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  • The Innovators cover art

    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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  • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell cover art

    • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

    • By: Marc Fennell
    • Narrated by: Marc Fennell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings

    • This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.
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    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Stealth

    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • The Box

    • How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
    • By: Marc Levinson
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....

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    • Invention and Innovation

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • The Soul of a New Machine

    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century....

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  • A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts cover art

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    • Cult of the Dead Cow

    • How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
    • By: Joseph Menn
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....

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    • To Engineer Is Human

    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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  • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings cover art

    • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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  • Blood in the Machine cover art

    • Blood in the Machine

    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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    • Countdown to Zero Day

    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • Nexus (Spanish Edition)

    • Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: Spanish
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    • El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.

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    • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

    • 25th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Steven Levy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....

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    • Fire in the Valley

    • The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
    • By: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
    • Narrated by: Don Azevedo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of oppression, a motley collection of people were engaged in something more subversive....

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    • Breaking the Chains of Gravity

    • The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
    • By: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts....

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  • Of a Fire on the Moon cover art

    • Of a Fire on the Moon

    • By: Norman Mailer
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2015
    • Language: English
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    • For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission....

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  • Energy cover art

    • Energy

    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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