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  • Victorious Century cover art

    • 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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    • 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 731 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Stealth

    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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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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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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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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    • 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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    • They Made America

    • From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
    • By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
    • Narrated by: Harold Evans
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 20-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's long-awaited They Made America....

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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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    • Engineers of Victory

    • The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
    • By: Paul Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • 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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    • To Engineer Is Human

    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Influence Empire

    • The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
    • By: Lulu Yilun Chen
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Lulu Yilum Chen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent is changing the world, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the worlds biggest tech companies....

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    • Simply Electrifying

    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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  • Nexus (Spanish Edition) cover art

    • 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
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    • 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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  • 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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