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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get rid of the fake accents
- De J. R. Valery en 03-13-18
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
- A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
- De: William Rosen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Revelation about a Revolution
- De Roy en 08-01-10
De: William Rosen
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Coal
- A Human History
- De: Barbara Freese
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 377
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 190
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
De: Barbara Freese
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The Dawn of Innovation
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- De: Charles R. Morris
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer and the most intensely commercialized society in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How our industries started
- De Jean en 02-22-13
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,176
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,067
How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- De: Henry Petroski
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well put
- De Lawrence en 08-10-17
De: Henry Petroski
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Land Rover
- The Story of the Car That Conquered the World
- De: Ben Fogle
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land Rover Defender. It mirrors many of our national traits, stiff upper-lipped and slightly eccentric.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing! Great sub-stories
- De Daniel Caballero en 04-30-24
De: Ben Fogle
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 758
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 644
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
- How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
- De: Robert Bryce
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
In this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I thought I was getting a book on the future.
- De Grant en 08-02-14
De: Robert Bryce
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Triumph of the City
- How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
- De: Edward Glaeser
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 345
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Urbanophile Brain Candy
- De Clay Downing en 12-18-15
De: Edward Glaeser
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The Big Roads
- The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
- De: Earl Swift
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lessons from The Big Roads
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
De: Earl Swift
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Crabgrass Frontier
- The Suburbanization of the United States
- De: Kenneth T. Jackson
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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There is so much to think about here.
- De Richard McKown en 06-25-23
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- De: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, thought provoking, and hopeful
- De JKuster en 03-07-20
De: Samuel I. Schwartz, y otros
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- De: P. D. Smith
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers - the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Commuters companion
- De Anna en 05-19-13
De: P. D. Smith
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- James Adams MD
- 02-07-17
Terrible
Just 7 min. And material at a 4 th grade level. What a disappointment- nothing of substance
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