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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- By: Ruth Defries
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-09-2014
- Language: English
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Breve historia del condón y de los métodos anticonceptivos
- By: Ana Martos Rubio
- Narrated by: Gladys Barriga
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Ana Martos, en Breve Historia del condón y los métodos anticonceptivos, nos descubre, en un estilo ágil pero con absoluto rigor científico, no sólo la historia de los distintos medios para el control de la natalidad, sino las distintas posiciones que, desde la filosofía y la religión principalmente, se han opuesto a dichos medios.
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Breve historia del condón y de los métodos anticonceptivos
- Narrated by: Gladys Barriga
- Series: Breve Historia de
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2014
- Language: Spanish
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The Future of the Gun
- By: Frank Miniter
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself, and the potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people. Bestselling author Frank Miniter describes amazing breakthroughs waiting to happen in gun technology - and how gun grabbers threaten to stop progress in its tracks.
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The Future of the Gun
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2014
- Language: English
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- By: Chris Impey, Holly Henry
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2014
- Language: English
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Tomorrow-Land
- The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
- By: Joseph Tirella
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the fair.
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Tomorrow-Land
- The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2014
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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High Noon
- The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems
- By: Karen Southwick
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Both entertaining and instructive, High Noon offers valuable lessons for taking charge of your destiny and succeeding in a fast-paced, unpredictable, and even hostile environment. It is the inside story of Sun Microsystem's rise to power, from its shaky start in Silicon Valley through its transformation under the aggressive and inspirational leadership of Scott McNealy.
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High Noon
- The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2001
- 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
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...
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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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Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- By: Carolyn de la Pena
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda.
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Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2010
- Language: English
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- By: Paul K. Conkin
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2013
- Language: English
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Too Far From Home
- A Story of Life and Death in Space
- By: Chris Jones
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it...
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Too Far From Home
- A Story of Life and Death in Space
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2007
- 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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Riddle of the Compass
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed...
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Riddle of the Compass
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2001
- 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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