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Con un estilo eficaz y fuentes de gran calado, este libro responde a una falta en el periodismo nacional sobre la industria que marcó la mayor parte del siglo XX en México y que actualmente toma un rumbo indefinido pero bastante negativo. A partir de la nacionalización de la industria petrolera, por ochenta años Pemex fue el principal sostén de la economía mexicana, una maquinaria generadora de billones y billones de dólares por la producción y venta del oro negro y sus derivados, sólo que, a pesar de ser un bien público, sus ganancias y beneficios se repartieron entre pocas manos. Al cabo de esas ocho décadas, la reforma energética, que acabó con el modelo nacionalista, hizo escombros el Pemex de Cárdenas: deliberadamente, la producción se derrumbó para dar paso a la desnacionalización y privatización. Pero ¿quiénes se enriquecieron de la gallina de los huevos de oro?, ¿dónde quedó la ganancia de la renta petrolera? A estas y otras interrogantes da respuesta este libro, que explica el entramado que llevó al declive y desmantelamiento de la industria petrolera mexicana. Pemex RIP cierra una trilogía sobre Pemex iniciada con Camisas Azules, Manos Negras. El saqueo de Pemex desde Los Pinos (2010) y El Cártel Negro. Cómo el crimen organizado se ha apoderado de Pemex (2011), en la que revela fraudes, peculado, abuso de poder, tráfico de influencias, enriquecimiento ilícito, sobornos y muchos otros abusos de funcionarios y empleados que tuvieron en sus manos la encomienda de dirigir y operar una de las petroleras más importantes del mundo, y que en sus manos la convirtieron en epicentro de corrupción del país.
Ana Lilia Pérez (Author), Lili Barba, Liliana Barba (Narrator)
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Kate Crawford (Author), Larissa Gallagher (Narrator)
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Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know
There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a steady stream of inflammatory articles in the media raising concerns over the impending specter of super-intelligent robots, along with stories about how most jobs will soon be lost to robots. Here, using the question-and-answer format, Phil Husbands gives a balanced and broad introduction to robotics and the current state of the field, analyzing where it has come from, and where it might go in the future. He begins with the history of robotics and its complex relationship with popular culture, and then moves on to discuss the technology underlying robots in an engaging, non-technical way, exploring the limits of what robots can actually do now and what they might be able to do in the future. Naturally these machines are attracting great attention. Do they pose a threat or an unprecedented opportunity? And although the 'singularity' may not be something to worry about, there are certainly ethical issues needing consideration as robots with some intelligence are used increasingly across many sectors. Husbands considers both these ethical problems and also the wider socio-political challenges that robots are already creating, and the larger ones they might bring in the future.
Phil Husbands (Author), Liam Gerrard (Narrator)
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Conocer el principio de funcionamiento de los instrumentos del avión, es parte de las herramientas necesarias para un piloto profesional. Entender como funciona un velocímetro, un altímetro y todos el equipamiento que puedas tener la aeronave, es fundamental para una operación segura y eficiente. En este audiolibro, aprenderás los conceptos básicos de funcionamiento de los principales instrumentos del avión.
Facundo Conforti (Author), Amelia (Narrator)
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Airbus A320: Sistemas del avión
En este éxito de la Biblioteca Aeronáutica se abarcan todos los sistemas de la aeronave, su principio de funcionamiento ante operaciones normales de vuelo. Una detallada guía práctica para todo aquel piloto que inicie su recorrido por el mundo Airbus, o bien, un entretenido manual aeronáutico para todo aquel aficionado a la aviación que disfruta del estudio de los sistemas de un avión tan completo y avanzado como el A320. Una guía aeronáutica profesional que lleva el estudio de los sistemas de un avión a otro nivel.
Facundo Conforti (Author), Amelia (Narrator)
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THE NEW “TESLA Pi CELL PHONE” REVOLUTIONARY WITH INSANE FEATURES: Welcome to our top stories of the
ELON MUSK DAILY NEWS THE NEW “TESLA Pi CELL PHONE” REVOLUTIONARY WITH INSANE FEATURES The best cellular phones today cannot compare to Elon Musk’s new “Tesla Pi cell phone” that will soon be launching into the mainstream market. No other phone today can compete with his insane design and out of this world features. Get ready to be amazed because you're about to take a major leap into the future. Introducing the top features that make the Tesla Pi phone untouchable!
Maurice Rosete (Author), Maurice Rosete (Narrator)
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Scaling Sales Success: 16 Key Principles for Sales Leaders
Leadership is a very different skill from day-to-day management. This is because leadership is focused on the business, whereas management is devoted to solving problems that arise in the business. That may seem to suggest that leadership is the easier of the two paths, but the truth is that leadership is far harder for many people, because it is less tactical. Not all sales managers are sales leaders, but sales managers can learn to be sales leaders. Scaling Sales Success outlines sixteen proven 'rules of the road' for those leaders who are ready to make the journey necessary to transform a team of disengaged or marginally engaged salespeople into a cohesive, committed team capable of generating scalable revenue growth. And in order to scale the success of your team in a way that supports ongoing, aggressive growth, leadership is a non-negotiable requirement.
David Mattson (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)
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Futureproof: 9 reglas para los humanos en la era de la automatizacion
¿Qué significa ser humano en un mundo construido cada vez más por y para máquinas? Las máquinas ya están aquí; la automatización está sustituyendo los trabajos de las personas, la inteligencia artificial se ha colocado en el centro de los negocios y de nuestras vidas, y los algoritmos dan forma a todo lo que nos rodea. EnFutureproof: 9 reglas para los humanos en la era de la automatización, Kevin Roose rechaza la creencia popular de que paracompetir con las máquinas tenemos que parecernos a ellas: hipereficientes, basadas en datos, caballos de batalla al servicio del código. En su lugar, sostiene que debemos dejar a las máquinas ser máquinas y enfocarnos en hacer las actividades creativas, inspiradoras y con sentido que nos distinguen como seres humanos. Para lograrlo, nos comparte nueve lecciones para reflexionar, sobrevivir al cambio tecnológico y proteger nuestro futuro: Regla 1. Sé sorprendente, sociable y excepcional. Regla 2. Resiste el embate de las máquinas. Regla 3. Haz a un lado tus dispositivos. Regla 4. Deja huella. Regla 5. No seas un punto de conexión. Regla 6. Trata la IA como si fuera un ejército de chimpancés. Regla 7. Construye redes grandes y pequeñas. Regla 8. Aprende humanidades para la era de las máquinas. Regla 9. Arma a los rebeldes. Una visión pragmática y esperanzadora sobre cómo podemos defendernos del paso arrasador de la automatización y cómo alcanzar el éxito en la era de las máquinas al convertirnos en humanos irremplazables.
Kevin Roose (Author), Sergio Mejía (Narrator)
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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Brought to you by Penguin. Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill. In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training. Dramatically framed around the 737 MAX crashes, Flying Blind is the definitive exposé that for the first time tells the larger, decades-long story of how a corrupt corporate culture paved the way for the cataclysm. © Peter Robison 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Peter Robison (Author), Feodor Chin (Narrator)
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Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922-1945
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise.
Thomas Heinrich (Author), Matthew Boston (Narrator)
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina's flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state's citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance-and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today.
Andy Horowitz (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)
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Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet
From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars. ‘There are probably just a few of moments in human history when a small group of humans stood on the margins of a vast new world, and it is no stretch of the romantic imagination that the arrival of two rovers on the surface of another planet was surely one of them.’ Human exploration of Mars is the most ambitious and exciting scientific goal of the 21st century, and few people on earth know as much about this fascinating planet as Dr Larry Crumpler. As one of the long-term planning leads for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, he helped control the daily communications between NASA and the rovers roaming the planet to gather scientific data. In this magnificent compendium, Dr. Crumpler recounts the history of the Red Planet, from the earliest days when ancient astronomers turned their eyes to the heavens to the breakthrough discoveries being unearthed by modern technology today, including some of the first images from the latest rover, Perseverance. Paired with stunning, full-colour photographs taken by rovers and NASA satellites images, this magnificent “biography” of the red planet allows us to understand and experience it as never before. When the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers landed on Mars in January 2004, scientists expected them to function for 90 days. But those three months turned into fifteen years. With data gathered by the rovers, Dr Crumpler and his team were able to reconstruct the planet’s stunning geological past, when it was once inundated with water, and perhaps could have supported microbial life. Dr Crumpler also reveals the joys and demands of life as a scientist taking part in these historic missions. Exploring fundamental questions about this remarkable planet that have intrigued us earthlings for years, Red Planet Renaissance illuminates Mars’ significance in the solar system—and the human imagination.
Larry Crumpler (Author), Stephen Graybill (Narrator)
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