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    Cult of the Dead Cow

    How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

    by Joseph Menn ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism, released the top tool for testing password ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD $38.99 AUD

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    The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 28 min

    2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    High Noon

    The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems

    by Karen Southwick ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    In 1982, a little upstart named Sun was making waves in the high-tech industry with its groundbreaking workstation technology, even as early competitors dismissed the company as not worth losing sleep over. Since then, Sun Microsystems has become a formidable presence in the industry, making its own rules and taking no prisoners, and is currently poised to reach the highest point of its ascendancy ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Blockchain Success Stories

    Case Studies from the Leading Edge of Business

    by John Hargrave, Evan Karnoupakis ...
    Narrated by John Hargrave, Evan Karnoupakis ...
    series Blockchain Success Stories

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Here are the real-life stories of the visionaries who are rewiring the world through the new technology called blockchain. Through deep research and firsthand interviews, authors Sir John Hargrave and Evan Karnoupakis will take you on a page-turning journey with these dreamers as they disrupt the world.From the founder of Napster building a global wireless network, to an Indian immigrant re ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Empire of the Sum

    The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

    by Keith Houston ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    The hidden history of the pocket calculator-a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon-and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    The Friendly Orange Glow

    The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

    by Brian Dear ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 6 min

    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 light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    The Man Who Invented the Computer

    The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

    by Jane Smiley ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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    Turing's Cathedral

    The Origins of the Digital Universe

    by George Dyson ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 40 min

    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    Being Digital

    by Nicholas Negroponte ...
    Narrated by Penn Jillette ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 12 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --**NewsdayIn lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

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    101 Amazing Nintendo NES Facts

    ...including facts about the Famicom

    by Jimmy Russell ...
    Narrated by JD Kelly ...
    Audiobook 2 - Games Console History

    Unabridged

    22 min

    In this audiobook, part of Jimmy Russell’s Games Console History series, narrator JD Kelly talks us through over 100 amazing facts about Nintendo’s seminal NES, the most significant console the company has ever made. Covering many areas such as the hardware, rare games, the legacy of the console today and much more, this is perfect for anyone interested in classic gaming. Whether you were there at ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

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    The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Abridged

    8 hours 45 min

    2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    A People’s History of Computing in the United States

    by Joy Lisi Rankin ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Replay

    The History of Video Games

    by Tristan Donovan ...
    Narrated by Gary Furlong ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 15 min

    A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

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    The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived

    Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age

    by Ralph Watson McElvenny, Marc Wortman ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 18 min

    A riveting, first-ever, sweeping biography of Thomas Watson, Jr. - more important to the history and development of the modern world than Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie - who risked everything, personally and professionally, to reinvent IBM and launch the computer age that created the world we live in todayThomas Watson Jr. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business ... Read more

    $57.99 AUD

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    Building a Cyber Resilient Business

    A cyber handbook for executives and boards

    by Dr. Magda Lilia Chelly, Hai Tran, Shamane Tan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Learn how to build a proactive cybersecurity culture together with the rest of your C-suite to effectively manage cyber risksKey FeaturesEnable business acceleration by preparing your organization against cyber risksDiscover tips and tricks to manage cyber risks in your organization and build a cyber resilient businessUnpack critical questions for the C-suite to ensure the firm is intentionally ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Theory of Computation

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Theory of computation is seen as a branch of both theoretical computer science and modern mathematics (however, it also contains some concepts from pure mathematics). Theory of computation shows how one can effectively solve a problem using a computational model. A number of computational models are described in theory of computation. Algorithm is most common format of computational model. ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Computers Made Easy

    by Jonathan Brook ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    Computers Made Easy: The Beginner's Guide to Computers and Technology. Learn All the Basics of Building and Setting Up Computers for Your BusinessThese days, most things are run by computers so it’s essential that you know how to operate even the most basic ones. Don't worry too much if you lack advanced technical computer skills. A lot of that can be remedied now by just putting in a little bit ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Coders

    Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World

    by Clive Thompson ...
    Narrated by Rene Ruiz ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' David Grann, author of The Lost City of ZFacebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’s cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders – software programmers – ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Darknet

    A Beginner’s Guide to Staying Anonymous Online

    by Lance Henderson ...
    Narrated by James Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 9 min

    Want to surf the web anonymously? Cloak your online activities? I will show you how to become a ghost on the internet, leaving no tracks back to your ISP.This book covers it all! Encrypting your private files, securing your PC, masking your online footsteps, and all while giving you peace of mind with TOTAL 100% ANONYMITY. Don't waste months scouring the internet for info. Just read this!How to Be ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Windows 7: The Ultimate Guide To Learning How To Use Windows 7 Operating System On Your PC

    by Charlie Jeffs ...
    Narrated by Jesse Gross ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it”~Lao TzuTo gain the fullest use of a computer, a person should make it a goal of learning all they can about their operating system. Windows 7 is a system that offers a potpourri of features that can enhance anyone’s experience. It features a solid foundation in which any computer system can grow and thrive.This book takes a no-nonsense ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Escape

    How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet

    by Marie Le Conte ...
    Narrated by Yolanda Kettle ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Breaking Twitter

    Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

    by Ben Mezrich ...
    Narrated by Will Collyer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon Musk’s acquisition and subsequent occupation of Twitter.In October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter’s front doors carrying a kitchen sink, tweeting a message to his millions of followers: ‘let that sink in’. His takeover came with the promise of ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Man-Made

    How the bias of the past is being built into the future

    by Tracey Spicer ...
    Narrated by Tracey Spicer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.`Mum, I want a robot slave.’Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttered these six words. Suddenly, her life’s work fighting inequality seemed futile. What ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

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    Silicon Gold Rush

    The Next Generation of High-Tech Stars Rewrites the Rules of Business

    by Karen Southwick ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    A hotbed of activity for farsighted thinkers and determined doers, the high-technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today’s most innovative technological advances, but at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business.Armed with groundbreaking management approaches, the members of this visionary group are changing the ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD