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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,620
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,566
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,589
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
- Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Good story, poorly written.
Revisado: 09-29-16
This is based on the story of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor agency in the 50s 60s and 70s. It's a really good story, but the writing is full of clichés extended metaphors and and digressions which seem to be random and detract from the overall flow of the narrative. It's a shame.
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- De: Benjamin Peters
- Narrado por: Dana Hickox
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story, dry narrator.
- De Mike en 05-18-23
- How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- De: Benjamin Peters
- Narrado por: Dana Hickox
Good Subject, too repetitive
Revisado: 09-07-16
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
No, the exposition was circular, with many points repeated several times. It was more of a Sociology paper than a book designed to engage the reader.
Was How Not to Network a Nation worth the listening time?
Barely
Any additional comments?
The performer has a good voice, but the performance was riddled with mispronuncations.
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- De: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 410
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who is the intended audience?
- De Billy en 07-21-14
- The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- De: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
Poorly read
Revisado: 05-17-12
What did you like about this audiobook?
Did a good job of constructing a story about a particular statistical technique. She overdoes it. Bayes theorm is not the same as the story of Seabiscuit.
What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?
At first I thought she was a computer generated voice. Her cadence was was odd, adding syllables at random. Many names were mispronounced.
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Chocolate Wars
- The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
- De: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrado por: Deborah Cadbury
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
With a cast of characters that wouldnt be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The World of Chocolate
- De Jean en 11-05-14
- Chocolate Wars
- The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
- De: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrado por: Deborah Cadbury
Amateurish
Revisado: 01-09-11
This is an interesting subject, and there is lots of detail, but the narrative is disconnected and fragmentary. It reads like a high school essay
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