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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
- NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
- By: John Logsdon - editor introduction, Bill Nye - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, John Logsdon
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned space historian John Logsdon traces the greatest moments in human spaceflight by weaving together essential, fascinating documents from NASA's history with his expert narrative guidance. Beginning with rocket genius Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars and closing with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there, this volume traces major events like the founding of NASA, the first American astronauts in space, the Apollo moon landings, the Challenger disaster, the daring Hubble Telescope repairs, and more.
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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
- NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, John Logsdon
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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The Wireless World
- Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
- By: Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, and others
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the coauthors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion.
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The Wireless World
- Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- By: Simon Singh
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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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: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- By: Marie Le Conte
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us—and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?
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The rise and fall of the Internet as a socializing space.
- By Emmanouil N. on 10-04-26
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Where Is My Flying Car?
- By: J. Storrs Hall
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question.
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Where Is My Flying Car?
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- By: John C. Campbell
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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When John Campbell was hired in 1996, Michael Dell’s company was already a hyper-efficient technology upstart. By the time he left Dell in 2017, Michael’s little Texas-based catalog computer company had grown from 5,000 to 138,000 employees and evolved into one of the largest technology providers on the planet!
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Interesting
- By The Oracle 2025 on 14-04-26
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-08-18
- Language: English
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers - from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950's to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70's - that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond.
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excellent book, excellent narration
- By Becky Marlow on 07-05-21
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-03-20
- Language: English
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- By: Richard D. Easton, Eric F. Frazier
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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GPS Declassified examines the development of GPS from its secret, cold war military roots to its emergence as a worldwide consumer industry. Drawing on previously unexplored documents, the authors examine how military rivalries influenced the creation of GPS and shaped public perceptions about its origin. Told by a son of a Navy insider and a science and technology journalist, the story chronicles the research and technological advances required for the development of GPS.
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-01-18
- Language: English
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- By: Ravi Agrawal
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-02-26
- Language: English
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Bad Ideas?
- An arresting history of our inventions
- By: Robert Winston
- Narrated by: Robert Winston
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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As one of the world's leading experts in human reproduction and a research pioneer since the 1970s, Professor Winston is accustomed to working in the world of controversial science. From the earliest days of IVF treatment to current controversy over stem cell research, strong feelings and hot...
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Thought Provoking - A Great Listen
- By Charlotte on 04-08-10
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Bad Ideas?
- An arresting history of our inventions
- Narrated by: Robert Winston
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-02-10
- Language: English
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- By: Scott McCartney
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.
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Very inform and interesting summary about ENIAC and it’s creatures
- By Amazon Customer on 01-08-23
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-11-00
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- 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: 25-10-16
- Language: English
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You Are Here
- From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
- By: Hiawatha Bray
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS—and the consequent decline of privacy. What does it mean to never get lost? You Are Here examines the rise of our technologically aided era of navigational omniscience—or how we came to know exactly where we are at all times. Filled with tales of scientists and astronauts, inventors and entrepreneurs, You Are Here tells the story of how humankind ingeniously solved one of its oldest and toughest problems—only to herald a new era in which it’s impossible to hide.
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Both educational and entertaining
- By Sergii R. on 16-11-18
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You Are Here
- From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-04-14
- Language: English
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Joshua B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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Very good insights
- By Fofito on 10-02-25
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Elting E. Morison
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.
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Still relevant, but no longer new
- By JCM on 18-10-23
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
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Thinkers and Tinkerers
- The Innovators Behind the Information Age
- By: James Surowiecki
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 mins
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In recent decades, most innovation has come from a single sector (information technology) and a single place (Silicon Valley). Walter Isaacson's The Innovators and Peter Thiel's Zero to One shed light on how that happened and what drives innovation more generally.
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interesting
- By a lisa on 09-01-24
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Thinkers and Tinkerers
- The Innovators Behind the Information Age
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 16-01-15
- 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 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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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day - but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.
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Sheer grit and determination
- By Rollon2021 on 30-09-24
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Fire Eaters
- The People and Aircraft Combatting Wildfires over the Last Century
- By: Peter Pigott
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run—until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian "H-Boats" in 1924, aircraft have become indispensable in detecting and extinguishing wildfires. Fire Eaters tells the incredible stories of the Ontario Provincial Air Service, the first government aerial fire suppression organization in history; one of its pilots, Carl Crossley, who invented the water scoop-up and drop-off system; and the Canadair CL-215, the first purpose-built water bomber.
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Fire Eaters
- The People and Aircraft Combatting Wildfires over the Last Century
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-05-25
- Language: English
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