99 Results for : prodigies
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The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min
From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced - “a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers). Named one of the best books of the year by Rocky Mountain News It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history. The Repository for Germinal Choice - nicknamed “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” - opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes. But the bank quietly closed its doors in 1999 - its founder dead, its confidential records sealed, and the fate of its children and donors unknown. Crisscrossing the country and tracking down previously unknown family members, award-winning Slate columnist David Plotz unfolds the full and astonishing story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank and its founder’s radical scheme to change our world.Praise for The Genius Factory“[David] Plotz’s wonderful history of the Nobel sperm bank is filled with wit, pathos and insight...[He acts] as narrator, ethnographer, historian, social critic and even go-between, brokering reunions between children and their genitors.” (Chicago Tribune)“Perfectly pitched - blithe, smart, skeptical, yet entranced by its subject.” (The New York Times)“By turns personal, confounding, creepy, defiant of expectations and touching...The Genius Factory isn’t merely curious, it’s useful.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“Tense, hilarious, and touching...wonderfully readable and eye-opening.” (The Wall Street Journal) “Terrific...[a] lively account.” (The Washi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000502/bk_bkot_000502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fade to Black , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 771min
At the nexus of a top-secret government conspiracy to develop a doomsday-style bio-weapon, cutting edge science and ancient primal bloodlust collide when a team of ill-fated explorers unlocks the eons-old secrets of humankind's savage evolutionary past lurking miles beneath the killing cold of Antarctica. When disgraced evolutionary biologist Dr. Claire Matthews is asked to accompany a group of leading scientists on a fact-finding expedition to Antarctica to investigate a tragic accident, she is naturally suspicious. Her checkered past and ongoing professional exile are more than enough to convince her that any offer made by the charismatic and scheming Dr. Ethan Hatcher merits serious skepticism. Despite her doubts, Claire cannot turn her back on close friend and colleague, Alan Whitehurst. Killed under mysterious circumstances weeks earlier with the members of the first expedition, Alan deserves better than an anonymous death in Earth's harshest and most unforgiving environment. While the expedition promises Claire an unwelcome reunion with an array of personal demons, it also presents her with a golden opportunity to resurrect a once-promising career. Proving the existence of S. iroquoisii, an ancient microscopic organism critical in the evolution of primitive man, would mean the culmination of her life's work, and a triumphant return for one of the scientific community's brightest prodigies. To earn her keep, Claire must determine the role S. iroquoisii played in the catastrophic accident that decimated the previous expedition, before her crew falls prey to a similar fate. Employing the latest in forensic investigation, Claire and a joint team of military and civilian personnel undertake the gruesome task of piecing together the events that led to the massive explosion that destroyed the previous research station. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carlos P Mendoza. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117201/bk_acx0_117201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Elysiana , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
Gwendalynn Anders, a midwestern girl who’s never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked a week before waking up on Elysiana and why it feels like the trip will last the entire summer of 1969. Jack Halcyon, living atop an abandoned twenty-story hotel, wonders how he’s able to ponder the incongruities of life after leaving a big chunk of his brain at the scene of an accident. Borough council president Norman Harlan wonders what cruel God put him on an equal footing with Avery Volpe, the fearsome captain of the beach patrol. Twelve miles long and a mile wide, Elysiana is an island off the coast of New Jersey sitting astride the convergence of powerful fault lines, social, political, and existential. It’s a place of beauty and insanity, shared by the angelic and profane, where cops, criminals, prodigies, and the promiscuous find themselves at the haphazard mercy of a lunatic providence. Other players include a globe-trotting whiz kid, an Italo-Hispanic crime boss, a surfing aesthete and his vulgar roommate, a career car-stereo thief, and a seven-year-old girl who’s probably spent too much time with the dead bodies in the dunes. This is a story that could have only happened on the Jersey Shore during the summer of ’69, a time when the social fabric was tearing apart, in a place where that fabric had never been very well knit together. Elysiana is both a fabulist’s look at a lost time and place and a hurtling thriller. It’s a tale of two types of transition: the personal and the grand, all played out within the isolated magic of a barrier island. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003964/bk_blak_003964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dances with Death: Devil's Trill and Danse Macabre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1238min
Dances with Death: Devil’s Trill and Danse Macabre by Gerald EliasRead by Jim Frangione, with music by Gerald EliasBegin with a critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Daniel Jacobus, a blind, curmudgeonly, reclusive violin teacher. Then add music to Jim Frangione’s spot-on narration - and magic ensues.In "Devil’s Trill", blind, sharp-tongued violinist Daniel Jacobus, living in self-imposed exile in rural New England, is drawn into mysterious crimes in New York City. A stolen Stradivarius - a strangled teacher of child prodigies - Jacobus is not only the chief investigator of these misdeeds, he’s the prime suspect! A police detective hot on his tail, Jacobus roams the bucolic Berkshires, hallowed Carnegie Hall, and tradition-bound Japan, searching for answers only he can see.In "Danse Macabre", the murder of a beloved violinist and humanitarian brings blind and curmudgeonly violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus to the stand to testify. Jacobus is dragged into the case kicking and screaming and reluctantly follows a trail of broken violins and broken lives as it leads inexorably to the truth and to his own mortal peril. "Slow burn suspense.... Jim Frangione embodies the grizzled music-instructor-turned-gumshoe Jacobus. Violin performances by the author sprinkled throughout provide clues. A solid mystery!” (AudioFile)Gerald Elias is a former violinist with the Boston Symphony, conductor, composer, and teacher. This mystery series began his now prolific writing career.Jim Frangione, winner of seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a New York City-based actor and co-artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, a play-development forum in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He’s performed on TV, in many of the plays and films of David Mamet, on and off-Broadway, and at many theaters across the country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Frangione. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130515/bk_acx0_130515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Accelerated Learning and Manipulation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 312min
If you’ve tried everything imaginable but have never being able to enhance your learning abilities and skills, then this could be one of the most important guides you’ve used in years.Is slow learning robbing you of the opportunity to achieve some of your greatest goals? Do you want to know how to reach your professional and personal goals faster with accelerated learning?This audiobook is made to show you how to enhance your productivity, learn any skill faster, and get things done quickly and effectively so you can increase your success in all areas of your life.It is made to show your how to activate the power of your brain for enhanced cognitive performance and memory sharpness. This audiobook is perfect for everybody, including college students, athletes, busy moms, aging seniors, and everyone who wants to increase their recall speed.With this audiobook, you’ll discover how easy and simple it is to learn and apply huge amounts of material in far less time than you ever thought possible.Within the audiobook, you’ll learn how to boost your focus, memory, concentration, and clarity in a matter of minutes. It is made to empower you with exceptional accelerated-learning skills so you can power up your cognition and process information faster.Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover within the audiobook:Effective techniques to increase your learning speed without compromising retention and comprehensionWhat goal-oriented learning is and how you can take advantage of it to maximize your productivityHow to improve your ability to process information and enhance your focusHow to read with lightning fast speed so you’re able to get more work done and spend less time studyingHow to easily conquer stress and fears in learningAnd much moreIf you want to experience the benefits of rapid learning and get extraordinary results like most prodigies do, then this aud ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Prova. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187899/bk_acx0_187899_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Accelerated Learning: Learn Faster and Improve Your Memory , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 165min
If you’ve tried everything imaginable but have never been able to enhance your learning abilities and skills, then this could be one of the most important audiobooks you’ve listened to in years.Is slow learning robbing you of the opportunity to achieve some of your greatest goals? Do you want to know how to reach your professional and personal goals faster with accelerated learning?This book is narrated with the aim of showing you how to enhance your productivity, learn any skill faster, and get things done quickly and effectively, so you can increase your success in all areas of your life.Accelerated Learning shows you how to activate the power of your brain for enhanced cognitive performance and memory sharpness. It is perfect for everybody including college students, athletes, busy moms, aging seniors, and everyone who wants to increase their recall speed.With this audiobook, you’ll discover how easy and simple it is to learn and apply huge amounts of material in far less time than you ever thought possible. You’ll learn how to boost your focus, memory, concentration, and clarity in a matter of minutes. It is designed to empower you with exceptional accelerated learning skills so you can power up your cognition and process information faster.Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover:Effective techniques to increase your learning speed without compromising on retention and comprehensionWhat goal-oriented learning is and how you can take advantage of it to maximize your productivityHow to improve your ability to process information and enhance your focusHow to read at lightning-fast speed to get more work done and spend less time studyingHow to easily conquer stress and fears in learningAnd much more!If you want to experience the benefits of rapid learning and get extraordinary results like most prodigies do, then this audiobook is for you.p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Prova. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160827/bk_acx0_160827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 711min
The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies, advertising, and technological discovery." (Daniel Levitin, Wall Street Journal) For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the history of this iconic instrument to roaring life. It's a story of inventors and iconoclasts, of scam artists, prodigies, and mythologizers as varied and original as the instruments they spawned. Play It Loud uses 12 landmark guitars - each of them artistic milestones in their own right - to illustrate the conflict and passion the instruments have inspired. It introduces Leo Fender, a man who couldn't play a note but whose innovations helped transform the guitar into the explosive sound machine it is today. Some of the most significant social movements of the 20th century are indebted to the guitar: It was an essential element in the fight for racial equality in the entertainment industry; a mirror to the rise of the teenager as social force; a linchpin of punk's sound and ethos. And today the guitar has come full circle, with contemporary titans such as Jack White of The White Stripes, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys bringing some of the earliest electric guitar forms back to the limelight. Featuring interviews with Les Paul, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and dozens more players and creators, Play It Loud is the story of how a band of innovators transformed an idea into a revolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004810/bk_rand_004810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hippolytus or Phaedra
Hippolytus or Phaedra - 'Shall all the world be shocked with prodigies. . . . '': ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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