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The Joy of Search
- A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: We Google it - "Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online.
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As we use the Web for social networking, shopping, and news, we leave a personal trail. These days, linger over a Web page selling lamps, and they will turn up at the advertising margins as you move around the Internet, reminding you, tempting you to make that purchase. Search engines such as Google can now look deep into the data on the Web to pull out instances of the words you are looking for. And there are pages that collect and assess information to give you a snapshot of changing political opinion.
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Great book for learning about Deep learning
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By: Gautam Shroff
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Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
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Best
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Maphead
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It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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Discovery and Translation of Linear B Script
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The Ark Before Noah
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Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective.
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excellent, enlightening, entertaining
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The Filter Bubble
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In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.
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Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily?
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By: David Sumpter
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Babel No More
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- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Heavy on anecdote, light on science
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By: Michael Erard
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History Is Wrong
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 587
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 506
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Erich von Däniken again shows his flair for revealing truths that his contemporaries have missed. After closely analyzing hundreds of ancient and apparently unrelated texts, he is now ready to proclaim that human history is nothing like the world religions claim---and he has the proof! In History Is Wrong, von Däniken takes a closer look at the fascinating Voynich manuscript, which has defied all attempts at decription since its discovery, and makes some intriguing revelations about the equally incredible book of Enoch.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Voynich Manuscript to nowhere
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Meet Me in Atlantis
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Story4 out of 5 stars 527
A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knowing What We Know
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
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Archaeology from Space
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field's biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world's ancient treasures.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So excited
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True or False
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
In True or False, former CIA analyst Cindy Otis takes listeners through the history and impact of misinformation over the centuries, sharing stories from the past and insights that listeners today can gain from them. Then, she shares lessons learned in over a decade working for the CIA, including actionable tips on how to spot fake news, how to make sense of the information we receive each day, and, most importantly, how to understand and see past our own information biases so that we can think critically about important issues and put events happening around us into context.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Introduction
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How to Write Short
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
In How to Write Short , Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed - from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ironically long
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world's most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2022.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Vehicle for a religious message
- By Chad on 06-11-22
By: Richard N. Bolles, and others
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Trunks packed with potions and cures, Jane Aire sets out on a crisp, clear morning in October to face the greatest challenge of her sheltered girls’-school existence. A shadow lies over Thornfield Hall and its reclusive master, Edward Rochester. And he’s hired her only as a last resort. Jane stumbles again and again as she tries to establish a rapport with her prickly new employer, but he becomes the least of her worries as a mysterious force seems to work against her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely, bewitching, retelling of Jane for fans and newcomers alike.
- By Hillary H on 12-31-23
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The Happiness Project
- By: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrated by: Gretchen Rubin
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,829
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,849
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,830
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Brian on 03-14-11
By: Gretchen Rubin
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Galatea
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Ruth Wilson
- Length: 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 187
In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece—the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen—the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic reimagining
- By Mark on 11-29-23
By: Madeline Miller
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- Glenn Guillory, SFO
- 05-22-21
TRIED TO RETURN ONLINE BUT HAD REACHED MY MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM RETURN NUMBER: I didn’t know there was such a thing until I tried to return this book...and couldn’t. I quit Audible because of this but missed the service and “ate crow” and rejoined.
The sales-pitch voice and manner of presentation of the narrator was disgusting. I was offended as one would be by a bad salesman in a car dealership into which you had come only to look at new cars.
The content was exactly what I was looking for BUT THE NARRATOR TELLS YOU THE CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS WILL BE THE MEAT OF THE BOOK and then you find out that there is no accompanying pdf file about these charts and illustrations. You are blind listening to this salesman talk about the charts as if you can see them, about the illustrations as if you saw and understood them.
I was flabbergasted that a company so well managed so far would put this selection for a choice to a suscriber and not add a visual aid file, or say it was not provided. You can go buy an ebook and see the images on your computer or you can buy the paper printed book and see. Why would you buy this Audible hollowed out shell of a book when buying it on Kindle with the audio feature turned on gives you the same thing.
Duh is my rating!
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