Modern Engineering

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    • Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
    • By: David Farley
    • Narrated by: Amy Gordon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

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    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means - and what it doesn't....

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    • A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd Edition (World Social Change)
    • By: Robert B. Marks
    • Narrated by: Michael Sears
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
    • By: Nessa Carey
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth....

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • How the Modern World Was Made
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

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    • How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
    • By: Alanna Collen
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi....

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    • Survivalist Series, Book 11
    • By: A. American
    • Narrated by: Duke Fontaine
    • Series: The Survivalist Series, Book 11
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,313 ratings
    • It’s been over a year since The Day. Morgan and his companions have fought to stay alive and he finally managed to get to his parents and bring them back. Their situation is getting better every day, but there are still challenges ahead of them....

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    • How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
    • By: Martin J. Blaser
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome....

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    • Inventor of the Modern
    • By: Richard Munson
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life....

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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....

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    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952 ratings
    • The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

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    • Best Practices, Real-World Stories & Game-Changing Processes
    • By: Michelle Segrest
    • Narrated by: Ruthanne Reid
    • Series: Modern Manufacturing Case Studies, Book 1-3
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines....

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    • How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
    • By: Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino - contributor
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent....

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    • Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
    • By: Wendy Moore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • In The Knife Man, Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's murky and macabre world - a world characterized by public hangings....

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    • Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
    • By: Aubrey Clayton
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....

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    • The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
    • By: Anil Ananthaswamy
    • Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Anil Ananthaswamy explains the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence....

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