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Publisher's Summary
Ray Kurzweil, legendary inventor and author of New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind, has created inventions and ideas that have changed human civilization. PBS called him "One of the revolutionaries who made America", and Inc. magazine named him "Edison's rightful heir".
Now, Kurzweil has created a novel and an unforgettable character - Danielle - to help convey some of his most important ideas. Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine tells the story of a precocious young girl who uses her intelligence and accelerating technology to solve humanity's grandest challenges. Now, if only we can find more courageous visionaries like Danielle.
Written as an alternative history, Danielle's journey as a driven young girl brings her face-to-face with many important figures from recent history and our modern world. Told through the eyes of Danielle's equally remarkable sister, Claire, a girl adopted from Haiti after surviving the earthquake, this story shows all listeners a hopeful vision of humanity's future - and how to achieve it.
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- MsJonesn66
- 05-08-19
Change can do you good, Kurzweil fans. I LOVED IT!
Ok, I have known Kurzweil"s books for a long time, and I have to admit when I saw that this book was YA (Young Adult) I thought "Kurzweil must be crazy." Well, I discovered that he's not crazy, he's having great fun in this book showing kids of all ages the joy of what a world could be like if we had a few more Danielles with amazing superhero minds in it. Truth is, we have lots of Danielle in this world now. Amazing young people who are changing the talk on climate change, finding new medical breakthroughs, even helping find black holes. Look, my fellow Kurzweil fans, this is a superhero book! If you want another heady Kurzweil book, I hear that "The Singularity Is Nearer" comes out next year. If you want a bit of fun, an alternate universe, if you want to see a lighter side of the mind of Mr. Kurzweil, then get this book, it's great.
I LOVED IT!!!!!
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- Raduede
- 07-07-19
Teach in school
This book needs to serve as a class in every school. It would. Hang many lives and improve the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-06-20
If you like Kurzweil, skip this one
The second half was alright as it presented some cool resources, but the first half which included the story was super cringe.
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- Renato C. Shiratsu
- 10-19-19
Not about AI...
It is not abou AÍ... is about great humanitarian causes, and uses the trend on AI to call attention
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- Thomas Kern
- 02-06-20
A bit long novel, useful companion works!
Liked chapter 42-44 and the one on AI in the companion works . Very insightful !
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor, Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting-edge, accessible program based on the vanguard in nutrition and science. They've distilled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life expectancies and slow the aging process.
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1 out of 5 stars
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No supplemental materials means useless
- By Ashish on 08-03-21
By: Ray Kurzweil, and others
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 289
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: The union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
By: Ray Kurzweil
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 403
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 395
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century - an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An optimistic map to technological transcendence
- By Ryan on 03-07-12
By: Ray Kurzweil
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How to Create a Mind
- The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Returning it
- By Joe Provenzano on 05-08-22
By: Ray Kurzweil
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,619
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,899
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,883
How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Irritating
- By Thomas Cotter on 10-25-17
By: Max Tegmark
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What the Eyes Don't See
- A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
- By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 611
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 609
Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening
- By Shatan ~Book Attic Confessions on 08-07-18
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Ask More
- The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
- By: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer - foreword
- Narrated by: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 773
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 698
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Story4 out of 5 stars 693
What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Part story part informational
- By TCfla on 08-01-17
By: Frank Sesno, and others
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The Chaos Imperative
- How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
- By: Ori Brafman, Judah Pollack
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read!!
- By Kelly Pavich on 05-26-19
By: Ori Brafman, and others
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Them
- Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
- By: Ben Sasse
- Narrated by: Ben Sasse
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,061
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil. We’re the richest country in history, but we’ve never been more pessimistic. What’s causing the despair? In Them, bestselling author and U.S. senator Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis isn’t really about politics. It’s that we’re so lonely we can’t see straight—and it bubbles out as anger. Local communities are collapsing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Had much higher hopes
- By Brandon on 11-10-18
By: Ben Sasse
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American Reboot
- An Idealist's Guide to Getting Big Things Done
- By: Will Hurd
- Narrated by: Will Hurd
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
It’s getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot. In American Reboot, Hurd, called “the future of the GOP” by Politico, provides a “detailed blueprint” (Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, 2006–2011) for America grounded by what Hurd calls pragmatic idealism—a concept forged from enduring American values to achieve what is actually achievable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If only more Republicans were like you
- By JHanks on 02-01-23
By: Will Hurd
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If I Could Tell You Just One Thing
- Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice
- By: Richard Reed
- Narrated by: Richard Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Richard Reed built Innocent Drinks from a smoothie stall on a street corner to one of the biggest brands in Britain. He credits his success to four brilliant pieces of advice, each given to him just when he needed them most. Ever since, it has been Richard's habit, whenever he meets somebody he admires, to ask them for their best piece of advice. If they could tell him just one thing, what would it be? Richard has collected pearls of wisdom from some of the most remarkable, inspiring and game-changing people in the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a varied field of people
- By Marcia C. on 12-30-16
By: Richard Reed
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What the Eyes Don't See
- A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
- By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 611
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 609
Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening
- By Shatan ~Book Attic Confessions on 08-07-18
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Ask More
- The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
- By: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer - foreword
- Narrated by: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 773
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 698
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Story4 out of 5 stars 693
What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Part story part informational
- By TCfla on 08-01-17
By: Frank Sesno, and others
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The Chaos Imperative
- How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
- By: Ori Brafman, Judah Pollack
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read!!
- By Kelly Pavich on 05-26-19
By: Ori Brafman, and others
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Them
- Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
- By: Ben Sasse
- Narrated by: Ben Sasse
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,061
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil. We’re the richest country in history, but we’ve never been more pessimistic. What’s causing the despair? In Them, bestselling author and U.S. senator Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis isn’t really about politics. It’s that we’re so lonely we can’t see straight—and it bubbles out as anger. Local communities are collapsing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Had much higher hopes
- By Brandon on 11-10-18
By: Ben Sasse
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American Reboot
- An Idealist's Guide to Getting Big Things Done
- By: Will Hurd
- Narrated by: Will Hurd
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
It’s getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot. In American Reboot, Hurd, called “the future of the GOP” by Politico, provides a “detailed blueprint” (Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, 2006–2011) for America grounded by what Hurd calls pragmatic idealism—a concept forged from enduring American values to achieve what is actually achievable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If only more Republicans were like you
- By JHanks on 02-01-23
By: Will Hurd
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If I Could Tell You Just One Thing
- Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice
- By: Richard Reed
- Narrated by: Richard Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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