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The Worthing Saga

by Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Emily Janice Card, Harlan Ellison, Aaron Johnston, Eric Luke, Stefan Rudnicki, a full cast, Scott Brick, Corinne Melançon ...

Unabridged

18 hours 35 min

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great ... Read more

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It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great
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Nikola Tesla: Biography of a True Genius

by Luke Johnston ...

Narrated by John Grant ...

Unabridged

3 hours 37 min

Nikola Tesla, genius or madman?Noted for his incredible intellect, eccentric ideas, and world-altering inventions, Nikola Tesla has evolved into the classic example of mad scientist. But is that all there is to the story?Uncover the rich life of Tesla and learn about his entrance into the world as a “Child of Light,” how he conceived his most brilliant inventions, and why he fell into obscurity ... Read more

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Nikola Tesla, genius or madman?Noted for his incredible intellect, eccentric ideas, and world-altering inventions, Nikola Tesla has evolved into the classic example of mad scientist. But is that all there is to the story?Uncover the rich life of Tesla and learn about his entrance into the world as a “Child of Light,” how he conceived his most brilliant inventions, and why he fell into obscurity
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Research Software Engineering with Python

Building software that makes research possible

by Damien Irving, Kate Hertweck, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Charlotte Wickham, Greg Wilson ...

Writing and running software is now as much a part of science as telescopes and test tubes, but most researchers are never taught how to do either well. As a result, it takes them longer to accomplish simple tasks than it should, and it is harder for them to share their work with others than it needs to be.This book introduces the concepts, tools, and skills that researchers need to get more done ... Read more

$84.99 USD

Writing and running software is now as much a part of science as telescopes and test tubes, but most researchers are never taught how to do either well. As a result, it takes them longer to accomplish simple tasks than it should, and it is harder for them to share their work with others than it needs to be.This book introduces the concepts, tools, and skills that researchers need to get more done
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Miller and Max

by Luke Buckmaster ...

Narrated by Paul Johnstone ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

George Miller made his first film, Mad Max, in 1976 after hiring unknown Mel Gibson and editing it in his kitchen. It would become the most profitable film ever made. Miller and Max is the story of two heroes. One, a globally recognised dystopian warrior. The second, the artist who created him. Written with the cooperation of a role call of cast, crew, family and associates, author Luke Buckmaster ... Read more

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George Miller made his first film, Mad Max, in 1976 after hiring unknown Mel Gibson and editing it in his kitchen. It would become the most profitable film ever made. Miller and Max is the story of two heroes. One, a globally recognised dystopian warrior. The second, the artist who created him. Written with the cooperation of a role call of cast, crew, family and associates, author Luke Buckmaster
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Co-producing Research

A Community Development Approach

by Claire Levi, Kathryn Smith, Benjamin Kyneswood, Natalie Walton, Kim Streets, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Mandeep Samra, Elizabeth Pente, Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton, Onyeka Nubia, Milton Brown, Shabina Aslam, Elizabeth Hoult, Louise Ritchie, Prue Chiles, Steve Pool, David Bell, Elias Kourkoutas, Anne Rathbone, Lisa Buttery, Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Josh Cameron, Andrew Church, Susanne Martikke, Ruth Taylor, Luke Johnston, Patrick Harman, Yvonne Hall, Anne Bonner, Andrea Armstrong ...

Series series Connected Communities
Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With
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Treason

by Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"—radical regenerative—a freak who can regenerate injured flesh and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals, or the means of escape, iron offers the promise of freedom through the chance to build a spacecraft. But it is a promise ... Read more

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Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"—radical regenerative—a freak who can regenerate injured flesh and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals, or the means of escape, iron offers the promise of freedom through the chance to build a spacecraft. But it is a promise
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Wyrms

by Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Emily Janice Card ...

Unabridged

11 hours 32 min

The sphere is alien in origin but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring salvation—or eternal destruction of the cosmos.Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed ... Read more

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The sphere is alien in origin but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring salvation—or eternal destruction of the cosmos.Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed
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Songmaster

by Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other.But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse—for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to ... Read more

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Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other.But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse—for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to
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Earthfall

Homecoming: Volume 4

by Orson Scott Card, Emily Janice Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Homecoming Series
Unabridged

12 hours 11 min

When war broke out on the planet Harmony, the Oversoul of that colonized world selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now the tribe is ready at last to take a ship to the stars, but from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Wetchik’s sons, Nafai and Elemak. On board the starship Basilica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle for ... Read more

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When war broke out on the planet Harmony, the Oversoul of that colonized world selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now the tribe is ready at last to take a ship to the stars, but from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Wetchik’s sons, Nafai and Elemak. On board the starship Basilica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle for
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Hidden Empire

by Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Rusty Humphries ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Empire
Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

In Hidden Empire, the sequel to Card's bestselling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance.But Captain Bartholomew Coleman, known as Cole to his ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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In Hidden Empire, the sequel to Card's bestselling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance.But Captain Bartholomew Coleman, known as Cole to his
... Read more

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Empire

by Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Empire
Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words
... Read more

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Lost Boys

by Orson Scott Card ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

16 hours 2 min

From the bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town.Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina, with high hopes. But Step’s new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and eight-year-old Stevie’s school is worse, an unending parade of misery and disaster. As Stevie retreats ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town.Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina, with high hopes. But Step’s new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and eight-year-old Stevie’s school is worse, an unending parade of misery and disaster. As Stevie retreats
... Read more

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