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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- Written by: David Kushner
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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...
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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: 2019-04-09
- Language: English
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- Written by: Paul Kennedy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.
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Solid Book / Criticism is a Bit Too Harsh
- By Jay on 2019-02-23
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2014-03-13
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King
- John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Fortune in the American West
- Written by: Gregory Crouch
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile.” —The Wall Street Journal A rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control...
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Way more than a biography
- By Mike Dixon on 2019-09-08
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The Bonanza King
- John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Fortune in the American West
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-19
- Language: English
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Whiplash
- How to Survive Our Faster Future
- Written by: Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions - one in technology and the other in communications - joined, an explosive force was unleashed that changed the very nature of innovation. And with any change, we have seen many strategic blunders and extraordinary learning curves along the way.
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Whiplash
- How to Survive Our Faster Future
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2016-12-06
- Language: English
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- Written by: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.
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Insightful!
- By Franklin christmas list 2025 on 2020-06-20
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2015-07-20
- Language: English
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Navigating the New Retail Landscape
- A Guide for Business Leaders
- Written by: Jonathan Reynolds, Alan Treadgold
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The retail industry globally is in an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a wide-ranging, robust, practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing, as well as to all those with an interest in this most important and visible of industries.
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Navigating the New Retail Landscape
- A Guide for Business Leaders
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-28
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley
- How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
- Written by: Gary Marcus
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in AI, explains that we still have a choice. And that the decisions we make now about AI will shape our next century.
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Taming Silicon Valley
- How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-15
- Language: English
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Decoding the Heavens
- Written by: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the 100-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure and mystery, a book that challenges our assumptions about technology through the ages.
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Decoding the Heavens
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-20
- Language: English
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
- Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
- Written by: Erik J. Larson
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be. Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence and what it would take to get there.
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
- Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-19
- Language: English
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Travailler sans e-mails
- Réimaginer le travail à l'ère de l'hyperconnexion
- Written by: Cal Newport, Anthony Mercier - traducteur
- Narrated by: Thierry Blanc
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Le travailleur moyen consacre un tiers de sa journée à ses e-mails. Et vous ? La surcharge d'e-mails nuit à notre efficacité et à notre bien-être. Pris dans un bavardage numérique constant, nous ne pouvons pas nous concentrer pleinement sur nos tâches et encore moins répondre à des exigences de créativité ou d'innovation. Cal Newport, auteur à succès du New York Times, propose une vision audacieuse pour se libérer de la tyrannie de la boîte de réception et ainsi ouvrir une nouvelle ère de productivité.
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Travailler sans e-mails
- Réimaginer le travail à l'ère de l'hyperconnexion
- Narrated by: Thierry Blanc
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-10
- Language: French
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- Written by: Benjamin Peters
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-25
- Language: English
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The Technological Singularity
- Written by: Murray Shanahan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" - that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both - has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century.
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The Technological Singularity
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2015-07-31
- Language: English
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Bold They Rise
- The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
- Written by: David Hitt, Heather R. Smith
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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After the Apollo program put 12 men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the space shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created.
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Fascinating look behind behind curtains.
- By Anonymous on 2021-06-21
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Bold They Rise
- The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-07
- Language: English
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The Nature of Technology
- What It Is and How It Evolves
- Written by: W. Brian Arthur
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. It achieves for the progress of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress.
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The Nature of Technology
- What It Is and How It Evolves
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2009-10-06
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Written by: Sheila Jasanoff
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-25
- Language: English
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The Industries of the Future
- Written by: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring. While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled...
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Very interesting sections for sure.
- By Tapir Pauls on 2019-03-01
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The Industries of the Future
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2016-02-02
- Language: English
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Physics for Future Presidents
- The Science Behind the Headlines
- Written by: Richard A. Muller
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential world, we need to know - truly understand, not just rely on television's talking heads - if Iran's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West, if biochemical weapons are likely to be developed by terrorists, if there are viable alternatives to fossil fuels that should be nurtured and supported by the government, if nuclear power should be encouraged, and if global warming is actually happening.
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Physics for Future Presidents
- The Science Behind the Headlines
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2011-06-01
- Language: English
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Digital Exhaustion
- Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life
- Written by: Paul Leonardi
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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A revelatory examination of why you’re feeling so worn out—and practical daily strategies to change your relationship with your devices. Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused by technology. If you want to keep your job, participate in society, and maintain meaningful...
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Digital Exhaustion
- Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-07
- Language: English
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The Big Disconnect
- Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
- Written by: Catherine Steiner-Adair, Teresa H. Barker
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend? As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online...
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The Big Disconnect
- Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2013-08-13
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of AI
- The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
- Written by: Toby Walsh
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Since Alan Turing first posed the question "Can machines think?" artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to IBM's groundbreaking defeat of the chess world champion and the revolutionary emergence of ChatGPT. It also explores AI's cultural journey, touching on classics such as Frankenstein, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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The Shortest History of AI
- The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-04
- Language: English
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