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    The Shadow Conspiracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
    In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses descended on Geneva. In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Byron, they performed a dreadful and forbidden experiment that forever changed history - and tore their own lives apart.Years later, Byron’s daughter Ada has inherited her father’s genius. With Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, she invents the “automatic sciences,” allowing the creation of machines that mimic human action, and even human thought. Once again, history has changed. Mechanical spiders perform menial tasks. Intelligent locomotives keep their own time schedules. Massive dirigibles and flying automata have flung the Empire - and piracy - into the sky itself. But even a golden age casts a long shadow, and silent forces are moving in the darkness. Whispers of a conspiracy to destroy the Empire are beginning to surface. The fate of the Geneva experiment and the mad geniuses that created it remains unknown. And the fate of the world itself rests in the hands of Ada Lovelace. In The Shadow Conspiracy, Book View Cafe’s lineup of best-selling, award-winning authors combines forces to create an unforgettable, shared world of steam-powered science, fantastic magic, and dark conspiracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015781/bk_adbl_015781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
    From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
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    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 997min
    James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Ge­nius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talk­ing drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable develop­ment of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the po­et’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the cre­ator of information theory itself. And then the information age comes upon us. Citi­zens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficiona­dos of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002531/bk_rand_002531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    English engineers
    English engineers ab 39.99 € als Taschenbuch: Charles Babbage John Ambrose Fleming Oliver Heaviside Frank Whittle Thomas Newcomen Thomas Savery Joseph Whitworth William Armstrong 1st Baron Armstrong James Hargreaves James Brindley Henry Maudslay Timothy Hackworth. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    Embers of Destruction: Mysteries of Cove, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
    In the third and final volume of the best-selling Mysteries of Cove series, Trenton and Kallista - along with their friends, Plucky, Simoni, Angus, and Clyde - fly their mechanical dragons south toward San Francisco, looking to rescue any survivors from the battle of Seattle. Arriving in San Francisco and investigating the area in secret, the young riders are reunited with Kallista's father, Leo Babbage, who reveals that the humans in the city are working as slaves to the dragons, but that they don't want to be rescued - himself included. He says they are being protected by their new master: a huge, powerful white dragon who lives in an impenetrable tower fortress overlooking the city. Kallista is stunned by the news. Why would her father ever willingly want to work for dragons? Trenton and his friends are confronted by the guards and their mechanical dragons are seized. Evading capture, the young riders escape and begin looking for a way to break the white dragon's hold over the city - and over Leo. Working with the kids from the city, the young riders track down the source of the dragon's power to an underground chamber accessible only through an underwater passageway below the tower fortress. With the white dragon watching their every move, Trenton and Kallista will need every bit of creativity and ingenuity they can manage to find a way to retrieve their stolen dragons, enter the tower fortress, and take down the dragons once and for all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010457/bk_blak_010457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Amazing Mathematicians: A2-B1 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min
    The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Galileo, who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said, 'I think, therefore I am' Sir Isaac Newton, who proved how gravity works Carl Friedrich Gauss, 'the Prince of Mathematicians' Charles Babbage, who invented computers Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program This audiobook is level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English to learn about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. Each audiobook contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character's life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. Created in association with The Amazing People Club. About Collins ELT Readers: Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: Level 1 - elementary (A2) Level 2 - pre-intermediate (A2-B1) Level 3 - intermediate (B1) Level 4 - upper intermediate (B2) Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003031/bk_hcuk_003031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Must Love Breeches: A Time Travel Romance, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
    She's finally met the man of her dreams. Only one problem: he lives in a different century. How far would you travel for love? A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, and suddenly her love of historical authenticity collides with the reality that she's a modern-day girl. But when a thief steals her card case, she determines to retrieve the time-traveling artifact. Now she must hunt down the case, navigate the pitfalls of stiff society London, conceal her time-traveling origins, and resist her growing attraction to Lord Montagu, a viscount so hot he curls her shower-loving toes. Lord Montagu is resolved to avenge his sister and has no time for dalliances, despite the appeal of the strange but lovely Colonial. However, when his scheme for revenge requires a respectable match, he convinces Isabelle to masquerade as his fiancée. But he did not bargain for Ms. Rochon being his intellectual match or the irresistible attraction. Isabelle thought all she wanted was to return home, but as passion flares between them, she must decide when her true home, and her heart, lies. Set in 1834 London, this time travel historical romance features a small cast of historical characters, including Ada Byron, Lord Byron's daughter, and Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine. It explores the often overlooked scientific developments of pre-Victorian London. With a heroine caught between the Regency and Victorian eras, find out why USA TODAY calls this time travel romance "a delicious twist on historical drama and romance." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Jane Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056116/bk_acx0_056116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1871 deaths
    1871 deaths ab 78.49 € als Taschenbuch: Charles Babbage Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin Anselme Payen John Herschel Robert Chambers August Immanuel Bekker Jacob Ettlinger Sigismond Thalberg Father Peter Whelan Augustus De Morgan Paul Kane Nguy'n Tru'ng T'. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,
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    Dave Barry's History of the Millenium (So Far) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 269min
    Thucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough: to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has written it all down, because nobody would believe it otherwise. In November 2000, the skies darken over Florida as hundreds of thousands of lawyers parachute into the state from bombers, while in 2002, the federal budget surplus mysteriously disappears ("Everybody looks high and low for it, but the darned thing is gone!"). In April 2003, no WMD have been found, but investigators do discover three barrels of lard, described by U.S. intelligence analysts as "a heart attack waiting to happen", while in 2004, an already troubled nation receives an even greater blow: the sight of Janet Jackson's exposed nipple. In 2005, Katrina, Cindy, Harriet, Martha, Valerie, Paris, Michael Jackson,(women just got crazy that year) while in November 2006... well, something happened; it'll come back to us. Plus, an extra added bonus: Dave Barry's complete history of the millennium so recently (and unlamentedly) gone: Crusaders! Vikings! Peter Minuit's purchase of Manhattan for $24, plus $167,000 a month in maintenance fees! The invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and of the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to somebody from Technical Support)! Filled with facts and commentary that will amaze your friends and confound your enemies (yes, we mean you, Osama!), this is the book that will finally earn Dave Barry his second Pulitzer Prize. And about darned time, too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Frederic. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000740/bk_peng_000740_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
    Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery ab 38.99 € als Taschenbuch: Charles Babbage William Makepeace Thackeray Harold Pinter Anthony Trollope Carl Wilhelm Siemens Marc Isambard Brunel Kensal Green Cemetery Howard Staunton Terence Rattigan Isambard Kingdom Brunel Feargus O'Connor Prince George. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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