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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Nexus (Spanish Edition)
- Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Luis David García Márquez
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.
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Asombroso, imperdible, admirable.
- De Jairo en 09-11-24
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Steven Levy
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- De Dan Collins en 07-01-16
De: Steven Levy
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- De Andy en 05-25-24
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- De Momx4 en 02-29-24
De: Kara Swisher
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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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....
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A History of the Ancient Geeks
- De Mark en 10-21-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Nexus (Spanish Edition)
- Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Luis David García Márquez
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.
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Asombroso, imperdible, admirable.
- De Jairo en 09-11-24
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Steven Levy
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- De Dan Collins en 07-01-16
De: Steven Levy
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- De Andy en 05-25-24
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- De Momx4 en 02-29-24
De: Kara Swisher
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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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....
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A History of the Ancient Geeks
- De Mark en 10-21-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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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....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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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....
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Reader cannot read
- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- De: Marc Levinson
- Narrado por: Adam Lofbomm
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....
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Fascinating Topic sometimes lost in minutiae
- De zombie64 en 07-15-14
De: Marc Levinson
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- De: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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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....
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Good book, very odd narration
- De Ben Wiener en 04-10-22
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Steve Jobs. La biografía
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Roberto Medina
- Duración: 27 h y 2 m
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La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboración....
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Genial
- De Erin en 11-15-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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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....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
De: James Gleick
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Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- De: Brian Merchant
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....
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The bias of the author can not be understated
- De Donald Campo en 11-17-23
De: Brian Merchant
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Engineers of Victory
- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- De: Paul Kennedy
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won....
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Misleading title
- De Thomas en 04-10-14
De: Paul Kennedy
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- De: Kim Zetter
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 13 h
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Amazingly detailed, sober and above all, damning
- De Greg en 11-22-14
De: Kim Zetter
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: Matt Ridley
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....
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Bad scholarship and bias that overwhelms his facts
- De RickyF en 07-01-20
De: Matt Ridley
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Tim Fannon
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Not the best from Vaclav, but near the top
- De Tan en 07-19-23
De: Vaclav Smil
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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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....
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Somewhat less than perfect
- De enya keshet en 06-19-18
De: Simon Winchester
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Hands of Time
- A Watchmaker’s History
- De: Rebecca Struthers
- Narrado por: Anna Ploszajski
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon....
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Very interesting, while it was about clocks.
- De Nicholas Conrad en 07-05-23
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- De: Ryan North
- Narrado por: Ryan North
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today’s most advanced technologies....
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A hilarious exploration of selfish altruism
- De jjordanpalmer en 09-07-22
De: Ryan North
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- De: James R. Hansen
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong....
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Not really 'unabridged'
- De A Reader en 06-06-18
De: James R. Hansen
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages)....
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Worth a read
- De Rurik McKaiser en 05-21-23
De: Vaclav Smil
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- De: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 23 h
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This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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Long, comforting book on moon exploration
- De Mark en 06-17-16
De: Andrew Chaikin
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- De: Ken Kocienda
- Narrado por: Ken Kocienda
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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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....
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Just the 20%
- De matthewolf en 09-20-18
De: Ken Kocienda
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- De: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- De Adrian en 05-06-19
De: John Drury Clark, y otros
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22