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The Wireless World
- Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
- By: Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, and others
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs
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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the coauthors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion.
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The Wireless World
- Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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How to Invent Everything
- A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
- By: Ryan North
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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An NPR Best Book of 2018 "How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in...
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How to Invent Everything
- A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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From Poverty to Progress
- Understanding Humanity's Greatest Achievement
- By: Michael Magoon
- Narrated by: MIchael Magoon
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Enlightenment Now, and Sapiens, Michael Magoon shows us that by learning from the past, we can let go of our negative attitudes about the present, and change our world for the better. For virtually all of history, humanity was trapped in poverty by geographical constraints. Fortunately for us, a few societies invented the five keys to progress (productive agriculture, cities, decentralization of power, export industries, and fossil fuels), laying the foundations for our current progress.
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From Poverty to Progress
- Understanding Humanity's Greatest Achievement
- Narrated by: MIchael Magoon
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-04-22
- Language: English
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Always On
- Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era
- By: Rory Cellan-Jones
- Narrated by: Rory Cellan-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Always On written and read by Rory Cellan-Jones. Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory’s writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds' – Stephen Fry The inside story of how tech became...
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Intellifold, informy and perspicapers.
- By Neil on 17-07-21
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Always On
- Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era
- Narrated by: Rory Cellan-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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The Apple II Age
- How the Computer Became Personal
- By: Laine Nooney
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn't found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple's founders, or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software.
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The Apple II Age
- How the Computer Became Personal
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Los innovadores: Los genios que inventaron el futuro [The Innovators: The Geniuses Who Invented the Future]
- By: Walter Isaacson, Francisco José Ramos Mena, Marcos Pérez Sánchez
- Narrated by: Edson Matus
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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En una era que busca fomentar la innovación, la creatividad y el trabajo en equipo, Los innovadores es la obra que mejor muestra cómo se producen. Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, el nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascinante historia de las personas que inventaron el ordenador e internet; Los innovadores está destinado a convertirse en la historia definitiva de la revolución digital y en una guía indispensable para entender cómo sucede realmente la innovación.
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Los innovadores: Los genios que inventaron el futuro [The Innovators: The Geniuses Who Invented the Future]
- Narrated by: Edson Matus
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: Spanish
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A Biography of the Pixel
- By: Alvy Ray Smith
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making.
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A Biography of the Pixel
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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Analogia
- The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution - and an unsettling vision of what comes next.
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Utterly baffling
- By Lou Lou on 21-02-21
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Analogia
- The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-08-20
- Language: English
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- By: Chris Impey, Holly Henry
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it
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It didn't need to be so long
- By Preselector on 20-07-15
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
- By: Walter Scheirer
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinne rand that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-04-25
- Language: English
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- By: John C. Campbell
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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When John Campbell was hired in 1996, Michael Dell’s company was already a hyper-efficient technology upstart. By the time he left Dell in 2017, Michael’s little Texas-based catalog computer company had grown from 5,000 to 138,000 employees and evolved into one of the largest technology providers on the planet!
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Interesting
- By The Oracle 2025 on 14-04-26
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-08-18
- Language: English
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de los Videojuegos [That Was Not in My Video Games History Book]
- By: Daniel García Raso
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Desde su invención en los años cincuenta del pasado siglo, los videojuegos se han convertido progresivamente y de manera imparable en uno de los mayores fenómenos culturales, artísticos y sociales contemporáneos.
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muy interesante
- By Greatie on 23-05-25
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de los Videojuegos [That Was Not in My Video Games History Book]
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Series: Eso no estaba en mi libro de
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-07-20
- Language: Spanish
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The Logician and the Engineer
- By: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use - from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later?
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The Logician and the Engineer
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-10-12
- Language: English
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- By: Maarten van Rossem
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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De 20ste eeuw is de eeuw van de massamotorisering. In 1913 begon de eerste massale serieproductie van auto’s in Amerika. Door een efficiënt productieproces lukte het de industrieel Henry Ford om de T-Ford relatief goedkoop op de markt te brengen en daarmee toegankelijk te maken voor de groeiende middenklasse. In Europa kwam de automobilisering van de samenleving pas op gang na 1960. Elk Europees industrieland leverde een eigen bijdrage.
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: Dutch
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- By: James R. Hansen
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R...
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-10-05
- Language: English
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- By: Paul K. Conkin
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.
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A fine overview of changes in agricultural praxis
- By David J James on 09-08-17
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-03-13
- Language: English
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GPS
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- By: Lizzie O'Shea
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources - like the internet - in common?
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Cutting the Cord
- The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity
- By: Martin Cooper
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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The cell phone changed the world. It revolutionized how people communicate, freed them to get in touch with one another at any time, in any place, without the constraints of the wired network. The cell phone led to the creation and growth of new industries. Yet the true story of its creation has not been told. This book tells that story. It centers on a battle for control of how people communicate, involving government regulators, lobbyists, police, technology breakthroughs, failures, quartz, and a horse. At the center of that story was Martin Cooper.
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Cutting the Cord
- The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-01-21
- Language: English
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
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The History Of Paint & Watching It Dry
- By James Uscroft on 18-03-25
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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