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Breakneck

China's Quest to Engineer the Future

by Dan Wang ...

Narrated by Kevin Shen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

Brought to you by Penguin.From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progressFor close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain ... Read more

$24.02 AUD

Brought to you by Penguin.From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progressFor close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain
... Read more
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How the World Really Works

A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

by Vaclav Smil ...

Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a ... Read more

$23.21 AUD

Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a
... Read more
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Blood in the Machine

The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

15 hours 34 min

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up ... Read more

$43.19 AUD

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up
... Read more
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The Secret Lives of Colour

by Kassia St Clair ...

Narrated by Kassia St Clair ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde</st... ... Read more

$32.39 AUD

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde</st...
... Read more
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Biological War

The Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction thriller

by Annie Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Annie Jacobsen ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

There is an invisible weapon among us.By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.A compelling, fast-paced, ticking clock non-fiction thriller from the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario.A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this explosive new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high ... Read more

$27.46 AUD

There is an invisible weapon among us.By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.A compelling, fast-paced, ticking clock non-fiction thriller from the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario.A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this explosive new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high
... Read more
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Path Between the Seas

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

Unabridged

31 hours 36 min

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough.A national bestseller and testament to human determination, The Path Between the Seas tells the ... Read more

$55.91 AUD

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough.A national bestseller and testament to human determination, The Path Between the Seas tells the
... Read more
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

by Erik J. Larson ...

Narrated by Perry Daniels ...

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

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.Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get ... Read more

$27.95 AUD

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.Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get
... Read more
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Reload

by Søren Kiil ...

Narrated by Niels Petersen ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Skolelærer Steve Morris er på tiende år følelsesmæssigt plaget efter en dødsulykke på Long Island i USA. Han drømmer om et andet liv, hvor han kan være en mere tilstedeværende og forstående far og ægtemand.Ved et tilfælde bliver Steve bekendt med ny RELOAD-teknologi, der genetablerer Alzheimerpatienters tabte erindringer. Han lader sig behandle med en hemmeligholdt variant af RELOAD og oplever et ... Read more

$10.88 AUD

Skolelærer Steve Morris er på tiende år følelsesmæssigt plaget efter en dødsulykke på Long Island i USA. Han drømmer om et andet liv, hvor han kan være en mere tilstedeværende og forstående far og ægtemand.Ved et tilfælde bliver Steve bekendt med ny RELOAD-teknologi, der genetablerer Alzheimerpatienters tabte erindringer. Han lader sig behandle med en hemmeligholdt variant af RELOAD og oplever et
... Read more
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Holding Back the River

The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways

by Tyler J. Kelley ...

Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

Unabridged

9 hours 10 min

A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our ... Read more

$36.34 AUD

A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our
... Read more
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The Powerhouse

Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

by Steve LeVine ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technologyA worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win?Steve LeVine was ... Read more

$27.96 AUD

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technologyA worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win?Steve LeVine was
... Read more
Audiobook

Principles of Project Management Explained

by Can Akdeniz ...

Narrated by IntroBooks ...

Unabridged

36 min

Are you a busy project manager, or even just an employee that works on projects from time to time?You work on projects regularly, yet you rarely feel one hundred percent satisfied with them, and you feel as if the feedback from others is never perfect…If that is the case, then this book is an absolute must-read to improve your career!In this book, I discuss the principles of project management in ... Read more

$5.58 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Are you a busy project manager, or even just an employee that works on projects from time to time?You work on projects regularly, yet you rarely feel one hundred percent satisfied with them, and you feel as if the feedback from others is never perfect…If that is the case, then this book is an absolute must-read to improve your career!In this book, I discuss the principles of project management in
... Read more
Audiobook

Hello World

How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

by Hannah Fry ...

Narrated by Hannah Fry ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry.You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.You need a liver transplant to save your life. Who would you want in charge of ... Read more

$22.21 AUD

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry.You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.You need a liver transplant to save your life. Who would you want in charge of
... Read more
Audiobook

Creative Project Manager Book 2, The

Return to Space

by Dr Savi S Arora ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Dr Savi E ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Savileaders
Unabridged

1 hour 7 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book will help you through a refreshing set of tools and techniques to help deliver your project challenges. The aim of book two is to assist in structuring and maintaining people-centric, good working practices during key stages of a project.The core elements include:Structuring - using scaffolding to lay down seeds of expectationsPredicting - ... Read more

$6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book will help you through a refreshing set of tools and techniques to help deliver your project challenges. The aim of book two is to assist in structuring and maintaining people-centric, good working practices during key stages of a project.The core elements include:Structuring - using scaffolding to lay down seeds of expectationsPredicting -
... Read more
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Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer

Wie das Smartphone die Welt veränderte

by Jakob Wagner ...

Narrated by Alexander (AI) ...

Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

Hast du dich jemals gefragt, wie ein klobiger Knochen zu dem unverzichtbaren Begleiter wurde, den du heute in der Tasche trägst? In Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer nimmst du an einer faszinierenden akustischen Reise teil. Dieses Hörbuch im Stil einer hochwertigen Dokumentation zeigt dir hautnah, wie rasant sich unsere Technologie entwickelt hat.Tauche ein in die spannende Geschichte des ... Read more

$3.66 AUD

Hast du dich jemals gefragt, wie ein klobiger Knochen zu dem unverzichtbaren Begleiter wurde, den du heute in der Tasche trägst? In Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer nimmst du an einer faszinierenden akustischen Reise teil. Dieses Hörbuch im Stil einer hochwertigen Dokumentation zeigt dir hautnah, wie rasant sich unsere Technologie entwickelt hat.Tauche ein in die spannende Geschichte des
... Read more
Audiobook

Speed and Scale

The Smart Guide on Living Green. Discover Useful Tips on How to Live Green so You Can Help the Environment and Mother Earth

by Nina Yakov ...

Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

Unabridged

13 min

Speed and Scale: The Smart Guide on Living Green. Discover Useful Tips on How to Live Green so You Can Help the Environment and Mother Earth.Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. We hear and read about it everyday and how this impacts our planet. Climate change, pollution, animal extinction, are amongst many other issues that ... Read more

$5.93 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Speed and Scale: The Smart Guide on Living Green. Discover Useful Tips on How to Live Green so You Can Help the Environment and Mother Earth.Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. We hear and read about it everyday and how this impacts our planet. Climate change, pollution, animal extinction, are amongst many other issues that
... Read more
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Agile Coaching : Where to Start?

by Dmitri Iarandine ...

Narrated by Dmitri Iarandine ...

Unabridged

2 hours 44 min

Agile Coaching remains a prominent career progression trend for many Agile practitioners, such as Scrum Masters and Agile Project Managers who feel like they outgrew the shoes of their Digital Delivery roles.This book is my attempt to summarize the learnings and observations from inside the Agile professional space, explaining in simple terms what an Agile Coach is really supposed to do, how they ... Read more

$15.83 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Agile Coaching remains a prominent career progression trend for many Agile practitioners, such as Scrum Masters and Agile Project Managers who feel like they outgrew the shoes of their Digital Delivery roles.This book is my attempt to summarize the learnings and observations from inside the Agile professional space, explaining in simple terms what an Agile Coach is really supposed to do, how they
... Read more
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LIFT

by Dan Ward ...

Narrated by Dan Ward ...

Unabridged

5 hours 11 min

LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800’s and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers.Blending light-hearted pop culture whimsy with well-grounded engineering pragmatism, LIFT introduces five inventors who tackled the seemingly impossible challenge of human flight ... Read more

$21.08 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800’s and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers.Blending light-hearted pop culture whimsy with well-grounded engineering pragmatism, LIFT introduces five inventors who tackled the seemingly impossible challenge of human flight
... Read more
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Nuts and Bolts

How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

by Roma Agrawal ...

Narrated by Roma Agrawal ...

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min

Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump._____________'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give' JANE GARVEY'Splendid. Clearly written, elegantly structured full of facts yo... ... Read more

$35.99 AUD

Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump._____________'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give' JANE GARVEY'Splendid. Clearly written, elegantly structured full of facts yo...
... Read more
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Smoke & Mirrors

How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

by Gemma Milne ...

Narrated by Gemma Milne ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Read more

$32.39 AUD

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from
... Read more
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What the F*ck is The Dark Web?

by Kit Eaton ...

Narrated by Kit Eaton ...

Series series WTF Series
Unabridged

2 hours 15 min

What the f*ck is the dark web and how does it work?Whether it's from dodgy acronym-titled crime shows to news stories designed to terrify you down to your socks we've all heard about sites like Silk Road and the ways criminals use cryptocurrency online. But did you know that among the various shady corners of the dark web you can also find portals to the BBC and Facebook?The thing is even the way ... Read more

$16.19 AUD

What the f*ck is the dark web and how does it work?Whether it's from dodgy acronym-titled crime shows to news stories designed to terrify you down to your socks we've all heard about sites like Silk Road and the ways criminals use cryptocurrency online. But did you know that among the various shady corners of the dark web you can also find portals to the BBC and Facebook?The thing is even the way
... Read more
Audiobook

The Innovation Delusion

How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

by Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?“The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your ... Read more

$23.59 AUD

“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?“The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your
... Read more
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The Mercenary River

Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water

by Nick Higham ...

Narrated by Nick Higham ...

Unabridged

11 hours 21 min

No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest and richest cities in the world, struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water. The Mercenary River tells the story of that struggle from the middle ages to the present day.Based on new research, it ... Read more

$35.99 AUD

No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest and richest cities in the world, struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water. The Mercenary River tells the story of that struggle from the middle ages to the present day.Based on new research, it
... Read more
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Into the Black

by Rowland White ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

15 hours 51 min

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane, ... Read more

$21.42 AUD

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane,
... Read more
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Alien Thinking

How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life

by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

Brought to you by Penguin.How do you come up with ideas that change the world?________________This bold and inspiring new book argues that everyone who made leaps of creative genius - whether to cure Ebola or circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon - had one thing in common; they all thought like ALIENs.Distilling over a decade of research into a fascinating journey through history and ... Read more

$23.21 AUD

Brought to you by Penguin.How do you come up with ideas that change the world?________________This bold and inspiring new book argues that everyone who made leaps of creative genius - whether to cure Ebola or circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon - had one thing in common; they all thought like ALIENs.Distilling over a decade of research into a fascinating journey through history and
... Read more

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