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End Times Fascism

And the Fight for the Living World

by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

Narrated by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

Unabridged

12 hours 56 min

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of ... Read more

$36.61 NZD

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of
... Read more
Audiobook

Failure Is Not an Option

Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

18 hours 14 min

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and ... Read more

$47.99 NZD

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and
... Read more
Audiobook

The Coming Wave

AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar ...

Narrated by Mustafa Suleyman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman ... Read more

$32.99 NZD

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman
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Audiobook

The Falls

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

by Ian Rankin ...

Narrated by James Macpherson ...

Series Audiobook 12 - A Rebus Novel
Unabridged

16 hours 11 min

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom.Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, ... Read more

$43.99 NZD

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom.Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village,
... Read more
Audiobook

Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths ...

Narrated by Brian Christian ...

Unabridged

11 hours 50 min

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What ... Read more

$84.26 NZD

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What
... Read more
Audiobook

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff ...

Unabridged

24 hours 16 min

**An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... Read more

$98.99 NZD

**An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human
... Read more
Audiobook

Empire of AI

Inside the reckless race for total domination

by Karen Hao ...

Narrated by Karen Hao ...

Unabridged

17 hours 50 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam ... Read more

$36.99 NZD

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam
... Read more
Audiobook

Nexus

The Sunday Times bestselling history about humans, technology and AI from the author of Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

Narrated by Vidish Athavale ...

Unabridged

17 hours 28 min

The mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What wi... ... Read more

$41.18 NZD

The mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What wi...
... Read more
Audiobook

The Singularity is Nearer

When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil ...

Narrated by Adam Barr ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.**The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades.What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder might we inhabit? How will we navigate the ... Read more

$32.99 NZD

**Brought to you by Penguin.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.**The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades.What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder might we inhabit? How will we navigate the
... Read more
Audiobook

2054

A Novel

by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong, Emily Woo Zeller, Vikas Adam, Junior Nyong'o, Brian Nishii ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country – and the world**It is twenty years after the ... Read more

$32.99 NZD

**Brought to you by Penguin.From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country – and the world**It is twenty years after the
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80,000 Hours

The Sunday Times Bestselling Guide to Finding a Fulfilling, AI-Proof Career

by Benjamin Todd ...

Narrated by Benjamin Todd ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

Brought to you by Penguin.A ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is the most important decision you’ll ever make.Choose well, and you can have a more rewarding, interesting life, and also help solve some of the world’s most ... Read more

$32.03 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.A ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is the most important decision you’ll ever make.Choose well, and you can have a more rewarding, interesting life, and also help solve some of the world’s most
... Read more
Audiobook

The New Age of Sexism

How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

by Laura Bates ...

Narrated by Laura Bates ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN INCEAI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates. Might this mean a future reimagined on equitable terms ... Read more

$47.02 NZD

‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN INCEAI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates. Might this mean a future reimagined on equitable terms
... Read more
Audiobook

The Emperor's New Mind

Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose ...

Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

Unabridged

18 hours 27 min

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do?In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are ... Read more

$68.99 NZD

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do?In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are
... Read more
Audiobook

AI Engineering

Building Applications with Foundation Models

by Chip Huyen ...

Narrated by Edelyn Okano ...

Unabridged

21 hours 12 min

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build ... Read more

$60.74 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build
... Read more
Audiobook

A Thousand Brains

A New Theory of Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins ...

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

A "fascinating book" that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI (Financial Times)For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world—not just one model, but hundreds of ... Read more

$54.99 NZD

A "fascinating book" that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI (Financial Times)For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world—not just one model, but hundreds of
... Read more
Audiobook

The AI Con

How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...

Narrated by Jade Wheeler ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

Brought to you by Penguin.A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to ... Read more

$32.99 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to
... Read more
Audiobook

The Fiat Standard

The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

by Saifedean Ammous ...

Narrated by Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann ...

Unabridged

12 hours 44 min

In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the ... Read more

$31.38 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the
... Read more
Audiobook

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden ...

Narrated by Douglas Martin ...

Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous ... Read more

$48.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous
... Read more
Audiobook

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

The Case Against Superintelligent AI

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares ...

Narrated by Rafe Beckley ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

Brought to you by Penguin.THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE THREAT TO HUMANITY FROM AI'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'Better than any book on the subject I've ever read. A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster' STEPHEN FRYAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.The scra... ... Read more

$32.03 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE THREAT TO HUMANITY FROM AI'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'Better than any book on the subject I've ever read. A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster' STEPHEN FRYAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.The scra...
... Read more
Audiobook

The Gold Standard

An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century

by Saifedean Ammous ...

Narrated by Saifedean Ammous ...

Unabridged

14 hours 2 min

What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education?In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history ... Read more

$39.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education?In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history
... Read more
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KI auf dem Android-Handy leicht gemacht

Die einfachste Anleitung für Anfänger und Senioren – ChatGPT, Gemini und praktische KI-Helfer im Alltag nutzen

by Roland Stofer ...

Narrated by Alexander (AI) ...

Unabridged

3 hours 2 min

Möchtest Du die moderne Welt der Technik endlich verstehen und für Dich nutzen? Künstliche Intelligenz klingt oft kompliziert, aber mit diesem Hörbuch wird sie zu Deinem persönlichen Assistenten direkt auf Deinem Android-Handy. Egal ob Du Anfänger bist oder als Senior Deine digitalen Kompetenzen erweitern möchtest: KI auf dem Android-Handy leicht gemacht nimmt Dich an die Hand. Du lernst Schritt ... Read more

$19.99 NZD

Möchtest Du die moderne Welt der Technik endlich verstehen und für Dich nutzen? Künstliche Intelligenz klingt oft kompliziert, aber mit diesem Hörbuch wird sie zu Deinem persönlichen Assistenten direkt auf Deinem Android-Handy. Egal ob Du Anfänger bist oder als Senior Deine digitalen Kompetenzen erweitern möchtest: KI auf dem Android-Handy leicht gemacht nimmt Dich an die Hand. Du lernst Schritt
... Read more
Audiobook

Geld verdienen mit AI – Der einfache Guide für Einsteiger

Schritt für Schritt lernen, wie du mit künstlicher Intelligenz

by Milan Falk ...

Narrated by Alexander (AI) ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Einfach mehr Geld
Unabridged

2 hours 33 min

Künstliche Intelligenz ist die größte Chance unserer Zeit für ein zusätzliches Einkommen. In diesem Hörbuch erfährst du, wie du als Einsteiger ohne technisches Vorwissen von dieser Revolution profitierst. Wir zeigen dir Schritt für Schritt, wie du ChatGPT und andere KI-Tools nutzt, um dir ein erfolgreiches Online Business aufzubauen.Viele Menschen fühlen sich von der technischen Komplexität ... Read more

$2.99 NZD

Künstliche Intelligenz ist die größte Chance unserer Zeit für ein zusätzliches Einkommen. In diesem Hörbuch erfährst du, wie du als Einsteiger ohne technisches Vorwissen von dieser Revolution profitierst. Wir zeigen dir Schritt für Schritt, wie du ChatGPT und andere KI-Tools nutzt, um dir ein erfolgreiches Online Business aufzubauen.Viele Menschen fühlen sich von der technischen Komplexität
... Read more
Audiobook

What You Don't Know

AI's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control

by Cortnie Abercrombie ...

Narrated by Megan Tusing ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

You are probably not aware, because of their hidden nature, but artificial intelligence systems are all around you affecting some of the biggest areas of your life—jobs, loans, kids, mental health, relationships, freedoms, and even healthcare decisions that can determine if you live or die. As an executive working in AI at one of the largest, most sophisticated tech companies on the planet, ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

You are probably not aware, because of their hidden nature, but artificial intelligence systems are all around you affecting some of the biggest areas of your life—jobs, loans, kids, mental health, relationships, freedoms, and even healthcare decisions that can determine if you live or die. As an executive working in AI at one of the largest, most sophisticated tech companies on the planet,
... Read more
Audiobook

The Physical Science of Consciousness

by Mark Fennell ...

Narrated by Chikondi Chanthunya ...

Unabridged

2 hours 57 min

The purpose of this book is to provide the essential concepts and terminology for the Physical Science of Consciousness.In this book, we provide the physical realities and processes for all aspects of thoughts, intelligence, and awareness.The reader will also develop practical skills, including developing his perception of objective reality, and modifying his subconscious operating beliefs ... Read more

$12.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

The purpose of this book is to provide the essential concepts and terminology for the Physical Science of Consciousness.In this book, we provide the physical realities and processes for all aspects of thoughts, intelligence, and awareness.The reader will also develop practical skills, including developing his perception of objective reality, and modifying his subconscious operating beliefs
... Read more

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