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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: 11-12-13
- 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: 01-11-13
- 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: 17-07-13
- 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: 15-05-12
- Language: English
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De Japón para el mundo
- By: Matt Alt
- Narrated by: Carlos Garza
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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¿Qué habría sido de nuestra juventud sin el Walkman, Pokémon, Pac-Man, y el anime? ¿Qué sería de nuestros mensajes de texto sin emojis? ¿Y de las celebraciones con amigos sin karaoke? Todas estas innovaciones y más se las debemos a los japoneses. Matt Alt, especialista en Japón y colaborador para medios como The New Yorker, se dio a la tarea de revelar en este libro la historia detrás de las principales creaciones niponas que han conquistado el planeta.
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De Japón para el mundo
- Narrated by: Carlos Garza
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-07-21
- Language: Spanish
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The Diamond Formula
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Alina Simone
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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A possible genius, a smidgen of madness, a twist of science, and an invention that very nearly changed the world - all collide in a giddy, unbelievably true mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris.
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The Diamond Formula
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 28-03-19
- Language: English
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- By: Jon Wilkman
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs
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Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
- How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
- By: Tom Wheeler
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation. An eager student of technology, Lincoln had to learn to use the power of electronic messages.
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
- How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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A New Look for Processional Ages
- By: Robert Hand
- Narrated by: Robert Hand
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Robert Hand was known in his early career as the first practicing astrologer to write astrology programs for microcomputers (in 1977) so that the benefits of computers would be available to astrologers. From this effort, he founded Astro-Graphics Services in 1979, which later became Astrolabe, Inc. He was a founding member of Project Hindsight, a group dedicated to retrieving and translating traditional astrology texts. He served as an editor, translator, and publisher of ancient astrological writings.
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A New Look for Processional Ages
- Narrated by: Robert Hand
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-07-21
- 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
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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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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- By: Jon Scott Logel
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-17
- Language: English
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Bitcoin: A Concise History
- By: Eric Morse
- Narrated by: Kevin Gisi
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Understand the history of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a revolutionary new currency...the future of money. Bitcoin is a network protocol and software that makes the currency work. But it is also much more than either of those. Bitcoin is a community with a shared history and experience that new users can't just buy on an exchange or download onto their smartphone. That history and those experiences are vital to understanding the advice given to new users, potential investors, and curious onlookers.
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Bitcoin: A Concise History
- Narrated by: Kevin Gisi
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-08-17
- 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: 24-02-13
- Language: English
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
- Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945
- By: David E. Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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The US Army entered World War II unprepared. Lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact on the development of weapons and doctrine.
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
- Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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Martian Summer
- My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Tempermental Robots, and NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission
- By: Andrew Kessler
- Narrated by: Adam Schneemann
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Get up close and personal with science as Andrew Kessler narrates his hilarious journey inside NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission - a historic enterprise manned by a motley crew of rocket scientists. The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic.
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Martian Summer
- My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Tempermental Robots, and NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission
- Narrated by: Adam Schneemann
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-10-14
- 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
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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: 10-12-10
- 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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- By Simon on 17-04-07
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Microsoft
- First Generation
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-08-01
- Language: English
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Microsoft First Generation
- The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire
- By: Cheryl Tsang
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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What began as a modest start-up partnership only 25 years ago has already surpassed all the giants of contemporary capitalism. How did Microsoft achieve all of this in so short a time? Cheryl Tsang steps inside the famous culture of loyalty, the storied “maniacal work ethic”, and the hardcore world of reckless risk-taking to reveal, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.
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Microsoft First Generation
- The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Una Historia de las Contraseñas
- By: Martin Paul Eve
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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¿Qué son las contraseñas? ¿Cómo se construyen? ¿En qué momento de la historia surgieron? Estas son solo algunas de las preguntas que sirven como disparador para que Martin Paul Eve despliegue su conocimiento sobre las implicancias y el funcionamiento de las contraseñas, fundamentales para la vida en las sociedades modernas, pero también utilizadas en distintos momentos y circunstancias a lo largo de la historia, desde Teseo, Ariadna y el Minotauro hasta las aplicaciones informáticas, pasando por Hamlet, Las mil y una noches y Harry Potter.
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Una Historia de las Contraseñas
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-09-23
- Language: Spanish
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Os inovadores [The Innovators]
- Como um grupo de hackers, gênios e geeks criou a revolução digital [How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution]
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Fabrício Silva
- Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
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É curioso que a história dos computadores e da internet, ferramentas tão presentes em nosso dia a dia, seja tão pouco conhecida pela maioria das pessoas. E talvez mais interessante ainda seja o fato de, diferentemente de outras tecnologias revolucionárias a sua época, como o telefone e a lâmpada, essas invenções que mudaram a forma como vivemos serem em grande parte fruto de trabalho colaborativo.
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Os inovadores [The Innovators]
- Como um grupo de hackers, gênios e geeks criou a revolução digital [How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution]
- Narrated by: Fabrício Silva
- Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: Portuguese
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