Computers & Technology Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

"Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again. “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky"

Bruce Schneier (Author), Dan John Miller (Narrator)

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Car Talk Classics: No Factory Recalls. So Far.

"There may be an occasional flaw in the auto expert advice of brothers Tom and Ray Maggliozzi, but the complaint box remains empty, with no factory recall in sight. The next entry in the ever popular Car Talk Classics series features four all time favorite Car Talk episodes, hand-picked by host Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, and presented here together for the first time. Car Talk continues to be one of public radio's most popular and laugh-inducing programs, with a weekly audience of four million listeners. Car Talk, winner of a Peabody Award, is broadcast each week to NPR stations nationwide. The world's wackiest call-in show, it mixes automotive advice with wisecracks, roadside philosophy, and guffaws. No problem is too ridiculous, no solution to absurd, and before you know it, 'you've wasted another perfectly good hour listening to Car Talk.' Or, in this case, four."

Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi (Author), Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi (Narrator)

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The Quick Guide to WordPress and Pinterest: Surviving the Social Media Revolution

"The popularity of Pinterest has taken off, many WordPress theme designs are now becoming more image focused. This means it’s now possible to find themes that actually encourage people to view your images more often. Many of these themes feature a graphic above the content snippet. You have the ability to entice visitors to individual pages based on the images you have. You can incorporate Pinterest into your WordPress site and automate some of your social networking tasks. This allows you to draw new visitors to your site from the Pins you put up on Pinterest. It allows you to increase your follower numbers right from your site without your visitors having to leave at all. It lets you post images that you’ve published on your blog directly to your Pinterest pin-board automatically. So, are you ready to combine the power of WordPress and Pinterest? Let’s get started…"

Gazella D.S. Pistorious (Author), Rick Hoem (Narrator)

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Principles of Project Management Explained

"Are you a busy project manager, or even just an employee that works on projects from time to time? You work on projects regularly, yet you rarely feel one hundred percent satisfied with them, and you feel as if the feedback from others is never perfect…If that is the case, then this book is an absolute must-read to improve your career! In this book, I discuss the principles of project management in a comprehensive and incredibly simple manner that will aid you in becoming the best at your job that you possibly can be. What you’ll learn in this book: The basics of project management The different areas of project management, including: Integration management, cost management, time management, quality management, risk management, etc. Additional tips such as how to approach stakeholders for a project, how to create schedules and more! Read on to get motivated and learn how to create projects that are absolutely amazing."

Can Akdeniz (Author), Introbooks (Narrator)

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Likeable Social Media, Revised and Expanded: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible B

"The NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller-updated with today’s hottest sites! A friend’s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Packed with brand-new case studies from today’s emerging social sites, this updated edition of Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to your customers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise. And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers and help them spread the word."

Carrie Kerpen, Dave Kerpen, Mallorie Rosenbluth, Meg Riedinger (Author), Gary Regal (Narrator)

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The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

"A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secret federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. But these scientists— almost all foreign born—are not alone. With so much at stake, researchers in Japan, South Korea, and China are in the same pursuit. The drama intensifies when a Silicon Valley start-up licenses the federal laboratory’s signature invention with the aim of a blockbuster sale to the world’s biggest carmakers. The Powerhouse is a real-time, twoyear thrilling account of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception. It exposes the layers of competition and ambition, aspiration and disappointment behind this great turning point in the history of technology."

Steve LeVine (Author), Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

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Lean Project Management Volume 1: Managing Business the Lean Way

"Research states that almost half of all improvement initiatives fail due to lack of effective leadership. If this is the case, then as business owners the time has never been more prudent to consider how we are managing our businesses and what kind of leadership strategies we have in place. Given that so many industries are littered with failed start-ups and businesses these days, it is clear that more work and investment is needed to develop future leaders. But even with the right leadership in place, which business model does one choose to follow? There are numerous schools of thought and endless business theories on this topic, but one I believe can revolutionize the way in which all of our businesses operate is that of “lean management”. It’s not a new idea, in fact the Japanese have been utilising its power for over sixty years, but it is a concept and a philosophy that we should all take time to understand. But what is exactly is ‘Lean Management’? And what is a ‘Lean Leader’? What makes a ‘Lean Leader’ different from a ‘normal’ leader? These are just some of the questions we’ll be answering within this book. We also want you to: - Understand the variables and factors that have an impact on the overall implication and sustainability of your movement towards a lean path - Identify the main differences between management and leadership styles and behaviours and why going lean could change your business for the better - Recognise that lean principles can be applied to any size business within any industry - Learn how to move towards going completely lean"

Can Akdeniz (Author), Introbooks (Narrator)

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Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization

"This book enables newcomers, business professionals and seasoned cybersecurity practitioners and marketers to understand and to explain the discipline to anyone. The book is not about technology and no technical knowledge or prior background is required to understand this book. This book is widely acclaimed by practitioners and scholars alike and listed among the best cybersecurity leadership books of all time. Cybersecurity involves people, policy, and technology. Yet most books and academic programs cover only technology. Hence the implementation of cybersecurity as a people powered perpetual innovation and productivity engine is not done. People think they can buy cybersecurity as a product when in fact the discipline is the modern practice of digital business strategy. People also equate cybersecurity with information security or security alone. However, security is a state, while cybersecurity is a process. Too many people equate cybersecurity with computer science when in fact cybersecurity is a business discipline. Written and narrated by a globally acclaimed scholar, practitioner, and author with a Doctor of Science in cybersecurity and over ten years experience designing and running award-winning cybersecurity education programs on a global scale. The author also served as Chief Information Officer and implemented profitable digital transformations and cybersecurity strategy in healthcare, biotechnology, education, and energy for more than 30 years. Dr. Hasib is a sought after speaker and has won multiple global awards such as: 2020 Cybersecurity Champion of the Year; 2020 People's Choice Award in Cybersecurity; 2019 Best Cybersecurity Higher Education Program in the USA; 2019 Outstanding Global Cybersecurity Leadership; 2018 Best Cybersecurity Higher Education Program in the USA; 2018 Hall of Fame; 2017 People's Choice Award in Cybersecurity; 2017 Information Governance Expert of the Year; 2017 (ISC)2 Americas ISLA Award."

Dr. Mansur Hasib (Author), Dr. Mansur Hasib (Narrator)

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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

"A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare-one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. "Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an engrossing whodunit."-The Washington Post The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction-in this case, on an Iranian nuclear facility. In these pages, journalist Kim Zetter tells the whole story behind the world's first cyberweapon, covering its genesis in the corridors of the White House and its effects in Iran-and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a top secret sabotage campaign years in the making. But Countdown to Zero Day also ranges beyond Stuxnet itself, exploring the history of cyberwarfare and its future, showing us what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by a Stuxnet-style attack, and ultimately, providing a portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war."

Kim Zetter (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator)

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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

"2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators is “a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age” (The New York Times)."

Walter Isaacson (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator)

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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity’s Chief Engineer

"In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question. Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts. Manning's fascinating personal account—which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists—is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Listeners experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity."

Rob Manning, William L. Simon (Author), Bronson Pinchot (Narrator)

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Dark Pools: The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street

"Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown. ‘Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don’t notice.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan"

Scott Patterson (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator)

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