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The Pattern on the Stone
- The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
- Written by: W. Daniel Hillis
- Narrated by: Lewis Arlt
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize - and what Daniel Hillis' short book brilliantly demonstrates - is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operations of a computer seem as straightforward as those of a bicycle.
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The Pattern on the Stone
- The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
- Narrated by: Lewis Arlt
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 12-12-18
- Language: English
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- Written by: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 31-12-18
- Language: English
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Written by: Scott Huler
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 29-07-14
- Language: English
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Your Life Depends on It
- What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health
- Written by: Talya Miron-Shatz PhD
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures. In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care.
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Your Life Depends on It
- What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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The Place We Make
- Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate
- Written by: Sarah L. Sanderson, Chanté Griffin - introduction
- Narrated by: Sarah L. Sanderson, Chanté Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851—and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she’s a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile. “A beautiful rendering...
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The Place We Make
- Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate
- Narrated by: Sarah L. Sanderson, Chanté Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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