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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order.A century after the outbreak of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, game designer and author Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion that wouldn't heal. Unable to think clearly, or work, or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal - a common symptom for concussion sufferers. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a game. What started as a simple motivational exercise became a set...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The future of business, work, and the economy in a digital world. In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, and win at Jeopardy!. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty, but in their wake median income has stagnated and the share of the population with jobs has fallen. MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy and chart a...
245) We're not broken
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
With a reporter's eye and an insider₂s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it's like to be autistic across America.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A breathtakingly ambitious book that reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation. With the deep insight only possible of a native son, Arkady Ostrovsky introduces listeners to the propagandists, oligarchs, and fixers who have set Russia's course since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans--diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close. By tapping a rich vein of personal testimonies, Hitlerland offers a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era. Some of the Americans in Weimar and then Hitler's Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind; a few were Nazi...
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