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Life After Google

The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

by George Gilder

Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min
You can say goodbye to today's Internet, New York Times bestselling author George Gilder says. Soon the current model of aggregated free content populated with "value-subtracted" advertising will die a natural death, due, of course, to the simple fact that absolutely no one wants to see online advertising. What will tomorrow's Internet look like? In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a ... Read more
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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

by Shoshana Zuboff

Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged

24 hours 16 min
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The ... Read more
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Uncanny Valley

A Memoir

by Anna Wiener

Narrated by Suehyla El-Attar

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation from book publishing in Manhattan to the dot-com boom in San Francisco." — AudioFile MagazineA New York Times Book Review Editors' ... Read more
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Excellence Wins

A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise

by Horst Schulze

Narrated by Michael Wagner

Unabridged

5 hours
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, co-author of Built to Last: "Horst Schulze created a culture of service that should be a model for all of us. By committing to the highest standards of professionalism - and creating the right systems to achieve them - he inspired thousands to embrace the core ideal of sheer unadulterated excellence. Schulze now shares his story, and his methods, so that the ... Read more
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An American Sickness

How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Narrated by Nancy Linari

Unabridged

13 hours 38 min
**A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more
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The One Device

The Secret History of the iPhone

by Brian Merchant

Narrated by Tristan Morris

Unabridged

14 hours 29 min
The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world."The One Device is a tour de force, with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical insight."-Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk"A stunning book. You will never look at your iPhone the same way again." -Dan Lyons, New York Times bestselling author of ... Read more
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Race for Profit

How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Narrated by Janina Edwards

Unabridged

12 hours 29 min
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black ... Read more
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Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by Anthony Bourdain

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow ... Read more
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Ladies Who Punch

The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"

by Ramin Setoodeh

Narrated by Ramin Setoodeh

Unabridged

9 hours 23 min
This program is read by the author.Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the ... Read more
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Moneyball

The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

Narrated by Scott Brick

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min
Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, ... Read more
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AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

Narrated by Mikael Naramore

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min
Here are two well-known facts:Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it.The United States has long been, and remains, the global leader in AI.That first fact is correct. But in his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world's most respected experts on AI—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. As the US-Sino competition ... Read more
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Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser

Narrated by Rick Adamson

Abridged

8 hours 56 min
Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, ... Read more
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Hit Refresh

The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella and 1 more

Narrated by Shridhar Solanki and 1 more

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min
Foreword by Bill GatesMicrosoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to ... Read more
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

by Jason Schreier

Narrated by Ray Chase

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min
Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes listeners on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the ... Read more
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Conspiracy

Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

by Ryan Holiday

Narrated by Ryan Holiday

Unabridged

11 hours 39 min
**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about.**In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of ... Read more
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Barbarians at the Gate

by Bryan Burrough

Narrated by John Helyar

Abridged

3 hours 2 min
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”—New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes ... Read more
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Alibaba

The House that Jack Ma Built

by Duncan Clark

Narrated by Jim Meskimen

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min
An engrossing, insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever reshaped the global economy.In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese ... Read more
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The Quest

Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin

Narrated by Robert Petkoff

Unabridged

29 hours 26 min
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic changeA master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an ... Read more
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The American Way of Eating

Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table

by Tracie McMillan

Narrated by Hillary Huber

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min
What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost-which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, ... Read more
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The Upstarts

How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone

Narrated by Dean Temple

Unabridged

10 hours 42 min
A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store.Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments ... Read more
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Competing Against Luck

The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

by Taddy Hall and 3 more

Narrated by John Pruden

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more ... Read more
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The Toyota Way

14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

by Jeffrey K. Liker

Narrated by Grover Gardner

Unabridged

4 hours 36 min
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the ... Read more
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How Google Works

by Eric Schmidt and 1 more

Narrated by Holter Graham and 1 more

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min
Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new managment philosophy and creating a corporate culture where innovation and creativity thrive.Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history ... Read more
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Blue Ocean Shift

Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

by Renee Mauborgne and 1 more

Narrated by Christian Steiner

Unabridged

9 hours 48 min
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERBLUE OCEAN SHIFT is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your peop... ... Read more
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