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Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.

“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes

“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who... Read more

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Thinking in Systems

A Primer

By: Donella Meadows
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering... Read more

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The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations That Transform the World

By: David Deutsch
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 20 hours

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers.

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues... Read more

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The Power Law

Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

By: Sebastian Mallaby
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist

“A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists.” - Daniel Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal

“A must-read for anyone seeking to...
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed or Fail

By: Ray Dalio
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Ray Dalio
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times

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Value(s)

Building a Better World for All

By: Mark Carney
Narrated by: Mark Carney
Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

A bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need to maximize value for the many, not few.
As an economist and former banker, Mark Carney has spent his life in various financial roles, in both the public and private sector. VALUE(S) is a meditation on his experiences that examines the short-comings... Read more

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Windfall

The Booming Business of Global Warming

By: McKenzie Funk
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces.

The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the man-made snow... Read more

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Invisible Women

Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado-Perez
Narrated by: Caroline Criado-Perez
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“This book is as utterly fascinating as it is frustrating and eye-opening. I blew through it in a day and a half because I simply could not stop listening to it and appreciating with rising vexation Perez's breakdown of the data at every level of the world we live in today. This is a book I wish I could share with everyone and talk about to get... Read more

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Future Histories

What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

By: Lizzie O'Shea
Narrated by: Cat Gould
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive... Read more

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How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products

By: Martina Lauchengco
Narrated by: Martina Lauchengco
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

The best products can still lose in the marketplace. Why? They are beaten by stronger product marketing. Yet, product marketing is widely misunderstood. It includes segmenting and targeting customers, positioning products vs. alternatives, creating product collateral, and supporting sales teams. But great product marketing achieves much more:... Read more

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Rethinking Real Estate

A Roadmap to Technology’s Impact on the World’s Largest Asset Class

By: Dror Poleg
Narrated by: Alister Austin
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Why are our offices, homes, stores, and warehouses the way they are?

How were they shaped by previous waves of innovation -- from the train and telegraph to the TV and automobile?

How will the innovations of our own era reshape the cities and buildings we live in?

Technology is redefining the value of physical assets: the meaning of location and... Read more

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Originals

How Non-Conformists Move the World

By: Adam Grant
Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Susan Denaker
Length: 10 hours

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers and everyday life—and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and the co-author of Option B

“Filled with fresh insights on a broad array of topics that are important to our personal and professional...
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Speed & Scale

An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

By: John Doerr
Narrated by: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, Badri Kothandaraman, Bruce Nilles, Jagdeep Singh, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jan Van Dokkum, Christiana Figueres & Fred Krupp
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.

In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has... Read more

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More From Less

How We Learned to Create More Without Using More

By: Andrew McAfee
Narrated by: Andrew McAfee
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a paradigm-shifting argument “full of fascinating information and provocative insights” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—demonstrating that we are increasing prosperity while using fewer natural resources.

Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by... Read more

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Bill Gates
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics,... Read more

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The Exponential Age

How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society

By: Azeem Azhar
Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data—and our ability to deal with its effectsWe are living in the first exponential age.High-tech innovations are created at a dazzling speed;... Read more

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What Technology Wants

By: Kevin Kelly
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid... Read more

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