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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that comes across like a thriller.
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Loved it!
- De miguel en 06-04-24
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- De Momx4 en 02-29-24
De: Kara Swisher
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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A History of the Ancient Geeks
- De Mark en 10-21-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....
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- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that comes across like a thriller.
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Loved it!
- De miguel en 06-04-24
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- De Momx4 en 02-29-24
De: Kara Swisher
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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A History of the Ancient Geeks
- De Mark en 10-21-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....
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Reader cannot read
- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Steven Levy
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- De Dan Collins en 07-01-16
De: Steven Levy
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- De: John Strausbaugh
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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John Strausbaugh takes us behind the Iron Curtain in this witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science....
De: John Strausbaugh
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- De: Kim Zetter
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 13 h
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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....
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Amazingly detailed, sober and above all, damning
- De Greg en 11-22-14
De: Kim Zetter
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- De: Roma Agrawal
- Narrado por: Roma Agrawal
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....
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An articulate view of stuff
- De R. LeBlanc en 02-21-24
De: Roma Agrawal
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Tim Fannon
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Not the best from Vaclav, but near the top
- De Tan en 07-19-23
De: Vaclav Smil
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
- De: William D. Cohan
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 28 h y 17 m
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The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan....
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Much better than other GE books
- De Brannon Crawford en 12-26-22
De: William D. Cohan
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How to Invent Everything
- A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
- De: Ryan North
- Narrado por: Ryan North
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Best-selling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North tells you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted - from first principles....
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Get the book
- De Tim McNerney en 11-26-18
De: Ryan North
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....
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Somewhat less than perfect
- De enya keshet en 06-19-18
De: Simon Winchester
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- De: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
- Narrado por: Steve Patterson
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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Great and Informative
- De Eric Haley en 05-15-24
De: Roger Ver, y otros
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- De: Paul Kennedy
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won....
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Misleading title
- De Thomas en 04-10-14
De: Paul Kennedy
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- De: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....
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Good book, very odd narration
- De Ben Wiener en 04-10-22
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The Little Book of Aliens
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe....
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Simply Outstanding
- De CarlosR en 04-22-24
De: Adam Frank
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
De: James Gleick
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- De: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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With its masterful blend of history, technology, and philosophy, Yi Tenen's work ultimately urges us to view AI as a matter of labor history, celebrating the long-standing cooperation between authors and engineers....
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Maybe better in print
- De Amazon Customer en 03-02-24
De: Dennis Yi Tenen
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Steve Jobs. La biografía
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Roberto Medina
- Duración: 27 h y 2 m
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La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboración....
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Genial
- De Erin en 11-15-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
- De: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world....
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A different take on Technology’s impact
- De Ricardo Ernst en 07-23-23
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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The Soul of a New Machine
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century....
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Reading this book changed my life
- De Timothy Knox en 08-12-16
De: Tracy Kidder
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: Matt Ridley
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....
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Bad scholarship and bias that overwhelms his facts
- De RickyF en 07-01-20
De: Matt Ridley