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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- By: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- By: Michael J. Neufeld
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than 12 years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the moon.
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- 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
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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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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- By: Steve LeVine
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...
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story about different research companies
- By Roberts on 10-03-17
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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-02-15
- 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
- Abridged
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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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A brilliant book with brilliant narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 26-07-17
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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: 06-03-07
- Language: English
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The Trail of Gold and Silver
- Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009 (Timberline Books)
- By: Duane A. Smith
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-19th century into the 21st century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals.
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The Trail of Gold and Silver
- Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009 (Timberline Books)
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Series: Timberline Books
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 19-01-22
- 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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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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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- By: Scott McCartney
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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Performance39
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An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer space For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in...
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Honest and open about reality of space.
- By Judith B. on 18-01-21
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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: 08-03-07
- Language: English
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Technology Is Not the Problem
- By: Timandra Harkness
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Interrogating the historical currents that have brought us here, Harkness envisages a messier, riskier and less comfortable world than the one into which we’re sliding. Challenging listeners to scrutinise what’s missing from their personalised menus, Technology is Not the Problem encourages us to look afresh at the familiar: not just the technology we use every day, how we relate to the world and those around us.
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Technology Is Not the Problem
- Narrated by: Timandra Harkness
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-05-24
- 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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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and...
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Being Digital
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-06-09
- Language: English
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Finding Oil
- The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920
- By: Brian Frehner
- Narrated by: R.T. McKnight
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations. Accordingly, no one questions the idea that the quest for oil is a quest for power. The question we should ask, Finding Oil suggests, is what kind of power prospectors have wanted. This book revises oil's early history by exploring the incredibly varied stories of the men who pitted themselves against nature to unleash the power of oil.
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Finding Oil
- The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920
- Narrated by: R.T. McKnight
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-08-17
- Language: English
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A Biography of the Pixel
- By: Alvy Ray Smith
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
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The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making.
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A Biography of the Pixel
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
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The History Of Paint & Watching It Dry
- By James Uscroft on 18-03-25
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- By: Maarten van Rossem
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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De 20ste eeuw is de eeuw van de massamotorisering. In 1913 begon de eerste massale serieproductie van auto’s in Amerika. Door een efficiënt productieproces lukte het de industrieel Henry Ford om de T-Ford relatief goedkoop op de markt te brengen en daarmee toegankelijk te maken voor de groeiende middenklasse. In Europa kwam de automobilisering van de samenleving pas op gang na 1960. Elk Europees industrieland leverde een eigen bijdrage.
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: Dutch
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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- By: Edward Tenner
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed modern age.
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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- 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
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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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It didn't need to be so long
- By Preselector on 20-07-15
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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: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
- NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
- By: John Logsdon - editor, John Logsdon - introduction, Bill Nye - introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, John Logsdon
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye "An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of...
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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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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- By: Jason Farman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman describes how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times' meanings. And in a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait.
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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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