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    • China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
    • By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,117 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,965 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • By: Scott J. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....

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    • What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
    • By: Steven E. Koonin
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,185 ratings
    • When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....

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    • Facing the Ultimate Frontier
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....

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    • Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings
    • An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
    • By: Verity Harding
    • Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good.

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    • Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Jamie East
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all....

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    • How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
    • By: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
    • By: Bryan Appleyard
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This book celebrates the immense drama and beauty of the car. As the age of the car as we know it comes to an end, Bryan Appleyard's brilliantly insightful book tells the story of the rise and fall of the incredible machine that made the modern world what it is today....

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    • What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
    • By: Steven E. Koonin
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.

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    • On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
    • By: Ali Khan, William Patrick
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,504 ratings
    • An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse....

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    • Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
    • By: Shawn Lawrence Otto
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science....

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    • How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
    • By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging....

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    • Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
    • By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
    • Narrated by: Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities....

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