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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen - introduction
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall394
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Performance358
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Story354
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin...
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Bad book
- By Dionysis Zindros on 07-12-19
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance116
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Story114
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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Heavy but interesting
- By Clay on 20-08-19
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-01-16
- Language: English
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance25
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Story25
Brought to you by Penguin. *An instant New York Times Bestseller* A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a...
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The human connection with chaotically good and clever people.
- By Jerry Cornelius on 07-01-25
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- By: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance59
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Story59
Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.
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Feeling pretty good after reading this book
- By Anonymous on 12-08-21
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance67
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Story67
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?
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Unbelievable, Poorly Narrated with dull patches
- By Gardener joe on 24-09-25
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- By: Stephen L. Sass
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance34
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Story34
The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.
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Bit Advanced For Me In Places
- By Richard S on 08-01-23
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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- By: Nick Clegg
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin. The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it. As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and...
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china or Zuckerberg, or options
- By Dave on 16-01-26
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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Future Starts Here
- An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance178
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Story176
At some point in the 1980s we gave up on the future. Before then, we imagined wonderful days to come, free from disease, work and want, in television series like Star Trek or events such as the 1939 Futurama World Fair. When we look ahead now, we tell dystopian stories of environmental collapse, zombie plagues and the end of civilisation. If it is true that we have to imagine the future before we build it, then this is deeply worrying.
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Hope with reasons
- By WH Humphreys on 05-07-19
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The Future Starts Here
- An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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Tank
- The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them
- By: Mark Urban
- Narrated by: Mark Urban
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
Brought to you by Penguin. “Tanks are like dinner jackets”, an Australian general once commented, “you don’t need them very often, but when you do, nothing else will do.” An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a...
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Told from a real tanker
- By SteveF on 17-05-26
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Tank
- The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them
- Narrated by: Mark Urban
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall377
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Performance311
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Story313
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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Sanctimonious and lightweight
- By Olly Buxton on 09-09-19
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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Quantum Computing Explained for Beginners
- The Science, Technology, and Impact
- By: Pantheon Space Academy
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance27
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Story27
Are you curious about the future of computing but confused about where to start? Are you fascinated by the quantum buzz but intimidated by dense academic jargon? I'm here to guide you through the fascinating universe of quantum tech, in the simplest way possible. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, software developer, eager student, or an innovator at heart, this book is tailored for minds like yours. I've translated qubits, quantum gates, and superposition in a refreshingly easy way, so you don't need a PhD to come along for the ride.
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Poor writing, full of misleading statements
- By Dr Stephen J. Welch on 28-01-24
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Quantum Computing Explained for Beginners
- The Science, Technology, and Impact
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance85
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Story85
Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio. Ignition!...
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better to read
- By tom bunge on 04-10-19
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- By: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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The answer to our contemporary chaos is to practice a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule offers four daily and four weekly habits, designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor.
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Honest , practical biblical application
- By MISS REBEKAH SHIELDS on 15-09-20
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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AI For Good
- How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter
- By: Josh Tyrangiel
- Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.” AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either...
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AI For Good
- How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter
- Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- By: Matt Nicholson
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance50
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This is the story of how a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning business deals, boardroom tantrums and acrimonious lawsuits.
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Good for Brits
- By Goldfrapper on 31-07-18
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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance40
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Story40
It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators.
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Fancy bear for beginners Not Much Depth
- By Zaba on 29-05-24
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall389
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Performance322
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Story320
In Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier draws on his insider's expertise to explain precisely how social media works - by deploying constant surveillance and subconscious manipulation of its users - and why its cruel and dangerous effects are at the heart of its current business model and design. As well as offering 10 simple arguments for liberating yourself from its addictive hold, his witty and urgent manifesto outlines a vision for an alternative that provides all the benefits of social media without the harm.
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I did quit facebook on the basis of this book.
- By Thomasson on 04-07-18
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Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 31-05-18
- Language: English
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- By: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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Poor introduction to an important subject
- By Terra72 on 09-01-17
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance50
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of How We Got To Now by Steven Johnson, read by George Newbern. From Steven Johnson, the best-selling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, which tracks the surprising inspirations and unexpected...
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Great bool
- By Anonymous on 15-04-18
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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