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Title: A Scientist in the City

Author: James Trefil

Narrator: Ed Blake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Join best-selling science writer James Trefil on a fascinating field trip into the modern city that will open your eyes to the hidden wonders of the man-made world around you. Trefil reveals some surprising truths about the forces that shape our world, as well as some unusual possibilities for the cities of tomorrow.

Members Reviews:

Well-written summary of how technology makes cities work

Book Report: A Scientist in the City, by James Trefil

I picked up this book because the title intrigued me. I found it a well written and layperson-friendly explanation of the technology that makes cities possible and what that technology is likely to enable in the future. Trefil is an author that one feels a connection with quickly-he is a very beguiling storyteller.

This book is not about social issues. It is about the materials and building blocks of cities. Trefil discusses materials, such as wood, brick, concrete, steel and glass. He investigates what holds buildings up and what conspires to tear them down. (The real challenge for a modern skyscraper, for example, is not collapse, but wind.) Moving people, energy and information around are city factors he visits at length.

Sound boring? Its not. For example, he discusses how most of the glass manufactured in the U.S. today is made by a process called floating. "Glass is melted, then poured onto a pool of molten tin. The glass floats on the metal, hence the name of the process. Near the furnace, the glass is heated from above to keep it fluid, and as a result it flows into a uniform thin sheet. . . This process has the advantage of never having the glass come into contact with rollers, so that it doesn't have to be ground or polished after it comes out of the furnace." I have no earthly idea what I will ever need that information for, but I find it absolutely fascinating.

Cool as that part is, Trefil goes on to discuss the future he believes most likely. He foresees that the Edge City pollution problems can be solved by electric cars and better recycling, but the congestion issues will need the information economy to remove the need to commute at all. New suburbs will stretch farther into the country, enabled by high-speed magnetic levitation trains. (Most people, it develops, adhere to the `Rule of 45'-not commuting longer than 45 minutes.)

I find this book thought-provoking, informative, and readable-in-an-airplane. Here are some of excerpts I found interesting:

*"The kind of cities we build depend on our understanding of the natural world-what we call science-and on our ability to turn that understanding to our own ends-what we call technology."

*"A city is a natural system, and we can study it in the same way we study other natural systems and how they got to be the way they are." He notes that an ecosystem is a place that supports the existence of niches, where energy flows through, where materials tend to move in cycles, and is not static.

*"[With respect to plastics] we seem to be filling 10 percent of our dumps with carbon chains taken from deep reservoirs of oil and coal around the world, used briefly, and then reburied."

* "I know of no better way to illustrate the essential unity of nature than to note that the amount of traffic the Golden Gate bridge supports and the height reached by the tree outside your window are governed by the same law."

* "What good is this device? Mr.

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Title: Eternity Soup

Subtitle: Inside the Quest to End Aging

Author: Greg Critser

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires---the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiaging movement, and what do they expect from the vast and growing antiaging apothecary? Who is simply manufacturing money from spurious claims and dubious products, and who is performing legitimate scientific research? One thing is clear: by the mid-twenty-first century, America will have one million centenarians. How much older, then, can (and should) we get?

Sharp, funny, fast-paced, and deeply informed, Eternity Soup is a full-course meal about our quest for immortality, spiced with human vanity, chicanery, and cutting-edge science.

Critic Reviews:

"Critser's ribald tone makes for vivid reading and easy comprehension." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Good info, spoiled by bouts of small-mindedness

It's a shame the author didn't have the courage to fully follow the logic of the remarkable potential he rightly noticed for the engineering approach to healthy life extension. But on the whole, the material is covered well and interestingly

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Titel: Welcome to your Brain

Autor:: Sandra Aamodt, Samuel Wang

Erzähler: Oliver Rohrbeck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-18-08

Herausgeber: Kein & Aber Records

Kategorien: Science & Technology, Technology

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ob wir uns an etwas erinnern oder eine Entscheidung treffen, ob wir Schmerz empfinden oder einen Jetlag haben, unser Gehirn hat immer und überall die Fäden in der Hand. Doch was wissen wir eigentlich über die faszinierenden drei Pfund in unserem Schädel?

Gestützt auf die neuesten Ergebnisse der Hirnforschung nehmen uns Sandra Aamodt und Samuel Wang mit auf eine spannende Entdeckungsreise in die Welt der kleinen grauen Zellen, vorbei an den Abgründen von Halbwissen und verbreiteten Legenden.

Nebenbei geben sie auch noch jede Menge praktische Tipps für eine "hirngerechte" Lebensweise. Wussten Sie zum Beispiel, wie Sie Ihr eigenes Gehirn überlisten können, damit es Ihnen abnehmen hilft?

(c)+(p) 2007 Kein & Aber Records

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Titre: Les expéditions polaires françaises

Auteur: Paul-Emile Victor, Robert Gessain, Claude Lorius

Narrateur: Paul-Emile Victor, Robert Gessain, Claude Lorius

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 09-15-08

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Pour la première fois, l'édition phonographique propose une histoire vivante des expéditions polaires françaises. Dès le début des années 50, des enseignants ont voulu utiliser le sonore comme moyen pédagogique, en faisant réaliser les entretiens par les enfants eux-mêmes dont le besoin de comprendre en fait souvent de meilleurs interviewers, car ils sont capables d'aller du particulier au fondamental. Rétrospectivement, ce travail effectué sous la direction de Pierre Guérin (dans la lignée de Célestin Freinet) devient pour de nombreux sujets un travail historiographique et sociologique extrêmement passionnant.

Les grandes expéditions polaires racontées et expliquées à trois périodes différentes de la connaissance culturelle et scientifique par Paul-Emile Victor (en 1962), par Robert Gessain (en 1982) et par Claude Lorius (en 1986 et 2006) nous font vivre, découvrir et comprendre au travers de leurs aventures, un monde totalement différent et fascinant.

L'auteur

Passionné par la découverte des pôles,

suit une formation d'ingénieur, est diplômé de l'Institut d'ethnologie de Paris, et de L'Ecole navale de Marseille. En 1934, il monte sa première expédition polaire. Il séjourne un an sur la côte est du Groënland avec les Eskimos d'Ammassalik. En 1935, il tente la traversée du désert de glace du Groënland d'ouest en est en traîneau, puis s'y installe en 1936 pour vivre "comme un esquimau parmi les Eskimos". En 1941, il part pour les USA, où il s'engage dans l'US Air Force. Pilote et parachutiste, il met en place les escadrilles de "Search and Rescue" pour l'Alaska, le Canada et le Groënland. C'est en 1947 qu'il crée les Expéditions polaires françaises / Missions Paul-Emile Victor. Il les dirige jusqu'en 1976, menant de nombreuses expéditions en Arctique (Groenland) et en Antarctique (Terre Adélie) où une base scientifique française permanente est construite. A partir de 1962, il milite pour la défense de l'Homme et de son environnement, organisant de nombreuses activités. Avec Jacques-Yves Cousteau et Haroun Tazieff, il crée, en 1974, le groupe Paul-Emile Victor pour la défense de l'Homme et de son environnement. Il est aussi l'auteur d'une quarantaine de livres scientifiques, techniques ou de vulgarisation. En 1977, Paul-Emile Victor, s'installe, avec sa famille, sur une île déserte de Polynésie française, où il s'adonne à la peinture.

(p) 2008 Paroles Images et Sons

© 2008 Frémeaux & Associés - Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle

"Faire interviewer ces grands hommes par des enfants est une démarche intéressante et pleine d'humanité.

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Title: VangoNotes for Technology in Action, 5/e Introductory

Author: Kendall Martin, Mary Anne Poatsy, Alan Evans

Narrator: Dennis Holland, Maria Hickey

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-07

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Technology in Action, 5/e Introductory and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are -- whatever you're doing -- you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook:

©2009 Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: Adventures from the Technology Underground

Author: William Gurstelle

Narrator: Marc Cashman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-06

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Adventures from the Technology Underground is Gurstelle's lively and weirdly compelling report of his travels. In these pages we meet Frank Kosdon and others who draw the scrutiny of the FAA, ATF, and other federal agencies in their pursuit of high-power amateur rocketry, which they demonstrate to impressive, and sometimes explosive, effect at the annual LDRS gathering held in various remote and unpopulated areas (a necessary consideration since that acronym stands for Large Dangerous Rocket Ships). Here also are the underground technologists who turn up at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada high desert, including Lucy Hosking, "the engineer from Hell" and the creator of Satan's Calliope, a.k.a. the World's Loudest Thing, a pipe organ made from jet engines. Also at Burning Man is Austin "Dr. MegaVolt" Richard, who braves the arcing, sputtering, six-digit voltages of a giant Tesla coil in his protective metal suit. Add in a trip to see medieval-style catapults, air cannons, and super-sized slingshots in action at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition in Sussex County, Delaware, and forays to the post apocalyptic enclaves of the flamethrower builders and the future-noir pits of the fighting robots, and you have proof positive that the age of invention is still going strong.

Critic Reviews:

"Adventure, excitement, and really wild stuff. [Listeners] won't be disappointed." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Somewhat interesting but not that great

First, this book is not something you can let your kids read unsupervised--> There is a section on some seriously questionable behavior at the burning man ("Camp Pump" and vacuum enhancement). I guess that is why I am giving it a couple of stars less than max. Although the book can function as light reading for an adult, I was hoping to give it to my kids. Also "Camp Pump" didn't really add anything to the book for me, and could have been omitted. I am not a prude, its just that I don't consider those 5 pages to be that relevant to the technology underground. I would have rather seen a section on land speed records, or computer piloted land vehicles.

The reason that I wanted to give it to my kids is because the book is written at the 'primer' level in regards to the topics is covers. The diagrams are great for the middle school level, and the writing is also 5th-9th grade or so. Most of the material in the book can be found on the web (in more depth), but the book is a nice way to bring a bunch of the topics together and relate them as components in the technology underground. Not to mention that, on the web, the more 'fringy' the website, the more likely it will be that there are links leading to places you don't want your kid going. On the other hand, I want my kids to be excited about science and technology, to feel like there is some fun stuff there, instead of just endless number crunching. This book would certainly generate the interest and 'how do I' questions that lead to true learning. I feel as if school in the US is getting increasingly watered down and topics that have some of the most interest to kids ( topics that are the "coolest") are strangled due to the focus on political correctness.

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Title: What Just Happened

Subtitle: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier

Author: James Gleick

Narrator: Dan Cashman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

As one of our leading science writers, James Gleick has always been ahead of the curve. He chronicled the genius of the great physicist Richard Feynman and explained chaos theory in a way all of us could understand. Now, in a collection of previously published pieces, he muses on the Internet revolution that has taken place all around us. From the foibles and ambitions of Microsoft, which he predicted would come to take over the world years before it became obvious to the rest of us, to the futuristic possibilities of mobile networked computing, Gleick gives us a gradual and inexorable account of the way computers have come to pervade our lives.

©2000 James Gleick; (P)2002 Books on Tape, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Past it's prime

This would have been a great read some years ago, but the information age has progressed so rapidly that it is now largely outdated. Come back in twenty years and it will be interesting as a chronicle of the early years; now it is just old news.

Too Out of Date to Enjoy ...

Probably a fine read in 2000, or listen in 2002. Do not waste your time in 2011, as I groaned too often through the first half of the book about the claimed novelty of word processing font innovations or PDAs - while listening to the book on my 2011 I-Pad. I did not listen to the end (something I have done on only one other occasion), and don't regret it at all.

Out of Date for 2005

I picked up "What Just Happened" as I recognized Gleick as the author of "Chaos". If I read "What Just Happened" first, I would hadn't read "Chaos". :-(

Simply put as the other reviewers have said, it is out of date. The last essay is 2000 or 2001 so I was surprised when I saw that it had been released in 2005.

I've been using the 'net since 1991 and I enjoyed someone else's perspective for what was happening as the rest of America discovered the 'net in the mid-90's. In his latter essays, I was just waiting for him to finish his essay as he was just plain wrong.

I might be recommended to a 'net newbie that might be interested in some historical background. Otherwise, would not. I would bet that most Audible listeners whom use Audible, i.e., the recordings aren't selected and downloaded by someone else, are beyond "What Just Happened".

Ramblings

A collection of dated essays on this thoughts about technology. Good in too many ways for historical trivia only.

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Title: Social Machines

Subtitle: How to Develop Connected Products That Change Customers' Lives

Author: Peter Semmelhack

Narrator: Mark Whitten

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Companies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if "machines" like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time? Nike+ is already doing this for your body, but every major industry, from healthcare to cars to home construction, is now building sensors and digital connectivity into their next generation of products. Companies like Ford, Pepsi, Verizon, and Procter and Gamble are also using "social machines" to reach new markets, improve brand/market awareness, and increase revenues.

Social Machines is the first book for business people, marketers, product developers, and technologists, explaining how this trend will change our world, how your business will benefit, and how to create connected products that customers love.

In the very near future, every great new product will be social. The next stage of interaction between people and our environment is upon us.

Members Reviews:

Provides a new view on IoT Devices

This is an interesting read, giving the reader an introduction to the idea of social machines. It expands on the emerging concept of internet of things, and goes further by describing the benefits and use cases that could be made possible when including machines in social networks.

However, note that this book simply gives an overview and presents a couple of interesting ideas, but is not a technical book. You will find no tutorials, or information on how to proceed with the actual implementation of connected machines.

Warning: IoT Content is Applicable to All Verticals (read and be inspired)

If you want/need inspiration to socially connect your "machine" - this is the book for you! The Internet of Things (IoT) is the horizontal that is applicable across all verticals! IoT is the technology revolution of this age.

If your company's product is not "connected" to capture and send current status and health data to a cloud platform for remote analysis and control... then you are already falling behind. If you aren't doing it, your competitor will!

This book will remove the overwhelming factor and will both inspire and advise you on an easy path to IoT implementation.

Excellent (understandable) framework for complex topic

Peter does a great job applying an understandable framework to a complex (and timely) topic. He provides a solid foundation on what "social machines" represent and why they are relevant. He then goes on to explain how to apply the framework across verticals, products, etc. Excellent, worthwhile read.

Understanding the business of service oriented hardware design

An extremely light-weight book , but amazingly insightful. This book provides a lucid introduction to the business model of social devices. I was getting tired of reading all those blogs beginning with "Imagine your toaster talks to your refrigerator and refrigerator orders bread from CostCo" and stuff like that.

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Title: DOS: Programming Success in a Day

Subtitle: Beginners Guide to Fast, Easy, and Efficient Learning of DOS

Author: Sam Key

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: Sam Key

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this audiobook will provide you first with all the necessary concepts 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 in the latter chapters.

You'll also learn the designs and forms of DOS, and what's more convenient than getting to know both sides?

Members Reviews:

Amazing book!

Very well-written, easy explained and easy to execute eBook. As the tital says, it will improve your programming, and you will see changes in the first day! I was told by a friend who is a programmer to read this, so I did since it's only $1. And it was definitly worth it!

Cool!

This book is easily one of the best knowledgeable ebooks for coding.

I myself, didn't think dos was a known (or fun) language, however I tried it out and loved it :)

Had some typos but it doesn't matter.

GREAT BOOK

A book I'd recommend for beginners like me who have an the motivation ...

A book I'd recommend for beginners like me who have an the motivation to truly understand what is stated here in this book and understand the knowledge behind programming in DOS. I've learned quite a lot actually due to the in depth info contained here and can't help but think of how much harder it would be trying to get the same information somewhere else in one place and not multiple sources with varying info that may differ from one and another.

Five Stars

Not gone thru in detail yet...

I was compelled to write a review of what are misleading and/or annoying mistakes in the text of this work

Truly, I have to wonder how this primer received the accolades it has. Perhaps the author has a large and extended family. That aside, after reading the first nineteen pages of it, I was compelled to write a review of what are misleading and/or annoying mistakes in the text of this work. The combination of awkward phrasing, typos and straight-up errors that any competent copy editor would catch had me running to the customer review section of this book offer and the writing of this review. Please, if this pamphlet is due to be reprinted, have an editor working in conjunction with the author review the galleries before it goes to print. For example, on page 9, the exclamation and underscore symbols are swapped. Page 12, "One way to solve circumvent this is..." OK, which is it? Only in Washington do people solve problems by circumventing them. An example explaining the use of the double quote where a 6 is transformed into a 4. These are not difficult to catch and it leaves one with the sinking feeling of having spent good money for a bad read. W.A Lyons

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Title: Digitalisation

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-17

Publisher: IntroBooks

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

What we need to do is to envision the digital future of your business. Without a compelling vision of where you are going and why it is imperative, you will probably be painting race stripes on a 20-year-old Chevy. What assets will be valuable in a digitally transformed business? How can you transform customer experience? Internal operations? Your business model? How can units work differently - and work together differently - in a more connected way? Look at the media industry. It has been completely transformed by digital technology. Some are putting their toes in the water. A few have jumped in and find they aren't drowning. They are reaping huge results.