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Quantum Physics for Beginners

by John Kaplan ...

Narrated by Warren Sandwell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 26 min

FOR SOME IT LOOKS LIKE MAGIC, FOR OTHERS IT IS A PURE SCIENCE…- Have you ever felt an interest in the work of Planck, Einstein or Bohr?- Would you like to understand why everything is energy and what energy really is?- Or maybe, you want to dive deep into the fascinating science of quantum physics, understand the basics and more advanced aspects?If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these ... Read more

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FOR SOME IT LOOKS LIKE MAGIC, FOR OTHERS IT IS A PURE SCIENCE…- Have you ever felt an interest in the work of Planck, Einstein or Bohr?- Would you like to understand why everything is energy and what energy really is?- Or maybe, you want to dive deep into the fascinating science of quantum physics, understand the basics and more advanced aspects?If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these
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You Cannot Be Serious

by John McEnroe, James Kaplan ...

A no-holds-barred, intimate memoir by John McEnroe—the bad boy of professional tennis.John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of eighteen—and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, an intimate examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and his ... Read more

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A no-holds-barred, intimate memoir by John McEnroe—the bad boy of professional tennis.John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of eighteen—and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, an intimate examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and his
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Imperial Grunts

On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond...

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by John H. Mayer ...

Unabridged

18 hours 37 min

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or ... Read more

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A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or
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Monsoon

The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by John Pruden ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies frontand center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. Thisconvention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentiethcentury, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentallychange.In this pivotal examination of the countries known as "MonsoonAsia"—which include India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, ... Read more

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On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies frontand center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. Thisconvention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentiethcentury, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentallychange.In this pivotal examination of the countries known as "MonsoonAsia"—which include India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia,
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Mindset

The Complete Series

by Zack Kaplan ...

Black Mirror meets The Social Network in the mind-bending, sci-fi technothriller Mindset, where mind control is only an app away. For fans of Dave Eggers’ The Circle and The Every. NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES!!The Cult of ControlWhen an introverted tech geek accidentally discovers mind control, he and his friends do something unexpected – they put the science into ... ... Read more

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Black Mirror meets The Social Network in the mind-bending, sci-fi technothriller Mindset, where mind control is only an app away. For fans of Dave Eggers’ The Circle and The Every. NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES!!The Cult of ControlWhen an introverted tech geek accidentally discovers mind control, he and his friends do something unexpected – they put the science into ...
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Radio's Second Century

Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

by John Allen Hendricks, Bruce Mims, Lu Wu, Daniel Riffe, Laith Zuraikat, Joseph R. Blaney, David Crider, Rachel Sussman-Wander Kaplan, John F. Barber0, Emily W. Easton1, Mark Ward2, John Mark Dempsey3, Anjuli Joshi Brekke4, Anne F. MacLennan5, Brad Clark6, Archie McLean7, Michael Nevradakis8, Simon Order9 ...

Winner of the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book AwardOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Winner of the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book AwardOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total
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Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease

by Robert M Kaplan, John D Piette, Joseph R Ferrari ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death and illness in the United States, and though much progress has been made in reducing cardiac risk factors, obesity and diabetes mellitus are on the rise. Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease explores recent advances in drug treatments for CAD risk factors and how these interventions can play an important role in ... Read more

$61.99 USD

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death and illness in the United States, and though much progress has been made in reducing cardiac risk factors, obesity and diabetes mellitus are on the rise. Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease explores recent advances in drug treatments for CAD risk factors and how these interventions can play an important role in
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Tragic Mind, The

Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ... Read more

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A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of
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Life on The Mississippi

by Mark Twain, John Seelye ...

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and ... Read more

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At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and
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Over Our Dead Bodies

Undertakers Lift the Lid

by Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie ...

Narrated by Gregory St. John, Brian Troxell, Reay Kaplan ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to
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Artificial Intelligence

What Everyone Needs to Know

by Jerry Kaplan ...

Narrated by John Pruden ...

Unabridged

4 hours 54 min

Artificial Intelligence is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. ... Read more

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Artificial Intelligence is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans.
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Lincoln

The Biography of a Writer

by Fred Kaplan ...

Narrated by Dan John Miller ...

Unabridged

14 hours 59 min

“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as his own views evolved, to express his deepening opposition to it.” — Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldFor Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as his own views evolved, to express his deepening opposition to it.” — Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldFor Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love
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