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Turtle
- David Bushnell's Revolutionary Vessel
- By: Roy R. Manstan, Frederic J. Frese
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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At the onset of the American Revolution, the British expected to quell the rebellion quickly with a show of overwhelming force. In an experiment in asymmetric warfare, David Bushnell created the first submarine vessel designed specifically “for the destruction of vessels of war”. In Turtle, the authors provide new insight into Bushnell’s “engine of devastation”, tracing the history of undersea warfare before Bushnell and the origin of the many innovations Bushnell understood would be necessary for conducting a covert submarine attack.
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Turtle
- David Bushnell's Revolutionary Vessel
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Future of Change
- How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions
- By: Ray Brescia
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it's imperative to assess the role that the internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first, we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating positive social change.
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The Future of Change
- How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Tunnel Under the Lake
- The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None: Chicago Stories)
- By: Benjamin Sells
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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The Tunnel Under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself.
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The Tunnel Under the Lake
- The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None: Chicago Stories)
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2019
- Language: English
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation
- The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
- By: Bill Double
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, magazine articles, financial data, and a small family archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the evolution of the neighborhood drugstore, the rise of advertising in creating mass markets, and the emerging temperance movement all come together in a biography that fizzes with entrepreneurial spirit.
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation
- The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2019
- Language: English
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- By: Yanek Mieczkowski
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth.
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2018
- Language: English
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Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America
- By: Randolph Lewis
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned nosy neighbors - surveillance has become so ubiquitous that we take its presence for granted. While many types of surveillance are pitched as ways to make us safer, almost no one has examined the unintended consequences of living under constant scrutiny and how it changes the way we think and feel about the world.
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Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2018
- Language: English
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- By: Jon Scott Logel
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2017
- Language: English
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Eyeing the Red Storm
- Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite
- By: Robert M. Dienesch
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In 1954, the US Air Force launched an ambitious program known as WS-117L to develop the world's first reconnaissance satellite. The goal was to take photographic images from space and relay them back to Earth via radio. Because of technical issues and bureaucratic resistance, however, WS-117L was seriously behind schedule by the time Sputnik orbited Earth in 1957 and was eventually cancelled. Eyeing the Red Storm examines the birth of space-based reconnaissance from the perspective of WS-117L.
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Eyeing the Red Storm
- Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2017
- Language: English
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Rockets and Revolution
- A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
- By: Michael G. Smith
- Narrated by: JJ Langan
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.
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Rockets and Revolution
- A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
- Narrated by: JJ Langan
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2016
- Language: English
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- By: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 18 hrs
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It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the lives of those who made the golden age of space flight happen. These are the moments and the lives that Into That Silent Sea captures, a book that tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave the era its compelling character.
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 07-04-2016
- Language: English
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The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry
- By: Edward J. Roach
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company.
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The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-09-2014
- Language: English
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- By: Robert E. Hartley, David Kenney
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities.
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2013
- Language: English
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Wiki Government
- How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
- By: Beth Simone Noveck
- Narrated by: Susan Eriksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Collaborative democracy - government with the people - is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process, she reveals what it takes to innovate in government.
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Wiki Government
- How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
- Narrated by: Susan Eriksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2011
- Language: English
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Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World
- By: Dr. James Jay Carafano PhD
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded "public enemy number one" by some in the United States for posting material on the World Wide Web that concerns airstrikes in Iraq, US diplomatic communications, and other sensitive matters.
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Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-07-2013
- Language: English
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Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- By: Jonathan Rees
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.
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Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Series: How Things Worked, Book 9
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2024
- Language: English
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Surveillance Capitalism in America
- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
- By: Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate. Tech giants like Google and Facebook are fueled by a continuous supply of user data and digital exhaust. Surveillance is not just a side effect of digital capitalism; it is the business model itself.
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Surveillance Capitalism in America
- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2022
- Language: English
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Data Cartels
- The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
- By: Sarah Lamdan
- Narrated by: Sheree Galpert
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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In this book, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This, in turn, has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions, Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
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Data Cartels
- The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
- Narrated by: Sheree Galpert
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-08-2023
- Language: English
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Scientific Americans
- Invention, Technology, and National Identity
- By: Susan Branson
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of scientific education and practices among ordinary citizens charts the development of nationalism and national identity alongside roads, rails, and machines.
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Scientific Americans
- Invention, Technology, and National Identity
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2023
- Language: English
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Voices in the Code
- A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
- By: David G. Robinson
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Algorithms—rules written into software—shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Such decisions are both technical and moral. Today, the logic of high stakes software is rarely open to scrutiny, and central moral questions are often left for the technical experts to answer.
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Voices in the Code
- A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-07-2023
- Language: English
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