Design History

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    • How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
    • By: Kat Holmes, John Maeda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kat Holmes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion....

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    • James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
    • By: Robert W. Merry
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 561 ratings
    • When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory....

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    • How We Meet the Built World
    • By: Sara Hendren
    • Narrated by: Sara Hendren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • 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 129 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
    • By: Michael J. Behe
    • Narrated by: Marc William
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning"....

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    • Essays on Desire and Consumption
    • By: Katy Kelleher
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects....

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    • The History of Silicon Valley Design
    • By: Barry N. Katz
    • Narrated by: Sean Ptratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • The Truth Finally Uncovered
    • By: JE Warr
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • "The Secret History of Bloody Bill The Truth Finally Uncovered " isn't just a neo-western; it's a literary experience—a what-if dream that dares ...

    Regular price: $14.99

    • By: Kat Dunn
    • Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
    • Series: Dangerous Remedy, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 1794, London: Camille and Al are desperately hunting Olympe's kidnapper. From the glamorous excesses of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to the city's seedy underbelly, they are caught in a dangerous game of lies and deceit....

    Regular price: $18.12

    • How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
    • By: Flynn Coleman
    • Narrated by: Flynn Coleman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
    • By: Alicia Drake
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....

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    • A Short History of Private Life
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,554 ratings
    • A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home....

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    • The Untold History of Earth's and Humanity's Evolution in Consciousness
    • By: Lorie Ladd
    • Narrated by: Lorie Ladd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The time has come for you to embrace the power of remembrance and express your full potential, and The Divine Design is your faithful companion on this lifelong journey....

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    • By: Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,374 ratings
    • Richard Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • Principles, Practices, and Innovations
    • By: Norris Elliott
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Book Description for "Fundamentals of Architecture" Unlock the Secrets of Architecture with "Fundamentals of Architecture" Discover the art and ...

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    • How Fabric Changed History
    • By: Kassia St. Clair
    • Narrated by: Helen Johns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking - and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as "merely women's work" - The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future....

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    • Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
    • By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
    • Narrated by: Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities....

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