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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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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 776 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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    • 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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    • 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 203 ratings
    • How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate....

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    • The Degrowth Manifesto
    • By: Kohei Saito, Brian Bergstrom - translator
    • Narrated by: Troy Glasgow, Kohei Saito
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise....

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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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    • 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 647 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 2,114 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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    • Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
    • By: William T. Vollmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Carbon Ideologies, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage"....

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    • 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
    • By: Kevin Roose
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....

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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 401 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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    • 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 46 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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    • Innovation Inspired by Nature
    • By: Janine M. Benyus
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • This "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st-century problems. Biomimicry is a must-listen for anyone interested in the shape of our future....

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