29 Best Computers Books
Computers is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Computers audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Computers audiobooks below.
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All About Online Gaming
- By: Jill Sherman
- Narrator: Lauren McCullough
- Length: 10 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 24, 2018
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)
5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExplores the fascinating world of online gaming. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology. -
All About Apps
- By: Christy Mihaly
- Narrator: Lauren McCullough
- Length: 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 24, 2018
- Language: English
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4.5(4 ratings)
4.5(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExplores the fascinating world of mobile apps. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology. -
Quest for Justice
- By: Sean Fay Wolfe
- Narrator: Edward Killingback
- Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperFestival
- Publish date: August 11, 2015
- Language: English
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4.45(576 ratings)
4.45(576 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDIntroducing an unofficial Minecraft-fan adventure series inspired by the bestselling game! Fans of the bestselling video game Minecraft, middle grade readers, and action-adventure story enthusiasts of all ages are about to embark on an excitingIntroducing an unofficial Minecraft-fan adventure series inspired by the bestselling game!
Fans of the bestselling video game Minecraft, middle grade readers, and action-adventure story enthusiasts of all ages are about to embark on an exciting journey that will take them far beyond the world they know.
Dark forces are at work on the Elementia server, and when new players Stan, Kat, and Charlie arrive on the scene, they quickly find themselves in peril. Targeted by more experienced players, the noobs must band together against the king, battle the natural forces of the game, and unravel the mysteries of Elementia in the name of justice.
Written when he was sixteen, Sean Fay Wolfe’s Quest for Justice is the debut novel by an unstoppable young storyteller and the first book in The Elementia Chronicles trilogy.
Disclaimer: This book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed or licensed by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other person or entity owning or controlling any rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Minecraft is a registered trademark of Mojang Synergies AB.
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A Computer Called Katherine
- By: Suzanne Slade
- Narrator: Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.39(528 ratings)
4.39(528 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.98 USDThe inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson–made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures–who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon!Katherine knew it was wrong that African AmericansThe inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson–made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures–who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon!
Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn’t have the same rights as others–as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses–as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at fifteen, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America’s first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world’s first trip to the moon!Award-winning author Suzanne Slade and debut artist Veronica Miller Jamison tell the story of a NASA “computer” in this smartly written, charmingly illustrated biography.... Read more -
The Couch Potato
- By: Jory John
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: November 03, 2020
- Language: English
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4.31(2845 ratings)
4.31(2845 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDAn Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creatorsAn Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection
Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald, will get you and your kids moving!
The Couch Potato has everything within reach and doesn’t have to move from the sunken couch cushion. But when the electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced to peel away from the comforts of the living room and venture outside. Could fresh air and sunshine possibly be better than the views on screen?
Readers of all ages will laugh along as their new best spuddy learns that balancing screen time and playtime is the root to true happiness.
Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald’s funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh:
- The Bad Seed
- The Good Egg
- The Cool Bean
- The Couch Potato
- The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape!
- The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky!
- The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets
- That’s What Dinosaurs Do
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Living in Data
- By: Jer Thorp
- Narrator: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 28, 2021
- Language: English
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4.27(254 ratings)
4.27(254 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the fall of 2009, the data artist Jer Thorp wrote a pair of algorithms to inscribe names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. The project involved designing a layout that allowed for “meaningful adjacencies”?family members, businessIn the fall of 2009, the data artist Jer Thorp wrote a pair of algorithms to inscribe names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. The project involved designing a layout that allowed for “meaningful adjacencies”?family members, business partners, coworkers?to be etched into the bronze in close proximity. Thorp presented his results in competition against another team, a group of financial analysts who had also been working on the problem. The analysts were confident they’d found the most highly optimized solution?a maximum of about 93 percent of the adjacencies could be satisfied?when Thorp, a long-haired artist working on an old broken laptop, presented his layout: it was 99.99 percent solved. The analysts, it turned out, had looked at the data but not at how the data was to be represented. But Thorp considered each name as a unique unit in a real system. He’d solved a data problem by honoring the people from whom the data came, as well as the world in which that data would live. The memorial project represents Thorp’s approach to data as a rich medium for personal and community growth. This human-centered approach has defined his work, from The New York Times to the Museum of Modern Art to the Library of Congress, from a submarine at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to a boat in the middle of Africa’s Okavango Delta, from Manchester’s town hall to an abandoned school in St. Louis’s north side. In Living in Data, Thorp proves that thinking about data in a human context makes us better problem solvers and builds a healthier relationship between us and our data?one that puts our well-being front and center?and that there is a path forward beyond the extractive, impersonal nature of the “big data” era.
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All About 3D Printing
- By: Tracy Abell
- Narrator: Lauren McCullough
- Length: 10 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 24, 2018
- Language: English
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4.25(4 ratings)
4.25(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExplores the fascinating world of 3D printing. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology. -
Raising Humans in a Digital World
- By: Diana Graber
- Narrator: Diana Graber
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: January 15, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(125 ratings)
4.24(125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment. Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can temptThe Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment.
Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can tempt parents to snatch the smartphone or tablet out of their children’s hands. While avoidance might eliminate the dangers, that approach also means your child misses out on technology’s many benefits and opportunities.
In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space through:
- developing social-emotional skills
- balancing virtual and real life
- building safe and healthy relationships
- avoiding cyberbullies and online predators
- protecting personal information
- identifying and avoiding fake news and questionable content
- becoming positive role models and leaders
Raising Humans in a Digital World is packed with at-home discussion topics and enjoyable activities that any busy family can slip into their daily routine.
Full of practical tips grounded in academic research and hands-on experience, today’s parents finally have what they’ve been waiting for–a guide to raising digital kids who will become the positive and successful leaders our world desperately needs.
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Liking Jesus
- By: Craig Groeschel
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: February 06, 2018
- Language: English
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4.18(158 ratings)
4.18(158 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDIn Liking Jesus, a timely and life-changing book, New York Times bestselling author and pastor of Life.Church Craig Groeschel helps put Christ first again in today’s maxed out, selfie-centered world. The more you compare, the lessIn Liking Jesus, a timely and life-changing book, New York Times bestselling author and pastor of Life.Church Craig Groeschel helps put Christ first again in today’s maxed out, selfie-centered world.
The more you compare, the less satisfied you are. The more we interact online, the more we crave intimacy. The more filtered our lives become, the harder it is to be real.
It’s time to refresh and rediscover what it means to be “like Jesus” and find true authenticity, a healthy self-image, and compassion for others in an age when we relate to each other so differently than ever before. Groeschel taps into some of the most leading-edge studies on the effects of social media on our emotions and friendships. He offers real-life examples of how we struggle with screens and likes, how these things mask our struggles with who we really are, and how we can reclaim a Christ-centered life.
Packed with helpful topics like the “10 Commandments of Using Social Media to Strengthen Your Faith” and “Creating Safeguards for Your Digital Devices,” readers from ages sixteen to sixty will find Liking Jesus to be just the guide to bring balance and real-world engagement to everyday life. 
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Ways of Being
- By: James Bridle
- Narrator: James Bridle
- Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(298 ratings)
4.17(298 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“There’s joy in self-described “satellite nerd” James Bridle’s British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence.” – AudioFile MagazineThis“There’s joy in self-described “satellite nerd” James Bridle’s British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence.” – AudioFile Magazine
This audiobook is read by the author.Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence–plant, animal, human, artificial–and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings–beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in “artificial” intelligence. But as it approaches, it also gets weirder: rather than a friend or helpmate, AI increasingly appears as something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us.
At the same time, we’re only just becoming aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, even if we’ve failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others–the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we’ve built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics, to live better and more equitably with one another and the non-human world?
Artist and maverick thinker James Bridle drawn on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy, to answer these unsettling questions. Startling and bold, Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being which are becoming evident in the present, and which are essential for our survival.
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The Art of Statistics
- By: David Spiegelhalter
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.17(2442 ratings)
4.17(2442 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIn this “important and comprehensive” guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you a better understanding of life’s biggest problems. Statistics are everywhere, asIn this “important and comprehensive” guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you a better understanding of life’s biggest problems.
Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact from the fiction, the ostentatious embellishments from the raw evidence — and even more so if we hope to participate in the future, rather than being simple bystanders.In The Art of Statistics, world-renowned statistician David Spiegelhalter shows readers how to derive knowledge from raw data by focusing on the concepts and connections behind the math. Drawing on real world examples to introduce complex issues, he shows us how statistics can help us determine the luckiest passenger on the Titanic, whether a notorious serial killer could have been caught earlier, and if screening for ovarian cancer is beneficial. The Art of Statistics not only shows us how mathematicians have used statistical science to solve these problems — it teaches us how we too can think like statisticians. We learn how to clarify our questions, assumptions, and expectations when approaching a problem, and — perhaps even more importantly — we learn how to responsibly interpret the answers we receive.Combining the incomparable insight of an expert with the playful enthusiasm of an aficionado, The Art of Statistics is the definitive guide to stats that every modern person needs.... Read more -
User Friendly
- By: Cliff Kuang
- Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.14(1617 ratings)
4.14(1617 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program includes material read by the authors. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. SpanningThis program includes material read by the authors.
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.
Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks the ways in which the world has been–and continues to be–remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.
In this essential program, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change–an underappreciated but essential history that’s pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time–and you’ll never interact with technology the same way again.
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The Crowdsourceress
- By: Alex Daly
- Narrator: Alex Daly
- Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 28, 2017
- Language: English
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4.12(24 ratings)
4.12(24 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USD“Neil Young’s Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a“Neil Young’s Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a success.” — Phil Baker, COO, Pono
“Owning The Crowdsourceress is like having Alex Daly’s ‘special sauce’ right at your fingertips.” — Jesse Reed, cofounder, Standards Manual
In recent years, the crowdfunding industry has generated several billions in funding. But the harsh reality is that around 60 percent of Kickstarter campaigns fail. Enter Alex Daly, a crowdfunding expert who has raised over $20 million for her clients’ campaigns. She has run some of Kickstarter’s biggest projects-TLC’s newest album, Neil Young’s audio player, and Joan Didion’s documentary. In this book, Daly takes readers deep inside her most successful campaigns, showing you how to
- Get fans and influencers excited about your launch
- Build an appealing and powerfully designed campaign
- Access proven video tips, pitching tactics, press releases, and rewards ideas
- Avoid the most common headaches and pitfalls
Here you’ll get tangible tools to run your own crowdfunding campaigns and fully connect with the crowd, get people to pay attention, and inspire them to act.
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How Do Computers Follow Instructions?
- By: J. T. Liso
- Narrator: Full Cast
- Length: 19 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 18, 2021
- Language: English
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4.12(7 ratings)
4.12(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDHave you ever wondered how computers follow instructions so well? Or how they do math so quickly? Basic principles of coding, including variables, binary code, loops, programming languages, and more are explored in this newest engaging addition toHave you ever wondered how computers follow instructions so well? Or how they do math so quickly? Basic principles of coding, including variables, binary code, loops, programming languages, and more are explored in this newest engaging addition to the How Do series. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.
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Heir Apparent
- By: Vivian Vande Velde
- Narrator: Hallie Ricardo
- Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Publish date: February 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.11(9507 ratings)
4.11(9507 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn Heir Apparent there are as many ways to win as there are to get killed. “A stylish tale [that] addresses both fantasy gaming and censorship.” (New York Times Book Review) From Edgar Award‚Äìwinning author Vivian Vande Velde comesIn Heir Apparent there are as many ways to win as there are to get killed. “A stylish tale [that] addresses both fantasy gaming and censorship.” (New York Times Book Review)
From Edgar Award–winning author Vivian Vande Velde comes a rollicking story that puts a high-tech twist on the classic medieval fantasy-adventure.
In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent,¬†there are¬†way¬†too many ways to get killed‚Äîand Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf’s dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she’ll¬†never¬†win.
And she has to, because losing means she’ll die‚Äîfor real¬†this time.
Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
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Ada’s Ideas
- By: Fiona Robinson
- Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 30 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 22, 2016
- Language: English
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4.08(488 ratings)
4.08(488 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDAda Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s mad love of poetry.Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s mad love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics poetical science. Via her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage, she became involved in programming his Analytical Engine, a precursor to the computer, thus becoming the world’s first computer programmer. This picture book biography of Ada Lovelace is a compelling portrait of a woman who saw the potential for numbers to make art.
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The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities
- By: Shivam Shankar Singh
- Narrator: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins India
- Publish date: April 27, 2022
- Language: English
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4.07(54 ratings)
4.07(54 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDHOW DO POLITICIANS IN TODAY’S world attain power? How do nations become powerful? Why do human beings follow others unquestioningly, even if it is to their own detriment? What factors determine which politicians, nations and organizations willHOW DO POLITICIANS IN TODAY’S world attain power? How do nations become powerful? Why do human beings follow others unquestioningly, even if it is to their own detriment? What factors determine which politicians, nations and organizations will dominate the modern world?
Through much of human history, societal control was determined by militaristic strength. Individuals and tribes fought to control vital resources and land. In the next part of evolution marked by colonialism and the emergence of mega-corporations, money determined power. In the recent decade, the key to supremacy has shifted again. The power and control individuals, leaders and nations have is now determined by their ability to mould the information environment.
In The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities, Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan dive into the operations of political parties, cyber criminals, godmen, nation states and intelligence agencies from around the world to explain how the power to manipulate your thoughts is being harnessed, and how information warfare is shaping your life and world.
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Creative Selection
- By: Ken Kocienda
- Narrator: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 04, 2018
- Language: English
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4.07(2971 ratings)
4.07(2971 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program is read by the author. An insider’s account of Apple’s creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple’s campus inThis program is read by the author.
An insider’s account of Apple’s creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era–the Golden Age of Apple.
Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser. His stories explain the symbiotic relationship between software and product development for those who have never dreamed of programming a computer, and reveal what it was like to work on the cutting edge of technology at one of the world’s most admired companies.
Kocienda shares moments of struggle and success, crisis and collaboration, illuminating each with lessons learned over his Apple career. He introduces the essential elements of innovation–inspiration, collaboration, craft, diligence, decisiveness, taste, and empathy–and uses these as a lens through which to understand productive work culture.
An insider’s tale of creativity and innovation at Apple, Creative Selection shows listeners how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.
Praise for Creative Selection:
“Kocienda reveals the real secret of Steve Jobs’s leadership and Apple’s magic: the ability to push people to think for themselves, and to empower them to turn their best thinking into reality. It is a story about the intersection of technology and humanity.” — Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor
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“I’ve literally been waiting a decade for this book. Ken Kocienda takes you inside Apple in way only a true insider, a veteran software developer, could. Creative Selection is the answer to the prayer uttered by anyone who wants to truly understand how Apple works. I couldn’t put it down.” — Adam Lashinsky, New York Times bestselling author of Inside Apple -
It Came from Something Awful
- By: Dale Beran
- Narrator: Dale Beran
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 30, 2019
- Language: English
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4.06(608 ratings)
4.06(608 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program is read by the author. An insider’s history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House.The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence,This program is read by the author.
An insider’s history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House.
The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of 4chan and its profound effect on youth counterculture.Dale Beran has observed the website’s shifting activities and interests since the beginning. 4chan is a microcosm of the internet itself–simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. It was the original meme machine, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of a place to be alone together.
During the recession of the late 2000’s, the memes became political. 4chan was the online hub of a leftist hacker collective known as Anonymous and a prominent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But within a few short years, the site’s ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right. In It Came from Something Awful, Beran uses his insider’s knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan’s strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to–according to some–memeing Donald Trump into the White House.
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You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late
- By: Josephine Wolff
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.05(78 ratings)
4.05(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDCybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach–the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, orCybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach–the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump–makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. In this book, cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn’t forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.
Wolff describes a series of significant cybersecurity incidents between 2005 and 2015, mapping the entire life cycle of each breach in order to identify opportunities for defensive intervention. She outlines three types of motives underlying these attacks–financial gain, espionage, and public humiliation of the victims–that have remained consistent through a decade of cyberattacks, offers examples of each, and analyzes the emergence of different attack patterns. The enormous TJX breach in 2006, for instance, set the pattern for a series of payment card fraud incidents that led to identity fraud and extortion; the Chinese army conducted cyberespionage campaigns directed at US-based companies from 2006 to 2014, sparking debate about the distinction between economic and political espionage; and the 2014 breach of the Ashley Madison website was aimed at reputations rather than bank accounts.
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Platform
- By: Michael Hyatt
- Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: April 30, 2012
- Language: English
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4.05(7942 ratings)
4.05(7942 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDHow do you turn your social media accounts into viable business opportunities? Michael Hyatt has the blueprint. Michael Hyatt learned to use his social media platform as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coachingHow do you turn your social media accounts into viable business opportunities? Michael Hyatt has the blueprint.
Michael Hyatt learned to use his social media platform as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coaching practice. In this straightforward how-to, he offers down-to-earth guidance on crafting an effective and meaningful online platform.
In Platform, you will learn how to:
- Extend your influence, monetize it, and build a sustainable career.
- Get noticed and start earning money in an increasingly noisy world.
- Learn to amplify, update, polish, and organize your content for success.
Platform goes behind the scenes into the world of social media success. You’ll discover what bestselling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creatives are doing differently to gain contacts, connections, and followers and win customers in today’s crowded marketplace.
With proven strategies, easy-to-replicate formulas, and practical tips, this book makes it easier, less expensive, and more possible than ever to stand out from the crowd and launch a business.
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Morning Sun in Wuhan
- By: Ying Chang Compestine
- Narrator: Nancy Wu
- Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Publish date: November 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.03(188 ratings)
4.03(188 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDWhat was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds ofWhat was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together.
Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the listener follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. Written by an award-winning author originally from Wuhan. 
Grieving the death of her mother and an outcast at school, thirteen-year-old Mei finds solace in cooking and computer games. When her friend’s grandmother falls ill, Mei seeks out her father, a doctor, for help, and discovers the hospital is overcrowded. As the virus spreads, Mei finds herself alone in a locked-down city trying to find a way to help.
Author Ying Chang Compestine draws on her own experiences growing up in Wuhan to illustrate that the darkest times can bring out the best in people, friendship can give one courage in frightening times, and most importantly, young people can make an impact on the world. Listeners can download Mei’s tantalizing recipes and cook them at home. 
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Google It
- By: Anna Crowley Redding
- Narrator: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.03(394 ratings)
4.03(394 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDFrenemies + Homework + Legos = Google? From a college project made out of knock-off legos, Google became one of the most influential companies in the world. Award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares the true story of Google,Frenemies + Homework + Legos = Google? From a college project made out of knock-off legos, Google became one of the most influential companies in the world. Award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares the true story of Google, its history, innovations, and where it will take us next is this compelling nonfiction account.
Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don’t be evil. And change the world.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world’s information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word “google” has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Google–from its humble beginnings as a thesis project made out of “borrowed” hardware and discount toys through its revolution of the world’s relationship with technology to a brief glimpse of where they might take us next.
Award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and of shooting for the moon to change the world.
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The Ransomware Hunting Team
- By: Renee Dudley
- Narrator: BD Wong
- Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(130 ratings)
4.02(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time. “What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Dudley and Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware andA real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.
“What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Dudley and Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously reported, this book is impossible to put down.” –Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers
Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You’ve probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar with the team’s sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, an unlikely band of misfits, mostly self-taught and often struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the underworld of hackers who lock computer networks and demand huge payments in return for the keys.
The Ransomware Hunting Team traces the adventures of these unassuming heroes and how they have used their skills to save millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars to criminals. Working tirelessly from bedrooms and back offices, and refusing payment, they’ve rescued those whom the often hapless FBI has been unwilling or unable to help. Foremost among them is Michael Gillespie, a cancer survivor and cat lover who got his start cracking ransomware while working at a Nerds on Call store in the town of Normal, Illinois. Other teammates include the brilliant, reclusive Fabian Wosar, a high school dropout from Germany who enjoys bantering with the attackers he foils, and his protege, the British computer science prodigy Sarah White. Together, they have established themselves as the most effective force against an escalating global threat. This book follows them as they put their health, personal relationships, and financial security on the line to navigate the technological and moral challenges of combating digital hostage taking.
Urgent, uplifting, and entertaining, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden‘s The Ransomware Hunting Team is a real-life technological thriller that illuminates a dangerous new era of cybercrime.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Dot Con
- By: James Veitch
- Narrator: James Veitch
- Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
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4(1193 ratings)
4(1193 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom viral comedy sensation James Veitch (as seen on TED, Conan, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) comes a collection of laugh-out-loud funny exchanges with email scammers.The Nigerian prince eager to fork over his inheritance, the family... Read moreFrom viral comedy sensation James Veitch (as seen on TED, Conan, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) comes a collection of laugh-out-loud funny exchanges with email scammers.The Nigerian prince eager to fork over his inheritance, the family friend stranded unexpectedly in Norway, the lonely Russian beauty looking for love . . . they spam our inboxes with their hapless pleas for help, money, and your social security number. In Dot Con, Veitch finally answers the question: what would happen if you replied?Suspicious emails pop up in our inboxes and our first instinct is to delete unopened. But what if you responded to the deposed princess begging for money in your Gmail? Veitch dives into the underbelly of our absurd email scam culture, playing the scammers at their own game, and these are the surprising, bizarre, and hilarious results. -
Breaking News
- By: Nick Sheridan
- Narrator: Nick Sheridan
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4(7 ratings)
4(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.99 USDA funny, practical and ever-so timely guide to the NEWS for 8-12-year-olds. Find out how to understand and navigate 24/7 news, how to spot the facts from the fake . . . and what to do if the news becomes overwhelming. Perfect for fans of MatthewA funny, practical and ever-so timely guide to the NEWS for 8-12-year-olds. Find out how to understand and navigate 24/7 news, how to spot the facts from the fake . . . and what to do if the news becomes overwhelming. Perfect for fans of Matthew Syed’s You Are Awesome and Rashmi Sirdeshpande’s Dosh.
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It’s never been easier to access the news; TV, radio, billboards, newspapers and endlessly buzzing on to the screens in our pockets. But with more and more news available, it’s hard to know what to trust. Where do stories come from? What’s real news and what’s fake? And what role does social media play in all of this?
Insightful, hands-on, essential and reassuring, Breaking News will help children navigate the peaks and pitfalls of our modern day news cycle, through laugh-out-loud text, amusing illustration and interactive activities.
Praise for Breaking News:
‘Newsflash: I loved it.’ – Eoin Colfer, million-copy selling author of ARTEMIS FOWL
‘A perfect read for any budding young journalists out there.’ – Konnie Huq, TV presenter and author of the COOKIE! series
‘Jam-packed with fascinating facts, this is a fantastically funny and much-needed guide to navigating the news.’ – Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of DOSH -
Bitcoin Billionaires
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrator: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 21, 2019
- Language: English
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3.99(4423 ratings)
3.99(4423 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrating with subtle pitch and phrasing variations, Will Damron connects with every bit of the drama and interpersonal tension that pervade this story. His pleasing voice and facility with dialogue are enormously“Narrating with subtle pitch and phrasing variations, Will Damron connects with every bit of the drama and interpersonal tension that pervade this story. His pleasing voice and facility with dialogue are enormously enjoyable…Damron’s superb performance adds to the excitement and makes this captivating listening.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires–the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’s big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.
Ben Mezrich’s 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook’s founding and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story’s iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers’ redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook.Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money after their fight with Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into an eccentric character who tells them about a brand-new idea: cryptocurrency. Immersing themselves in what is then an obscure and sometimes sinister world, they begin to realize “crypto” is, in their own words, “either the next big thing or total bulls–t.” There’s nothing left to do but make a bet.
From the Silk Road to the halls of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and surprising ride while illuminating a tantalizing economic future. On November 26, 2017, the Winklevoss brothers became the first bitcoin billionaires. Here’s the story of how they got there–as only Ben Mezrich could tell it.
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The Creativity Code
- By: Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrator: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(939 ratings)
3.98(939 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human. Can a well-programmed machine do anything a humanThe award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human.
Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can–only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we’ve taken solace in the notion that they can’t create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines too?
It is hard to imagine a better guide to the bewildering world of artificial intelligence than Marcus du Sautoy, a celebrated Oxford mathematician whose work on symmetry in the ninth dimension has taken him to the vertiginous edge of mathematical understanding. In The Creativity Code he considers what machine learning means for the future of creativity. Programs like Deep Dream produce drip paintings that could fool students of Jackson Pollock; Deep Jazz composes music in the style of Duke Ellington. But do these programs just mimic, or do they have what it takes to create? Du Sautoy argues that to answer this question, we need to understand how the algorithms that drive them work–and this brings him back to his own subject of mathematics, with its puzzles, constraints, and enticing possibilities.
Where most recent books on AI focus on the future of work, The Creativity Code moves us to the forefront of creative new technologies and offers a more positive and unexpected vision of our future cohabitation with machines.
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R Hofstadter
- Narrator: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 10, 2018
- Language: English
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3.95(6214 ratings)
3.95(6214 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDOne of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from — and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out ofOne of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from — and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”-a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called “I.” The “I” is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real-or is our “I” merely a convenient fiction? Does an “I” exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter’s first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
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