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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Another gem from one of the world's justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people." — Booklist (starred review)
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and
...2) Vector
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The Amazon rain forest spawns a new terror that will bring the world to its knees in this new Joe Rush bio-thriller. Joe Rush is at an Amazon gold rush to study new forms of malaria when his best friend and partner, Eddie Nakamura, disappears. When learning that many of the sick miners have also vanished, Rush begins a search for Eddie that takes him into the heart of darkness. Where he must battle for his life, and where he discovers a secret that...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
An all-new novella in the New York Times bestselling Net Force series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler. In Munich, a renowned computer scientist dies. Then, his daughter vanishes. Both under mysterious circumstances. Kali Alcazar, a master hacker, wants to know why. As she delves deeper into the suspicious events, she spots something in the sky — a rare, advanced drone -- and realizes she’s a target herself....
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
8) Lockout
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios-not to mention armed...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The book's tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie."—Washington Post
"It's Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance...
"It's Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Homeland Security secretary Catherine Blaine has received a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym "Janus." Three recent natural disasters around the world were correctly predicted-in fact, they were manufactured, not natural at all. And, says the email, unless she does exactly as Janus instructs, more disasters are coming-and they will destroy the United States. Unaware of the crisis in Washington, investigative...
11) Next
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics as it's happening now, told as only Michael Crichton can tell it, with lightening fast pacing and thrilling chases.
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future-it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct?...
12) The broken spine
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Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernized library, she discovers that protecting the printed word is harder than she'd ever imagined. In fact, it's murder. Trudell Becket, known to her friends as Tru, finds herself in a bind when her library in lovely Cypress, South Carolina, is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless "technological center." A library with no books breaks Tru's book-loving...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease ... a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.
The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet.
At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is called to an emergency meeting. Satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway,...
16) Ghost Country
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"In a word: Brilliant….It left me breathless and awed….Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last."
-James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Altar of Eden
"WOW! Double Wow!...Ghost Country by Patrick Lee will make Asimov and Heinlein cheer with the angels. The techno-thriller meets Sci-Fi, and the result is mind-blowing."
-Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of Disciple
Patrick Lee reinvented and revitalized...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Wolf considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection as we become increasingly dependent upon digital technologies.
A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now that we are completely immersed in the internet and digital devices, our ways of processing language have altered dramatically....
18) State of Fear
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices--which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace--Enchanted Objects....
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English
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Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
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