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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- By: Robert E. Hartley, David Kenney
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities.
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2013
- Language: English
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Our Own Devices
- How Technology Remakes Humanity
- By: Edward Tenner
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Once we step on the treadmill of progress, it's hard to step off. Yet Edward Tenner shows that human ingenuity can be applied in self-preservation as well, and he sheds light on the ways in which the users of commonplace technology surprise designers and engineers, as when early typists developed the touch method still employed on today's keyboards. And he offers concrete advice for reaping benefits from the devices that we no longer seem able to live without. Although dependent on these objects, we can also use them to liberate ourselves.
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Our Own Devices
- How Technology Remakes Humanity
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2013
- Language: English
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Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- By: Judy Wearing
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead.
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Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2013
- Language: English
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The Laws of Disruption
- Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business
- By: Larry Downes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying to figure out what they can and can't do. Some want to bring innovation to a standstill (or at least to slow it down) through lawsuits and regulation so they can catch their breath. Larry Downes provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.
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The Laws of Disruption
- Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business
- Narrated by: Jonathan Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2009
- Language: English
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
- Poetical Science
- By: Betty Alexandra Toole
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the first to write programs for, and predict the impact of, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843. Beautiful and charming, she was often characterized as "mad and bad," as was her illustrious father. This audiobook edition, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science, emphasizes Ada's unique talent of integrating imagination, poetry and science.
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
- Poetical Science
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2013
- Language: English
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Computing: A Business History
- By: Lars Nielsen
- Narrated by: Smokey Rivers
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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Noted systems developer, Lars Nielsen reveals the dynamic combination of innovation, competition and, often eccentric, entrepreneurship that went to shape today's tech landscape. From the military's ENIAC of 1946 to the ripening of the Web and e-commerce, Nielsen's Computing: A Business History details the evolution of computing as it has impacted the models and practices of markets and professional services around the globe.
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Computing: A Business History
- Narrated by: Smokey Rivers
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 17-07-2013
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented his computing machine, and because the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2010
- Language: English
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The Flyers
- In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright
- By: Noah Adams
- Narrated by: Noah Adams
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Noah Adams's adventure in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright is a journey that takes him across the country as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers in an attempt to know them more deeply, not just as inventors and pilots but as individuals as well.
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The Flyers
- In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright
- Narrated by: Noah Adams
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2003
- 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: 15-05-2012
- Language: English
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Microsoft
- First Generation
- By: Cheryl Tsang
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Microsoft: First Generation uncovers the range of surprising success secrets behind the upstart company that defined the Age of Information - and reveals, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.
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Microsoft
- First Generation
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2001
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- By: Toby Lester
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Brimming with enthralling details and personalities, Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2009
- Language: English
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The Info Mesa
- Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
- By: Ed Regis
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical - and profitable - applications. Their efforts to convert vast, diverse data, whether chemical or biological or computational, into useful information is leading to new drugs and medical therapies, ultimately revolutionizing our understanding of effective business strategies.
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The Info Mesa
- Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2013
- Language: English
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She’s in CTRL
- By: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, a dynamic advocate for women in STEM, insists that technology is not an unchangeable and unquestionable force. It is not the preserve of the elite. It is in our homes and in our hands. Rather than feeling powerless to make changes to the way tech works and fails, she argues that it's time to get into the room where the decisions are made. Or, better yet, create our own tech rooms.
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She’s in CTRL
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Tunnel Under the Lake
- The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None: Chicago Stories)
- By: Benjamin Sells
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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The Tunnel Under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself.
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The Tunnel Under the Lake
- The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None: Chicago Stories)
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2019
- Language: English
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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
- The Middle Ages Series
- By: E. R. Truitt
- Narrated by: Harry Shaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and 14th centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture.
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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
- The Middle Ages Series
- Narrated by: Harry Shaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-07-2019
- Language: English
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation
- The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
- By: Bill Double
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, magazine articles, financial data, and a small family archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the evolution of the neighborhood drugstore, the rise of advertising in creating mass markets, and the emerging temperance movement all come together in a biography that fizzes with entrepreneurial spirit.
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Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation
- The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2019
- Language: English
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Cork Wars
- Intrigue and Industry in World War II
- By: David A. Taylor
- Narrated by: Robin J Sitten
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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In 1940, with German U-boats blockading all commerce across the Atlantic Ocean, a fireball at the Crown Cork and Seal factory lit the sky over Baltimore. The newspapers said you could see its glow as far north as Philadelphia and as far south as Annapolis. Rumors of Nazi sabotage led to an FBI investigation and pulled an entire industry into the machinery of national security as America stood on the brink of war. David Taylor traces this fascinating story through the lives of three men and their families, who were all drawn into this dangerous intersection of enterprise and espionage.
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Cork Wars
- Intrigue and Industry in World War II
- Narrated by: Robin J Sitten
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2018
- Language: English
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Cryptocurrency: Discover the Technology Behind Smart Contracts, Wallets and Learn Trading, Mining and Investing Cryptocurrencies and Make Money
- By: Thomas Wattles
- Narrated by: Michael Reece
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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The lucrative world of cryptocurrency no longer has to be a mystery. This book will shock you. Secret strategies are revealed. Discover what cryptocurrency is all about and how to make a lot of money investing and trading in them. This book covers the topic of investing and trading of cryptocurrency, and will teach you everything you need to know before you delve into this potentially highly lucrative world. You will learn what cryptocurrency is and how to decide which one to deal with.
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Cryptocurrency: Discover the Technology Behind Smart Contracts, Wallets and Learn Trading, Mining and Investing Cryptocurrencies and Make Money
- Narrated by: Michael Reece
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2018
- 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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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: 03-08-2018
- Language: English
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- By: Yanek Mieczkowski
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth.
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2018
- Language: English
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