Construction Science

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 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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    • Father of Constructs, Book 2
    • By: Aaron Renfroe
    • Narrated by: Christin Woods, Michael Hopfer
    • Series: Father of Constructs, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • On the cusp of a second lease on life, Harvey, Tabitha, Maywen, and Reacher have one goal: to level up before the World Boss regenerates. Lorith is alive again, but the remnants of centuries of toxic magic pollution linger.

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793 ratings
    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • The Architecture of Daydreams
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059 ratings
    • With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own....

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    • Developing a System for Residential Estimating
    • By: Michael C. Stone
    • Narrated by: Michael C. Stone
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Estimating the cost of a project is critical to your business success. Done correctly, your company is profitable. Done wrong, you lose money. Michael Stone, a successful construction business consultant and trainer, shares his years of experience estimating residential projects....

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    • From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
    • By: Michael Shermer
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,274 ratings
    • The world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished....

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    • A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
    • By: Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge....

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    • How the Top 2% of Construction Contractors Create Superior Value, Profits, and Excellence
    • By: Chad Prinkey
    • Narrated by: Aaron Parnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Real transformation doesn't happen overnight—but with Prinkey's straightforward methodology, construction executives finally have a clear path to reach the top tier of industry performers.

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    • The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....

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    • The Infinity Construct, Book I
    • By: Burkley Orion Smith
    • Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
    • Series: The Infinity Construct, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Sabashton "Ash" Jackson is a hard working kid from the streets who's just trying to survive the grind while he works two jobs to pay for college. Or at least he was until some lunatic sets off the apocalypse and he wakes up in the Infinity Construct....

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    • Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
    • By: Roland Ennos
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

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    • The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
    • By: Gary Marcus
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus....

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    • An American Adventure
    • By: Joseph E. Stevens
    • Narrated by: Kevin Charles Minatrea
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken....

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    • How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
    • By: Nina Kraus
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions....

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    • How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
    • By: Stefan Al
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Stefan Al reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this boom....

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    • The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
    • By: Zahi Hawass
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • An unprecedented account of one of civilization's greatest achievements....

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