Joshua

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Nate Silver
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation’s most influential political forecasters. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data.

Legion

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Brandon Sanderson
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his 'aspects' are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society.

Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Thomas Sowell
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of economics itself has been added, and the implications of that history examined. Among other additions throughout the book, a new section on the special role of corporations in the economy has been added to the chapter on government and big business.

Earth Unaware

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
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The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.

The Fall of Hyperion

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Dan Simmons
• Narrated By Victor Bevine
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In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.