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The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
2025
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**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively biography . . . The story of how Nvidia became the hott...
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
2015
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**Now a Paramount+ docuseries narrated by Method Man and produced by Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, LeBron James, and moreOne of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time, by the author of The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted MicrochipWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?**How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and c...
The Street Singer
A Tale of Sex, Money and Power in a Changing Brooklyn
2012
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The Street Singer follows flat-broke New York CIty subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles into contact with Thaddeus Hoover, the high-powered developer with a plan to build the Barclays Arena and bring Brooklyn a National Basketball Association team - the first major professional sports team since baseball's Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1958. He ends up playing project supporters and opponents against each other as he plots a song he's written to BScott, the world's most famous r...
The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
- Narrated by
- Stephen Witt
Unabridged
10 hours 17 min
2025
EN
**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively biography . . . The story of how Nvidia became the hott...
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
- Narrated by
- Stephen Witt
Unabridged
9 hours 13 min
2015
EN
"What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?"How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store.Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history o...
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- Narrated by
- Barry Schwartz
Unabridged
2 hours 48 min
2015
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An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accomm...
When to Rob a Bank
...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
Unabridged
8 hours 13 min
2015
EN
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation, with more than 7 million books sold in 40 languages, and 150 million downlo...
Dataclysm
Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
- Narrated by
- Kaleo Griffith
Unabridged
7 hours 33 min
2014
EN
**A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making**Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our l...
Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
- Narrated by
- Patrick Egan
Unabridged
11 hours 56 min
2010
EN
The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American historyThe financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has been growing in power for a...
- Narrated by
- David deVries
Unabridged
9 hours 6 min
2015
EN
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class—investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, an...
All the Devils Are Here
The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
- Narrated by
- Dennis Boutsikaris
Unabridged
15 hours 29 min
2010
EN
The New York Times bestseller hailed as "the best business book of 2010" (Huffington Post).As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalist...
The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by
- Rob Shapiro
Unabridged
16 hours 37 min
2011
EN
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the l...











