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Block by Block
- The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
- By: Robert T. Hanlon
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
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Block by Block offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian. The book synthesizes and gathers into one accessible volume a strategic range of foundational topics involving the atomic theory, energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.
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Remarkable review of the topic
- By John L. Luick on 24-12-2020
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Block by Block
- The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2020
- Language: English
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Abolish Silicon Valley
- How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
- By: Wendy Liu
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon workers or Uber drivers. It's becoming clear that the tech industry's promised "innovation" is neither sustainable nor always desirable.
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Abolish Silicon Valley
- How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2020
- Language: English
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Technology Is Not Neutral
- A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
- By: Stephanie Hare
- Narrated by: Stephanie Hare
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect, or unintended consequence. These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and safer for us—but it also poses huge issues with regard to privacy, ownership of data, and even identity theft. Technology Is Not Neutral addresses one of today’s most pressing problems: How to create and use tools and technologies to maximize benefits and minimize harms.
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Technology Is Not Neutral
- A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
- Narrated by: Stephanie Hare
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Joshua B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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cringey russian accent
- By Anonymous User on 19-02-2024
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2018
- Language: English
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American Girls
- Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- By: Nancy Jo Sales
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales' riveting and explosive American Girls.
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We need a book like this for woman now!
- By Anonymous User on 26-06-2019
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American Girls
- Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2016
- Language: English
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My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open
- How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech
- By: Tanya Goodin
- Narrated by: Tanya Goodin
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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What are you willing to lose for a connected life? Digital detox expert Tanya Goodin explores the cost that our digital life inflicts on our offline existence, and offers a toolkit to anyone who has lost their way.
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My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open
- How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech
- Narrated by: Tanya Goodin
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2024
- Language: English
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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- By: Ronald K. Fierstein
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
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This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues. Land's most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film-and-camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken.
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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2015
- Language: English
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Liking Jesus
- Intimacy and Contentment in a Selfie-Centered World
- By: Craig Groeschel
- Narrated by: Van Tracy
- Length: 7 hrs
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The more you compare, the less satisfied you are. The more we interact online, the more we crave intimacy. The more filtered our lives become, the harder it is to be real. It's time to refresh and rediscover what it means to be "like Jesus" and find true authenticity, a healthy self-image, and compassion for others in an age when we relate to each other so differently than ever before. Craig Groeschel helps put Christ first again in today's maxed out, selfie-centered world.
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Liking Jesus
- Intimacy and Contentment in a Selfie-Centered World
- Narrated by: Van Tracy
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 06-02-2018
- Language: English
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Practical Empathy
- For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
- By: Indi Young
- Narrated by: Indi Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Conventional product development focuses on the solution. Empathy is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you to understand their thinking patterns and perspectives. Practical Empathy will show you how to gather and compare these patterns to make better decisions, improve your strategy, and collaborate successfully.
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Practical Empathy
- For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
- Narrated by: Indi Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-10-2016
- Language: English
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers - from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950's to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70's - that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond.
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-03-2020
- Language: English
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- By: Jody Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years.
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A nice history of bicycling.
- By Anand on 25-10-2022
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2022
- Language: English
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- By: Matthew Ball
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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In this fully revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account of the future of the internet. The Metaverse, according to Ball’s industry-shaping definition, is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences and underpin much of the physical world.
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-07-2024
- Language: English
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Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Chladek
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
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Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past 50 years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways.
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Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2020
- Language: English
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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"An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years" (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still powers the internet today: love and sex.
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2019
- Language: English
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- By: David Stumpf
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more than made up for this in terms of numbers and readiness to launch - making it the ultimate ICBM.
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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Worm
- The First Digital World War
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Worm: The First Digital World War tells the story of the Conficker worm, a potentially devastating piece of malware that has baffled experts and infected more than twelve million computers worldwide. When Conficker was unleashed in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, it grew at an astonishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks.
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I really was looking forward to this...
- By Nick on 27-02-2020
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Worm
- The First Digital World War
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2011
- Language: English
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2024
- Language: English
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What to Do When Machines Do Everything
- How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data
- By: Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Drawing upon real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.
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What to Do When Machines Do Everything
- How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2024
- Language: English
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- By: Stefan Al
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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Restless Devices
- Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
- By: Felicia Wu Song
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Sociologist Felicia Wu Song has spent years considering the personal and collective dynamics of living in digital ecosystems. In this book she combines psychological, neurological, and sociological insights with theological reflection to explore two major questions: What kind of people are we becoming with personal technologies in hand? And who do we really want to be? Song unpacks the soft tyranny of the digital age, including the values embedded in our apps and the economic systems that drive our habits and their subtle yet pervasive effects.
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Good synthesis, and solid application
- By Robert Nichols on 12-05-2022
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Restless Devices
- Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2021
- Language: English
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