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  The Age of AI (eBook, ePUB)

  A Wall Street Journal Bestseller'IT SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF GEOPOLITICS TODAY' FINANCIAL TIMESThree of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what it means for us all.An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analysing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality.In The Age of AI, three leading thinkers have come together to consider how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. The Age of AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era unlike any that has come before.

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  Into the Fire: Lumina, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 168min

  The Earth is about to fall. But the war has only just begun....Life seemed idyllic for acclaimed academy trainee Ryann Wade. Until the day the invasion shattered humanity, along with Ryann’s perfectly laid future. Only the Ghost Runners - a secretive group of maverick pilots operating alone outside of the military - bring hope as war rages across the galaxy. Humanity looks to the Ghost Runners...but when he thinks they have betrayed him, Ryann strives to find them first to satisfy his own thirst for revenge....Into the Fire is the first book in the Lumina series, a fast-paced space series that follows Ryann Wade and his partner, Angelique, in their coming of age, just as the colonized galaxy faces the threat of an imminent invasion. Lots of action - dogfights in space - and the beginning of an epic story that spans the galaxy! For all of you who love Star Wars, Star Trek, Serenity, Starship Troopers - a great sci-fi epic military space-shooter!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: I.G. Hulme. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227960/bk_acx0_227960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Visits from the Drowned Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min

  Tower jockey Benny Poteat has seen a lot of things. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burnt-out bulbs, secured by nothing but a leather harness and carabiners, he's witnessed baptisms, outdoor weddings, dogfights, glorious sunsets, topless sunbathers, fierce storms, raging fires, and plenty more. Not much he sees surprises him, until the day he watches a woman die. She approaches the river that snakes far below him, sets up a video camera, and walks in to the rushing water, never to reappear. Startled by what he's witnessed and his inability to prevent it, Benny hurries down the tower to the scene of her death. He gathers up her belongings, and doesn't tell a soul about what he saw. Instead, he visits the address on a business card in the drowned girl's bag. He insinuates himself into a life she once lived. Meanwhile, the secret he carries threatens to destroy him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holter Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000169/bk_high_000169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Last of the Few: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It, Hörbuch, Digital, 243min

  After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies – the RAF would have to be broken – so every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day, and civilians watched skies criss-crossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain’s very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer’s battle. Britain’s air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds, ‘The Few’, as they came to be known, bought Britain’s freedom – many with their lives. These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Shaw-Parker, Patience Tomlinson, Gareth Armstrong, Sam Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000648/bk_rhuk_000648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  World War I Dogfights: The History and Legacy of Aerial Combat During the Great War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min

  The first aircraft to appear in the skies over the battlefields of World War I showed few signs of the dominant future of airplanes in warfare. Small, fragile, and slow, they provided no hint of the sleek jet fighters that would one day slash across the skies of Earth faster than sound to unleash the lethal blast and fire of sophisticated missiles, or the bombers able to level an entire city with one nuclear bomb. That said, they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072269/bk_acx0_072269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brutus the Baby Snatcher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min

  Bart was a poor college graduate without a job and buried in debt. Things changed when he inherited his uncle's property. It came with a strange farmhand named Alan. The farm didn't provide typical vegetables or animals. Instead, it produced marijuana, and wolf-dogs bred for professional dogfights. One dog gave him winnings of 80,000 dollars in a single match. The dogs were a mix of great dane and wolf. They were fed live animals and shot with steroids to increase their size and anger. They were the ultimate fighting dogs - supersized wolves. Bart had been bitten by the gambling bug. He paid off his debts, but things took a turn for the worse. One dog escaped, and since he was bred and trained to kill, he terrorized the town. Brutus swam across the lake and took a baby from the arms of a camper. Wolves were protected, and it was difficult to find and trap the individual doing the killings. Bart and his farmhand dressed as game wardens and went after the supersized wolf. They hunted Brutus, but he knew their scent and hunted them, instead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce F. Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179556/bk_acx0_179556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Falcon Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 124min

  The Japanese military has turned the once-thriving Chinese city of Nencheng into a reeking pile of blood and ash. And now the Japanese Rising Sun threatens to scorch the ancient - and oil-rich - Kingdom of the Silver Lake. Can the Chinese survive the onslaught? Do they have a prayer? The answer is about to fall out of the sky. He is The Falcon Killer. China’s ace fighter pilot and scourge of the Japanese air force, he is in fact Bill Gaylord, an American orphaned and self-reliant - a man without a country and without fear. Shot down over Nencheng, Gaylord parachutes into the arms of the one woman who can give him reason to live and to rejoin the fight against Japan - as he squares off against their top spy. His prey is in his sights, and catching it will change everything...for The Falcon Killer. Fly high into a world of dogfights and dramatic discoveries as the audio version of The Falcon Killer stirs up the action...in love and war.     ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Chris Emerson, Jim Meskimen, Christina Huntington, Robert Wu, Mark Silverman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000069/bk_gala_000069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  World War II Dogfights: The History and Legacy of Aerial Combat during the Second World War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min

  Like lethal insects undergoing a series of metamorphoses into ever more mature and dangerous forms, military aircraft moved rapidly from stage to stage of their development as the 20th century progressed. The catalyst of war provided the swiftest impetus to this evolution. The new mechanized armies existing from the later period of World War I onward seized on the fresh technology and sought to squeeze every possible drop of advantage from it that the limits of science and the era's materials would allow. Many military thinkers and even aeronautical enthusiasts believed that blimps would remain the chief military aerial asset more or less forever. These men thought airplanes would play a secondary role at best, and might even prove a uselessly expensive gimmick soon to fade back into obscurity, leaving the majestic bulk of the dirigible as sole master of the skies. Thus, when World War I began, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during the war. However, when pilots' mounting of armaments on airplanes proved a successful means of defeating other aircraft and even attacking men on the ground, a much more active and systematic development of warplanes began across the continent. Each advance prompted a countermeasure, as the two sides strove for primacy in a deadly, unforgiving environment which rewarded real advances in equipment and tactics with survival and punished poor ideas with death. Before long, relatively powerful, heavily armed aircraft buzzed through the skies over battle-stained Europe, tearing each other apart with furious gusts of machine gun fire and sending many of the vaunted dirigibles plunging, burning, to the ground. The new era of fighting aircraft arrived in dramatic fashion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105312/bk_acx0_105312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  War of the Elementals, Hörbuch, Digital, 71min

  In 1915 France, the Great War rages and a new breed of hero takes to the skies. Part bull-terrier, part daredevil, the aces of the Royal Flying Corps' 5th Squadron are Britain's elite. It was an era of counter-intelligence, dogfights, and drinking songs. But that was before the world changed. That was before the Elementals! When a routine mission goes awry, the 5th Squadron finds itself trapped in an unreal world called The Source. Here, giant bat-like creatures dominate the world keeping the Universe, and all of its parallel realities, in a precarious balance. But despite its serene appearance, it is a violent, predatory land. Trapped along with Germany's greatest flying ace, they all must work together to find a way back home. This full cast audio drama is presented by the award-winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, in association with Storm Entertainment . Contains mild adult language. Parental discretion is advised. Starring The Colonial Radio Players Executive produced by Mark Vander Berg, Darren G. Davis Dramatized for audio by Scott Alan Woodard, based on the comic by Scott Davis Produced by Bryan Rothrock Music by Jeffrey Gage Directed by Jerry Robbins Cover art by Jeff Hayes Language: English. Narrator: The Colonial Radio Players. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051850/bk_acx0_051850_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hooligan: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min

  Winner of the Aspekte Literature Prize for Best Debut Novel Finalist for the German Book Award We've all got two families: the one we're born with, and the one we choose ourselves. Heiko hasn't finished high school. His father is an alcoholic. His mother left. His housemate organizes illegal dogfights. He works in his uncle's gym, one frequented by bikers and skinheads. He definitely isn't one of society's winners, but he has his chosen family, the pack of soccer hooligans he's grown up with. His uncle is the leader, and gradually Heiko has risen in the ranks, until he's recognized in the stands of his home team and beyond the stadium walls, where, after the game, he and his gang represent their city in brutal organized brawls with hooligans from other localities. Philipp Winkler's stunning, widely acclaimed novel won the prize for best debut and was a finalist for the most prestigious German book award. It offers an intimate, devastating portrait of working-class, post-industrial urban life on the fringes and a universal story about masculinity in the 21st century, with a protagonist whose fear of being left behind has driven him to extremes. Narrated with lyrical authenticity by Heiko himself, it captures the desperation and violence that permeate his world, along with the yearning for brotherhood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mikael Naramore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010442/bk_brll_010442_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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