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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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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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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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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have.
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What is the point?
- By rjj on 01-02-21
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-07-19
- Language: English
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Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
- Being Human in the Age of AI
- By: Susie Alegre
- Narrated by: Susie Alegre
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love. In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights—including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression—and how we protect those rights.
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Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
- Being Human in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Susie Alegre
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- By: Andrew Hodges
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
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Interesting, but difficult
- By Emily on 04-03-26
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-05-24
- Language: English
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
- The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
- By: Iwan Rhys Morus
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Victorians invented the idea of the future. They saw it as an undiscovered country, one ripe for exploration and colonization. And to get us there, they created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilization of the resources of the British Empire.
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Not Really an Audio Book
- By Stewart Webb on 12-04-24
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
- The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future
- A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future
- By: Jeremy Kahn
- Narrated by: Russ Bain
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In a culture fraught with misinformation, Mastering AI pierces through the thicket of exaggerated claims, explaining how we arrived at this moment and mapping the likely long-term impacts on business, economics, culture and society this potent technology will have. This book will serve as a guide to those dangers — as well as highlighting the technology's transformative potential — and will pinpoint concrete steps that should be taken to regulate generative AI.
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future
- A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future
- Narrated by: Russ Bain
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Monstrous Devices
- By: Damien Love
- Narrated by: Chris Devon
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a winter's day in a British town, 12-year-old Alex receives a package in the post: an old tin robot from his grandfather. 'This one is special,' says the enclosed note, but when strange events start occurring around him, Alex begins to suspect this small toy is more than special: it might be deadly. Just as things are getting out of hand, Alex's grandfather arrives, whisking him away from his otherwise humdrum life and into a world of strange, macabre magic.
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Wonderfully Dark
- By Mike Watson on 20-01-24
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Monstrous Devices
- Narrated by: Chris Devon
- Series: Monstrous Devices, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-03-20
- Language: English
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- By: Iwan Rhys Morus
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number.
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poor.
- By Nick J Wilson on 19-12-21
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future
- By: Nicole Kobie
- Narrated by: Nicole Kobie
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hoverboards; with driverless cars first proposed at the 1939 World's Fair. And why not? Building a better world, be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these innovations always out of reach? Delving into the history of technology, this book also looks at what lies ahead, showing how the origins of our technology may provide insight into how it realistically evolves.
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The Long History of the Future
- Narrated by: Nicole Kobie
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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Cybersexism
- By: Laurie Penny
- Narrated by: Jo Hall
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a tough time to be a woman on the internet. Over the past two generations, the political map of human relations has been redrawn by feminism and by changes in technology. In Cybersexism, Laurie Penny goes to the dark heart of the matter and asks why threats of violence are being used to try to silence female voices, analyses the structure of online misogyny, and makes a case for real freedom of speech - for everyone.
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Interesting book
- By Yellow on 14-03-21
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Cybersexism
- Narrated by: Jo Hall
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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Ten Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- By: Peter J. Bentley
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ten Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, leading expert Professor Peter J. Bentley breaks down the fast-moving world of computers in the time of automata into 10 pivotal lessons, presenting the listener with the essential information they need to get to grips with our most powerful technology and its remarkable implications for our species.
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Ten Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- By: Jonathan Scott
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In 1977 a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important mixtape ever conceived. It wasn’t from one person to another - it was from Earth to the cosmos. When NASA sent Voyagers 1 and 2 on a grand tour of the outer planets, they knew the ultimate fate of these plucky probes would be to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space.
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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Attention!
- The Power of Simple Decisions in a Distracted World
- By: Rob Hatch
- Narrated by: Rob Hatch
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world of endless distraction, we have given away two of our most valuable assets: time and attention. Technology has given us the incredible gift of access to an ever-increasing amount of information and has opened the door to a vast array of choices and opportunities. However, having more options doesn’t correlate to an increase in our success. Research shows that having more to choose from causes anxiety and decreases our likelihood of taking action.
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Learn how to put success in your way
- By The Last Boyscout on 15-03-21
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Attention!
- The Power of Simple Decisions in a Distracted World
- Narrated by: Rob Hatch
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines
- By: Henrietta Heald
- Narrated by: Lara J. West
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In 1919, in the wake of the First World War, a group of extraordinary women came together to create the Women's Engineering Society. They were trailblazers, pioneers and boundary breakers, but many of their stories have been lost to history. To mark the centenary of the society's creation, Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines brings them back to life.
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Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines
- Narrated by: Lara J. West
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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