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  • James May's 20th Century cover art

    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Victorious Century

    • The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
    • By: David Cannadine
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience....

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    • Countdown to Zero Day

    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings

    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • Wizard

    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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    • Cult of the Dead Cow

    • How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
    • By: Joseph Menn
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings

    • Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....

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  • Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story cover art

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    • Unbound

    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • Nexus (Spanish Edition)

    • Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-24
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.

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    • Electronic Dreams

    • How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
    • By: Tom Lean
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 11-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother....

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    • Computing: A Concise History

    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • Ignition!

    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

    • Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that 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....

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    • Red Moon Rising

    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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  • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell cover art

    • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

    • By: Marc Fennell
    • Narrated by: Marc Fennell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.

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    • From Poverty to Progress

    • Understanding Humanity's Greatest Achievement
    • By: Michael Magoon
    • Narrated by: MIchael Magoon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Enlightenment Now, and Sapiens, Michael Magoon shows us that by learning from the past, we can let go of our negative attitudes about the present, and change our world for the better....

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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
    • By: Dan Parry
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • ‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel....

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    • Future Histories

    • What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
    • By: Lizzie O'Shea
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art, and poetry in our technological present.....

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    • Hijacking Bitcoin

    • The Hidden History of BTC
    • By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.

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