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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Ignition! is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise that eventually took men to the moon.
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I'm an analytical chemist so I may be biased
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-2020
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2018
- Language: English
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction—in this case, on an Iranian nuclear facility.
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A Thrilling Eye-Opener
- By Jason on 20-05-2017
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-11-2014
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results....
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2012
- Language: English
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Being Digital
- By: Nicholas Negroponte
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.
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Everything from Nicky is gold
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-2022
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Being Digital
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2009
- Language: English
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- By: David A. Price
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Friendly Orange Glow
- The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- By: Brian Dear
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn't even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers - some of them only high school students - in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was not only years but light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers.
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The Friendly Orange Glow
- The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- By: Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Department of Mad Scientists
- Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
- By: Michael Belfiore
- Narrated by: Michael Belfiore
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The first-ever inside look at DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars
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The Department of Mad Scientists
- Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
- Narrated by: Michael Belfiore
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2009
- 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: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as US astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine 14-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home.
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Too Far From Home
- A Story of Life and Death in Space
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-03-2007
- 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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In November 2002, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, left on what was to be a routine 14-week mission to maintain the International Space Station. But then, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home.
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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: 08-02-2007
- 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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