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    Elon Musk Audiobook By Ashlee Vance cover art
    • Elon Musk

    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 56,168
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 49,427
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 49,337

    Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • The best of competence porn

    • By Tristan on 08-20-16
    Elon Musk

    By: Ashlee Vance

    Digital Minimalism Audiobook By Cal Newport cover art
    • Digital Minimalism

    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • By: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,471
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,762
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,712

    Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • How To Live The Good Life

    • By Loïs Talagrand on 02-12-19
    Digital Minimalism

    By: Cal Newport

    Life 3.0 Audiobook By Max Tegmark cover art
    • Life 3.0

    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,322
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,649
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,633

    How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

    • 3 out of 5 stars
    • Odd book with some good info

    • By Michael on 12-02-17
    Life 3.0

    By: Max Tegmark

    Stealing Fire Audiobook By Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal cover art
    • Stealing Fire

    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
    • By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,508
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,621
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,602

    The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

    • 1 out of 5 stars
    • Terrible Book Don’t waste your Money! It’s all filler!

    • By Amazon Customer on 12-27-17
    Stealing Fire

    By: Steven Kotler, and others

    The Wright Brothers Audiobook By David McCullough cover art
    • The Wright Brothers

    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 12,912
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 11,543
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 11,504

    Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Great book

    • By S. Thurman on 06-17-15
    The Wright Brothers

    By: David McCullough

    The Innovators Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art
    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 7,617
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,635
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,612

    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • With Atlantean Shoulders, Fit to Bear

    • By W Perry Hall on 10-06-15
    The Innovators

    By: Walter Isaacson

    Elon Musk Audiobook By Ashlee Vance cover art
    • Elon Musk

    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 56,168
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 49,427
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 49,337

    Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • The best of competence porn

    • By Tristan on 08-20-16
    Elon Musk

    By: Ashlee Vance

    Digital Minimalism Audiobook By Cal Newport cover art
    • Digital Minimalism

    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • By: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,471
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,762
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,712

    Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • How To Live The Good Life

    • By Loïs Talagrand on 02-12-19
    Digital Minimalism

    By: Cal Newport

    Life 3.0 Audiobook By Max Tegmark cover art
    • Life 3.0

    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,322
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,649
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,633

    How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

    • 3 out of 5 stars
    • Odd book with some good info

    • By Michael on 12-02-17
    Life 3.0

    By: Max Tegmark

    Stealing Fire Audiobook By Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal cover art
    • Stealing Fire

    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
    • By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,508
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,621
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,602

    The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

    • 1 out of 5 stars
    • Terrible Book Don’t waste your Money! It’s all filler!

    • By Amazon Customer on 12-27-17
    Stealing Fire

    By: Steven Kotler, and others

    The Wright Brothers Audiobook By David McCullough cover art
    • The Wright Brothers

    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 12,912
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 11,543
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 11,504

    Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Great book

    • By S. Thurman on 06-17-15
    The Wright Brothers

    By: David McCullough

    The Innovators Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art
    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 7,617
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,635
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,612

    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • With Atlantean Shoulders, Fit to Bear

    • By W Perry Hall on 10-06-15
    The Innovators

    By: Walter Isaacson

    Hidden Figures Audiobook By Margot Lee Shetterly cover art
    • Hidden Figures

    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 9,241
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 8,264
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 8,290

    The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • Interesting Subject

    • By Jami on 02-05-18
    Hidden Figures

    By: Margot Lee Shetterly

    Human Compatible Audiobook By Stuart Russell cover art
    • Human Compatible

    • Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
    • By: Stuart Russell
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 425
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 356
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 350

    A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines....

    • 3 out of 5 stars
    • Good General Introduction to AI Topic

    • By Catherine Puma on 03-26-20
    Human Compatible

    By: Stuart Russell

    Thunderstruck Audiobook By Erik Larson cover art
    • Thunderstruck

    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Bob Balaban
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 2,134
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 1,602

    Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....

    • 2 out of 5 stars
    • Bob Balaban broke my heart

    • By Golden Sunrise on 03-18-15
    Thunderstruck

    By: Erik Larson

    The Art of Invisibility Audiobook By Kevin Mitnick cover art
    • The Art of Invisibility

    • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
    • By: Kevin Mitnick
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,363
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,880
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,876

    In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....

    • 2 out of 5 stars
    • Limited value for the average person

    • By James C on 10-14-17
    The Art of Invisibility

    By: Kevin Mitnick

    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Audiobook By Shoshana Zuboff cover art
    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • By: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271

    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • One of the most important books of the decade

    • By Steve on 04-28-19
    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    By: Shoshana Zuboff

    Failure Is Not an Option Audiobook By Gene Kranz cover art
    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,781
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,427
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,420

    Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Excellent Book!

    • By Kevin on 02-19-13
    Failure Is Not an Option

    By: Gene Kranz

    Everybody Lies Audiobook By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword cover art
    • Everybody Lies

    • Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    • By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,846
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,071
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,039

    By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....

    • 3 out of 5 stars
    • Leave out the politics please

    • By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
    Everybody Lies

    By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others

    The Future Is Faster Than You Think Audiobook By Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler cover art
    • The Future Is Faster Than You Think

    • How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,000
    • Performance
      5 out of 5 stars 1,696
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,683

    From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Totally Mixed on This One

    • By D. Sooley on 02-03-20
    The Future Is Faster Than You Think

    By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others

    How to Do Nothing Audiobook By Jenny Odell cover art
    • How to Do Nothing

    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      3.5 out of 5 stars 569
    • Performance
      3.5 out of 5 stars 459
    • Story
      3.5 out of 5 stars 445

    A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • great book, voiceover is brutal

    • By Anonymous User on 08-24-19
    How to Do Nothing

    By: Jenny Odell

    Work Rules! Audiobook By Laszlo Bock cover art
    • Work Rules!

    • Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
    • By: Laszlo Bock
    • Narrated by: Laszlo Bock
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,449
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,110
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,086

    From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work - and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • Multifaceted

    • By jeremiah on 04-07-15
    Work Rules!

    By: Laszlo Bock

    The Shallows Audiobook By Nicholas Carr cover art
    • The Shallows

    • What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
    • By: Nicholas Carr
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 1,312
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 1,016

    A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Its true.

    • By Joseph on 05-26-14
    The Shallows

    By: Nicholas Carr

    The Metaverse Audiobook By Matthew Ball cover art
    • The Metaverse

    • And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
    • By: Matthew Ball
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      0 out of 5 stars 0
    • Performance
      0 out of 5 stars 0
    • Story
      0 out of 5 stars 0

    In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse....

    The Metaverse

    By: Matthew Ball

    The Man from the Future Audiobook By Ananyo Bhattacharya cover art
    • The Man from the Future

    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 129
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 115
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 114

     

    The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Amazing story of an amazing man!

    • By Bryan Miller on 03-29-22
    The Man from the Future

    By: Ananyo Bhattacharya

    Build Audiobook By Tony Fadell cover art
    • Build

    • An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
    • By: Tony Fadell
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      5 out of 5 stars 14
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 13
    • Story
      5 out of 5 stars 13

    Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century....

    Build

    By: Tony Fadell

    The Age of AI Audiobook By Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher cover art
    • The Age of AI

    • And Our Human Future
    • By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
    • Narrated by: Eric Pollins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 292
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 250
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 248

     

    Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what this technology means for us all....

    • 2 out of 5 stars
    • Little Substantive Value

    • By Tennisartist85 on 11-12-21
    The Age of AI

    By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others

    A World Without Email Audiobook By Cal Newport cover art
    • A World Without Email

    • Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
    • By: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 464
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 398
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 394

    From New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox - and unleashing a new era of productivity....

    • 1 out of 5 stars
    • Waste of time

    • By Tarek Kamil on 04-20-21
    A World Without Email

    By: Cal Newport

    Countdown to Zero Day Audiobook By Kim Zetter cover art
    • Countdown to Zero Day

    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,190
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,927
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,923

    Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • Overzealous editing and lifeless reading

    • By John Tangney on 03-01-20
    Countdown to Zero Day

    By: Kim Zetter

    Kelly Audiobook By Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig. Gen. Leo P. Geary USAF - ret. - foreword cover
    • Kelly

    • More Than My Share of It All
    • By: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig. Gen. Leo P. Geary USAF - ret. - foreword
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 525
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 464
    • Story
      5 out of 5 stars 463

    Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Memoir of a Legend

    • By Jean on 08-26-19
    Kelly

    By: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, and others

    The Singularity Is Near Audiobook By Ray Kurzweil cover art
    • The Singularity Is Near

    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 309
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 248
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 249

    For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

    • 2 out of 5 stars
    • RUINED audio.

    • By Fred on 06-25-21
    The Singularity Is Near

    By: Ray Kurzweil

    The Alignment Problem Audiobook By Brian Christian cover art
    • The Alignment Problem

    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 429
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 354
    • Story
      5 out of 5 stars 351

    Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • One of the best outlook books on AI

    • By Ahmed ELGazzar on 11-04-21
    The Alignment Problem

    By: Brian Christian

    The Perfectionists Audiobook By Simon Winchester cover art
    • The Perfectionists

    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,723
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,509

    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....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Somewhat less than perfect

    • By enya keshet on 06-19-18
    The Perfectionists

    By: Simon Winchester

    Super Pumped Audiobook By Mike Isaac cover art
    • Super Pumped

    • The Battle for Uber
    • By: Mike Isaac
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,758
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,484
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479

    Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior....

    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • Entertaining, but author clearly has an agenda

    • By Josh on 11-18-19
    Super Pumped

    By: Mike Isaac

    Wizard Audiobook By Marc J. Seifer cover art
    • Wizard

    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 3,795
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 3,379
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 3,356

    Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

    • 5 out of 5 stars
    • Tesla was a hundred years ahead of his time

    • By Jean on 01-28-12
    Wizard

    By: Marc J. Seifer

    So You've Been Publicly Shamed Audiobook By Jon Ronson cover art
    • So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,820
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 5,193
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