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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Written by: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance27
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Story27
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil, hailed by Bill Gates as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence,” presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development...
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Terrible Audio
- By SL on 2024-03-20
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-10
- Language: English
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Written by: Simon Singh
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-10
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Written by: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear...
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-22
- Language: English
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The New Age of Sexism
- How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
- Written by: Laura Bates
- Narrated by: Laura Bates
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities—they're deepening them. In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being coded into the very fabric of our future.
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The New Age of Sexism
- How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
- Narrated by: Laura Bates
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-09
- Language: English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI (With Bonus Article "How to Win with Machine Learning" by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- Written by: Harvard Business Review
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen, Will Tulin
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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If you read (or listen to) nothing else on artificial intelligence and machine learning, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand the future direction of AI, bring your AI initiatives to scale, and use AI to transform your organization.
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Very timely
- By RW on 2024-06-10
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI (With Bonus Article "How to Win with Machine Learning" by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen, Will Tulin
- Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-17
- Language: English
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Written by: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance3
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Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.
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Very interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-19
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-01
- Language: English
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Written by: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world...
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A mixed bag
- By Mary-Anne on 2025-11-21
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-16
- Language: English
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Written by: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...
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it just made sense
- By Norman on 2025-12-04
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-02
- Language: English
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- Written by: Marc Levinson
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance32
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Story32
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
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Great history story.
- By Grantie on 2020-11-04
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-30
- Language: English
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
- Written by: Eric Berger
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance118
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Story118
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at...
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Best book about SpaceX
- By Anonymous on 2021-04-15
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-02
- Language: English
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Look out for Johnson’s new book, Wonderland, on sale November 15, 2016. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores...
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Great info
- By J.R. Kenny on 2020-01-04
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-30
- Language: English
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Intelligent Automation
- Learn How to Harness Artificial Intelligence to Boost Business & Make Our World More Human
- Written by: Pascal Bornet, Ian Barkin, Jochen Wirtz
- Narrated by: Ian Barkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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This is the first reference book on intelligent automation (IA). Also called hyperautomation, it is one of the most recent trends in the field of artificial intelligence. IA is a cutting-edge combination of methods and technologies involving people, organizations, machine learning, low-code platforms, robotic process automation (RPA), and more. This book is for everyone - whether you are an experienced practitioner, new to the topic, or simply interested in what the future holds for enterprises, work, life, and society as a whole.
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Intelligent Automation
- Learn How to Harness Artificial Intelligence to Boost Business & Make Our World More Human
- Narrated by: Ian Barkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-17
- Language: English
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Wizard
- The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
- Written by: Marc J. Seifer
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance27
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology.
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Comprehensive and fascinating
- By jason027 on 2020-07-22
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Wizard
- The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-07
- Language: English
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Written by: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance10
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In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell Labs scientists introduced concepts that still propel many of today’s most exciting technologies.
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Great Listen
- By Alex on 2021-11-09
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-13
- Language: English
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Written by: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall371
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Performance300
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Story299
New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that...
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Truly fascinating
- By Russell Cook on 2018-10-25
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-29
- Language: English
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Written by: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...
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So, hear me out...
- By Quenton on 2019-09-26
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2011-03-01
- Language: English
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Written by: Richard Susskind
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments.
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-08
- Language: English
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- Written by: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance29
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Story30
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another...
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Dense and repetitive
- By J. on 2025-11-16
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-02
- Language: English
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance39
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Story38
One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?...
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Great title for a different book
- By Quinn Jeanotte on 2019-05-06
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-05
- Language: English
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