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How to Make a Spaceship
- A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
- By: Julian Guthrie
- Narrated by: Sir Richard Branson, Robert Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had 80 seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world's largest governments had done before.
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Making history
- By Brett Hinsley on 30-07-20
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How to Make a Spaceship
- A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
- Narrated by: Sir Richard Branson, Robert Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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The Printing Press
- The History and Legacy of the Medieval Invention that Revolutionized Europe
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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The crucial importance of education in China, a prized virtue instilled in the population among all classes by beloved teacher and philosopher Confucius in the 6th century BCE, generated an unprecedented and long-lived golden age of literature and art. It also gave rise to a cornucopia of transformative innovations and groundbreaking technology, particularly following the dawn of the Common Era.
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The Printing Press
- The History and Legacy of the Medieval Invention that Revolutionized Europe
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-12-22
- Language: English
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Plato and the Nerd
- The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
- By: Edward Ashford Lee
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of - for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation - that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data.
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Plato and the Nerd
- The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Bunch of Amateurs
- A Search for the American Character
- By: Jack Hitt
- Narrated by: Peter Colburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages - fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators. In Bunch of Amateurs, Jack Hitt visits a number of different garages and has written a fascinating book that looks at America’s current batch of amateurs and their pursuits. Beginning with Ben Franklin’s kite and leading all the way to the current TV hit American Idol, Hitt argues that the nation’s love of self-invented obsessives has always driven the country to rediscover the true heart of the American dream.
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Bunch of Amateurs
- A Search for the American Character
- Narrated by: Peter Colburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-05-12
- Language: English
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Birdseye
- The Adventures of a Curious Man
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Jon Van Ness
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
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Birdseye
- The Adventures of a Curious Man
- Narrated by: Jon Van Ness
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-05-12
- Language: English
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Totaled
- The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup That Took on Big Auto, Big Oil and the World
- By: Brian Blum
- Narrated by: Brian Blum
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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When a billion-dollar electric car startup crashed and burned, global investors and average car buyers alike asked: What happened? Business and technology journalist Brian Blum reveals the answer in his new book TOTALED: The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup that Took on Big Auto, Big Oil, and the World.
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Totaled
- The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup That Took on Big Auto, Big Oil and the World
- Narrated by: Brian Blum
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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The Digital Ape
- How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
- By: Dr. Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
- Narrated by: Tom McGairl
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt (one of Britain’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence) and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of superintelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens and will continue to control them. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and make the best of the wonderful opportunities will determine our collective future well-being.
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Pretty good
- By Wild Bunny on 30-07-23
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The Digital Ape
- How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
- Narrated by: Tom McGairl
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-05-18
- Language: English
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The Optimist's Telescope
- Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
- By: Bina Venkataraman
- Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A journalist and former adviser in the Obama White House, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don’t think ahead - and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist’s Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit us over time.
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The Optimist's Telescope
- Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
- Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- By: Peter Leigh
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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In this eagerly awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
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An enjoyable romp through my childhood and beyond.
- By Sean NR on 12-01-23
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom".
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a must read. very insightful and well presented.
- By Anonymous User on 13-09-22
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How the Internet Happened
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Quirky
- By: Melissa A. Schilling
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world - those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among us? Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people - Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs - to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again.
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Quirky
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Cool
- How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
- By: Salvatore Basile
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world's greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits; saved countless lives, and caused countless deaths. First appearing in 1902, when Willis Carrier, an engineer barely out of college, developed the "Apparatus for Treating Air," everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. But the story of air conditioning and its rise to ubiquity is far from simple.
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Cool
- How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- By: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future". Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology.
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Very plain way of telling a good story.
- By DM on 20-06-17
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-03-17
- Language: English
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Inventor's Workshop
- How to Develop and Market Your Inventions
- By: Bob Schmidt
- Narrated by: Clay Teunis
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Practical guide showing inventors how to develop, prototype, protect, and market their inventions. Bob is an engineer with over 25 years experience developing and marketing products. He used his corporate and entrepreneurial experience to develop this step-by-step guide to help fellow inventors develop their products using a "boot strapping" approach. This helps inventors to successfully develop and market their inventions without breaking the bank.
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Inventor's Workshop
- How to Develop and Market Your Inventions
- Narrated by: Clay Teunis
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-08-14
- Language: English
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Entiende la tecnología [Understand the Technology]
- Desde la caída de Megaupload hasta los secretos de la Inteligencia Artificial [From the Fall of Megaupload to the Secrets of Artificial Intelligence]
- By: Nate Gentile
- Narrated by: Carlos Calvo
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Descubre los secretos de la tecnología con el primer libro del divulgador de informática más famoso de Hispanoamérica. Piénsalo: gracias a los avances tecnológicos podemos hablar con alguien que esté a miles de kilómetros, predecir el tiempo, cruzar el planeta en cuestión de horas, conocer nuestro estado de salud, curar enfermedades graves, acceder al instante a más información de la que nunca seremos capaces de leer... ¡Si incluso hemos conseguido hacer que las máquinas aprendan!
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Entiende la tecnología [Understand the Technology]
- Desde la caída de Megaupload hasta los secretos de la Inteligencia Artificial [From the Fall of Megaupload to the Secrets of Artificial Intelligence]
- Narrated by: Carlos Calvo
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: Spanish
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Talk to Me
- Apple, Google, Amazon and the Race for Voice-Controlled AI
- By: James Vlahos
- Narrated by: James Vlahos
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build a single world-changing piece of software. They know that whoever gets there first will revolutionise our relationship with technology - and make billions of dollars in the process. They call it voice computing. Computers that can speak and think just as clearly as humans may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but they are mere years away from becoming a reality. In Talk to Me, veteran tech journalist James Vlahos meets the researchers at Google, Amazon and Apple who are leading the way to a voice computing revolution.
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truly insightful
- By Rob on 17-07-19
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Talk to Me
- Apple, Google, Amazon and the Race for Voice-Controlled AI
- Narrated by: James Vlahos
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-03-19
- Language: English
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Why You Can’t Catch a Rocket to Mars
- Some Personal Reflections on Science and Society, by Lyndon N. Smith
- By: Prof Neal Lyndon Smith PhD
- Narrated by: Prof. Lyndon N. Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Hey, you, all lovers of science and technology, this richly illustrated book is for you, no matter what age and what level of understanding of physics you have. This is a combination of humour and scientific insight at its best. The author, Lyndon N. Smith, a highly-acclaimed British academic, explains in a unique, provocative, and accessible way the past and present approaches of scientific endeavour and invites you to a discussion about the fascinating technological developments that we may expect to see in the future.
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Why You Can’t Catch a Rocket to Mars
- Some Personal Reflections on Science and Society, by Lyndon N. Smith
- Narrated by: Prof. Lyndon N. Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Starting Your Own TV Flipping Business
- Make $1,000 in Your Spare Time, Pay Off Debt & Save Money with This Simple Side Hustle
- By: Melanie Brecht
- Narrated by: Julia Perry
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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Flipping TVs is a business model that is often overlooked, but those who are getting involved and know what to look out for can make impressive additional incomes–with very little effort.
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A potential side hustle with low startup cost
- By Quest4wisdom on 09-04-24
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Starting Your Own TV Flipping Business
- Make $1,000 in Your Spare Time, Pay Off Debt & Save Money with This Simple Side Hustle
- Narrated by: Julia Perry
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-04-23
- Language: English
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Free to Make
- How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
- By: Dale Dougherty, Ariane Conrad - contributor, Tim O'Reilly - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeff Machado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us.
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Free to Make
- How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
- Narrated by: Jeff Machado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-01-17
- Language: English
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Inventology
- How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
- By: Pagan Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic, Pagan Kennedy
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. A printer is frustrated by his unpredictable inks and creates the Pantone colour system. Why were these particular people able to identify problems, and how did they discover the solutions that everyone else missed? Where exactly did their great ideas come from, and how did they go about making them into reality?
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Inventology
- How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic, Pagan Kennedy
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-03-16
- Language: English
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