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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,628 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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    • 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: 09-10-24
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • 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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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,113 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Bob Balaban
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,459 ratings
    • Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

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    • A Tech Love Story
    • By: Kara Swisher
    • Narrated by: Kara Swisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,482 ratings
    • Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,971 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest.

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    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,011 ratings
    • In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,597 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....

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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,154 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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    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • By: Scott J. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
    • By: Ryan North
    • Narrated by: Ryan North
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Best-selling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North tells you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted - from first principles....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • 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: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 667 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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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan....

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