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Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
- Written by: Steven L. Goldman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven L. Goldman
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality.... or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.Made your choice? Welcome to the science wars. This long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has reemerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues like evolution.
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Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
- Narrated by: Steven L. Goldman
- Series: The Great Courses: History of Science
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Written by: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: Observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria.
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Science in an Age of Unreason
- Written by: John Staddon
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to “health and safety”—are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? In Science in an Age of Unreason, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today’s scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery.
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Science in an Age of Unreason
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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Cyber Crisis
- Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World
- Written by: Eric Cole
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on news reports, you might think there's a major cybersecurity threat every four to five months. In reality, there's a cybersecurity attack happening every minute of every day. In Cyber Crisis, Eric Cole gives listeners a clear-eyed picture of the information war raging in cyberspace. Drawing on 30 years of experience, Cole offers practical, actionable advice that even those with little technical background can implement, including steps to take on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to protect their businesses and themselves.
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Cyber Crisis
- Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- Written by: Paul Kennedy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 13-03-14
- Language: English
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The Global in the Local
- A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
- Written by: Xin Zhang
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China.
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The Global in the Local
- A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Guardrails
- Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
- Written by: Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” guiding our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from the cognitive sciences, economics, and public policy, Guardrails offers a novel approach to shaping decisions by embracing human agency in its social context.
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Guardrails
- Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- Written by: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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In this revised 25th-anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed.
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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Wild Ideas in Science
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Bernadette Dunne, Mack Sanderson,
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Science history is chock full of world-changing innovations that initially faced skepticism and ridicule for being too unconventional: light bulbs, cars, and home computers are just a few examples. In this audiobook, we take a look at the latest out-of-the-box ideas to tackle today’s biggest challenges, including so-called sponge cities designed to combat flooding, technology that mimics photosynthesis to produce fuel, modifying bacteria’s genetic circuits to treat genetic diseases, and much more.
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Wild Ideas in Science
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Bernadette Dunne, Mack Sanderson, John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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New Laws of Robotics
- Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
- Written by: Frank Pasquale
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: If a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: Make robots, or be replaced by them. Another story is possible. In virtually every walk of life, robotic systems can make labor more valuable, not less. Frank Pasquale tells the story of nurses, teachers, designers, and others who partner with technologists, rather than meekly serving as data sources for their computerized replacements.
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New Laws of Robotics
- Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- Written by: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 18-06-19
- Language: English
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- Written by: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put it on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the eBooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your eBook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation - as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers.
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 11-11-16
- Language: English
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
- Written by: Neil M. Maher
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. With its lavishly funded mandate to send a man to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test in the 1960s culture wars.
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 27-06-17
- Language: English
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Life Changer - Zukunft made in Germany
- Wie moderner Erfindergeist unser Leben verändert und den Planeten rettet
- Written by: Christoph Keese
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Wie ein Boom an Innovationen die größten Probleme der Menschheit lösen und unser Leben verändern wird. Autos, die kein Benzin mehr verbrennen, an keine Steckdose mehr müssen und allein über die Straßen steuern. Getreide, das mit wenigen Tropfen Wasser wächst und ganze Dörfer ernährt. Krankheiten, die von allein Alarm schlagen und sich selbst ausrotten - zu schön, um wahr zu sein? Im Gegenteil: Zum ersten Mal könnten diese Dinge Wirklichkeit werden. Christoph Keese hat mit deutschen Erfindern, Gründerinnen, Investoren und Innovatorinnen gesprochen, in ihre Werkstätten und Labors geschaut.
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Life Changer - Zukunft made in Germany
- Wie moderner Erfindergeist unser Leben verändert und den Planeten rettet
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 14-06-22
- Language: german
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We Could Not Fail
- The First African Americans in the Space Program
- Written by: Richard Paul, Steven Moss
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty.
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We Could Not Fail
- The First African Americans in the Space Program
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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Generation Text
- Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything
- Written by: Dr. Michael Osit
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 11 hrs
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A teenage boy goes shopping on the Internet, sees something he likes, immediately reaches his mother via cell phone, and in a few short keystrokes, types in her credit card number and gets a shiny new lacrosse stick. Thanks to technological advances, including computers, the Internet, cell phones, and satellites, today's children are faced with a world markedly more complex - and often more distracting - than that of any other preceding generation.
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Generation Text
- Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release Date: 23-07-08
- Language: English
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Rewire
- Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
- Written by: Ethan Zuckerman
- Narrated by: Ethan Zuckerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. We’ll understand more, we think. We’ll know more. We’ll engage more and share more with people from other cultures. In reality, it is easier to ship bottles of water from Fiji to Atlanta than it is to get news from Tokyo to New York.
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Rewire
- Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
- Narrated by: Ethan Zuckerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 14-10-13
- Language: English
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Head in the Cloud
- Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
- Written by: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? Best-selling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud.
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Head in the Cloud
- Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
- Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945
- Written by: David E. Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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The US Army entered World War II unprepared. Lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact on the development of weapons and doctrine.
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
- Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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Fully Connected
- Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload
- Written by: Julia Hobsbawm
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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By utilising the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected will provide a blueprint for how to use social health to foster well-being and productivity. At every level, each person, department and organisation is struggling to find a way to navigate this challenging era; Fully Connected will be a blueprint for anyone looking to reclaim time, space and identity in our world.
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Fully Connected
- Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 20-04-17
- Language: English
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