Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Robotics & Human-Computer Interaction

Author: Solis Tech

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-16

Publisher: 2016

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Robotics at its best! Discover A book that tells you what you should do and how!

Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need to learn in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier.

This way, you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. Examples are provided for a more knowledgeable approach on your learning.

You will also learn the designs and forms of robotics, and what's more convenient than getting to know all sides!

Is human computer interactions what you want to learn? Always wondered how one understand computers proficiently? Does it interest you how HCI works?

Purchase HCI to discover everything you need to know about it.

Step by step to increase your computer skill set. Learn how to operate computer systems socially. All your basic knowledge in one purchase!

You need to get it now to know what's inside as it can't be shared here!

Purchase Human Computer Interactions today!

Members Reviews:

Don't waste any money on this book.

This is the worst book I've ever read. This book offers no information at all. It is completely useless. You could google robotics and find out everything in this book in less than 10 seconds. Your robot can have wheels or legs... REALLY??? WOW. Seriously, this tiny little book is complete garbage. Someone is trying to make a quick buck with this. It is a useless waste of paper. This book is for no one. DO NOT BUY!!!

Quite interesting how you can understand this topic in particular.

A teacher of ethics told me about this book so I could understand the principal topic since a scientific point of view. Turns out that the technicians are not the only ones studying this kind of topics. I found interesting that there is a whole world inside the robotics developments that deserves to be studied and understood by everyone because we are talking about creating the future with basically the tools we use today. I am not a technicians but I could see the ethic point of the robotics subject by reading an expert point of view, wich now I can appreciate and plus it is easy to see that this book offers a lot of tools by those who want to build or at the very least try to build a robot.

Very useful, specially because it gives advice about the right tools.

This turned out to be very useful to start my personal project. As an student of electric engineer, every info I can obtain about process and robotic is very valuable. This e-book was recomended by my fellow in class and it is worth every word because it takes you since the beginning to the end, from a definition of a robot, wich I find very useful at this time, till the right selection of tools to bring the project to life. Since it is my goal to build a robot I can get to the achievement of my goal by reading books like this one and if they give you the easy and understandable way to do it, even better.

Good read since the beginning, great for achieve the goal.

The best part of it is how the information comes on handy the best way possibe. My class mate recomended this book so we can go from the theory of robotics to the practice, so we get to build a robot for our robot fight plus get to know more about the topic since it is useful to our career.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: CCNA Audio Study Guide

Author: Lara Twachtman

Narrator: Clay Willison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-16

Publisher: Ayala Media

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

The CCNA Audio Study Guide is a great resource for busy students preparing for the CCNA exam. The audio version can be downloaded and listened to while driving or working out or during any other activity. It contains over 70 practice questions and answers that will aid you in your exam prep. You will be provided a comprehensive overview of difficult concepts.

Members Reviews:

Nice book.

Ok wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Only questions, not explanation for ccna studies.

Needs Improvement

Not enough content covered, and got lost in the pairing of the answers. # #

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Cisco CCENT Networking for Beginners

Subtitle: The Ultimate Beginners Crash Course to Learn Cisco Quickly and Easily

Author: Adam Vardy

Narrator: Jim D. Johnston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-16

Publisher: Adam Vardy

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

CCENT networking for beginners!

The ultimate beginners crash course to learning Cisco & passing your exam

Are you ready to learn how to configure & operate Cisco equipment? If so you've come to the right place - regardless of how little experience you may have!

If you're interested in networking then you're going to want (or need!) to know and understand Cisco switches, routers & more.

This is your ultimate guide to getting the knowledge you need and passing your CCENT exam too!

There's a ton of other technical guides out there that aren't clear and concise, and in my opinion use far too much jargon. My job is to teach you in simple, easy to follow terms how to get started and excel at Cisco networking!

Here's a preview of what Cisco CCENT For Beginners contains:

Members Reviews:

The narrator's silibant 's' sound is horrific!!!!

Who would approve this narrator's voice with a whistling speech impediment??? I could not focus past it... just waiting for each darn hissing 's'

I strongly advise you to not get this audible if you feel it would distract you as it does for me!

Almost unlistenable

Would you try another book from Adam Vardy and/or Jim D. Johnston?

I haven't gotten through this audio book yet, Jim Johnsons voice is very tinny and the incredibly piercing S sound is enough to force me to stop the book.

What was most disappointing about Adam Vardys story?

The references that are obviously visual in nature that are not included, there really should be a bundle for this work so that when Jim references the 4 charts in the first couple of chapters that you have a bloody clue what he's talking about.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jim D. Johnston?

Anyone who doesn't exaggerate the S sound

Hurts my ears

The narrator whistles while he speaks and his microphone amplifies the letter "s". It is ear piercing and loud compared to the rest of the content. I'm shocked that they are charging money for this. It's not even worthy of being free content, because no one can listen to it. Also the author references visual material that is not present in the audio book, which makes no sense.

Summarizes half the CCENT

I'm studying for CCENT certification and having a bit of trouble. I'll admit that I didn't really expect such a short book to help me much when a class that lasted at entire semester, went over two entire textbooks in detail, and included eight hours of lab work per week hasn't fully prepared me, but I figured I might as well try it.

While it does summarize the material included in the textbook titled "Introduction to Networks," it does not cover anything from the book titled "Routing and Switching Essentials," which is where I am having the most trouble.

Confusing. Could not visualize material.

Some previous reviews had a problem with the speakers voice and whistling. I did not hear that. Speech was clear to me. But I have a hard time visualizing the material. Admittely I am new to Audible and making a reference to a figure and not being able to see it is not condusive to learning. I have been in IT for more than 20 years and I found presentation of material confusing and that is taking into account I downloaded this book as a refresher.

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free

Title: Cloud Computing

Subtitle: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

Author: Nayan B. Ruparelia

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to nontechnologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint - the business user's in particular. Nayan Ruparelia explains what the cloud is, when to use it (and when not to), how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and what the best practices are for using cloud computing.

Cutting through the hype, Ruparelia cites the simple and basic definition of cloud computing from the National Institute of Science and Technology: a model enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Thus with cloud computing, businesses can harness information technology resources usually available only to large enterprises. And this, Ruparelia demonstrates, represents a paradigm shift for business. It will ease funding for start-ups, alter business plans, and allow big businesses greater agility.

Ruparelia discusses the key issues for any organization considering cloud computing: service level agreements, business service delivery and consumption, finance, legal jurisdiction, security, and social responsibility. He introduces novel concepts made possible by cloud computing: cloud cells, or specialist clouds for specific uses; the personal cloud; the cloud of things; and cloud service exchanges. He examines use case patterns in terms of infrastructure and platform, software information, and business process; and he explains how to transition to a cloud service. Current and future users will find this book an indispensable guide to the cloud.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Contact me for any questions: [email protected]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Rolling Rocks Downhill

Subtitle: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Entertaining Way to Learn Agile and Lean

Author: Clarke Ching

Narrator: Paul Kearney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Clarke Ching

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 134 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

An impossible deadline. A runaway project. And then you get the 5:30 a.m. phone call what could possibly be wrong?

Rolling Rocks Downhill is a fast, fun and often funny read. It's a business novel, just like Eli Goldratt's classic The Goal, where you sit on the characters' shoulders, watching them fight to save their jobs and their baby - a large software-intensive project, called FPP, that has been running late since day 1, but now, suddenly, needs to launch on an impossibly early date, or else. You feel their pain, and their joy, as they battle problem after problem until, slowly, torturously, they rediscover the few - but fundamental - principles underlying successful commercial software development.

Sometimes you're a step ahead. Sometimes a step behind. Sometimes it feels like you're sitting in the room with them

Members Reviews:

Very applicable to our situation

It's comforting to hear there is a way out. Even dealing with the executives' impression of the teams' capability level; it's comforting to hear this happens elsewhere.

An Agile Transition Book that really hits home

Would you listen to Rolling Rocks Downhill again? Why?

Absolutely! This book was a great story about a company that is so similar to the one I'm working that is undergoing an agile transition.

What did you like best about this story?

It's agile but doesn't scream agile at you along with Clarke's sense of humor and love for bacon is wonderful. The story was told in a way that allows me in my agile transition to take a different look at how everything is working, from the scrum teams to the executives within the organization.

Have you listened to any of Paul Kearneys other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have not listened to any other of Paul's performances. He was good an being an American I appreciate the UK accent!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The ending, how everything pulled together in the big moment with the CEO.

Any additional comments?

Clarke is an amazing author and his book is a great resource for understanding what and how agile works in a real world setting of an organization (which is oddly close to one that I work in!).

Fantastic!

If you could sum up Rolling Rocks Downhill in three words, what would they be?

Fantastic agile novel.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I loved the lady who was technically Steve's boss. Confident and fearless.

What does Paul Kearney bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Paul has a great voice, he made the story more captivating.

Great information for my first agile-ish project!

Great story! Great information that will surely help me with my first agile-ish project that has a very short time frame!

Good listen

Fictional case study of a project deployment in action: I wasn't crazy about the narrator's voice but I did pick up a few ideas to apply to my own work. Worth the listen

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Rise of the Robots

Subtitle: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Author: Martin Ford

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015.

In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery and is soon to do the same for radiologists. And that, no doubt, will only be the beginning.

In Silicon Valley the phrase disruptive technology is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may need only a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?

Rise of the Robots is a both an exploration of this new technology and a call to arms to address its implications. Written by a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, this is an audiobook that cannot be dismissed as the ranting of a Luddite or an outsider. Ford has seen the future, and he knows that for some of us, the rise of the robots will be very frightening indeed.

Critic Reviews:

"Alarming...surreal...it is time to be afraid, very afraid.... For the moment there is no hope that the rise of the robots will not be accompanied by the fall of the humans." (Sunday Times Culture)

"The elephant in the room of artificial intelligence is mass obsolescence of the human workforce it threatens to supplant. Ford stares the elephant in the face." (Observer)

"Packed with irresistible gee-whizz facts but...also anxious about what might happen next, especially to human employment...well worth reading." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Long But Too Economical

A very relevant book if your concerned about what the world might look like in 2030 or 2100. There were some good leads, with references to recent and future technology and its effects on society - which was what I was really interested in. However, it was too long with expositions of the author's ideas on quite specific economic examples relevant particularly to the US, such as personal theories on possible improvements to the American healthcare model. The book touched on aspects of what sort of jobs might replaced by automaton in the future and for instance basic trends in nanotechnology, robots and more so computing and AI, but for me it did not go into the dilemma about future employment or pragmatic day to day existential (or philosophical) issues enough.

Wow.

Such a shame these impending and important issues aren't bring discussed by any politician currently

looking to be elected...

An influential book for our time

Very good factual base and first degree impact assessment.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: In Our Own Image

Subtitle: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Author: George Zarkadakis

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 54 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

A timely and important book that explores the societal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence as we approach the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution.

George Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships: our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth, through literary classics like Frankenstein to today's science fiction blockbusters, arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. He explains AI's history, technology, and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness; and - perhaps most tellingly - what AI reveals about us as human beings.

In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution - poised to enter the age of artificial intelligence as science fiction becomes science fact. Ultimately, Zarkadakis observes, the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself.

Members Reviews:

simply the most intelligent book on this subject .

could not stop listening....it is better than any college course you could find on the subject.

Wide-ranging analysis, all of it fascinating

Any additional comments?

This is the best book I have read on human consciousness. I really appreciated the blend of cultural background with the reporting on scientific research. Especially if you think the Turing Test is all there is to determining artificial intelligence, think again! I learned a lot from this book and enjoyed every bit of it.

As important as Age of Spiritual Machines.

Worth re-reading several times. Zarkadakis makes fundamental questions about AI accessible. Will buy in print.

Great subject, but a bit lop sided

What did you like best about In Our Own Image? What did you like least?

An excellent subject not too many have delved into. It is one of very few books which tackles the possibility of AI, which is becoming more probable year by year. A courageous attempt to explain the progression of technology in to what might become an artificial intelligence.

Who was your favorite character and why?

N/A

What aspect of Gildart Jacksons performance would you have changed?

May be a little more of a dramatic voice for a dramatic subject

Did In Our Own Image inspire you to do anything?

Not really a book that inspires, but it is informative.

Any additional comments?

I would have liked the author to spend more time on the affects of a super AI and the existential threat it might have on humanity. I can understand this might mean some guess work, but it goes with the subject.

Great book despite attempts to save physicalism

Otherwise great book but spoiled by futile attempts to save the outdated model of materialism/physicalism. We are now ever closer to shed the centuries-old materialistic paradigm. Recently groups of researchers converge on the notion that consciousness is resolutely computational.Quantum indeterminacy resolves every conscious moment into a subjective digital (discrete) reality. Any kind of information processing is a relativistic concept which is universally applicable and thus idealistic in nature.

Perhaps what would pull the rug from under physicalism is a notion of ever deeper levels of abstraction that only minds can create and perceive.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Robotics: The Beginner's Guide to Robotic Building, Technology, Mechanics, and Processes

Author: Kenneth Fraser

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-16

Publisher: Kenneth Fraser

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Robotics at its best!

Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need to learn in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier.

This way, you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. Examples are provided for a more knowledgeable approach on your learning.

You will also learn the designs and forms of robotics, and what's more convenient than getting to know all sides!

Want to know more?

Members Reviews:

A beginners guide.

This is a good but very basic, short intro to robotics.Worth a look if you are new to the game.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: CompTIA A+: All-in-One Certification Exam Guide for Beginners!

Author: Solis Tech

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-16

Publisher: Solis Tech

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Is CompTIA A+ what you want to learn? Always wondered what A+ is? Does it interest you to work with different parts of a computer efficiently?

Download CompTIA A+ to discover everything you need to know about computer examinations.

Step by step to increase your computer skill set. Learn how to operate and examine computer systems. All your basic knowledge in one download!

Members Reviews:

Comprised A+

Something to listen to however nowhere near the information needed for the exams Get a book and study

not helpful in any way. very short and confusing.

does little to cover what you need, and is highly annoying to listen to. all acronyms and too much nonrelevant info

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Circuit Engineering: The Beginner's Guide to Electronic Circuits, Semi-Conductors, Circuit Boards, and Basic Electronics

Author: Solis Tech

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-16

Publisher: Solis Tech

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Is circuit engineering what you want to learn? Always wondered how one becomes an electrical engineer? Do semiconductors and circuit boards interest you?

Purchase Circuit Engineering to discover everything you need to know about basic electronics.

Step by step to increase your electrical skills. Learn the anatomy of a circuit. All your basic knowledge in one download!

Members Reviews:

A sporadic overview at best

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Soldering information is not correct whatsoever, you will not be soldering anything at 300F. The presentation of information follows no method whatsoever and touches on random information throughout.

circuit engineering

This is a good book about circuit engineering. I wish audible had more books about semiconductors.

rare citations, technical procedure, or theory

rare citations, technical procedure, or theory. the thing is mostly opinion. they use moreover every other sentence and you start counting it while trying to push through to the useful information. moreover, i learned nothing here

Great intro

it was good for someone just beginning with electronics. for more advanced readers, they might want to beyond this.

Good Listen

I'm an architect thinking of a career change into Electrical Engineering/Robotics. This book is a great introduction to what I could expect. keep em' coming.