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Black Founder
- The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
- De: Stacy Spikes
- Narrado por: Stacy Spikes
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unapologetically honest & vulnerable…
- De Just Me en 07-26-24
De: Stacy Spikes
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Talking to Canadians
- A Memoir
- De: Rick Mercer
- Narrado por: Rick Mercer
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone's lips when the beloved comedian retired his hugely successful TV show after 15 seasons - and at the peak of its popularity. The answer came not long after, when he roared back in a new role as stand-up-comedian, playing to sold-out houses wherever he appeared. And then COVID-19 struck. And his legions of fans began asking again: What is Rick Mercer going to do now? Well, for one thing, he's been writing a comic masterpiece.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mercer Killed and He Will Kill Again
- De Quinn M en 11-28-22
De: Rick Mercer
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The Invisible Heart
- An Economic Romance
- De: Russell D. Roberts
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The Invisible Heart takes a provocative look at business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, teachers at the exclusive Edwards School in Washington, D.C. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or even harmful. He believes that success in business is a virtue. He believes that our humanity flourishes under economic freedom. Laura prefers Wordsworth to the Wall Street Journal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One of Susie Bright's Misses
- De Anne in State College en 10-27-15
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What It Takes
- The Way to the White House
- De: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 54 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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Draft No. 4
- On the Writing Process
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McPhee is the Craft
- De Darwin8u en 09-19-17
De: John McPhee
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Exploding the Phone
- The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- De: Phil Lapsley
- Narrado por: Johann North
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 290
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary "harmonic telegraph", by the middle of the 20th century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story along with Great Technical Research
- De Elsa Braun en 04-25-16
De: Phil Lapsley
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Dave Barry in Cyberspace
- De: Dave Barry
- Narrado por: Shadoe Stevens
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
When Dave Barry goes mano a mano with the Information Superhighway, it's guaranteed to be a rip-roaring adventure. This self-proclaimed computer geek and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist starts with the motto, "Never read the instructions," and slides from there into the world of hardware, software, Windows 95, and the critical issue of RAM ("the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM").
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and Dated
- De Alan Rither en 09-13-04
De: Dave Barry
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Rachel Maddow
- A Biography
- De: Lisa Rogak
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 345
Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: She uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Absolute Pablum.
- De mj en 02-03-20
De: Lisa Rogak
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Disney's Land
- Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
- De: Richard Snow
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 242
This is a spectacular story of error and innovation, a wild ride from a vision to the realization of an iconic cultural landscape. It reflects the park’s uniqueness, but just as strongly that of the man who built it with a watchmaker’s precision, an artist’s conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Okay, but better books on the subject
- De J.D. en 12-07-19
De: Richard Snow
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American Injustice
- My Battle to Expose the Truth
- De: John Paul Mac Isaac
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
This is the story of how I tried to get the Hunter Biden laptop evidence to the authorities.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Need a tissue?
- De Michael L. Galligan en 12-01-22
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Conversations with My Agent (and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke)
- De: Rob Long
- Narrado por: Rob Long
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Barely out of film school, Rob Long struck the jackpot and landed a job on the phenomenally successful TV sitcom Cheers. However, with the demise of the show, Long was faced with the question, "Is there life after Cheers?" Mercilessly witty about the daunting process of setting up a new series and getting it on air, these two audiobooks tell the absurd tale of what came next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The writers should run the business
- De Charles en 04-21-23
De: Rob Long
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Executive Actions
- De: Gary Grossman
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 20 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 259
An assassin takes aim at a Presidential candidate during a primary stump speech. The instant he pulls the trigger, the outcome of the election is irrevocably changed. But Democrat Teddy Lodge, an upcoming media sweetheart, isn't killed. His wife is. As a result, Lodge emerges as the man to beat and the greatest threat to the incumbent President, Morgan Taylor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My highest possible recommendation for this novel!
- De Wayne en 08-12-16
De: Gary Grossman
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Tony Hillerman
- A Life
- De: James McGrath Morris
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
The author of 18 spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best-selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written biography of an American legend.
- De Kevin McFarlane en 02-05-22
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The Friendly Orange Glow
- The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- De: Brian Dear
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 21 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn't even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers - some of them only high school students - in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was not only years but light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memory lane for the cyberist.
- De Robert C. Hickcox en 08-08-18
De: Brian Dear
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Broad Band
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
- De: Claire L. Evans
- Narrado por: Claire L. Evans
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. Vice reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the Internet what it is today. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- De Jean en 03-29-18
De: Claire L. Evans
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Working Together
- Why Great Partnerships Succeed
- De: Michael D. Eisner, Aaron R. Cohen
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson, Michael D. Eisner (introduction and epilogue)
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Dig deep and you will find the most compelling argument for working together: Happiness. In business there are always unique individual achievers, but pull down the veil and you'll often find someone alongside them. Michael Eisner does just that in Working Together. Using his own collaboration with Frank Wells at Disney as a launching point for examining other famously successful partnerships, Eisner offers us an intimate and deeply personal look at some of the most rewarding business partnerships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting to see what all partners had in common
- De Amazon Customer en 06-01-13
De: Michael D. Eisner, y otros