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[Spanish] - Luz en las Sombras: No tiene

Luz en las Sombras llega al alma sin demora, con emocionado ímpetu, entre romántica, realista e intimista; historia hecha de dolor y cicatrices que iluminan el corazón. La tensión constante en el proceso de la narración es aterradora, angustiante. Una sensación de melancolía deja Luz en las Sombras, melancolía por esa sensación sin máscara alguna, porque uno no es otra cosa que esa historia que se va contando a sí mismo a lo largo de la vida. En este libro se encuentra el sentir y sed de liberarnos que se fortalece tras su lectura y permite identificarnos, no tanto con los hechos, sino con la humanidad de la autora, un ser humano como todos, que nos alienta a reconocer que podemos perdonar y sanar. Ángela Cornejo Z., escritora.Ecuador

Dalia Sánchez (Author), ángela Cornejo Zambrano (Narrator)

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A Biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). The year is 1806 – a baby boy has just been born in a small English coastal town. This child was born into a world without the lightbulb, without cars; a world in which only two years previously mankind had discovered that steam could be used to power a locomotive engine. This was a time of rapid change – the industrial revolution was beginning and one of the world's greatest and most inventive minds was about to make history. He would become one of the leading figures of this new technological age, helping to bring the world out of the darkness of the previous centuries, and into a new era of progress. He was a visionary – an engineer and inventor of unparalleled ingenuity and ambition. With his railway projects he would conquer rivers, mountains, and vast stretches of land. His oceanic projects would produce the largest and most powerful ships the world had ever seen – helping thousands of people to bridge the continents and bringing mankind closer than ever before. His architectural projects would serve as testament to the ingenuity of mankind and would stamp his legacy upon the landscape. But his legacy endures in more than his constructions and inventions – his genius would come to inspire whole generations of new engineers, architects, and scientists – his legacy lives on all around us. So, join us now, as we trace his story from its very beginnings – join us on an exploration of the life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Raphael Terra (Author), Raphael Terra (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Biografías breves - Albert Einstein

Un 14 de marzo hace unos ciento cuarenta años nació Albert Einstein en Ulm, Alemania. Aquel niño creció hasta convertirse en uno de los científicos más brillantes del siglo XX. Sus investigaciones y descubrimientos supusieron una revolución: la explicación teórica en términos estadísticos del movimiento browniano y la interpretación del efecto fotoeléctrico basada en la hipótesis de que la luz está integrada por cuantos individuales (más tarde denominados fotones) le valieron el Nobel de Física en 1921, pero fueron sus trabajos sobre la teoría de la relatividad y su famosa ecuación E = mc2 las que lo hicieron mundialmente conocido. Lamentablemente, el convulso contexto histórico que le tocó vivir lo forzó a involucrarse en la política y a tomar dolorosas decisiones. De familia judía, tuvo que huir a Estados Unidos cuando Hitler accedió al poder en 1933 y, más tarde, ante la posible amenaza de una bomba atómica en manos de los alemanes, instó al presidente Roosevelt a que emprendiera un programa para investigar sobre la energía atómica. Durante sus últimos años no dejó de buscar la manera de evitar una guerra nuclear y colaboró para la formación de lo que más tarde serían las Naciones Unidas. Hoy conocemos a Albert Einstein como un icono pop más que como el gran físico teórico que era, pero mucho más nos une a este magnífico científico e infatigable pacifista. Este audiolibro está narrado en español neutro. - -

Luis Machado (Author), Varios Narradores (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - PLEYADIANOS LOS HIJOS DE LAS ESTRELLAS

¿Crees que hay vida fuera de este planeta? En la inmensidad del universo tenemos a disposición miles y miles de galaxias donde habitan seres que han trascendido, cumpliendo lo pactado en el plan divino. Estas deidades son conocidas como seres de luz, muy similares a nosotros, maestros que nos protegen mientras logramos el despertar a una nueva conciencia. Los Pleyadianos, han estado durante años, marcándonos el camino a un nuevo despertar de la razón, guiándonos en el proceso de recuerdo para obtener la ascensión a otras dimensiones. Para que nos quede fácil de conseguirlo, nos han suministrado recursos como: · Códigos Sagrados. · Geometría Sagrada. · Canalización de mensajes de luz. · Contacto directo con ellos. Al sentir tan cerca su presencia, nos anima a evolucionar desde la espiritualidad; desarrollando nuestro vehículo de ascensión, también llamado Merkabá, para comenzar a experimentar la conexión con dimensiones más desarrolladas que la nuestra. A través de este libro, vas a tener la oportunidad de conocer más de cerca, una raza intergaláctica de luz, la Pleyadiana, quienes desde tiempos inmemoriales nos cuidan y guían en el proceso de elevación espiritual, aquel que nos llevará de regreso a lo que en realidad somos: la verdadera esencia, la unión con el Eterno. El mundo está sufriendo un proceso de cambio y nosotros estamos llamados a trascender con él. Para ello, podemos apoyarnos en la ayuda sincera y amorosa que nos ofrecen seres ascendidos, ángeles, etéreos que hace muchos años encontraron el camino y desean lo mismo para nosotros; ellos son, los Pleyadianos.

Salomon Angels (Author), Natalia Medina (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Lo spettacolo utile: L'origine della divulgazione scientifica

Oggi tutti possono conoscere i risultati della scienza… ma c'è voluto molto tempo per fare in modo che fosse così. Cicerone fu il primo a tradurre il linguaggio scientifico in modo che i suoi concittadini potessero comprenderlo. In seguito, Galileo usò il dialogo per cercare di convincere gli aristotelici che la Terra si muoveva. Lui fallì, ma il suo esempio perdurò e ispirò altri scienziati a fare lo stesso, finché la rivoluzione scientifica iniziata da Copernico fu accettata. Infine, l'idea dell'evoluzionismo di Charles Darwin fu oggetto di un acceso dibattito a Oxford, e i periodici satirici vittoriani la prendevano addirittura in giro; ma grazie a tutto questo, la teoria dell'albero della vita si diffuse e divenne largamente conosciuta. E c'è molto di più: la prima comunità scientifica, l'origine del processo della peer review e anche le riviste scientifiche più famose, come Nature... Scoprite la meravigliosa storia che ha portato dall'autorità scientifica alla partecipazione del pubblico alla scienza.

Amedeo Pitzoi (Author), Amedeo Pitzoi (Narrator)

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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. "Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their knees. If you're going to read only one book about AI, this should be it."-Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Shortlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Memphis and then developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini followed her lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art to MIT in 2015. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," she did groundbreaking research that exposed widespread racial and gender bias in AI services from tech giants across the world. Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls "the coded gaze"-the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products-and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, she shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity "excoded" and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them. Encouraging experts and non-experts alike to join this fight, Buolamwini writes, "The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few."

Joy Buolamwini (Author), Joy Buolamwini (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Elon Musk (edición en español)

Del autor de Steve Jobs y otras grandes biografías, todas ellas éxitos internacionales de ventas, esta es la historia asombrosamente íntima del innovador más fascinante y polémico del mundo, un visionario que ha roto todos los moldes y ha conducido al mundo a la era de los vehículos eléctricos, la exploración espacial privada y la inteligencia artificial. Ah, y el mismo que compró Twitter. Cuando Elon Musk era un niño en Sudáfrica, sufría a menudo acoso escolar. Un día un grupo de niños lo empujó por unas escaleras de hormigón y le patearon hasta que su cara se hinchó como una pelota. Pasó una semana en el hospital. Pero las cicatrices físicas fueron insignificantes comparadas con las emocionales, las que le había causado su padre, un canalla, ingeniero carismático y fantasioso. Cuando Elon llegó a casa tras ser dado de alta del hospital, su padre le reprendió. «Tuve que escucharlo durante una hora mientras me gritaba, me llamaba idiota y me decía que era un inútil», recuerda. El impacto psicológico que su padre le causó perduró. Se convirtió en un joven fuerte pero vulnerable al mismo tiempo, propenso a bruscos cambios de humor -a lo Jekyll y Hyde-, con una gran tolerancia al riesgo, ansias de drama, un épico sentido de misión y una intensidad maníaca, cruel y a veces destructiva. A principios de 2022, después de un año marcado por el lanzamiento de treinta y un satélites de SpaceX, la venta de un millón de coches de Tesla y de convertirse en el hombre más rico de la tierra, Musk confesó con arrepentimiento su impulso por provocar el drama. «Necesito cambiar mi forma de pensar para que deje de estar en modo crisis, como lo he estado en los últimos catorce años, o probablemente toda mi vida», explicó. Fue un comentario melancólico, no un propósito de año nuevo. Cuando hizo la promesa, estaba comprando en secreto acciones de Twitter, el patio de recreo por excelencia. Con los años, cuando se encontraba en un momento difícil, se veía transportado de nuevo al acoso que sufrió en el patio del colegio. Ahora tenía la oportunidad de poseerlo. Durante dos años, Isaacson fue la sombra de Musk, asistió a sus reuniones, recorrió juntos sus fábricas, y pasó horas entrevistándolo a él, a su familia, amigos, compañeros y adversarios. El resultado es un relato íntimo y revelador, repleto de historias asombrosas, triunfos y perturbaciones, que aborda la pregunta: ¿son los demonios que mueven a Musk también lo que se necesita para impulsar la innovación y el progreso?

Walter Isaacson (Author), Luis Solís (Narrator)

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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments-in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear. From Sigmund Freud's experiments with cocaine to William James's epiphany on nitrous oxide, Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism. Today, as we embrace novel cognitive enhancers and psychedelics, the experiments of the original psychonauts reveal the deep influence of mind-altering drugs on Western science, philosophy, and culture.

Mike Jay (Author), Rachel Perry (Narrator)

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How We Fish: The new book from the fishing brains behind the hit TV series GONE FISHING, with a Fore

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids and have never missed the chance to set up on the bank and try their luck. In this wonderful book, the two fishermen collaborate to celebrate the rich tapestry that is fishing – from mentors to memories; from philosophy to modern jargon; from watercraft to becoming self-styled ‘Fishing Detectives’. Punctuated by brilliant stories, beautiful illustrations by Carys Reilly-Whitehouse, and recollections from fishing day trips past, How We Fish is the perfect tome for the veteran fisherman or the budding angler – warm, funny and rich in the wonders of the riverbank.

John Bailey, Paul Whitehouse (Author), John Bailey, Paul Whitehouse (Narrator)

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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs

In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with Thomas Edison, across America. Their road trips transported them to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the Adirondacks of New York, and the Green Mountains of Vermont, finally paving the way for a grand 1918 expedition through southern Appalachia. In many ways, their timing could not have been worse. With war raging in Europe and an influenza pandemic that had already claimed thousands of lives abroad beginning to plague the United States, it was an inopportune moment for travel. Nevertheless, each of the men who embarked on the 1918 journey would subsequently point to it as the most memorable vacation of their lives. These travels profoundly influenced the way Ford, Edison, and Burroughs viewed the world. In American Journey, Wes Davis re-creates these landmark adventures, through which one of the great naturalists of the nineteenth century helped the men who invented the modern age reconnect with the natural world-and reimagine the world they were creating.

Wes Davis (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction

This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sina's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called 'demonstration of the truthful,' a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sina and Islamic rational theology (kalam): in which we see how Ibn Sina responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sina's legacy in Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sina in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazali, al-Suhrawardi, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.

Peter Adamson (Author), David Stifel (Narrator)

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The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden

Racoons are not the only bandits wearing masks in the wilderness. Growing up, author Kennie Prince spent most of his time in the woods and creeks near his home in Rankin County, Mississippi. A highly skilled outdoorsman, Prince began his career with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1983 and dedicated his life to protecting Mississippi's fish and wildlife resources in dangerous undercover work. The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden contains dozens of hair-raising accounts of covert wildlife operations, often spanning years, requiring ingenious planning, complicated secrecy, and deft coordination. Prince infiltrated bloody-minded, wary criminal groups, winning their trust. When his traps were fully set, he involved other state and federal law enforcement officials to bring an abrupt halt to abominable thefts of vast fish and wildlife resources from the public trust. Smart, creative, knowledgeable, tenacious, disciplined, passionate, and a natural-born actor, Prince bore a unique skill set that made him an ideal fit for this perilous undertaking. This memoir details how Prince gained the confidence of tightly knit circles of loyal, leery poachers and put an end to their destructive evil.

Kennie Prince (Author), Chris Abernathy (Narrator)

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