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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    • 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 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 9 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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: J. L. Heilbron
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How does the physics we know today link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects? Listen to learn more....

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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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    • Inventor of the Modern
    • By: Richard Munson
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life....

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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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    • Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age....

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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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    • 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 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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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    • Solidarity with Nonhuman People
    • By: Timothy Morton
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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