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  • Rocketeers

    How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space

    de Michael Belfiore ...
    "That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit." —David Gelles, FORBESOn June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Department of Mad Scientists

    How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

    de Michael Belfiore ...
    The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless carsAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    The Department of Mad Scientists

    Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of

    de Michael Belfiore ...
    Narrado por Michael Belfiore ...

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    10 hora 12 minutos

    The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless carsAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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    The Dream Machine

    The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey

    de Richard Whittle ...
    Narrado por Kevin Foley ...

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    18 hora 32 minutos

    When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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    The Smartest Kids in the World

    And How They Got That Way

    de Amanda Ripley ...
    Narrado por Kate Reading ...

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    7 hora 43 minutos

    How do other countries create "smarter" kids?In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy.What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers?In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    The Industries of the Future

    de Alec Ross ...
    Narrado por Alec Ross ...

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    8 hora 48 minutos

    The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    The Disappearing Spoon

    And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

    de Sam Kean ...
    Narrado por Sean Runnette ...

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    12 hora 35 minutos

    The periodic table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

    The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

    de Sam Kean ...
    Narrado por Henry Leyva ...

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    12 hora 37 minutos

    The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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    The Violinist's Thumb

    And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

    de Sam Kean ...
    Narrado por Henry Leyva ...

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    12 hora 35 minutos

    From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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    The Information

    A History, a Theory, a Flood

    de James Gleick ...
    Narrado por Rob Shapiro ...

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    16 hora 37 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Death in the City of Light

    The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

    de David King ...
    Narrado por Paul Michael ...

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    13 hora 50 minutos

    The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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    The Inevitable

    Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

    de Kevin Kelly ...
    Narrado por George Newbern ...

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    11 hora 30 minutos

    **A New York Times BestsellerFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives**Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD