Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Computers & Technology

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915] to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Author: James R. Hansen Narrator: Jeremy Bobb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 34 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this “magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon. In this “compelling and nuanced portrait” (Chicago Tribune) filled with revelations, Hansen vividly recreates Armstrong’s career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative trans-atmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrong’s storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the near-fifty years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life. A penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. “First Man burrows deep into Armstrong’s past and present…What emerges is an earnest and brave man” (Houston Chronicle) who will forever be known as history’s most famous space traveler.

How We'll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236397 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236397] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How We'll Live on Mars Series: Part of Ted Books Author: Stephen Petranek Narrator: Stephen Petranek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable. It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity and explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen. The race is on. Private companies, driven by iconoclastic entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Sir Richard Branson; Dutch reality show and space mission Mars One; NASA; and the Chinese government are among the many groups competing to plant the first stake on Mars and open the door for human habitation. Why go to Mars? Life on Mars has potential life-saving possibilities for everyone on earth. Depleting water supplies, overwhelming climate change, and a host of other disasters—from terrorist attacks to meteor strikes—all loom large. We must become a space-faring species to survive. We have the technology not only to get humans to Mars, but to convert Mars into another habitable planet. It will likely take 300 years to “terraform” Mars, as the jargon goes, but we can turn it into a veritable second Garden of Eden. And we can live there, in specially designed habitations, within the next twenty years. In this exciting chronicle, Petranek introduces the circus of lively characters all engaged in a dramatic effort to be the first to settle the Red Planet. How We’ll Live on Mars brings firsthand reporting, interviews with key participants, and extensive research to bear on the question of how we can expect to see life on Mars within the next twenty years.

Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity,Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century by Cory Doctorow

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234388 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234388] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity,Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century Author: Cory Doctorow Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 2, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy makerverse to excoriating Apple for dumbing down technology while creating an information monopoly, each unique piece is brief, witty, and at the cutting edge of tech. Now a stay-at-home dad as well as an international activist, Doctorow writes as eloquently about creating real-time Internet theater with his daughter as he does while lambasting the corporations that want to profit from inherent intellectual freedoms.

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233290 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233290] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Author: Ashlee Vance Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 554 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 86 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.” Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy. Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.

Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers by Richard Rawlings, Mark Dagostino

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233509 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233509] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers Author: Richard Rawlings, Mark Dagostino Narrator: Richard Rawlings, Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: The breakout star of Discovery’s hit automotive restoration show Fast N’ Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected with the quick-witted, foul-mouthed charm viewers love. “If we’re gonna have fun, it better have a motor!” In Fast N’ Loud, Richard Rawlings pushes into high gear, sharing the story of his rise to success, his show, and the automotive know-how that has made him famous. He begins with his own story—how he went from flat broke to a seat at the table with some of history’s most iconic car guys. His road to the top is full of dangerous twists and hilarious turns, with a few precipitous cliffs in between, including getting shot defending his beloved 1965 Mustang fastback from carjackers, blowing out of town Fear-and-Loathing style, and picking up chicks and vagrants along the way. Rawlings then takes readers behind the scenes of Fast N’ Loud, the series, sharing details on everything from the toughest car to restore to the easiest, his favorite restorations, travel and war anecdotes, and the best and worst cars to make it to the small screen. He finishes with a handy guide for classic and antique car enthusiasts that includes insider tricks of the trade. Want to know how to find a Model-T in mint condition? Need a carburetor for your ’73 Ford Mustang? Want to meet other ’60s Porsche owners? The answers are all here.