Modern Engineering

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    • Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
    • By: David Farley
    • Narrated by: Amy Gordon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • Best Practices, Real-World Stories & Game-Changing Processes
    • By: Michelle Segrest
    • Narrated by: Ruthanne Reid
    • Series: Modern Manufacturing Case Studies, Book 1-3
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 14-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines....

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    • How the Modern World Was Made
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

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    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • Best-selling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson....

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    • Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
    • By: Aubrey Clayton
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....

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    • An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
    • By: Tony Fadell
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century....

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    • A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 47 Incredible Organisms
    • By: Dr Elsa Panciroli
    • Narrated by: Reanne Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....

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    • The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe....

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    • How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
    • By: Nessa Carey
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution looks at how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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    • The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
    • By: Anil Ananthaswamy
    • Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Anil Ananthaswamy explains the fundamental maths behind AI, which suggests that the basics of natural and artificial intelligence might follow the same mathematical rules....

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    • The Origins of the Laws of Nature
    • By: Peter Atkins
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The marvelous complexity of the universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. Author Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the universe with its laws and its constants....

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    • How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
    • By: Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino - contributor
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent....

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    • A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
    • By: Steven Weinberg
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic....

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    • Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
    • By: Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
    • Narrated by: Dena Dahilig
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures....

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    • How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
    • By: Graham Farmelo
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • One of the great mysteries of science is that its fundamental laws are written in the language of mathematics....

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    • The Simplified Beginners Guide to Developing a Strong Coding Foundation, Building Responsive Websites, and Mastering the Fundamentals of Modern Web Design
    • By: David DuRocher
    • Narrated by: Andrew Hansen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • David's unique and engaging approach to teaching HTML and CSS principles means that listeners are ready to start designing from the very first chapter without enduring an avalanche of boring jargon or dry technobabble.

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    • Complete Guide to EMF Protection - Proven Health Risks of EMF Radiation and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself & Family
    • By: Daniel DeBaun, Ryan DeBaun
    • Narrated by: Dan Culhane
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • EMF radiation produced by modern technology such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, Wi-Fi, and smart meters is an emerging health threat....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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