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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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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- By: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age of spaceflight as both an intimate human experience and a rollicking global adventure.
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The journey to the Moon, in fascinating detail
- By Richard Southworth on 06-09-19
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- By: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Serious Machines
- The Story of the Computers That Built the Modern World
- By: Amir Husain
- Narrated by: Slade Hovick
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Serious Machines is an essential audiobook for technology enthusiasts, computer science students, and anyone interested in the hidden history behind the tools that built our modern digital world. Best-selling author of The Sentient Machine and serial entrepreneur, Amir Husain takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the development of powerful computational tools that revolutionized fields like engineering, science, and entertainment.
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Serious Machines
- The Story of the Computers That Built the Modern World
- Narrated by: Slade Hovick
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-09-24
- Language: English
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Valley of Genius
- By: Adam Fisher
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley - from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way. Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented.
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Unusual format but works well
- By Rob Sedgwick on 03-11-18
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Valley of Genius
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- By: James W. Cortada
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
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For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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More a history of business than computing
- By Amazon Customer on 29-06-24
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- 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
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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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Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Chladek
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
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Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past 50 years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways.
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Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- By: Marie Le Conte
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us—and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- By: Marie Hicks
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
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In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, labor problems grew into structural ones, and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole.
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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She’s in CTRL
- By: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, a dynamic advocate for women in STEM, insists that technology is not an unchangeable and unquestionable force. It is not the preserve of the elite. It is in our homes and in our hands. Rather than feeling powerless to make changes to the way tech works and fails, she argues that it's time to get into the room where the decisions are made. Or, better yet, create our own tech rooms.
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Super engaging & insightful
- By Jutta Kremer on 13-04-24
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She’s in CTRL
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- By: David A. Price
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military.
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-10-22
- Language: English
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- By: Shannon Appelcline
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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Designers & Dragons: The ‘00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. This 2nd edition expands the original single book into a series of four–beginning with the ’70s and ending with the ’00s–and we’ve added over tens of thousands of new words to this final and most updated volume. Take an inside look at d20 companies, watch the growth of new titans like Paizo Publishing, and learn about the growth of indie presses like Evil Hat Productions. Regardless of your gaming background, Shannon Appelcline’s meticulously researched history won’t disappoint.
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Series: Designers & Dragons, Book 4
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Joshua B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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Great overview of the industrial revolution
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-23
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- 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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Always On immerses the listener in the most important story of our times - the dramatic impact of hyperconnectivity, the smartphone and social media on everything from our democracy to our employment and our health. The final section of the book draws on the author’s own personal experience with technology and medicine, considering how COVID-19 made us look again to computing in our battle to confront the greatest challenge of modern times.
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Intellifold, informy and perspicapers.
- By Prof 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 Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- By: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- By: Ronald K. Fierstein
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
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This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues. Land's most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film-and-camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken.
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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-02-15
- Language: English
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- By: Scott McCartney
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.
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Very inform and interesting summary about ENIAC and it’s creatures
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-11-00
- Language: English
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Rise of the Rocket Girls
- The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In the 1940s and '50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls
- The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-04-16
- Language: English
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