Modern Engineering

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    • Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
    • Auteur(s): David Farley
    • Narrateur(s): Amy Gordon
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
    • Auteur(s): Nessa Carey
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 11 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
    • Auteur(s): Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
    • Narrateur(s): Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
    • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 547 évaluations
    • A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
    • Auteur(s): Lenore Newman
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • Auteur(s): Ed Conway
    • Narrateur(s): Ed Conway
    • Durée: 15 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Durée: 11 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 évaluations
    • The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Yergin
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
    • Durée: 29 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

    Prix courant: 32,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • Auteur(s): Roger Penrose
    • Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
    • Durée: 18 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 22 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 évaluations
    • Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings....

    Prix courant: 28,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
    • Auteur(s): David Schneider MD
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 23 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....

    Prix courant: 60,60$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
    • Auteur(s): Anil Ananthaswamy
    • Narrateur(s): Rene Ruiz
    • Durée: 13 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Anil Ananthaswamy explains the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Modern World Was Made
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 16 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Prendergast
    • Durée: 6 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 évaluations
    • An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world - exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
    • Auteur(s): Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
    • Narrateur(s): Dena Dahilig
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Edward Dolnick
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 10 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-02-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    • Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
    • Auteur(s): Aubrey Clayton
    • Narrateur(s): Tim H. Dixon
    • Durée: 15 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): Steven Weinberg
    • Narrateur(s): Raymond Todd
    • Durée: 5 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic....

    Prix courant: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
    • Auteur(s): Renée Bergland
    • Narrateur(s): Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 13 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls.

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
    • Auteur(s): René Descartes
    • Narrateur(s): James Adams
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....

    Prix courant: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

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