisciplinary

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Summary

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering 89%

What separates great scientists from good ones: they pick better problems.

by Richard W. Hamming 1996

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🧠 Scientific Thinking ⚙️ Engineering Practice 💻 Computational Thinking 🔬 Research Methods 🔗 Interdisciplinary

Candace Pert

by Pamela Ryckman • 2023

She discovered the opiate receptor. The prize went to her male mentor. She never forgave science.

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👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧠 Neuroscience History 🧘 Mind-Body Medicine 💊 Opioid Crisis 🚺 Gender Bias In Science

Candace Pert 89%

She discovered the opiate receptor. The prize went to her male mentor. She never forgave science.

by Pamela Ryckman 2023

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68 ratings

👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧠 Neuroscience History 🧘 Mind-Body Medicine 💊 Opioid Crisis 🚺 Gender Bias In Science

The Double Helix

by James D. Watson • 1968

A stolen X-ray glance, a rival's blunder, and a lunchtime insight that unveiled the double helix.

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🧬 Molecular Biology 📜 History Of Genetics ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🔍 Structural Biology 💡 Scientific Discovery

The Double Helix 89%

A stolen X-ray glance, a rival's blunder, and a lunchtime insight that unveiled the double helix.

by James D. Watson 1968

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20k+ ratings

🧬 Molecular Biology 📜 History Of Genetics ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🔍 Structural Biology 💡 Scientific Discovery

Re-Sisters

by Cosey Fanni Tutti • 2022

An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.

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🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers ✊ Feminist Biography 🙏 Medieval Mysticism 🔥 Creative Defiance 🎧 Experimental Music

Re-Sisters 89%

An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.

by Cosey Fanni Tutti 2022

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143 ratings

🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers ✊ Feminist Biography 🙏 Medieval Mysticism 🔥 Creative Defiance 🎧 Experimental Music

The Woman All Spies Fear

by Amy Butler Greenfield • 2021

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

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🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

The Woman All Spies Fear 89%

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

by Amy Butler Greenfield 2021

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2k+ ratings

🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

by Richard P. Feynman • 1985

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

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🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Summary

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" 89%

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

by Richard P. Feynman 1985

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219k+ ratings

🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

Mother of Invention

by Katrine Marçal • 2020

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

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💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

Mother of Invention 89%

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

by Katrine Marçal 2020

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2k+ ratings

💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon

by Steve Wozniak • 2006

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

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🖥️ Personal Computing 🌉 Silicon Valley History 📞 Phone Phreaking 🔓 Hacker Ethos 🔧 Maker Culture

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon Summary

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon 89%

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

by Steve Wozniak 2006

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18k+ ratings

🖥️ Personal Computing 🌉 Silicon Valley History 📞 Phone Phreaking 🔓 Hacker Ethos 🔧 Maker Culture

The Perfectionists

by Simon Winchester • 2018

From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.

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🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🔍 Microhistory 🏗️ Mass Production 💥 Scientific Failures

The Perfectionists 89%

From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.

by Simon Winchester 2018

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7k+ ratings

🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🔍 Microhistory 🏗️ Mass Production 💥 Scientific Failures

Girl Code

by Andrea Gonzales • 2017

Two teens coded a tampon game to break the period taboo, and the internet took over.

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🖥️ Women In Tech 💻 Learning To Code 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🚺 Breaking Taboos 🤝 Creative Collaboration

Girl Code 89%

Two teens coded a tampon game to break the period taboo, and the internet took over.

by Andrea Gonzales 2017

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1k+ ratings

🖥️ Women In Tech 💻 Learning To Code 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🚺 Breaking Taboos 🤝 Creative Collaboration

The Right Kind of Crazy

by Adam Steltzner • 2015

A sky crane, a rover, and a team that trusted doubt more than confidence.

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🚀 Space Exploration 🏛️ NASA History 🧩 Systems Thinking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🌫️ Managing Uncertainty

The Right Kind of Crazy 89%

A sky crane, a rover, and a team that trusted doubt more than confidence.

by Adam Steltzner 2015

3.81

763 ratings

🚀 Space Exploration 🏛️ NASA History 🧩 Systems Thinking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🌫️ Managing Uncertainty

Anne McCaffrey

by Robin Roberts • 2007

How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.

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📚 Literary Biography 🚀 Women In Science Fiction ✍️ Creative Process 📝 Women Writers 🌿 Ecofeminism

Anne McCaffrey 89%

How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.

by Robin Roberts 2007

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5k+ ratings

📚 Literary Biography 🚀 Women In Science Fiction ✍️ Creative Process 📝 Women Writers 🌿 Ecofeminism

Quantum Man

by Lawrence M. Krauss • 2011

Feynman drew pictures of particles, insisted experiment trumps elegance, and rebuilt modern physics.

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⚛️ Particle Physics 🌀 Quantum Physics 📐 Theoretical Physics 📖 Scientific Biographies 🕰️ History Of Physics

Quantum Man 89%

Feynman drew pictures of particles, insisted experiment trumps elegance, and rebuilt modern physics.

by Lawrence M. Krauss 2011

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4k+ ratings

⚛️ Particle Physics 🌀 Quantum Physics 📐 Theoretical Physics 📖 Scientific Biographies 🕰️ History Of Physics

The Girls of Atomic City

by Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

The Girls of Atomic City 89%

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

by Denise Kiernan 2013

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32k+ ratings

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

ColdFusion Presents

by Dagogo Altraide • 2019

From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.

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🏭 History Of Technology 🔬 History Of Science 💡 History Of Innovation 💻 Digital Revolution 📈 Technological Change

ColdFusion Presents 89%

From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.

by Dagogo Altraide 2019

4.17

780 ratings

🏭 History Of Technology 🔬 History Of Science 💡 History Of Innovation 💻 Digital Revolution 📈 Technological Change

Life in Code

by Ellen Ullman • 2017

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

Life in Code 89%

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

by Ellen Ullman 2017

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1k+ ratings

👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

How to Think Like Einstein

by Daniel Smith • 2014

The habits that let a slow-developing patent clerk rewrite physics, and why they still work.

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🧪 Scientific Creativity 📖 Intellectual Biography 🚫 Nonconformity 👁️ Visual Thinking 🎯 Deep Concentration

How to Think Like Einstein 89%

The habits that let a slow-developing patent clerk rewrite physics, and why they still work.

by Daniel Smith 2014

3.57

282 ratings

🧪 Scientific Creativity 📖 Intellectual Biography 🚫 Nonconformity 👁️ Visual Thinking 🎯 Deep Concentration

LET IT GO

by Stephanie Shirley • 2012

A Kindertransport child grows up to build a women-only tech empire, then gives it all away.

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚂 Kindertransport Stories 🧩 Autism Advocacy 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

LET IT GO 89%

A Kindertransport child grows up to build a women-only tech empire, then gives it all away.

by Stephanie Shirley 2012

4.26

827 ratings

👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚂 Kindertransport Stories 🧩 Autism Advocacy 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

Soonish

by Kelly Weinersmith • 2017

Ten technologies that could reshape everything, and why each one might backfire spectacularly.

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🚀 Emerging Technologies 🔮 Future Studies 😂 Science Humor 🛰️ Space Exploration ⚠️ Technological Risks

Soonish 89%

Ten technologies that could reshape everything, and why each one might backfire spectacularly.

by Kelly Weinersmith 2017

3.94

6k+ ratings

🚀 Emerging Technologies 🔮 Future Studies 😂 Science Humor 🛰️ Space Exploration ⚠️ Technological Risks

Wizard

by Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

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📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Wizard 89%

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

by Marc J. Seifer 1996

3.73

7k+ ratings

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

How Technology Works

by D.K. Publishing • 2019

A visual tour of the physics inside your phone, your microwave, and the power grid.

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166

🔍 Visual Encyclopedias ⚙️ How Things Work ⚡ Applied Physics 🔧 Engineering Fundamentals 💻 Digital Literacy

How Technology Works 89%

A visual tour of the physics inside your phone, your microwave, and the power grid.

by D.K. Publishing 2019

4.33

166 ratings

🔍 Visual Encyclopedias ⚙️ How Things Work ⚡ Applied Physics 🔧 Engineering Fundamentals 💻 Digital Literacy

A History of the World in 21 Women

by Jenni Murray • 2018

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A History of the World in 21 Women Summary

A History of the World in 21 Women 89%

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

by Jenni Murray 2018

3.81

4k+ ratings

🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A Sense of the Mysterious

by Alan Lightman • 2005

The creative fire behind cold equations: a physicist-novelist on what science shares with art.

3.82

671

🧠 Scientific Creativity 🎨 Science And Art 🧵 Two Cultures 📐 Mathematical Beauty 📚 Science Essays

A Sense of the Mysterious 89%

The creative fire behind cold equations: a physicist-novelist on what science shares with art.

by Alan Lightman 2005

3.82

671 ratings

🧠 Scientific Creativity 🎨 Science And Art 🧵 Two Cultures 📐 Mathematical Beauty 📚 Science Essays

The Idea Factory

by Jon Gertner • 2012

A phone monopoly's lab produced the transistor, the laser, and the digital age. How it worked.

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🏭 Innovation History 🏢 Corporate History 💡 Invention Stories 🔬 Scientific Discovery 🧬 Organizational Culture

The Idea Factory 89%

A phone monopoly's lab produced the transistor, the laser, and the digital age. How it worked.

by Jon Gertner 2012

4.21

9k+ ratings

🏭 Innovation History 🏢 Corporate History 💡 Invention Stories 🔬 Scientific Discovery 🧬 Organizational Culture

Steve Jobs

by Karen Blumenthal • 2012

Garage startup. Public firing. Decade in exile. The return that produced the iPod and iPhone.

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⌨️ Computer History 💻 Tech Founders 🎨 Product Design 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🌸 Counterculture Tech

Steve Jobs 89%

Garage startup. Public firing. Decade in exile. The return that produced the iPod and iPhone.

by Karen Blumenthal 2012

3.95

7k+ ratings

⌨️ Computer History 💻 Tech Founders 🎨 Product Design 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🌸 Counterculture Tech

Steve Jobs

by Patricia Lakin • 2011

Before the iPhone, Jobs took a calligraphy class. That strange detour explains everything.

3.85

384

🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🎨 Product Design 💻 Silicon Valley 👁️ Visionary Leadership 💡 Design Thinking

Steve Jobs 89%

Before the iPhone, Jobs took a calligraphy class. That strange detour explains everything.

by Patricia Lakin 2011

3.85

384 ratings

🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🎨 Product Design 💻 Silicon Valley 👁️ Visionary Leadership 💡 Design Thinking

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba • 2009

A Malawian dropout, a library book on energy, and a windmill built from scrap metal.

4.24

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🛠️ African Innovation 🌍 Appropriate Technology 📚 Self-Taught Science 💨 Wind Power ⚡ Diy Electricity

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 88%

A Malawian dropout, a library book on energy, and a windmill built from scrap metal.

by William Kamkwamba 2009

4.24

12k+ ratings

🛠️ African Innovation 🌍 Appropriate Technology 📚 Self-Taught Science 💨 Wind Power ⚡ Diy Electricity

Lab Girl

by Hope Jahren • 2016

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

3.98

72k+

👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Lab Girl 88%

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

by Hope Jahren 2016

3.98

72k+ ratings

👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Elon Musk

by Ashlee Vance • 2015

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

4.12

448k+

🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

Elon Musk 88%

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

by Ashlee Vance 2015

4.12

448k+ ratings

🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

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