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Your Face Belongs to Us
- The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
- By: Kashmir Hill
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of 2023 'Gripping' THE TIMES, Best...
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Journalism at its worst.
- By R Lees on 24-06-24
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Your Face Belongs to Us
- The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Apollo 13
- By: James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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April 13, 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are hurtling towards the moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when an explosion rocks the ship. The cockpit grows dim, the air grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out. Moments later, the astronauts are forced to abandon the...
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Apollo 13
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Apple
- The First 50 Years
- By: David Pogue
- Narrated by: David Pogue
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This book lavishly illustrates the first 50 years of Apple’s history through stunning, full-color photographs. Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born...
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Well informed and engaging.
- By Matthew MacKenzie on 20-04-26
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Apple
- The First 50 Years
- Narrated by: David Pogue
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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Breakneck
- China's Quest to Engineer the Future
- By: Dan Wang
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall123
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Performance118
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Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...
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Interesting but a little simplistic
- By Derrick on 02-03-26
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Breakneck
- China's Quest to Engineer the Future
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall496
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Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.
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The best one so far...
- By Sam on 30-01-17
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Release date: 13-10-15
- Language: English
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Abridged
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Overall216
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.-
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An Enjoyable & Informative Listen
- By Anabella on 20-03-09
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James May's 20th Century
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 20-08-07
- Language: English
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From Morse Code to Wi-Fi
- A Simple History of How We Communicate
- By: Revin Laxtor
- Narrated by: Adrenalyn Starr
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance37
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Communication has always been at the heart of human progress. From smoke signals on mountaintops to the invisible Wi-Fi networks that surround us today, every leap forward has reshaped how we share ideas, stay safe, build relationships, and understand the world. From Morse Code to Wi-Fi is a clear, captivating journey through the ten biggest breakthroughs that transformed human connection forever.
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Captivating and Informative
- By Emiliano on 12-04-26
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From Morse Code to Wi-Fi
- A Simple History of How We Communicate
- Narrated by: Adrenalyn Starr
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-01-26
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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Centuries of Change
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Mike Grady, Ian Mortimer, Various
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall445
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Performance391
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In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the Internet in a medieval joust - whose side would you be on? In this hugely entertaining book, celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change.
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Though provoking approach to history
- By Kirstine on 28-11-17
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Centuries of Change
- Narrated by: Mike Grady, Ian Mortimer, Various
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-03-15
- Language: English
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- By: Peter Westwick
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.
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Pretty interesting, great narrator
- By Anonymous on 25-02-25
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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Elon Musk
- By: Walter Isaacson, Walter Isaacson - introduction
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...
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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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Mosquito
- The extraordinary true story of the legendary RAF aircraft from the bestselling author of Harrier 809
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall289
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Brought to you by Penguin. Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it...
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Too much Danish
- By Jonathan R. on 11-07-24
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Mosquito
- The extraordinary true story of the legendary RAF aircraft from the bestselling author of Harrier 809
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- By: Stephen L. Sass
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.
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Bit Advanced For Me In Places
- By Richard S on 08-01-23
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Block by Block
- The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
- By: Robert T. Hanlon
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
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Block by Block offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian. The book synthesizes and gathers into one accessible volume a strategic range of foundational topics involving the atomic theory, energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.
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Block by Block
- The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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The Irrational Decision
- How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
- By: Benjamin Recht
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimization, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning.
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The Irrational Decision
- How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- By: Tom Lean
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, charting the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology.
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 14-05-26
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works
- A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material...
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Nothing new, really tedious
- By Ironicist on 09-05-22
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How the World Really Works
- A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-01-22
- Language: English
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Wizard
- The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
- By: Marc J. Seifer
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Excellent
- By Hari Karam Singh on 16-06-15
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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: 07-11-11
- Language: English
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- By: Rick Houston, J. Milt Heflin
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30—at what is now Johnson Space Center—would become known by many as "the Cathedral." These members of the space program were the brightest of their generations, making split-second decisions that determined the success or failure of a mission.
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Interesting insight
- By Phil T on 15-12-21
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- By: Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past.
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it's pronounced Zed Ex.. not Zee Ex. garrrrrrggghh
- By Lord KarlosFandango on 16-10-18
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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