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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • Auteur(s): Jenny Odell
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 évaluations
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • Auteur(s): Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Sylvia Nasar
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Fields
    • Durée: 18 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians....

    Prix courant: 28,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Auteur(s): Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 4 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • Auteur(s): Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
    • Durée: 13 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • Auteur(s): Leonard Susskind
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
    • Durée: 12 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 évaluations
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

    Prix courant: 30,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • Auteur(s): Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 14 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness
    • Auteur(s): Federico Faggin
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The creation of the microprocessor launched the digital age. The key technology allowing unprecedented integration, and the design of the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, were the achievement of Federico Faggin....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
    • Auteur(s): Seb Falk
    • Narrateur(s): Seb Falk
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Buckminster Fuller and the Future
    • Auteur(s): Jonathon Keats
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 5 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem solving to present-day problems....

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    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • Auteur(s): Kim TallBear
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • Auteur(s): Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • His Life and Universe
    • Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
    • Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
    • Durée: 21 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 évaluations
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

    Prix courant: 34,09$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • Auteur(s): Cal Newport
    • Narrateur(s): Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Durée: 6 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 évaluations
    • Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • Auteur(s): Ashlee Vance
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 13 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1 824 évaluations
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    • Auteur(s): Suzanne Simard
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Simard
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 évaluations
    • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • Auteur(s): Richard A. Muller
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

    Prix courant: 34,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
    • Auteur(s): Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
    • Durée: 6 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
    • Durée: 10 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 évaluations
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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