Engineering Economics

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    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did....

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    • Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
    • By: Erik J. Larson
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be....

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    • What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
    • By: Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Lange
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect....

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    • The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
    • By: Andreas Malm
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power....

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    • By: Tiana Laurence
    • Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, the revolutionary "virtual currency" that's changing the way people do business. While Bitcoin has enjoyed some well-deserved hype, Blockchain may be Bitcoin's most vital legacy....

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    • A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
    • By: James Owen Weatherall
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal....

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    • Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,207 ratings
    • A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

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    • The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters....

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    • The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate....

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    • Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom....

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    • Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a struggle over how to remake the island. Author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of politics and capitalism seek to undermine the nation's resilient vision for a recovery....

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    • Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity....

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    • A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

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    • Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 649 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of More Money Than God comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms—and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • The Booming Business of Global Warming
    • By: McKenzie Funk
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge....

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    • What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
    • By: Scott E. Page
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja....

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    • Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
    • By: Chris van Tulleken
    • Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....

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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • By: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 901 ratings
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

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